Feathered Friendship

<p>The first installment in the award-winning <em>Strange Space Adventures</em> series of optimistic science fiction books by Katie Silverwings <strong><em>Feathered Friendship: A Strange Space Novella</em></strong> is a tale of friendship family and finding one's place in the galaxy. Follow along as Bernadette a young budgerigar explores the starship MSS Venture with her Florivan best friend Cobalt Mereday and does her best to convince the scientist who hatched her that she is in fact much more than an ordinary little bird.</p><p><br></p><h3 class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dr. Ariadne Salzar-Newman is NOT a mad scientist.</span></h3><p>She is a scientist-and a brilliant one at that-but she's hardly mad. According to MSS Venture's resident psychologist the Florivan Elder Navy Irleeim she's only amusingly eccentric with a bit more of a fascination with the Strange than is healthy for a human. Navy would know too considering how long they've been officially observing her and occasionally assisting with her experiments. If their Navigator's wife has to be set on studying things that could kill her they'd rather be involved from the beginning.</p><p>?</p><p>Dr. Salzar-Newman's latest endeavor towards mitigating the dangers of starships traveling via the so-called Quantum Space shortcut is not one Navy would ordinarily have approved. Bottled miasmas are one thing; eggs are another entirely. Still having taken one of their Florivan patients under her wing as a part-time assistant she's safer than usual this time. Working with her will be good for Cobalt Mereday-if only because her unique brand of oddity seems to be the only thing capable of helping them.</p><p>?</p><p>Even Dr. Salzar-Newman has no reason to suspect just how much of an effect this particular project will have on her family and her protégé nor how far-reaching the consequences will be.</p><p>?</p><h3><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Something new is about to hatch...</span></h3><p><br></p>