Today’s SFR (Science Fiction Romance) Brigade Presents snippet is from near the beginning of Reckless Rescue. No prior information needed for this one I don’t think.
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Milandra laughed, and twisted in his arms to return his kiss. “Good morning to you, too.” She wriggled out of his arms and poured herself a glass of orange juice. “There’s a letter for you.”
Her words sent a sudden chill down Tyris’s spine. “There is?” His voice sounded faint, even to his own ears.
Milandra nodded towards the kitchen bench where she’d thrown the mail. Tyris stared at it from across the room. The pile contained mostly junk mail, but hidden under the stack was an official-looking letter with a government seal.
Why did bad news still come by mail when for years everything else had arrived by e-mail?
He’d been dreading this moment for three days, since the announcement of the government’s radical new plan to combat the chronic overpopulation.
It wasn’t the first time the Colonies had faced this problem. Thirty years ago, before the discovery of anysogen, when they were limited to the half a dozen planets they could reach via slow shuttles, they’d tried to limit population growth by suggesting that people stop having so many children. They paid scientists to draw up frightening graphs of how quickly food would run out.
It hadn’t worked.
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Marlee’s people are dying—the valuable anysogen gas that covers their planet is making the entire population infertile. When the council tells her she must leave her partner and choose another to improve her chances of having a baby, she’s devastated. She swears she’ll never love again—it hurts too much.
Tyris thinks he has everything he wants, despite his world suffering from overpopulation—until his wife leaves him because he is forbidden to have children.
In an attempt to convince his world, and his wife, that he’s worthwhile, Tyris goes hunting for a lost planet said to contain untold riches in the form of anysogen gas.
When he crashes on her world, Marlee and Tyris agree to pretend to live together while they try to repair his ship and escape from the planet. But as they battle the harsh winter on the planet together, keeping their distance becomes even more challenging than the snow, the council and the risks of a real relationship…
Love the idea of a brigade! 🙂
Thanks Tonja. It’s great to get together with other writers in the same genre and talk shop. (And help each other out.)
I just nominated you for an award, so if you get a chance, come and check it out 🙂
Thank you so much Tonja! As soon as I’ve recovered from the party I’ve been to this evening (for a 12 year old!), I’ll respond.
Very cool idea. As they say: No writer can do it alone.
Thanks Silvia. That’s so true isn’t it? Even though writing seems to be such a solitary activity, it really helps to have others around you who understand writing, to bounce ideas off, or to keep you going when you’re ready to give up.