Ken Kraus

Check out my latest story, a “Borgus” related tale, as the featured serial in this month’s Aphelion.

http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/sections/serials.html

This 15,000 word novella, Vivian and the Dust, is about a related character from Space Station Lennier in 2152. Rosa, the nurse, returns for a cameo role as well.

Vivian, a young trainee addicted to snorting mind-altering dust, is arrested for smuggling a rare ore from Titan’s North Pole. The station doctor intervenes to help with her cure, but she soon learns that all her troubles lead to the station morgue where the hidden corpse of his lover appears to be regenerating.

And get this: There’s a paranormal element in the story about a mist like presence that arises from a semi organic lake on Saturn’s moon Titan- and wouldn’t you know – there’s a coincidental article in the July 26, 2010 NY Times Science Section about growing and receding methane lakes now detected on Titan. So we’re onto something here.

In the MAY 09 Aphelion Webzine: “The Dolphin of Europa” in which an innocent nurse is trapped in an underground cavern on this icy moon, with a half crazed marine biologist and a creature whose mesmerizing song feels too good to be true.

Click on “The Dolphin of Europa” to go directly to the story.

Please feel free to write in a comment on the reader’s blog as well.

And do check out the recent article about Europa in my Solar System Science section.