Description
The Zenobian Affair
900 years in the future, Captain Kip Kaplan is cashiered out of the Americas Coalition army and uses the help of a good friend and sometime lover to gain passage away from Earth’s solar system. On Excalibur, a planet 4000 light-years from earth, he books passage on a merchant freighter headed to Titan via Zenobia, a vital strategic refueling and munitions base for the Americas Coalition.
Onboard, he meets the mysterious Dr. Warren Chanders, and also a handsome young man traveling alone in search of adventure, Tobias Oberon. Kip and Tobias indulge in an affair as they make their way across the galaxy to Zenobia falling into intrigue, attempted killi,ngs, and romance. The Zenobian Affair will bring Kip and Tobias closer than they ever thought possible and decide the fate of the universe as we know it.
T. Lawton Carney’s undergraduate studies were at the University of Tennessee, majoring in English Literature. He is author of three books on the business of interior design under the name of Thomas L. Williams, and he also contributed to the premier issue of the Santa Barbara Literary Journal. He has co-written interior design forecast pieces and written for local and regional newspapers.
Tom’s mother sparked an interest in Sci-Fi when he was six years old and took him to the neighborhood library to introduce him to Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and his early favorite, the Tom Swift, Jr. series. Tom, and his husband Robert, have lived on the East Coast of the United States, London, England, Carmel, California, and now Palm Springs.
