Scenes of "Tales from the Pandoran Age" by Dante D'Anthony

millennia from now as mankind has settled ten thousand worlds....

all dreams and nightmares share a space...

Someone was asking a lot of questions down at the Corewinds Tavern.

... in a terraced apartment that hung, with thousands of others afforded shelter and shade, among sequoia-like arboriforms whose roots were twisted down and down into the soil since before the dawn of human flight.

He considered the horizon for a moment and said, "Tell you what; I got this yacht just came in outta Kappa Crucis. One owner. An old Mercury Monterey Star cruiser.

Momentarily the stasis shields dropped and only their gravity bubble and a massive shot of magnetic field protected the Monterey

Drifting slowly down to the prison world, safe in a gravity bubble, yielding, descending like a dandelion seed cast out by a terra-forming bot. Down and down, unknowing of the eager little convict glaring back into the night waiting

An ancient world all but abandoned by the Cyborgian Empire that had spawned it millennia before. Time had covered over from pole to pole with cities, towers, and factories. Kilometers high, kilometers deep, cities empty now but for a few ragged convicts interred here and there. They were Pirates, losers, loners; misfits not having earned a death sentence or a stasis block, just cast out of the way to go gracelessly in cold derelict cities.

One of the T-rex things was standing behind him.

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