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

Cold and black. My body wrapped in lightless liquid cold. And flying down. No idea what had happened to Vuud and Landers. Boom. The back of my leather covered head strikes rock. I was falling, the battling currents whipping me along bending and twisting me like a tube of soft wax in the hot sun. I felt I had to put up some resistance keep my body tensed so it wouldn't be snapped. Down. Speeding crazily fast down; out of control. Then I began to worry about breath even before it ran out. How long this breathless hurtling?


Chapter 50: Tumblehome, Part 1