L. K. Pinaire

Last Flight to America – A dystopian science fiction story that takes place after Earth begins recovering from global warming and near-global extinction.

When Matt Jansing accidently kills his famous mother in self-defense, he flees the Kentuckiana Envirodome for the badlands of Tennessee. No one will believe it wasn’t murder.

Both the police and a mysterious group search for Matt to bring him back dead or alive. When he discovers unexpected ecological recovery in the Smokies, he wants to share his discovery, but he can’t go back.

Last Flight to Mars – In 2073 when economics force the President to sell NASA’s resources, including the US Space Station, the moonbase, and the lunar platinum mines to China, the astronauts, Martian explorers, and lunar settlers refuse to go back to Earth.

Unnamed Martian explorers sabotage the Matt Newcomb’s expedition landers and strand two teams of explorers. Matt needs to save his stranded explorers before they exhaust their supplies in six months. To make matters worse, his lover and bunkmate is pregnant with his child.

Unwilling to wait for a supply ship that might not arrive in time, Matt’s crew searches for sources of fuel, air, water, and shelter. They struggle.

Moonbase and American Space Station workers learn of the Martian explorer’s plight and later that a ship is coming to force astronauts and settlers to Earth. They revolt. Lunar engineers build a huge ship from discarded fuel tanks and equipment. Space station astronauts commandeer the military ship, incarcerate its crew, a Chinese and an American General, plus a squad of Chinese troops. They load the station’s nineteen new ion drives aboard the ship and travel to the Moon.

There, moonbase settlers join them aboard the amalgamated ship, Moonbird. They achieve orbit with stolen chemical engines and travel to Mars under constant, ion drive thrust to join and help the marooned explorers, but two military ships led by the generals are coming, filled with Chinese troops to force them home.

Otherworldly Tales – A collection of otherworldly short stories:

an astronaut stranded by a broken Martian rover axle;

a freighter captain must either pursue his ex-wife’s abductors or deliver a critical steel shipment;

a Martian trainer must face the son of his student that disappeared twenty years ago;

an astronaut saved by a sentient ship must choose between returning to Earth and saving the life of an android who helps him escape;

a Beta Hydri IV emigrant is leaving, but a mysterious young woman tempts him to stay;

an android discovers illegal music, knowledge, news, literature, and self-realization. He decides to share the experience by setting millions of androids free;

an alien is abducted from a menagerie, and a private investigator must find him; An engineer arrives to a colony overrun by invaders. His job is taken, and he must stop the deportation of all humans;

inside an alien Dyson Sphere Larkin, investigates a murder, apparent social unrest, and AIs no longer enforcing the law. Their star is dying, and changes must happen to save their future;

a shuttle collides with a compromised space station orbiting dead Earth. A couple struggles to save the station, the collision survivors, and their relationship;

a second expedition to Gaia discovers an abandoned colony and carnivorous plants that draw their prey using windborne pheromones;

a man unearths a wooden box that grants him magic wishes. He meets two ghosts and the box’s owner, Jack, who demands payment for the wishes. One ghost suggests he transform the demon;

an early-medieval boy is left to care for his infant brother. A small dragon steals the child. The boy seeks magic to go back in time to save the boy;

a medieval Irish man travels to learn about his parents. He locates his mother’s grave but ignores warnings to forget about his father.

Last Flight of the Sirens – A brutal tale of slavery in the Scimenon Quadrant

In 3585,after a childhood of sexual abuse, Phi, a young, telekinetic, humanoid alien escapes her Vardiaan owner. She returns home to Myrth where time travelers foretell that a man on Beta Hydri IV will save her pacifist, Ramasese people from genocide, slavery, and war.

Phi travels to Beta. She seduces and abducts Michael Singh, a recently widowed journalist and immigrant from Earth. He awakens from years in stasis to a war-torn world where Phi’s people, exiled from their city, hide in trees and caves.
After meter-tall insectoid Scimenon conquer worlds, humanoid Vardiaans move in, selectively enslave the populations, and establish slavery as the primary commerce. The Ramasese’s psychokinetic, sexual skills make them priceless slaves. While Scimenon murder them on sight, Vardiaans kill the adults to take their children.

Despite his abduction, when Michael sees the horror facing Phi’s people, he reluctantly agrees to fight with Phi against the monsters they face. Now, this wave of war and slavery threatens to move to the distant human colonies. The key to Michael and Phi’s success is an abandoned Dyson Sphere stocked with ancient, high-tech weaponry and ships. They race against time to save the Ramasese people.

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In 2073, America is wracked with financial decline from pandemics, middle east wars, and widespread automation, including sales, teaching, transportation, and technology. The newly elected President secretly sells NASA’s equipment, the space station, the moonbase and their platinum mines to China to repay heavy debt.

On Mars, astronauts sabotage the landers necessary to carry the teams of explorers to orbit for their return. The program is ending, but they want to stay. Now, astronauts on Mars struggle to establish a permanent colony on Amazonis Planitia, searching for water, fuel, shelter, and a way to grow food.

When moonbase and American space station workers learn, a ship is coming to force astronauts and settlers to Earth, they revolt. Lunar engineers are building a huge ship from discarded fuel tanks and moonbase equipment. Space station astronauts commandeer the military ship, incarcerate its crew, a Chinese and an American General plus a squad of Chinese troops. They load the station’s nineteen new ion drives aboard the ship and travel to the Moon.

There, moonbase settlers join them aboard the amalgamated ship, Moonbird. They achieve orbit with stolen chemical engines and travel to Mars under constant, ion drive thrust to join the marooned explorers, but two military ships led by the generals and are coming, filled with Chinese troops to force them home.

In 2256, a century since the great thaw and decades after the blessed refreeze, Mathew Jansing, a reserved, environmental biologist and childhood amnesiac, believes humanity will again leave the envirodomes.

During an altercation with his celebrity mother, Matt accidently kills her in self-defense, but the borough will never believe his innocence. He flees the envirodome in an aerobus for the poisonous badlands of Tennessee.

He encounters unreported rejuvenation and breathable air. Why would scientists keep this secret? Matt discovers a fugitive woman, Ellen Fitzgerald, hiding in the Smokies. She shares food, and when police storm the forest, they hold up in an underground bunker.

Matt doesn’t know it, but he’s been found guilty in absentia, and both the police and his mother’s revolutionary group, led by Norbert Buckson, want him dead. Norbert intends to overthrow the North American envirodomes with military robots and has sent Ellen to bring Matt back.

Borough police capture and imprison Matt and Ellen. In the face of his execution—if he can stay alive—he intends to do the following: learn why his mother tried to kill him, clear his name, and share the secret Tennessee rejuvenation. But the revolution is coming, and he might be too late.

My novel, Last Flight of the Sirens, is available at Amazon in Kindle, softback, and hardback forms.

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In 3585, after a childhood of sexual abuse, Phi, a young, telekinetic, humanoid alien escapes her Vardiaan owner. She returns home to Myrth where time travelers foretell that a man on Beta Hydri IV will save her pacifist, Ramasese people from genocide, slavery, and war.

Phi travels to Beta. She seduces and abducts Michael Singh, a recently widowed journalist and immigrant from Earth. He awakens from years in stasis to a war-torn world where Phi’s people, exiled from their city, hide in trees and caves.

After meter-tall insectoid Scimenon conquer worlds, humanoid Vardiaans move in, selectively enslave the populations, and establish slavery as the primary commerce. The Ramasese’s psychokinetic, sexual skills make them priceless slaves. While Scimenon murder them on sight, Vardiaans kill the adults to take their children.

Despite his abduction, when Michael sees the horror facing Phi’s people, he reluctantly agrees to fight with Phi against the monsters they face. Now, this wave of war and slavery threatens to move to the distant human colonies. The key to Michael and Phi’s success is an abandoned Dyson Sphere stocked with ancient, high-tech weaponry and ships. They race against time to save the Ramasese people.

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My story “Harvest of Truth” is inside.