NEBADOR - an epic young-adult science fiction adventure

Nebador Archives presents an epic young-adult science fiction adventure - Book Four

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Kibi and the Search for Happiness

Rini and the Old Slave

Buna's New World

First Taste of Freedom

NEBADOR Book Four: Flight Training

This book includes the short story Kibi and the Search for Happiness by Katelynn Persons, winner of the 2010 NEBADOR Writing Contest.

The new crew of the little ship must learn countless lessons before they can visit far-away places without grave danger. Many of those lessons could not be predicted, even by the captain.

the little ship's first rescue mission

original cover art commissioned to artist Rachael Hedges

After training and practice at every aspect of atmospheric flight, and some hard lessons dealing with other cultures, Ilika and his crew depart on a grand tour of the planet. They learn from many challenges, and eventually receive their first passengers when they find a man and his daughter stranded on an ice continent. But their act of kindness nearly ends in disaster.

"One thing I can guarantee, is that the world will never change itself because of our weaknesses. In fact, it has ways of actually becoming more dangerous when we approach it with a bad attitude."

-- Ilika, after Miko's death

from Chapter 29: The Old, the Hot, and the Cold

    A three-hundred-meter wall of solid ice loomed above as Mati nudged the ship toward the coastline. Their visit to the North Pole had done nothing to prepare them for the spectacle before their eyes. As they watched, huge slabs of ice broke free of the frozen white cliffs and plunged, in slow motion, into the frigid blue water below. Huge waves of water and ice rushed toward them. Mati took the ship up a little higher.
    "External audio, Rini," Ilika requested.
    A moment later the ship was filled with an eerie groaning sound. Even as they watched and listened, a sudden loud crack made most of them jump. They saw, heard, and felt another massive chunk of ice slowly peel away from the glacier wall and plunge downward. Seconds later, it smashed into the floating ice with an explosion of sound and flying shards. They felt, more than heard, the resulting wave of black water and white ice that rushed beneath the ship.
    "Hatch is half-open," Kibi announced.
    The crew went off-duty two at a time to take a closer look at the fury of the glacier. Sata closed her eyes when a large column of ice came crashing down, but forced herself to open them before it hit the water.
    "We are so lucky," Mati said at her side. "No one in our kingdom will ever see this."
    "Or the hottest desert," Sata added.
    "I don't know which one is scarier."
    "This one, to me," Sata declared. "We'd be in trouble, either place, without a good ship."
    "Yeah. I'm cold. You ready to go up?"
    Sata put her arm around her friend and helped her to her station.

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Manessa's Passenger Area and Bridge
J. Z. Colby
2001
(not exactly right, but close)