Vendetta: A Novelette

Vendetta: A Novelette

by Stephen McCumber
Vendetta: A Novelette

Vendetta: A Novelette

by Stephen McCumber

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Overview

Founded by colonists fleeing a dying Earth, Avalon was a fresh hope for humanity to start again, free of their mistakes. A hope that died with first contact. Invisible to the eye and immune to retaliation, alien life descended upon the colony abducting every human being, save one.
Stranded in Avalon's wilds, Richard Windsmore returns home to find his people, his wife, and his children gone. He is alone, but not helpless. Footage of the raid contains more questions than answers. The preserved interstellar stasis spaceship in orbit secures transport. Desperation drives his hope that his actions won't be in vain.
Despite the uncertainty of what awaits in the Sol system, nowhere else will contain as many clues about other colony locations. Richard sets course and puts himself in stasis, an irrevocable act riddled with fear. There is no going back. If the abductors possess faster than light travel, he will wake long after his family has endured the unknowable. For a chance to learn their fate, he must act.
Little does Richard know what awaits him in the depths of space. Can his love, his hope, and his humanity endure?

Vendetta is the first story in the Singularity Forge universe. This story and other shorts, novelettes, and novellas will introduce readers to a new, broader universe. Each story is self-contained and crafted to entertain. While a fun distraction in isolation, bringing them together reveals what happens when humanity leaves their cradle for a galaxy filled with mystery, horror, love, honor, and madness...

Product Details

BN ID: 2940162458258
Publisher: Stephen McCumber
Publication date: 06/05/2021
Series: Singularity Forge , #1
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

My name is Stephen McCumber. McCumber is a pen name, but it was my grandmother’s maiden name. I use it as a reminder to take the opportunities I have and not let time slip away.
My passion is for storytelling and the power and influence stories have over our lives. In my youth, the fictitious work of authors helped me grow into who I am, a person I am proud to be. Stories are so much more than a source of entertainment, they are how we explore what it means to be human, how we envision new societies and ways the world could be. Stories, be they fiction or nonfiction, true or false, propaganda or unbiased information, shape all of our lives in subtle ways from the day we’re born.
In my early twenties I worked, went to school, and explored life, trying to find what it was I wanted to do with it. While not a world spanning adventurous time, it was informative. I decided stories mattered to me, and my late twenties went to that pursuit with a blinding dedication. I neglected every other aspect of my life. After years of doing nothing but work, I decided the time had come to live. I’m currently married to a wonderful woman, and we had our first child in 2020.
Having sacrificed experiencing life before, I hope to never do that again, and hope that any success I find I can use to help others forego that experience as well.
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