QSFer Elaine Burnes has a new FF sci-fi book out: Tenacity.
All they want is a ride. Why is that a really bad idea?
Former captain Lyn Randall is the only person on Earth who has the information to build the machine that can open a traversable wormhole. More accurately, she has the data. Her wife, astrophysicist Diana Teegan, pioneered the technology.
They believe nothing good can come from humans expanding into the galaxy given how Earth has been exploited. So, they’ve vowed to keep it secret despite powerful entities within and outside government who will do anything to get their hands on it.
But when a close family member makes an incredible revelation and a startling request, Lyn and Diana must decide whether to resurrect this device, leading to confrontations with old friends turned enemies and old enemies turned potential allies.
Racing to stave off a galactic crisis, Lyn has to make split-second decisions about whom she can trust—to protect her family, herself . . . and Earth.
This sequel to the award-winning Endurance takes Captain Lyn Randall and her crew on a daring adventure from Earth to the stars—one that questions the very nature of what it means to be human.
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Author Bio
Elaine Burnes is the award-winning author of the novel Wishbone and short-story collection A Perfect Life and Other Stories. Her latest, Endurance, is out now. After years spent toiling in communications and editing for various publications, environmental nonprofits, and higher education, she now lives in and writes from bucolic western Massachusetts.
Her first story, “A Perfect Life,” appeared in Skulls and Crossbones (Mindancer Press) in 2010. Since then, she’s had many stories published, including “Consignment,” in Finding Ms. Write (Ylva, 2016); “A Certain Moon,” in Wicked Things (Ylva, 2014); and “The Game” in Best Lesbian Romance 2011 (Cleis Press). These and many others are collected in A Perfect Life and Other Stories.
Endurance won a 2023 Golden Crown Literary Society award for Science Fiction/Fantasy and was a finalist for the Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award. Her first novel, Wishbone, (Bedazzled Ink, 2015), won a 2016 Golden Crown Literary Society award for Dramatic/General Fiction. A Perfect Life and Other Stories (GusGus, 2016), was a Rainbow Award winner.
Website: https://www.elaineburnes.com
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