Ann Wilson 59 min read

On a peaceful cruise back to Terra, Ranger James Medart half-wishes for the challenge of an emergency, never dreaming what the Zeta exchange will bring to test him and the Empire he serves.

Ann Wilson's 1992 story is a military-SF space opera set in her Terran Empire fan-fiction universe. Vivid, dramatic, imaginative. Read it for an adventure of the Rangers who safeguard a galaxy-spanning empire, blending crisis, duty, and alternate-universe intrigue, an evocative entry in a devoted fan writer's richly worked-out original space-opera saga.

In its time

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

Reading it

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