Earth Lady

by Frederick Gerty

Overview

While on a weekend at a plush resort on the planet Valdebaron, Lt. Stephanie Saxon survives a sneak attack on her, her boyfriend and her anti-gravity car Eagle One just prior to her departure for Earth. Home again, she must defend her air car from attempts to nationalize it and dissect i, while worrying about its declining condition. A reunion with her boyfriend Grant Wilson is shortened by the President who sends her and Eagle One off to Florez on the starship "Carl Sagan," back to the air car's planet or origin, to meet and greet the aliens there. Once again, Stevie must fight for Eagle One, a battle first lost, but then won, not by her, but by Eagle One itself.

Stevie creates a sensation with her videos of the planet Earth, earning herself a small fortune in the native currency which she employs to repair Eagle One, grievously and almost fatally damaged in a battle and rescue in the Forest Preserve. Later, a diplomatic assignment to a hostile nation turns into an ambush, a paralyzing laser rifle injury, and the unleashing of Eagle One's considerable weaponry. Stevie calls on Eagle One to rescue her from a hospital/prison, then must defend herself against damages stemming from her exit.

A TV program featuring her restricted activities in low gravity horrifies her, yet leads to serendipitous attention and eventual partial recovery. As the "Carl Sagan" prepares to depart, its holds jammed with air cars and other booty from Florez, Stevie invites a native biologist to return to Earth with her. As she and CeeCee watch night-side, Earth slowly turns beneath them, she learns yet another secret of her air car, Eagle One.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148161721
Publisher:	Frederick Gerty
Publication date:	07/12/2013
Series:	Saxon Saga , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	625 KB

About the Author

Reading a found and battered copy of Analog magazine on a rainy summer's day in Vermont first exposed Frederick Gerty to the world of science fiction. He subscribed to that magazine for many years, and finally, rather late in life, began writing some himself.

One book lead to a second -- he just couldn't finish the yarn in 40 chapters, and on to a third. He found his characters grew and produced offspring with stories of their own. More books followed, until he'd assembled a double trilogy -- six books in all -- centered on amazing and impossible (to us) anti-gravity technology. Imagine, as he does, the ability to fly anywhere we'd like to go, instead of being confined to roads. What would people do? What would the world be like? The Saxon Saga follows the lives and adventures of the Saxon family as they find out.

Frederick, now retired from the Forestry Division of the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, lives in the Town of Gardiner in upstate New York, with his long-suffering wife, three horses, three dogs, and two birds. He can often be found volunteering and out hiking and photographing on the Mohonk Preserve and other natural areas in the mid-Hudson area of New York.

If six isn't enough, he's working on the seventh volume of the Saxon Saga.