These stories should be read in the order shown.

The stories marked with an * in the description are not really part of the series, they are included because
they make reference to the same characters and if you hope to make any sense of this stuff, you should
read everything that we were originally posting to the Usenet groups these first appeared in. :)

Also, I'll have to apologize for the formatting of these stories. They start life as ancient word documents
and various conversion attempts to HTML or TXT files really screw up the formatting.

I also need to thank somebody who has become involved with this saga of his own free will.  In the summer
of 2004 a new fan of the stories, someone who also happens to be an editor,figured out how to contact me
and offered his services free of charge to try and clean upthe stories.  Ok, he's already demonstrated a lack
of taste by even reading this stuff and offering to edit it free of charge confirms he's of questionable sanity.
However, Thank You Jon Williams, I doubt you know what you've gotten yourself into.

Stories that Jon has edited are marked with a % in the description.

Alternate Universe Stories - "The Road Not Taken".


Stories from the "Early Years"
Timeline: roughly 1982 through 1994

02/06/92 - The Wizard Awakens - * First story ever posted (silly)
06/02/95 - On The Wings of Dreams - % The story of how Kalindra and I first met (LARGE)
11/02/92 - Halloween - % Kalindra comes to Earth for a visit
11/21/92 - Working Vacation - % I take a working vacation on Velar
01/02/93 - The Challenge - I defend my right to be ArchMage
01/16/93 - Destructive Labs - * I don't think much of Creative Labs
01/16/93 - The Demo - * Neither does Bob
01/24/93 - The Prototype - % Testing what will be the main drive of the Sunbeam
02/08/93 - A New Friend - Smaug adopts me
02/13/93 - Dogfight - % Smaug and Penny at it again
02/25/93 - Tag, You're It - Just having fun
03/19/93 - The Frog Man - * Somebody really annoys me
03/19/93 - NetTrek - * They manage to annoy Bob also
03/20/93 - The Internet, Fifty Three Countries and Two Worlds - Velar joins the net
04/05/93 - Night Classes - % Teaching, Learning and mistakes...
04/12/93 - Jeff and His Mail - * Picking on my friend Jeff
04/30/93 - Boredom is a Terrible Thing - Bob joins the party (LARGE)
05/10/93 - You Want a Job? - Bob becomes part of the show
05/13/93 - Tan's First Teleport - Hyperspace, here we come
05/14/93 - Crash - Ficus ruins Bob's ship
05/14/93 - A New Paint Job - And you claim my car looks funny?
05/15/93 - Karen Will Have a Fit - Penny wants to meet Karen
05/23/93 - My Home Away From Home - I build a home on Velar
05/23/93 - To Dream - The work starts to get to me
05/25/93 - New Travel Policy - * Poking fun at Olivetti and my boss
05/25/93 - Memories and Anger - Bob and Penny working together
05/27/93 - Extra Baggage - You want to bring _what_ along?
06/10/93 - First Flight - The first flight of the Sunbeam
06/23/93 - What's the Matter? - So that's what happened to the magic
06/26/93 - Impact! - This is what my job is
07/19/93 - Who Needs Batteries - Brian VS The Void
07/26/93 - Speed Run - Testing the main drive of the Sunbeam
07/29/93 - Bob's First Flight - Testing Brian's nerves
08/04/93 - Smaug's New Mate - Smaug goes courting
08/05/93 - Doctor Bob Doolittle - Jab/Nahn joins the show
08/14/93 - Star Drive - The prototype Hyperdrive gets tested
08/22/93 - Out Out Damned Void - Just call me Void Killer...
08/23/93 - In Search of the Lost Mage - Teaching Penny some manners
09/13/93 - Wargames - Somebody saw us, time to cleanup after ourselves
09/18/93 - Oh, My Poor Head - Teasing Jab, bad idea
09/18/93 - Homeward Bound - Jab is more then a cat, Bob is dead (LARGE)
10/01/93 - Who's in Control Here? - I get a hint about what Kalindra is up to
10/02/93 - Yet More Kids - Smaug becomes a parent
10/03/93 - Adoption Paper's - A few too many dragons
10/16/93 - The Guardian - We disturbed something with our test
10/17/93 - Penny's SuperSpy - Baby Dragons are cute, but stupid
10/29/93 - The Way To A Man's Heart - Kalindra cooks something up
10/31/93 - The Gift - The birth of the Family nas Kan
11/03/93 - May I Have The Ring Please - Why are you looking at my ear that way?
11/05/93 - They Were The Best of Times, They Were The Worst of Times - The Guardian War (HUGE)
12/01/93 - A Matter of Honor - Kalindra learns about human honor and love
12/04/93 - Time To Move On - Moving day arrives, Bob creates K1
12/09/93 - Nahn Intervention Policy - Nahn's background and the Maal show up (LARGE)
12/07/93 - Beware The Wolf - Mother Nature strikes back (with help)
12/19/93 - Me and My Big Mouth - Kalindra and I on our Honeymoon? (LARGE)
12/22/93 - The StarMen - Bob gets sucked into a Meenzal Mess
12/27/93 - All Right, Who's First? - Dealing with the Meenzeii and the Maal (LARGE)
01/04/94 - Who's Responsible for this Mess? - * Poking fun at a friend
01/10/94 - Learning A Lesson - Where oh where did my magic go...
01/20/94 - The Best Defense - Say good-bye to the Maal (LARGE)
02/03/94 - So Long, Farewell, Amen? - Saying goodbye to my old life
02/10/94 - Suzanne - Bob's Ex-wife joins the crew of K1
02/14/94 - One Little, Two Little, Three Little Crew Members - A new crew arrives (LARGE)
02/24/94 - The Good and the Bad - The Sunbeam crew works, the Valance crew doesn't
03/09/94 - So you can do better? - We leave to go visit a new race
03/18/94 - Breakdown - Meet the Tipkatz, watch things fall apart (LARGE)
04/04/94 - Time To Go Zulm - We deal with the source of the Breakdown (LARGE)
05/18/94 - Time Out - Bob explores his abilities, Brian tries to relax (LARGE)
06/27/94 - Penny Must Die! - Penny comes apart at the seams (LARGE)
07/14/94 - To Say Good-Bye ... - * Special Story, when I was feeling really down, not canon
10/10/94 - No cookies for Kalindra - I DON'T like being ignored
10/10/94 - Once and For all - Bob and Penny are at it again
11/12/94 - Cool Man - Castles are COLD!
11/25/94 - Memory Leak - Penny gets even worse
12/26/94 - Merry Meenzal Christmas - Jab celebrates Christmas
01/29/95 - Accepting Responsibility - Dealing with Penny


Stories from the "Quiet Years"
Timeline: roughly 1995 through 2000

03/05/95 - You're Grounded - Deciding Penny's fate
01/25/95 - Meetings - Talahran enters the picture
01/29/95 - A Penny in Your Thoughts - Talahran meets Penny
04/09/95 - Something to Howl About - Another shape, Wythdantis pays us back
06/01/95 - A Day in the Life of a Councilheir - Kathalla's Introduction
04/11/95 - Who's calling who silly? - Silly vixens ...
05/12/95 - The St. Mothers Day Massacre - Kalindra is NOT fat!
06/04/95 - Ah, I see you have a Mage that goes Bing! - Setting the stage, looking for apprentices
05/28/95 - To The Magic Born - Lan Louis asks to join the family business
10/01/95 - Division - Lan Louis gets help with his homework from a friend?
12/25/97 - Christmas on Velar - Relearning what Christmas means


Stories from the "Hectic Years"
Timeline: roughly 2001 and later
12/23/94 - Peace on Earth - Kalindra meets my family
04/15/95 - Bubble Bubble, Toil and Trouble - Meenzeii falls apart
12/31/95 - Omega & Alpha - Kalindra and I retire ...
01/08/96 - Welcome to the 21st Century - Jab's idea of a retirement party
01/01/2000 - War - The War with the Meenzai
11/19/2010 - Slow Learners - Cleaning up a few loose ends after the War
07/22/2011 - A Family Matter - Mother, meet Kalindra, and your grandson.
07/29/2011 - Just Another Day at the Office - Another Day, Another Mess
10/01/2011 - A Day in the Life ... - How an average day goes when we're not in the middle of a crisis
08/24/2007 - A Golden Bel - Say hello to my daughter
10/28/2008 - To The Magic, Sold! - A fun little story about how Lan Louis becomes Tanindra's apprentice

Misc Information

??/??/?? - Basic index to the stories
02/12/95 - How Velan names are put together
03/29/95 - Occupational suffixes for Velan names
05/23/95 - Some of the "Rules of Magic" blurbs from my signatures


I'll add other stories from the archives as well as misc information as I find the time.
Brian W. Antoine <briana@nas-kan.org>