All the Colors of Time (32 page)

She nodded, eyes glinting. “That there’s a reason one of the
calendar symbols looks like a little shuttle.”

“No.” Rhys steered her through the open hatch of their own
lander. “I will not buy into this. You’re having me on, for reasons known only
to yourself.”

She craned her head to glance back into the bay. “You’re not
even going to look?”

“No. Most emphatically not. We are not space gods, we did
not interfere with this culture, and no one painted graffiti on Dr. Burton’s
shuttle.”

Yoshi smiled—wickedly, Rhys thought. “Okay, but I bet when
we get back to Etsat you’re going to look at a lot of things very differently.”

She was right, of that much he was certain. He would look at
everything differently.
And Yoshi
, he
thought as they reboarded and battened down,
I believe I shall start with you.

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ALL THE COLORS OF TIME

Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

Book View Café edition June 10, 2014
ISBN: 978-1-61138-389-8
Copyright © 2014 by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
www.mysticfig.wordpress.com

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This is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Maya became addicted to science fiction when her dad let her
stay up late to watch
The Day the
Earth Stood Still
. Mom was horrified. Dad was unrepentant. Maya slept
with a night-light in her room until she was 15.

She started her writing career sketching science fiction
comic books in the last row of her grade school classroom. She was never
apprehended. Since then her short fiction has been published in
Analog
,
Amazing Stories
,
Century
,
Realms of Fantasy
,
Interzone
,
Paradox
and
Jim
Baen’s Universe
. Her novelette,
The
White Dog,
was a finalist for the British Science Fiction Award.

Her debut novel,
The
Meri
(Baen), was a
Locus Magazine
1992 Best First Novel nominee. She is
a sometime collaborator with Michael Reaves, with whom she’s penned three Star
Wars novels, and a Del Rey original,
Mr.
Twilight.
Their collaboration,
Star
Wars: The Last Jedi
was a
New York Times
Bestseller.

Maya lives in San Jose where she writes, performs, and
records original and parody (filk) music with her husband and awesome musician
and music producer, Chef Jeff Vader, All-Powerful God of Biscuits. The couple
frequently serves as Guest of Honor at science fiction/fantasy conventions and
at filk music gatherings, and has been honored with Pegasus Awards for Best Parody
and Best Performer. They’ve produced five music albums:
RetroRocket Science
,
Aliens Ate My Homework
and
Grated Hits
(parody),
and the original music CDs
Manhattan Sleeps
and
Mobius Street
.
To top it off, they’ve also produced
three musical children: Alex, Kristine, and Amanda.

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Coruscant Nights Book Four)

Del Rey/Lucas Books, 2013
with Michael
Reaves

STAR WARS: SHADOW GAMES
Del Rey/Lucas Books, 2011
with Michael
Reaves

A PRINCESS OF PASSYUNK
Book View Café, 2010

TACO DEL AND THE FABLED TREE OF DESTINY
Book View Café, 2010

SHAMAN (A Collection of Short Science Fiction)
Book View Café, 2013

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