Winter

by Rick Novy

Overview

Two stories in one volume.

Winter - When humans return to Earth after 20,000 years of time dilation, things are no longer as they were. Change was inevitable, but some things never change. Cities are in ruins. The Golden Gate Bridge is a mound of scrap metal. Hodges things he is going home. Yutiko, the winged alien, wishes he was going back home, for this is not the earth he expected to find.

The Adjoa Gambit - On occupied Earth, mankind inhabits the Antarctic Reservation for Indigenous Peoples. But the occupiers like to gamble, and the new family has lost their shelter.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940033207633
Publisher:	Rick Novy
Publication date:	04/30/2012
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	138 KB

About the Author

Rick Novy makes his home in a suburb of that great metropolitan desert region of Arizona known as Phoenix. He grew up in the frozen tundra of Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater with a bachelor of science degree in physics and mathematics (double major). He moved to California and lived in the Bay Area for a decade, during which he earned a masters of science in engineering at San Jose State University. In 1999 he moved to Arizona (it’s a wry heat). Rick spent 14 years as an engineer in the semiconductor industry. He is currently adjunct faculty in the mathematics department at a local community college. Rick has more interests than he has time to devote. He is a fish keeper suffering from MTS (multiple tank syndrome). One tank features difficult to find purebred Endler’s Livebearers, a species he keeps because it is nearly extinct in the wild from habitat destruction and is being crossbred with guppies by shortsighted breeders and pet shops to the extent that uncrossed Endlers are nearly impossible to find.