David Selby was born and grew up in Berkeley, California. He taught elementary school in California, Mexico, and New Mexico for thirty-six years. He and his wife live in Northwest New Mexico.  He has written many short stories including the Joe the Man with Gills series. Mica is his first novel.

Mica, an expert navigator, uses the currents of the Darkstream to pilot his ship across the galaxy to join his love, Olivine. On the way, he befriends Ronnie, a stowaway who can look like a coat or a first aid kit, the mysterious Vuud, and the translucent “Slight People”. They experience the savage planet of Carnage and the whirling destruction of the Moon of 10,000 Drones before they even reach Olivine in the brand-new city of Garner in the midst of an unknown world.


Mica

I was really looking forward to seeing Mica at last. Really, I was dying to see him. He was supposed to be gone for two weeks and it's been six including his being quarantined for almost a week hanging there over Garner while they tested and examined him, he and that dog, Rogere. All that time and no communication since before they got to Pisto. Except for that dream--- I want to talk to him.


Rogere was supposed to drop Mica off at his partamento. 


Oh! here they are; the Skimcraft is bouncing as it pops open and out tumbles Mica. I have seen more graceful exits. Even from this distance I can tell it's him-how thin, how nice! Standing up he waves, I guess, to Rogere and perhaps that plaster colored villain, Clabrous.


Mica peers around for a minute, then plops down on his back on the thick greenness. It is so thick, all I can see is his nose and his toes and a flash of chrome yellow hair. Wow. 


Chapter 38: Remembering