#9 - Late in the book: A significant plot change for Taylor
Jest in the infirmary recovering from her ordeal with the help of Ensign Friday. In the final version, she’s dead at this point in the...
#8 - Taylor Jest Looks for Fun Aboard the Medallion
EVENT: DAY 16, 0910 to Day 18, 0005 GMT “All Hands Stand Down, Stations Yellow.” The smooth androgynous voice came over the ship comms...
#7 - Fred Comani discusses the Elementals, Gravity, and Parallel Universes with the Scientist Ghosts
This is an entire deleted chapter. EVENT: DAY 13, 1500 GMT “…the creatures aren’t normally within our universe.” “Instead, we believe...
#6 - The SciPod Engines, World Building
Because of the top-secret nature of this FTL technology, all of these science ships were rigged with a self-destruct mechanism, activated...
#5 - Longer scene in Weapons Locker, Garrison, Dock CA after difficult first contact w/ Dominique
EVENT: DAY 7, 1000 GMT Garrison felt heavier than he should have. This innermost level was supposed to be half-earth gravity. He chalked...
#4 - World Building, Space Debris:
Taylor With A Bullet Larger debris collection had been started before the Great Cleansing by the first private commercial salvaging...
#3 - Garrison Rides the Bullet. Thoughts on the construction of The Space Docks and The Bullet Tubes
As the rain diminished, Garrison could see one side of the sloping weave-work in the far distance, rising up and disappearing into the...
#2 - Backstory, Dominique Astra reflects: Military Women and Prefab/Programmed Military Structures
… This wasn’t to say that there weren’t egotistical women in positions of command. The ego was simply let out of the bag after they made...
Parallel Extinction Excerpts #1
There are a few spoilers mixed in with these various excerpts, taken from different places in the story. Before publication, Parallel...


Inspiration for Metal Mouth
My Titanium Toothed Lover by T.R. Stevens I love her green skin, those opalescent eyes What she does to me with her long toes makes me...






