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Stanley Schmidt


Night Ride and Sunrise

Night Ride and Sunrise

Night Ride and Sunrise: Book 1

Stanley Schmidt

The Last Thing They Expected Was First Contact

It's long ago been settled that humanity is all alone in the universe. All the centuries of searches for extra-terrestrial intelligence have turned up exactly nothing at all. And when humanity's first and only colony in another star system was invaded some years back, it was by unwanted human interlopers from Earth - interlopers calling themselves The Fruitful, who are sure that God himself is guiding them. The new arrivals cause the colony trouble enough that many of the original settlers have packed up and moved elsewhere on the planet - only to discover some very alarming signs that the first settlers aren't quite so alone as they thought.

Phil Bertrand and Hazel Castagna had striven for years to reach and settle their new world, but they found themselves on different sides when the Fruitful arrived and forced hard choices on everyone. Now, without quite intending it, they have become allies again, as well as the half-unwilling co-leaders of a group that must find a way to protect humans from aliens - and, perhaps, aliens from humans. But exactly who - and what - are the aliens?

This novel was originally serialized in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, July-November 2015.

Flyboys

Flyboys

Night Ride and Sunrise: Book 2

Stanley Schmidt

Analog Anlab Readers Award Finalist Novella

This is a sequel in the setting of the author's serialized novel Night Ride and Sunrise, and is full of spoilers for that novel.

The humans from Earth and the inhabitants of the world they tried to colonize have ended their conflict with a peace treaty. One of the main proponents of the treaty attempts to defend that peace with the help of his son, in order to prevent the humans from being killed by members of their society who refuse to accept the peace settlement.

This novella originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, July-August 2020. Read it for free at the publisher's website.

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