A New Novel: Symbiosis
I’ve been busy. While Captain and Rianya Jackson were in voluntary exile on Enceladus, one of Saturn’s loyal moons, hiding Zalara from Earth’s medical community, I documented their next adventure in space.
Captain Thomas Jackson and his crew tackle a pandemic of Yersinia pestis, more commonly known as The Black Death, The Plague, or Bubonic Plague. Their new, faster ship must pick up the science team left on Beta Hydri IV, but on the way they have another mission to complete.
Time travel is the crux of this adventure – not of our intrepid friends but someone from the future, who went to the past, and ended up on the wrong planet, in the wrong time, stuck in between where he’d come from and where he was trying to go. Mostly human, the secret they find in his pocket, and in his DNA, could ruin everything in the Jacksons’ lives.
Antibiotic resistance is the lesson for the inhabitants of Eta Cassiopeia’s fifth planet, affectionately called Cinco by the crew. The hairy, matriarchal Kiians play an important role, as do our favorite aliens, the green pirates of the Orion Arm, the Pegasi, specifically, Jackson’s old thorn, Dukvita.
It should come as no surprise that what started as a routine mission takes a catastrophic turn putting not only the lives of the Cinconians suffering from The Plague, but the S. S. Maria Mitchell’s entire crew, in dire jeopardy. Captain Jackson is desperate to find a way to work with three alien species, a deadly pandemic, and a puzzling time traveler to accomplish his missions but the odds are against his success when he is held hostage on the planet, the plague breaks out on the ship, and quantum date readings make no sense whatsoever.
