New BattleTech Fiction in Shrapnel #2!
Lo and behold! My novella “Daybreak on Shining Mountain” just appeared this week in Issue #2 of Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine. I played BattleTech WAAAYY back in 80s and 90s. It’s one of tabletop wargaming’s most venerable properties, as well as having done some amazing video game renditions in recent years, so it’s a thrill to write some fiction for it. “Daybreak on Shining Mountain” is about a lost, forgotten colony, way out on the galactic periphery, going about their business, waiting for some sort of contact with the rest of human civilization. Their FTL communications are down. It takes