All Precious Stones and Peoples (A Timelines Novella)

All Precious Stones and Peoples
Novella, 133 pages in print edition
Genre: Science Fiction
Series: Timelines Universe #11
Status: Released to KDP 10 Oct 2025
Available in Digital and Paperback.


Once, a million years ago, a water world populated with dolphin-like beings, the product of gene-alteration by their Progenitors on the Earth-like world one orbit closer to the sun, was flung into the cold and dark of interstellar space by the passage of a rogue star.

And four thousand years ago, its engineers were awakened from suspended animation to bring the world into a new orbit around a giant, blue-white star, where the waters of the World Ocean could thaw and life could continue to flourish.

This is the story of the A’ka’pa’i’ka’ti, and their Foretold Saintess, Speaker to the Dry Ones, born to communicate with the Progenitors when they finally arrived to reclaim the lost . . .