The exciting conclusion to the award-winning space adventures of Captain Lyn Randall
Lyn Randall takes a break from her job at Randall Restoration to captain a secret mission on a ship that is not headed for outer space but to the depths of an ocean. A vessel, not of this world, has been discovered in the deep murky waters. Lyn and a crew of specialists discover that the ship has been there for several hundred thousand years and had once carried the common ancestors of humans and the people of Gaia.
Lyn’s retirement from space travel is once again disrupted as she leads a joint expedition with Gaia to find their shared planet of origin. Of course, nothing is easy when the politics of two planets, classified secrets, uneasy alliances, not to mention Lyn’s marital troubles with her wife, Diana, add to the perilous nature of this adventure of a lifetime.
Captain Lyn Randall and her faithful crew embark on their most daring adventure yet into unknown space as they try to answer the question, once and for all, what does it mean to be human?
Mindancer Press
240 pp. ● 6x9
$18.95 (pb) ● $9.99 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-960373-92-2 (pb)
FICTION / Science Fiction / General
FICTION / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure
FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera
FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Lesbian
Publication Date: June, 2026
Elaine Burnes is the award-winning author of the novels Endurance, Tenacity, and Wishbone and short-story collection A Perfect Life and Other Stories. Tenacity (Mindancer Press, 2024) won a 2025 Golden Crown Literary Society award for Science Fiction. Endurance (Mindancer Press, 2022) won a 2023 Golden Crown Literary Society award for Science Fiction/Fantasy and was a finalist for the Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award. Her first novel, Wishbone (Bedazzled Ink, 2015), won a 2016 Golden Crown Literary Society award for Dramatic/General Fiction and was a Rainbow Award Honorable Mention. A Perfect Life and Other Stories (GusGus Press, 2016), was a Rainbow Award winner. After years working in communications and editing for various publications, environmental nonprofits, and higher education, she now lives in and writes from bucolic western Massachusetts.
Visit https://elaineburnes.com to learn more about Elaine and her work.
Q&A with Elaine Burnes – Women & Words