Yet We Sleep, We Dream
by JL Peridot
Genre: Scifi Fantasy Romance, Shakespearean Retelling
Love triangles get bent out of shape when restless gods come out to play.
Relationships are complicated enough when only humans are involved — something the crew of the starship Athenia know plenty about. These children of a changing climate are no strangers to conflicts of the heart. And it seems there's a lot of conflict going on, even out in space.
When an alien dust finds its way on board, the veil between realms begins to fray. Old gods of a long dead planet resume their own romantic bickering while ancient magic wreaks havoc across the ship. Grudges resurface, friends turn to enemies, unrequited love turns to passion — or does it? It's kinda hard to tell with everyone at each other's throats.
Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show; but wonder on, till truth make all things plain. Yet We Sleep, We Dream is a romantic space-fantasy inspired by Shakespeare's endearing hot mess, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
"I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was." — Bottom, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Content guidance: This book contains strong language, drug use, on-page sexual encounters, references to bullying, references to harassment and infertility, depictions of perilous situations, depictions of marital disharmony, awkward social situations, and technical language.
Contains:
*Friends to lovers
*Second chances
*Aussies in space (casual swears)
*Sex, weed & waking dreams
*Hot robot love action
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Tracy stops in her tracks. “What in the ever-living . . .”
The loading bay is thick with red haze. That’s a plus—it means they still have air. Tracy counts the crew.
One: Nick Button, crouching at the wall console. He squints over his shoulder at her, a rag covering his nose and mouth, then goes back to punching buttons. Readout shows a Code Orange for this entire deck, but the kid’s alive and moving. Check.
Two: Damian Chandrasekhar trips over his own feet, scrambling to gather scattered fragments of rock onto a bright blue tarp. He ducks and dodges the five drones swerving in chaotic head-height trajectories around the bay. Two of them collide and back off, only to find another flight path into each other. Chandrasekhar slaps one aside and drops an armload of rocks onto his boots. But he’s alive too. Check.
Three: Mia Tan, the smart-arsed heiress to the Tan–Song media empire, the university’s top-tier sponsor. When the DVC said to keep an eye on her, Tracy never dreamed that would mean reigning her in when she runs off at the mouth or decides to take a prank too far. Now the heiress clutches her hand-cam while coughing lungfuls of dust into her elbow—a temporary reprieve for anyone who’s had enough of her verbal barrage. Check.
Four: Aaron f*cking Lee, the goddamned ex-husband. Who really should know better than to have nobody standing by the backup controls. Check.
Tracy punches the annex console. Helena Armstrong and Olek Kovalenko are accounted for in other sectors—check and check. No bodies in space. One crisis averted.
“Button shut the goddamned inner door!” she barks, glaring at the exposed doorway between the loading bay and the room she’s in. “And get the air filters going.”
“I’m trying, Captain, but it’s not working. Nothing’s happening.”
“God damn it. All right, everyone out!”
Chandrasekhar holds up a corner of the tarp. “I’ll just get this cleaned up, Captain Nielsen!”
“You’ll do as I say, Crewman Chandrasekhar. Out—now.”
“That mortal would never resist you.” Oberon chuckles, savouring the anguish.
JL Peridot writes love letters to the future on devices form the past. She's a qualified computer scientist, former website maker, amateur horticulturist, and sometimes illustrator. But most of the time, she's an author of romantic science fiction. She lives with her partner and fur-family in Boorloo (Perth, Australia) on Whadjuk Noongar country.
Visit her website at jlperidot.com for the full catalogue of her work.
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