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Solitary space jock Landry Krieger eked out a living transporting data throughout the Settled Galaxy - and boosted his income by smuggling people into and out of star systems past the watchful eyes of governments, in hiding places he built in his ship, Midnight Angel. When the priests of Tao Pacem sought his services, he resisted. A plan to sneak the reincarnation of their spiritual leader to their conquered homeworld to spark a rebellion against their oppressors? After earlier experiences with religious leaders, he would need far more than 300,000 galaxycoins to say yes.

Azureseas. A world of sandy beaches under a yellow-orange sun. Human developers could turn it into the next great tourist world of the Consortia...except for its large, dangerous native animals. Ross Cantrell joined the animal control mission on Azureseas to earn the money he needed to marry and start a life together with his girlfriend. Dirty work, but necessary to keep people safe. Like plinking tree cats back home. Then Ross discovers the truth about the planet’s “animals”.

When Melanchthon arrived at the dim red star after a 40-year journey, Theodore awoke from suspended animation eager to implement the Lutheran Interstellar Terraforming Society’s plan to transform a barren rocky world into New Augsburg, a refuge for faith and life. A challenging plan: Move an icy asteroid billions of miles, quickly convert the asteroid into new seas and a breathable atmosphere for the rocky world, then seed the surface with life. Yet Theodore felt confident in his team’s ability to complete the mission.

Earth barely survived the 21st century. Now, in the 22nd, after unifying Earth, the UN controls all human colonies scattered through the galaxy by means of wormholes, warpdrive ships, and ruthless operatives. Operatives working to strengthen the UN. Or destroy it.

Earth barely survived the 21st century. Now, in the 22nd, after unifying Earth, the UN has rediscovered the colony of Minerva. Prosperous and technologically advanced, Minerva quickly submits to UN supremacy - surprisingly quickly... Operative: Stone Chalmers. Codename: Hybrid. Cover Story: Hypnotically implanted. Mission: Investigate newly-rediscovered colony world. On Minerva, while workers prepare to place a wormhole link to Earth, Stone infiltrates a secretive cult, and unearths a plot to shake to the core the foundations of the United Nations' power over the settled galaxy.

Earth barely survived the 21st century. Thousands fled the chaos on rogue warpdrive ships to settle colony planets. When Earth reunified in the 22nd, its fleets rediscovered the colonies and hunted down the warpdrive ships. Every warpdrive ship but one. Undercover on Trinity, Stone and Caitlyn must earn the trust of religious fanatics who will stop at nothing to find the last warpdrive ship. A ship that, if sent on a suicide mission, could devastate Earth. A ship someone must pilot.

Earth barely survived the 21st century. To maintain order in the 22nd, the UN relocates undesirables through artificial wormholes onto colony planets. Everyone benefits...except the planets' original colonists. Now, the newly rediscovered colony of New Moravia learns the UN's plan and fights back. Operative: Stone Chalmers. Codename: Hybrid. Cover Story: Hypnotically implanted and genetically engineered. Mission: Investigate death of operative Dragon. On New Moravia, Stone uncovers far more than an operative’s murder.

From tundra to desert, from prairies to rainforests, the trade routes of Ganelerdos converge at Sparrenfor, Enelarmos, Larpektis, and Torg-ra-Honne - the Merchant Cities. Fair exchange offers prosperity to the creative and industrious, whether human or elemental, and unearned riches to the ambitious and greedy.

One man must stop a tyrant after giving him power over the human mind. Neuroscientist Clay Shieffer tried to ignore the police state growing under President Everton. When a mysterious hacker provides evidence, Clay faces the truth behind Everton's election and his own unwitting complicity in it. Running from Federal agents and the US Army, Clay must forge a rag-tag alliance to overthrow the president.

After New California's founder committed suicide, two men vied to rule the colony. Ashwin George, supported by the colony's elite, and Tián Quán, the Chinese company whose hyperdrive ships and intelligent robots dominated half the settled galaxy. Desmond Park, nanotechnology engineer, armed with a shrewd intellect, the loyalty of the colony's disaffected youth, and the most formidable weapon of all.

Two courtiers ask Keladon, retired battlemage and the king's bastard half brother, to impregnate the queen. His sense of duty to the kingdom sends him to her bedchamber. But he must do far more to stop a conspiracy of magic and murder threatening the kingdom's survival - and the woman he comes to love.

Let a fresh distinctive voice in science fiction guide you on journeys to the photosphere of the sun, the coding regions of DNA. Listen to stories about 21st century asteroid settlements to World War II Romania, from an Earth dominated by immortal aliens to Christ's empty tomb.