Stoney Compton, Author

When Lieutenant Gerald Yamato of the Republic of California Air Force bailed out of his doomed fighter he had no idea he would land in a culture that would   forever change his life.

The Dené thought they had won their independence and the war was over. Suddenly they face an advancing Russian army from one direction, a merciless band of mercenaries from another, as well as the remnants of a defeated, angry, Russian army between the Dené and the rest of their people.
    Despite assurances by distant, bland diplomats to the contrary, the new Dené Republik has a whole new war on their hands. But they are not alone. The Tlingit Nation shares their struggle, and the USA and the Republic of California vow all the aid they can muster.
 But will it be enough and what will it cost?
Alaska Republik is a love story replete with artillery barrages and aerial dog fights that resonates long after the last page. 

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  Welcome to Gastineau Channel where a serial killer in league with an Imperial German saboteur faces a variety of opponents, including a Pinkerton agent, an Irish-American suffragette, and a Tlingit
 Indian policeman, not to mention their friends. Alaska Territory becomes the first battleground for the USA in World War I.

  Treadwell is the first volume of the Gastineau Channel Quartet and takes place from 1915 to 1917.
 Thane, The Assassination of Warren G. Harding will be the second novel, with events real and imagined taking place from 1921 to 1923.
 Douglas, The Great Fire, 1935 to 1937 is third.
 Finally, Juneau, The Plot to Kill FDR, 1943 to 1945 will be the final book of the quartet.

 All four titles are named for the four towns that used to exist within five miles of each other on the shores of Gastineau Channel in Alaska Territory.

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  In the years after the stars fell young Noah Manaluk, an Inupiat Eskimo living at Point Hope, Alaska, eats a piece of seal liver inhabited by an insatiable mental entity he comes to call his appetite, which is barely controlled by his inua (spiritual essence). By the time he is seventeen he is a shaman who has the ability to call animals to the hunter’s spears and fish into nets cast by the People.

   Raised by his widowed mother he is painfully shy and socially inept due to his small, frail stature and nearly hairless body. His only sibling, a brother who excels in all he attempts and a proficient hunter, only adds by comparison to the low esteem Noah feels from others his age. Still, the People rely on him despite their visceral disdain.

   His life changes the day when mentally calling Humpback whales to the umiaks filled with hunters and death, one of the whales answers him.

   Thinker is the only one of his pod who perceives anything beyond his immediate surroundings. He is aware of the longteeth waiting at the top of the world and cautiously moves to the middle of the pod.

   He hears the summons and realizes another exists who can completely communicate with him – something that has never before happened in his life.

  Whalesong is the story of two disparate beings, enemies by the nature of their world yet closer in understanding than with any member of their own species.

  Whalesong limns two sapient beings that come to rely on one another and begin a journey which will not only change themselves and the world, but also save it. 

Currently in final rewrite/edit and scheduled to be available in Spring 2012. The quote from Robert Silverberg was for the novelette version first published in UNIVERSE 1 (1990) edited by Bob and his accomplished spouse, Karen Haber. The lovely fractal painting is courtesy of Roger Johnson.

  In the waning days of a five-year survey, 23rd Century archaeologist Stoker Payne and his crew discover something that totally skews all previous research by the Coalition of Planets on Kiana. The sparsely populated planet whose natives seem to have only a wood and water culture with an oral history had previously registered as a curiosity.

  Part of the massive survey initiated by the Coalition of Planets to trace the descendants of the Great Diaspora, CSS Magellan, barely into its two-year mission, orbits the planet while providing technical and logistic support for the scientific surveyors. The native Kians are physiologically close enough to humans that the two species can enjoy sexual congress but not cross breed. The Kians are also reticent about their history and culture but venerate Ki, in what the humans consider a pantheistic religion.

  Despite cultural collisions between the human cultures the survey has vacillated between boredom and lethargy.

   Some humans, such as young Danford Gordon, have found love among the Kians. Security Lieutenant Colonel Jerry Poppert distrusts the Kians almost as much as he loathes human women. Astronomer Dr. Melanie Frasier, ousted from the Magellan by departmental rivalries, decides that the one good thing about going “dirtside” would be to look up the cute archaeologist she met on the outward voyage, Stoker Payne.

  But the situation descends into fear and distrust when Melanie meets a vehicle navigation system that is much more than it seems, and then discovers a returning comet the Kians call Yanivina, and the Kians consider it life threatening. On the same day Stoker’s crew discovers evidence of massive traumatic death at Level 6 of Dig-N19 – the remains are not those of Kians – and date from the last visit of Yanivina, centuries before.

   Magellan launches a probe to sample the comet tail, which will sweep over the planet in less than two months. Upon the probe’s return a tragic accident jeopardizes all humans on Kiana. What the archaeologists discover under the remains on Level Six may hold salvation as well as portents of death, but potential salvation also requires a price many humans won't pay. 

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  Gretchen Greeley watched Major Clendennin ride into their small town. Soon he would offer the farming community deliverance from the wild Dakota Gang for a price. But Gretchen would pay a much higher price to achieve deliverance on her own.

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