Ann Wilson 13 min read

Just past midnight on the Isle of Skye, a woman in wet, torn forest green stumbles from a plane crash toward the lights of a small house and the sound of a New Year's party.

Ann Wilson's 1992 story is a warm military space opera set in her Terran Empire universe. Atmospheric, character-driven, engaging. Read it for a story where a crash on a Scottish isle brings a soldier of the future to an unexpected New Year's welcome.

In its time

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

Reading it

13 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).