The Artificial Woman

My first story retelling the adventure of Captain Aaron Barclay and his intrepid crew of intergalactic salvagers aboard the Scavenger appeared in Dark Worlds #1 and was titled The Investment. It was very much a cross-over genre piece of fiction mixing space opera and horror.

I'm about 8,000 words into another Barclay Salvage story, which takes place before The Investment and even features a couple of different crewmembers. As it turns out this story, The Artificial Woman, is also going to be a mix of genres--except this time it will be a combination of space opera and mystery.

Barclay and crew come across a freighter cruising full speed through the Elbar system, the airlocks wide open and the crew disappeared, except for one skeleton--a crewmember that the log shows being alive just twenty hours ago. Oh yeah, and there's that strange pounding noise coming from the refuse tanks beneath the hold...

In the meantime, if you're interested in finding out more about Barclay Salvage and crew pick up a copy of Dark Worlds #1 (digital or hard copy)and give The Investment a read. On a side note, I'm just getting around to reading Dark Worlds #1, myself--and I just finished a terrific story, The Red Engine, involving motorcycle magic (a pretty nifty concept, I think you'll agree, if you read the story) and a horrific entity from beyond the veil of space and time.