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An adjunct to the Princes' Game series, Major Pieces is a collection of short fiction and vignettes that take places before, throughout, and just after the series.

Publication Data

Series: Princes' Game
Book: Extra
Publication Date: November 2019
Editions: Ebook, Paperback
Revisions: 1
Reader-Commissioned Book

Blurb

Everybody’s got a story… even the bystanders.

The staff of the Alliance’s foremost reCut from Deserving (Fiction)staurant… the forgotten children of the imperial Chatcaavan harem… the story of how an empress hired a D-per, and an entire ship full of Glaseah came to settle on an alien world… here, woven amid the larger stories of the participants in the Chatcaavan war, are the smaller scenes observed by its minor characters, or shifted by its major ones in moments of contemplation. Major Pieces collects 21 stories starting from before the events of Even the Wingless and ending just prior to the first book of the Jubilee Summer duology. Some are as short as a talk with a therapist and his dog over cookies–others are nearly novel-length examinations of important events previously left off-camera, like the wedding of a wingless freak to an Emperor and his consort. All of them were reader-selected, and many, reader-suggested.

You’ve survived the war. Now come back to the unexplored corners of the story and linger.

Warning!

Warning the referenced story pages contain Spoilers

Tags and Content Notes

Tags: psychology, high stakes politics, pirates, galactic war, ensemble cast, dragons, furries, elves (space)
Rating: R for violence, adult situations

Table Contents

"Prophet's Vigil"
"Quest Accepted"
"Opening Maneuvers"
"Disengage"
"Ariihir"
"Jackal Chest"
"Soldier"
"Cookies and Tea"
In the Kitchen at Brooke's"
"Legacy"
"Because"
"Patience"
"Beacons"
"Keepers"
"Courting Rights"
"Moving Out"
"Air-Dancing"
"Deserving"
"Perspective"
"Hope's Navy"
"Second Son

Plus two cut scenes:

"Missing Piece"
"Cut Scene from 'Deserving'"

Buy Links

https://books2read.com/majorpieces

Characters

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 Everybody’s got a story… even the bystanders.
-The staff of the Alliance’s foremost restaurant… the forgotten children of the imperial Chatcaavan harem… the story of how an empress hired a D-per, and an entire ship full of Glaseah came to settle on an alien world… here, woven amid the larger stories of the participants in the Chatcaavan war, are the smaller scenes observed by its minor characters, or shifted by its major ones in moments of contemplation. Major Pieces collects 21 stories starting from before the events of Even the Wingless and ending just prior to the first book of the Jubilee Summer duology. Some are as short as a talk with a therapist and his dog over cookies–others are nearly novel-length examinations of important events previously left off-camera, like the wedding of a wingless freak to an Emperor and his consort. All of them were reader-selected, and many, reader-suggested.
+The staff of the Alliance’s foremost reCut from Deserving (Fiction)staurant… the forgotten children of the imperial Chatcaavan harem… the story of how an empress hired a D-per, and an entire ship full of Glaseah came to settle on an alien world… here, woven amid the larger stories of the participants in the Chatcaavan war, are the smaller scenes observed by its minor characters, or shifted by its major ones in moments of contemplation. Major Pieces collects 21 stories starting from before the events of Even the Wingless and ending just prior to the first book of the Jubilee Summer duology. Some are as short as a talk with a therapist and his dog over cookies–others are nearly novel-length examinations of important events previously left off-camera, like the wedding of a wingless freak to an Emperor and his consort. All of them were reader-selected, and many, reader-suggested.
 You’ve survived the war. Now come back to the unexplored corners of the story and linger.
+==Warning!==
+*Warning the referenced story pages contain Spoilers
 ==Tags and Content Notes==
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 *Rating: R for violence, adult situations
-==Synopsis==
+==Table Contents==
-Each story will contain a timestamp as to when roughly when it appears relative to the [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]]/[[Jubilee Summer Series |Jubilee Summer]] series, and are in chronological order.
+* "Prophet's Vigil"
+* "Quest Accepted"
-===Prophet's Vigil===
+* "Opening Maneuvers"
-(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])
+* "Disengage"
+* "Ariihir"
-===Quest Accepted===
+* "Jackal Chest"
-(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])
+* "Soldier"
+* "Cookies and Tea"
-===Opening Maneuvers===
+* In the Kitchen at [[Brooke's at Alpha|Brooke's]]"
-(Prior to the events of ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')
+* "Legacy"
+* "Because"
-===Disengage===
+* "Patience"
-(Before ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' and ''[[Earthrise (Fiction)|Earthrise]]'')
+* "Beacons"
+* "Keepers"
-===Ariihir===
+* "Courting Rights"
-(Just after ''[[Family (Fiction)|Family]]'')
+* "Moving Out"
+* "Air-Dancing"
-===Jackal Chest===
+* "Deserving"
-(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')
+* "Perspective"
+* "Hope's Navy"
-===Soldier===
+* "Second Son
-(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two, and prior to ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'')
-===Cookies and Tea===
-(After ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', before opening of ''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'')
-===In the Kitchen at [[Brooke's at Alpha|Brooke's]]===
-(''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', chapter 3)
-===Legacy===
-(During ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', after the palace fight and before the Breath's arrival in orbit)
-===Because===
-(During ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', shortly after chapter 18)
-===Patience===
-(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)
-===Beacon===
-(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)
-===Keepers===
-(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' again, after previous story and still before chapter 23)
-===Courting Rights===
-(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' ''again'' (dang there's a lot here), during the final stages, starting on the ''[[REN Jerisa Galare]]'')
-===Moving Out===
-(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')
-====Moving Out Key Quotes====
-"Once you'd seen a Eldritch brood, a Glaseah's take on it felt amateurish."
-"No, I believe I would have remembered wind chimes."
-===Air-Dancing===
-(A much shorter story post ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' and prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')
-===Deserving===
-(Not long after "Air-Dancing")
-===Perspective===
-(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction)|From Ruins]]'' and before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')
-===Hope's Navy===
+Plus two cut scenes:
-(After everything that has come before, still before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')
+* "Missing Piece"
+* "Cut Scene from 'Deserving'"
-===Second Son===
-(After the events of ''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'')
 ==Buy Links==
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-[[Category:Princes' Game Series]]
 [[Category:Reader-Commissioned Fiction]]
+[[Category:Major Pieces (Fiction)]]