The Space Rodeo

License to Cultivate Bk 3 Ch 3

The Brotherhood Hall was the large building that dominated this petal. It was an imposing edifice with a three-tiered tower rising from the main building, each tier smaller than the one below, with...

License to Cultivate Bk 3 Ch 2

Chang-li leaned over the railing of the riverboat, gawking like the provincial rube he suddenly knew he was. After traveling inland for five days, the river had brought them to a deep, narrow lake ...

License to Cultivate Bk 3 Ch 1

 Chang-li came downstairs to the main floor of the Morning Mist Sect house, carrying a pile of newly translated papers. Min and Joshi were in the sitting room, their heads bent together while ...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 50

Welcome to our first Monday chapter! That means Book 3 starts tomorrow!

"So, can prisms listen in anywhere, or just in the tower?" Chang-li wondered aloud. They ...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 46

As I stood in the bowels of the rogue engine, talking to Patriarch Kvaltash and hoping my friends had managed to take control up top, a full human-sized version of Gambler appeared next to me, dres...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 49

It took Min several excruciating minutes to extract herself from the cluster of spouses after the dowager had dismissed them. Lady Soaring Heavens was exulting in her triumph. Lady Moo...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 45

The green glow came from an enormous lake. It was pale green, reminding me of ice and frost, and so still, it almost looked like a solid sheet of ice. In the center stood ...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 48

With the transformed, glowing Feng hovering over him in the air, Chang-li was just about out of tricks. He hurled another net technique to buy himself time and scrambled a...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 44

I thanked Gambler for the latest update on Captain Williams’ progress and turned back to my own work.

The strategy table was lit up in front of me, displaying our ...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 47

Chang-li couldn't have been gone long, but clearly quite a lot had happened while he'd been in the cell. Feng was bloodied and bruised, his robes torn and dir...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 43

 We raced through the shifting ice corridors. Sometimes the walls were rocky and narrow. Sometimes the ice crevasse opened up over our head hundreds of feet. Our footing was good....

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 46

One moment, Joshi had been hammering blows into Feng just according to the plan. With the inhibitor around his ankle, Feng wasn't properly able to channel lux...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 42

SHAD POV

 We were in an enormous blue room. It wasn't a cave. The vast room stretched out all around us, the lighting making it feel chilly though objectively it wasn’t. T...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 45

With the help of his image, who, when he wasn't busy being derisive, was a remarkably good training partner, Chang-li alternated sword work with an enhanced spell techniqu...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 41

SHAD POV

Rose’s verbal grenade put the room into an uproar, myself included. I heard dozens of different voices shouting as the silence wall descended on us, but that did no go...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 44

Chang-li kept up the practice until it became effortless. Whether it would work against a cultivator like Feng, he wasn't sure, but here in this place, with his own lux, he was master....

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 40

SHAD POV

Grandpa and I emerged from our transport pod into the Proxima docking facility. To my surprise, Veda waiting for us. She looked nervous.

"Did you get my mes...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 43

Chang-li's mirror image looked him up and down, lips curling back in a sneer. He reminded Chang-li of Feng more than himself, or so he hoped. Surely such an arrogant look had never crossed his own ...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 39

SHAD POV

I was back on the bridge of the Ad Astra, watching our feeds intently with Grandpa at my elbow when the news came through. The voice that spoke was the synethetic female...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 42

There was absolutely no way to tell time inside the training cell. Chang-li sat and cycled. He cycled every technique he learned from Joshi or the scrolls, each as long as he could before swapping ...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 38

With the resources of the Andante Dominator in hand, we began to get down to work. The Dominators were inherently contentious anyway, striving back and forth to steal territory. So far...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 41

FYI we are at a writers' conference this week and not easily able to fix mistakes, will update when back if needed.

Chang-li felt the inhibitor band settling on him, c...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 37

COLIN POV

Sage and I soared over the battleground, where we were losing badly. We were outnumbered, even with our NPCs. Twice we swooped down, searing flame across t...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 40

Hiroko had not entered the tower in the almost week since Li Jen had been killed, but she concealed her nerves behind a carefully practiced facade as she followed the Dowager Pearl ins...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 36

SHAD POV

I’d been watching the initial phase of the battle from the monitors on Ad Astra’s bridge. As long as my personal soulcoin was locked out of the...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 39

Joshi was more worried than he had let on to Chang-li. He could feel his approach to the Peak of Mental Refinement. He knew he was nearly there. Already, his mind hummed w...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 35

COLIN POV

The waiting was the worst part. Rok'gar, Amber, and I busied ourselves preparing the defense in depth of our base. We had written off everything beyond the bones of Mon...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 38

Down the slope a pair of revenants dragged themselves from the dirt at the foot of one mushroom and loped toward Chang-li and Joshi.

"I will take these," Joshi said before Chang-li could resp...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 34

SHAD POV

I was jolted awake out of a sound sleep by Coyote's urgent voice. "Captain Williams, you're needed at once.” Beside me, Juana rolled over and sat up. "Ms. Lopez...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 37

Chang-li considered the two remaining disciples and Brother Stone. Neither of the disciples had made it past the first veil, while Brother Stone, during their climb down through the gr...