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  • We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

    We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
    2025/05/02

    In Ch 11, Karenna receives an unexpected surprise

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    12 分
  • No One Puts Yilmaz in a Corner

    No One Puts Yilmaz in a Corner
    2025/04/19
    Sorry for the delay!
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    13 分
  • You Mighta Known

    You Mighta Known
    2025/04/04
    VIDEO TRAILER: https://youtu.be/R4tiiZGJcis?si=27QyYnRUW_PHWTLI Welcome to the Ancient as the Stars podcast, where I read my book so you don't have to. In Episode Nine, Ren and Karenna finally meet *Please ignore my mispronunciation of Kuiper. Support the author: https://ko-fi.com/mayadarjani Learn more: http://MayaDarjani.com and linktr.ee/MayaDarjani Full Book Blurb: For fans of Lower Decks, the Expanse, and Firefly: a found family time travel adventure with humor, snark, and lots of heart. One kickass immortal sailship captain. Captain Karenna Yilmaz of the Earth Union Fleet has it all. Adoring husband? Check. The enduring loyalty of her crew? Check. Transformation into a beautiful ageless immortal? Check. Check. Check. But when a dimensional rift brings her low-down, dust-sniffing, no-good younger self hurtling into the present, Karenna's carefully-constructed life wavers. One snarky dust-addicted loser. Flight Officer Ren Yilmaz is pretty sick of the hand she's been dealt. Her supervisor is an idiot. Her ex-husband is vindictive and has ruined her career. And now, here's her perfect future self, who everyone fawns over, while Ren is still ignored and alone. They're the same person, 60 years apart Both their ships are stranded: one in space, one in time. Karenna needs to get her crew home safe and sound. And Ren has to get back to her reality and out of Karenna's shadow. Working together would mean literally facing their past–including old traumas and transgressions best kept hidden. But if they don't, they'll be stuck with each other until the end of time
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    17 分
  • Oh, How the Turn Tables

    Oh, How the Turn Tables
    2025/03/21
    VIDEO TRAILER:

    https://youtu.be/R4tiiZGJcis?si=27QyYnRUW_PHWTLI

    Welcome to the Ancient as the Stars podcast, where I read my book so you don't have to.

    In Episode Eight, Karenna and Max go visit Hawking

    Support the author:
    https://ko-fi.com/mayadarjani
    Learn more: http://MayaDarjani.com
    and linktr.ee/MayaDarjani

    Full Book Blurb:

    For fans of Lower Decks, the Expanse, and Firefly: a found family time travel adventure with humor, snark, and lots of heart.

    One kickass immortal sailship captain.

    Captain Karenna Yilmaz of the Earth Union Fleet has it all. Adoring husband? Check. The enduring loyalty of her crew? Check. Transformation into a beautiful ageless immortal? Check. Check. Check. But when a dimensional rift brings her low-down, dust-sniffing, no-good younger self hurtling into the present, Karenna's carefully-constructed life wavers.

    One snarky dust-addicted loser.

    Flight Officer Ren Yilmaz is pretty sick of the hand she's been dealt. Her supervisor is an idiot. Her ex-husband is vindictive and has ruined her career. And now, here's her perfect future self, who everyone fawns over, while Ren is still ignored and alone.

    They're the same person, 60 years apart

    Both their ships are stranded: one in space, one in time. Karenna needs to get her crew home safe and sound. And Ren has to get back to her reality and out of Karenna's shadow. Working together would mean literally facing their past–including old traumas and transgressions best kept hidden. But if they don't, they'll be stuck with each other until the end of time
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    15 分
  • All Star

    All Star
    2025/03/07
    VIDEO TRAILER:

    https://youtu.be/R4tiiZGJcis?si=27QyYnRUW_PHWTLI

    Welcome to the Ancient as the Stars podcast, where I read my book so you don't have to.

    In Episode Seven, Karenna finally meets her past.

    Support the author:
    https://ko-fi.com/mayadarjani
    Learn more: http://MayaDarjani.com
    and linktr.ee/MayaDarjani

    Full Book Blurb:

    For fans of Lower Decks, the Expanse, and Firefly: a found family time travel adventure with humor, snark, and lots of heart.

    One kickass immortal sailship captain.

    Captain Karenna Yilmaz of the Earth Union Fleet has it all. Adoring husband? Check. The enduring loyalty of her crew? Check. Transformation into a beautiful ageless immortal? Check. Check. Check. But when a dimensional rift brings her low-down, dust-sniffing, no-good younger self hurtling into the present, Karenna's carefully-constructed life wavers.

    One snarky dust-addicted loser.

    Flight Officer Ren Yilmaz is pretty sick of the hand she's been dealt. Her supervisor is an idiot. Her ex-husband is vindictive and has ruined her career. And now, here's her perfect future self, who everyone fawns over, while Ren is still ignored and alone.

    They're the same person, 60 years apart

    Both their ships are stranded: one in space, one in time. Karenna needs to get her crew home safe and sound. And Ren has to get back to her reality and out of Karenna's shadow. Working together would mean literally facing their past–including old traumas and transgressions best kept hidden. But if they don't, they'll be stuck with each other until the end of time
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    19 分
  • Hey Now

    Hey Now
    2025/02/21
    VIDEO TRAILER:

    https://youtu.be/R4tiiZGJcis?si=27QyYnRUW_PHWTLI

    Welcome to the Ancient as the Stars podcast, where I read my book so you don't have to.

    In Episode Six, Ren decides to take her career into her own hands... and find out what's going on with the future ship while she's at it

    *short chapter this week! might upload the next chapter sooner to make up for it

    Support the author:
    https://ko-fi.com/mayadarjani
    Learn more: http://MayaDarjani.com
    and linktr.ee/MayaDarjani

    Full Book Blurb:

    For fans of Lower Decks, the Expanse, and Firefly: a found family time travel adventure with humor, snark, and lots of heart.

    One kickass immortal sailship captain.

    Captain Karenna Yilmaz of the Earth Union Fleet has it all. Adoring husband? Check. The enduring loyalty of her crew? Check. Transformation into a beautiful ageless immortal? Check. Check. Check. But when a dimensional rift brings her low-down, dust-sniffing, no-good younger self hurtling into the present, Karenna's carefully-constructed life wavers.

    One snarky dust-addicted loser.

    Flight Officer Ren Yilmaz is pretty sick of the hand she's been dealt. Her supervisor is an idiot. Her ex-husband is vindictive and has ruined her career. And now, here's her perfect future self, who everyone fawns over, while Ren is still ignored and alone.

    They're the same person, 60 years apart

    Both their ships are stranded: one in space, one in time. Karenna needs to get her crew home safe and sound. And Ren has to get back to her reality and out of Karenna's shadow. Working together would mean literally facing their past–including old traumas and transgressions best kept hidden. But if they don't, they'll be stuck with each other until the end of time
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    8 分
  • You Wanna Get Smote ... Smoten?

    You Wanna Get Smote ... Smoten?
    2025/02/07
    VIDEO TRAILER:

    https://youtu.be/R4tiiZGJcis?si=27QyYnRUW_PHWTLI

    Welcome to the Ancient as the Stars podcast, where I read my book so you don't have to.

    In Episode Five, Karenna makes a fateful decision about interacting with the ship from the past... and new Fleet captain crashes the party

    Support the author:
    https://ko-fi.com/mayadarjani
    Learn more: http://MayaDarjani.com
    and linktr.ee/MayaDarjani

    Full Book Blurb:

    For fans of Lower Decks, the Expanse, and Firefly: a found family time travel adventure with humor, snark, and lots of heart.

    One kickass immortal sailship captain.

    Captain Karenna Yilmaz of the Earth Union Fleet has it all. Adoring husband? Check. The enduring loyalty of her crew? Check. Transformation into a beautiful ageless immortal? Check. Check. Check. But when a dimensional rift brings her low-down, dust-sniffing, no-good younger self hurtling into the present, Karenna's carefully-constructed life wavers.

    One snarky dust-addicted loser.

    Flight Officer Ren Yilmaz is pretty sick of the hand she's been dealt. Her supervisor is an idiot. Her ex-husband is vindictive and has ruined her career. And now, here's her perfect future self, who everyone fawns over, while Ren is still ignored and alone.

    They're the same person, 60 years apart

    Both their ships are stranded: one in space, one in time. Karenna needs to get her crew home safe and sound. And Ren has to get back to her reality and out of Karenna's shadow. Working together would mean literally facing their past–including old traumas and transgressions best kept hidden. But if they don't, they'll be stuck with each other until the end of time
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    19 分
  • Randy, the Sinister Waffle

    Randy, the Sinister Waffle
    2025/01/24
    VIDEO TRAILER:

    https://youtu.be/R4tiiZGJcis?si=27QyYnRUW_PHWTLI

    Welcome to the Ancient as the Stars podcast, where I read my book so you don't have to.

    In Episode Four, Ren is trying to figure out who these future people are.

    *scene 2 has a few stumbles. I had to record it really quickly because apparently I missed the entire section the first go-around!

    Support the author:
    https://ko-fi.com/mayadarjani
    Learn more: http://MayaDarjani.com
    and linktr.ee/MayaDarjani

    Full Book Blurb:

    For fans of Lower Decks, the Expanse, and Firefly: a found family time travel adventure with humor, snark, and lots of heart.

    One kickass immortal sailship captain.

    Captain Karenna Yilmaz of the Earth Union Fleet has it all. Adoring husband? Check. The enduring loyalty of her crew? Check. Transformation into a beautiful ageless immortal? Check. Check. Check. But when a dimensional rift brings her low-down, dust-sniffing, no-good younger self hurtling into the present, Karenna's carefully-constructed life wavers.

    One snarky dust-addicted loser.

    Flight Officer Ren Yilmaz is pretty sick of the hand she's been dealt. Her supervisor is an idiot. Her ex-husband is vindictive and has ruined her career. And now, here's her perfect future self, who everyone fawns over, while Ren is still ignored and alone.

    They're the same person, 60 years apart

    Both their ships are stranded: one in space, one in time. Karenna needs to get her crew home safe and sound. And Ren has to get back to her reality and out of Karenna's shadow. Working together would mean literally facing their past–including old traumas and transgressions best kept hidden. But if they don't, they'll be stuck with each other until the end of time
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    13 分