Planck's Gate

In an alternate reality, a humanity develops the biotech of new bodies that a person can put on and wear like a suit of clothes -- except that body can provide a new method of life support, of movement, of site, or of almost anything else.

I've written a few stories playing around with this concept, that are all loosely linked by background. They're posted here.

Note: Returning Home is the introduction story, but I have written two others (Quiet and Love Amongst the Heavens) but they're being revised to be submitted for publication and hence are not posted here.

Returning Home (Oct 1999/Rev. May 2000) (227k)	This all started when somebody posted the idea of a "Chain Story". A small setup was provided, and then different characters were scattered and individual writers could volunteer to write what happens to one character. I choose run and wrote a long story resolving the problem. Sadly, nobody else did. In early 2000, Raven hosted a "Merfolk" contest and I rewrote the beginning removing the links to the "Chain Story" and made this a stand alone story which I submitted. Sadly it only won second. :( As to the story itself, Dr. Anita Lei has developed the physics and mathematical language to create a gate to alternate realities. Sadly, she is too young to be taken seriously and thus others push her to the back and, not understanding her math, create a horrible accident that sends Dr. Lei to a distant reality. There she has to first survive, and then she has to find a way home.