Any war - even a war in space - has its winners and losers, its hidden strengths and concealed weaknesses, its heros and traitors. The difference with a war in space has to do with scale and dimensions: there are more unexpected directions to turn and places to hide than in a war constrained to the two-and-a-bit dimensions on the surface of a planet.
But not all of the dimensions of war have to do with time and space, and not all heros are the ones manning the spaceships...
This little tale has a feel of a much longer and more elaborate story line behind it, a coherent future history in the making.
Indeed, I have already completed several new stories called Hero of the Rebellion (2nd Class), The Voyage of the Ice Clipper, Time Out of Place and Consolidation Earth.
I am now working on new tales in the same sequence entitled Garden at the End of the Universe and Gods and Daemons.
I'm rather taken with this series. It's already taken on something of a life of its own, it seems, and I'm beginning to suspect there are yet more stories to come.
