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Lizmonster WritesCONDITION OF WAR preorder is up! <a href="https://lizmonsterwrites.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/condition-of-war-kindle-350x457-1.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> Believe it or not, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Condition-War-Central-Corps-Dissolution-ebook/dp/B0F368YJMT/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">it’s coming out on June 3</a>. Here’s the blurb:Accused of destroying a Corps warship, the crew of the starship Galileo must prove sabotage—or face the wrath of what’s left of Central Gov.When the Central Corps warship Capricorn—silent and unresponsive, light-years from her last reported position—threatens a civilian space station, the former Corps starship Galileo comes to the station’s aid. But Commander Elena Shaw’s attempt to disarm the warship culminates in its destruction, and despite evidence Capricorn was sabotaged, Central is happy to direct public ire at Galileo.To vindicate their ship, the crew must reconstruct Capricorn’s final journey, seeking proof of what really destroyed her. But Elena finds an alarming pattern in the evidence they uncover. It seems Capricorn’s fate has roots not in sabotage, but in a weapon Central has been keeping secret—a weapon Elena has encountered before. A weapon whose origins may not be entirely human.Turns out Galileo has a stowaway, hiding in plain sight. And that stowaway might link Elena to Capricorn’s destruction after all. It’s been seven and a half years since Breach of Containment was released. For my characters, it’s been six weeks. I started writing this book in the fall of 2016, but an awful lot has interrupted my progress. It’s not even just The World[tm], although that’s a big piece of it, for me and everybody else.I’ve been through two agents. I’ve self-publisehd an anthology and a standalone novel. I’ve learned more about marketing than I thought I’d need to know, and I’ve actually enjoyed it, which is extremely weird.Covid turned up and turned everybody’s lives upside down.I’ve had a whole lot of family Stuff. Both my parents were diagnosed with dementia. We moved them out of their home, cleared the place our, and sold it. (Right before covid hit. One small bit of luck.) My father died. My mother doesn’t know who I am anymore. The Kid has gone off to college. We have acquired a third cat (my mother’s). When The Kid is home for breaks, she brings her own cat, so even when she’s here we’re all outnumbered by felines.This country has broken my heart, and that will never go away.I gotta say, I’m tired of having my heart broken. Heartbreak is for kids; it should involve a few nights of ice cream and too much wine, and then fade away into sad nostalgia. It shouldn’t remove enormous chunks of our hopes and dreams and leave a bleeding, cavernous wound. But here we are.I have read this book so many times now I have absolutely no sense of it anymore. It takes my people further along on their journey. Everybody grows and changes, which isn’t a big shock. I’m not the writer I was when Elena, Greg, and Jessica first started this journey. I’m just as idealistic, though. I expect that shows.Anyway. The link above is to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Condition-War-Central-Corps-Dissolution-ebook/dp/B0F368YJMT/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amazon US</a>. For now, it’s available at all Amazon geographies, and at <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/condition-of-war-elizabeth-bonesteel/1147214538?ean=2940184353784" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">barnesandnoble.com</a>. Getting the others up is a touch more complicated, but that should happen over the next couple of weeks. I’ll update links as they become available.<a href="https://elizabethbonesteel.com/excerpts/condition-of-war-prologue/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The prologue is up on my author site</a>, if anybody wants to give it a shot. CW for violence, death, and lots of cussing, so I guess I haven’t changed that much. 🙂<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lizmonsterwrites.com/tag/fiction-2/" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lizmonsterwrites.com/tag/military-science-fiction/" target="_blank">#militaryScienceFiction</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lizmonsterwrites.com/tag/milsf/" target="_blank">#milsf</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lizmonsterwrites.com/tag/preorder/" target="_blank">#preorder</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lizmonsterwrites.com/tag/science-fiction/" target="_blank">#scienceFiction</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lizmonsterwrites.com/tag/sff/" target="_blank">#sff</a>

rdmReturning to the present, and Tannis.After Londry left, Tannis reflected on what she'd just been told. It had been less than 24 hours since she was what? Captured? That describes things best. In that time the Varans had uncovered a planet-wide conspiracy, and lost a brave young man - probably the first ground military to have died in this conflict if everything matched up.So what about the Varan Intelligence? Who were they. She looked at the console. "Well, they said I had free use of it..." Turning it back on, and locating the search facility, her fingers tapped in 'Military Intelligence History'. Her eyes widened when an extensive article came up, and then started to read.After a couple of hours, Tannis sat back. So Intel had originally been ship-board security. That was interesting. They morphed into Intel after a separate group took on the job on-planet after the plagues. Reading between the lines, the group had tried to become the main military force, but were knocked back for being too valuable as they were. Unfortunately the records had little about the history of ShipSec prior to departure from the failed colony. Which was also interesting. Clearly their history had been carefully managed. The Cerian Intel group was very tight-knit as well. And - when had they been established? Thinking back, Tannis was certain that had never come up. She could say when the Biological Survey was set up, or the Space Command, or any one of a dozen other bodies, but not Intel. And somehow everyone just overlooked it. "If they followed the same path as the Varan group, they had been shipboard security, with access to all areas of the ship." Saying it out loud somehow made it all the more real. "And that would include engineering." One more step. "So it is likely that they caused the ship to crash!" She picked up the communicator. "Madam Londry?" "Speaking." "It is Tannis. I was looking at some history, and I think Intel caused both our ships to crash." "Ah. How did you do that?" "Looking at the history of Intel. There are some gaps that fit the theory." "We came to the same conclusion shortly after you left us. A family history was our guide." "It goes further." "Indeed?" "I think they were behind the failure of the original colony." "That also seemed likely to us." "Madam, who are these people?" "I don't know. Yet. But it is likely the group originated on Old Earth." "I wonder what became of the other colonies. We can't have been the only one, were we?" "No, I don't think we were. As for what became of the others, I suppose we'll have to come up with a way to find out. And for that to happen, we need this ridiculous war to end."<a href="https://aus.social/tags/CerianAndVaranWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CerianAndVaranWar</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Milsf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Milsf</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SF</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciFi</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/IAmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAmWriting</a> The full work in progress: <a href="https://rdmasters.lympago.com/p/cerian-and-varan-war-story-in.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://rdmasters.lympago.com/p/cerian-and-varan-war-story-in.html</a>

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