<p>Elay is a Janaforma lifebearer who is brilliant, beautiful, and deeply passionate. Her surrogate mebr (or lifebearer parent) brought Elay to life from genetic potential stored in a cryogenic vault three hundred years before either of them was born. Elay is now 22 years old and a citizen of the great starship, La Ventana, which is returning from its Square of Pegasus Mission. In the Janaforma timeframe, La Ventana departed Orion space 354 years earlier, but in the Spur timeframe, La Ventana has been gone for 3,000 years. Nobody within the Orion Spur remembers The Janaforma or ever heard of the Square of Pegasus Mission, but all that is about to change when a Janaforma consort, named Bejan, discovers a drug called Regression that allows the taker to explore past lives. At the crossroads of becoming and self-creation the question always comes: Who am I and why am I here? The frigid indifference of space was nothing new to the Janaforma; yet 130 years earlier, something extraordinary occurred that shook the foundations of their mission. La Ventana was as far out in this galaxy as any Spur ship ever attempted to travel. Fifty light-years this side of Enif, roughly 780 light-years from the Orion Spur neighborhood, fear erupted aboard for which no causal link could ever be discovered. The problem hit so suddenly and profoundly that within hours, the entire crew was paralyzed. Premonitions of doom degenerated into a hysterical terror that beyond our galaxy was a vortex capable of sucking La Ventana and its people into the void. Then, in a simultaneous flash of intuitive revelation, every person aboard sensed the physical limits of space. The great starship made a wide 180-degree turn and set course for the Orion Spur. Physicians aboard later diagnosed the crisis as a severe case of space phobia. Later the Janaforma Gathering concluded, “We believe the fabric of rational control is a force exerted from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and the farther out we travel, away from our source, the more profound space phobia will become.”</p>

One: Book III of Janaforma Trilogy

Literature & Fiction

Fawcett, Martha

Poetry

Janaforma Press LLC

Mellé had it all-wealth, power, prestige and the love of Dulce Cœur, the greatest musical composer of the Golden Age of Euterpe. When the bubble of Mellé's life bursts, she returns to her home planet Hattonia and buys the Intrinsic, a secondhand spaceship. In the bargain, she gets Michael, its android pilot. Eighty-one years later in a remote area of space, Michael ceases to function and Mellé faces a future alone. In the depths of her grief over losing Michael, she realizes she was fooling herself. She had thought of Michael as loyal, efficient, and reliable, but he was more-she loved him. Now Mellé knows that love was not a rose as Dulce always insisted. Love was a tenacious weed that could never be destroyed. Docking on Calypso, Mellé finds herself on an alien world. She is 113 years old and disconnected from her natural time and place, but her life was getting started yet again.

Alone (Janaforma Trilogy)

Romance

Time Travel

Salvo Press

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