Apocalypse Troll
 USN
vs UFOS
There Captain Richard Aston was, minding his own business as he
single-handed his sailboat across the Atlantic while his Navy retirement
was processed, when everything went to hell in a handcart.
First, there were the UFOs that decided to overfly a USN carrier
group at Mach 17. Their impossible acrobatics were bad enough, but then
they started shooting at each other. And at the Navy. With nukes....
Then there was the megaton-range upper atmosphere explosion that
fried every bit of electronic gear in a radius of, oh, several hundred
miles.
And after that, there was the very attractive, very young, critically
wounded female alien he pulled out of the ocean after she baled out of
her stricken spacecraft. Only she wasn't an alien, or as young as she
looked. What she was turned out to be a tough-as-nails warrior locked in
a duel to the death with an alien cyborg Idlling machine from a tech
base hundreds of years in the future which would stop at
nothing—literally—to kill her.
No one could really blame Richard Aston for thinking he was looking
at a bad situation when his guest's explanation reached that point, only
he was wrong.
He hadn't seen bad yet.
But it was coming.
Cover art by Charles Keegan
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