Ann Wilson 28 min read

Twelve years on, a man sets out to break the Empire's own safeguards and find the anonymous agent who once saved his father's life.

Ann Wilson's 1992 vignette follows Nevan through the Palace Complex on a mission of honor, to deliver his dead bio-father's weapons to the still-active field agent who rescued him. A tightly focused piece of her fan-beloved Terran Empire saga of psychic Talents and interstellar loyalty. Read it for character-driven military space opera about duty, gratitude, and the weight of a debt.

In its time

Published in 1992, during the 1990s, the web age dawns.

Reading it

28 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).