Bradley had one fear in his life. He had to escape regeneration. To do that, he was willing to take any chance, coward though he was--even if it meant that he had to become a god!
Hugo Danner, a man endowed from birth with extraodinary strength and speed. But Danner is no altruist. He spends his life trying to cope with his abilities, becoming a sports hero in college, later a sideshow act, a war hero, never truly finding peace with himself.
A story in the Gabatrix Series (TheUniverseofCMed) Universe
Set after the First Peace and before the Violet Wave, a former UHN serviceman desires to go into the career of racing. Meanwhile, he becomes invigorated to become part of the new T'rintar/UWA dating programs, a successful establishment in finding future mates (Marriages) for human bachelors and Itrean alike. Please read the disclaimers before reading this story. Story contains: M/F, M/F, M/F, M/FFF, Human/Alien Relations, Scalie (Shark), Anthro, Sex, Love, Impregnation, War, and Violence
The Romantics used to say that the eyes were the windows of the Soul. A good Alien Xenologist might not put it quite so poetically. but he can, if he's sharp, read a lot in the look of an eye!
Was this ill-fated expedition the end of a proud, old race--or the beginning of a new one? There are strange gaps in our records of the past. We find traces of man-like things--but, suddenly, man appears, far too much developed to be the "next step" in a well-linked chain of evolutionary evidence. Perhaps something like the events of this story furnishes the answer to the riddle.