Bloasphr of the Dream

Supreme Commander Laurie Morgan’s estranged husband Rod becomes enchanted with a former enemy Counselor, the sexy Bloasphr, an identical copy of Laurie herself at age eighteen. When he and the alien inexplicably forge a Charisma Union enabling Rod to bend the entire United System to his will, Laurie flees to exile in the farthest realm in the United System, sixteen light-years away, to command a rebel space force. The second draft is in progress.

Synopsis

Supreme Commander Laurie Morgan invites her estranged husband Rod to accompany her home from the Counselor planet Umbrae, but while she’s focused on returning to her supreme commander duties after a brief absence, Rod thinks he’s back in her good graces even though he recently sided against her with the duplicitous alien Counselors. Still wary of him, Laurie asks one of the Counselors, Bloasphr, an identical copy of herself at age eighteen, to come with them as a chaperone. But Rod is soon enchanted with the sexy Bloasphr, who speaks of uncanny energy flowing between herself and Rod.

Rod delivers a passionate speech on his New Vitality political philosophy to human, Martian, and Alpha Centaurian delegates at a United System Council meeting. The assembly is so captivated that it votes to make him supreme ruler of the United System. Bloasphr ruminates on the inexplicable force of Charisma Union enabling Rod to grab such power.

Laurie leaves in disgust at Rod’s glib oration, fleeing to the farthest realm in the United System, Groombridge 1618, sixteen light-years away. The Maroxins of that system wish to secede from the overbearing Alpha Centaurian Confederation, and Laurie accepts their offer to command their new military Surge Force, even as she dismisses their spacecraft designer Norr Morgan as a crude sexist pig. She’s especially incensed to discover that Norr is Rod’s cousin, but she nevertheless finds him irresistible. Soon she finds herself making love to him aboard a parked spaceship in the deep night, where robot technicians arrive to lecture the pair about soulmates and marriage.

President Rod Morgan invites Mavis Wheeler, Laurie’s protege and the deputy commander of the United System Space Force, to his opulent new office to explain his baffling rise to dictator. Mavis, confused by his brainwashing skills, hopes she can pretend to be loyal to him while still serving Laurie.

Enthralled with Rod, Bloasphr doesn’t understand the sexual energies her newly-created human body generates, and Rod seduces her. They now know that their powerful union is destroying the Martians’ telepathic powers and scrambling their minds. Bloasphr realizes she’s in love with Rod, yet also trapped with him in a Charisma Union that keeps him in power.

Main Characters

Supreme Commander Laurie Morgan
Battered by her recent murder trial and self-imposed exile on the Counselor planet Umbrae, Supreme Commander Laurie Morgan decides it’s time to return to Sol to focus on revamping the space force.

United System President Rod Morgan
Brilliant and upcoming physician/engineer, Morgan is tall and slender, with prematurely gray hair, intense gray-blue eyes, and knows he’s tantalizing to women. He thinks he’s back in her Laurie’s good graces even after siding against her with the duplicitous alien Counselors. But he’s soon enchanted with the sexy Bloasphr.

Northleigh Morgan
Spaceship designer for the Maroxin Surge committee, cousin to Rod Morgan, a six-foot-five, barrel chested apparition whom Laurie instantly flags as an arrogant, sexist pig.

Bloasphr
A Counselor of the Dream from Umbrae, initially structured as a human-Beagle hybrid to interface with Sol culture, Bloasphr finds herself transformed into a fetching copy of Laurie Morgan at age eighteen.

Admiral Mavis Wheeler
Stunningly beautiful at six-foot-one, the genius author of On the Use of Xon Technology as Electromagnetic Pulse Disruptor in Space Combat is appointed Deputy Supreme Commander of the United System Space Force, but soon finds herself confused by her feelings for her former subordinate Rod Morgan.

Supporting Characters

Suzette Borman
Rejuvenated from a hard-bitten forty-two to a stunning nineteen, Suzette sought refuge on Marox, fourth planet of Groombridge 1618, and eventually contributes her talents to the revolutionary Maroxin Surge Committee.

Lt. John Commer Robot 1582  
The dreamy, impetuous Typhoon I Sensor Officer, killed at Mercury in June 2034, was also Laurie’s lover when she was nineteen, whom she never got over. His robot replica 1582 at the Typhoon I Museum on Marox unnerves her.

Mandy Frederick
Former Martian Empress, deposed as President of the Sol Council in December 2076, Mandy appears human but is actually a reincarnation of the ancient Martian Empress Fra’lith. But her volcanic temperament fizzles in the face of Rod Morgan’s devastating Charisma Union

Lt. Cmdr. Harri McNarri Robot 1399
Formerly a Heroes and Villains of the Thirties robot assigned to the Typhoon I Museum on planet Marox, the gaunt, falcon-faced McNarri robot has been promoted to physician/engineer aboard saucer Medusa.

Mickey Mal Michaels
The Typhoon I turret commander, killed in 2034 and later constituted as a Heroes and Villains of the Thirties robot, becomes the author of Fathom the Doomboat Stars, the most astonishing science fiction novel ever written, then disappears into unfathomable cosmological mystery.

Carla Posttner
This buxom sociopath tried to overthrow the United System first in April 2076 and again that November, but Carla finds new purpose as the official United System ambassador to the Counselors of the Dream.

Lt. Commander John West Robot 556
Combat hero killed by Martians in 2034, reconstituted as a Heroes and Villains of the Thirties robot, West found himself mixed up in Carla’s Posttner’s treason. But, once reprogrammed, his cybernetic genius is so valued that he becomes a valued weapons officer aboard saucer Medusa.

Laurie 1014
A wooden robot created from anti-dark energy planet Ailyuae plants in the Greater Magellanic Cloud, Laurie 1014 has an astonishing knowledge of astrophysics. She migrates to asylum planet Marrgor to become a Senior Civic Analyst for the Marrgorian government.

Yewlqr of Marox
A student revolutionary on planet Marox, Yewlqr teaches himself how to pilot Typhoon-III-class spaceships, later serving as a delegate to the United System Council before he comes head of the Maroxin Surge Committee.

Commander Ywer
Former Martian chef serving as Mavis Wheeler’s copilot aboard saucer Medusa, Ywer could have become a Martian Star General, but chose to rise within the human ranks of the USSF.

Contents

1.. The Shaky Return
2.. The Protoplasmic Bloasphr
3.. Compromised in a Way Men Can Never Understand.
4.. The Link
5.. The Martian Cathedral

6.. The Speech
7.. The Hell With It! I Call for a Vote!
8.. Laurie at Groombridge
9.. His New Presidential Office
10.. The Big What If

11.. A Landing in Marox
12.. The Maroxin Surge Force
13.. Northleigh
14.. The Martian Shackles
15.. Garr/thahg Castle

16.. But Isn’t That Lying to the President?
17.. Sex with the President of the Galaxy
18.. Another Impulsive Marriage?
19.. A Matter Of Public Record
20.. Can She Control Him?

21.. Bloasphr In Love
22.. The Ride Down
23.. He Still Has to Work With Suzette
24.. A Hasty and Perhaps Ineffectual Maroxin Defense
25.. Why Am I Hunting My Friend Again?

26.. Slaughter Sphere I
27.. The Amplified Fool Macro
28.. Wow, that Macro Really Works
29.. A Love to Destroy the Galaxy
30.. Zanily on Top of the Insanity

31.. Reckless Asylum
32.. Exile
33.. Renaissance

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All words and images (except actual cover art) copyright by Michael D. Smith