Jane In Space – In Which None Of The Crew Are Readers, Much

JANE IN SPACE by Miss Polly Connor Chapter 23 – In Which None Of The Crew Are Readers, Much There hadn’t, he was forced to admit, been a strongly cultural element to their liaison, these past six months. It had been much more a matter of the physical, of being teased and coaxed into one […]

Jane In Space – The Captain, It Turns Out, Is Quite The Austenite

JANE IN SPACE by Miss Polly Connor Chapter 22 – The Captain, It Turns Out, Is Quite The Austenite Jon Honorbright was not the thing that didn’t fit in this picture. “Jon Honorbright, ma’am,” he added. “Your captain, for the duration of this voyage.” “Really, Captain?” she asked, raising one fair eyebrow in his direction. […]

Jane In Space – “Oh, Miss Austen! I’m your biggest fan!”

JANE IN SPACE by Miss Polly Connor Chapter 21 – “Oh, Miss Austen! I’m your biggest fan!” That he should so readily recognise one of these faded stars of their time, at last! That he was making his introductions with such an elaborate formality, something from a bygone age. From Miss Austen’s own age, […]

Jane In Space – “Miss Austen, Will You Dance?”

JANE IN SPACE by Miss Polly Connor Chapter 20 – “Miss Austen, Will You Dance?” More aware of Laura Starr — damn her, sometimes — than of the hum of chatter and the fizz and crackle of the lights, of the plastic sheen of the canteen hardware and utilities, the fuzzy crackle of the intercom […]

Jane In Space – “Captain, Meet Miss Jane Austen”

JANE IN SPACE by Miss Polly Connor Chapter 19 – “Captain, Meet Miss Jane Austen” Raw, wild, the latest thing from far beyond the Pleiades or old-tyme Terran hip-hop and rock ‘n’ roll, they’d danced to anything with an animal rhythm and an urgent message relating to sex or love or freedom, all of them. And […]

Jane In Space – The Captain Used To Rock and Roll

JANE IN SPACE by Miss Polly Connor Chapter 18 – The Captain Used To Rock and Roll (Amounting to luxuries to make a caveman’s eyes boggle.) He’d have searched high and low for the kind of wandering bard or teen idol who could do unholy things in a minor key, himself — wrenched tears, broken […]

Jane In Space – The Captain Meets And Greets Fossils From Another Age

JANE IN SPACE by Miss Polly Connor Chapter 17 –The Captain Meets And Greets Fossils From Another Age Almost a week, was too long to still be making that kind of undiplomatic error. They were people, now — people he’d met, shook hands with, chatted to as far as the demands of his regular duties […]