The
Familias Regnant
Once
a
Hero
Esmay
Suiza wasn't a member of a great Navy
family like the Serranos. She'd had to make her way on grit alone,
which meant it wasn't likely she'd ever make admiral and 'hoist her own
flag.' Well, that was fine with her: all Esmay wanted was a secure
berth where she could be part of something greater than herself, and
otherwise just live her life in peace. But what we want or think we
want from life and what we get are seldom the same - and one day Esmay
found herself in the middle of a space battle, and the senior surviving
officer in a mutiny against a traitorous captain. Suddenly she has no
choice: she must take command and win - and thereby become both the
youngest and lowest-ranking member of Fleet ever to win a major battle.
While Esmay may not want to be a hero, it looks like she just can't
help it, because Once A Hero....
Rules
of Engagement
Esmay
Suiza and Brun Meager should be friends —
they're both bright, brave, likable and adventurous. But true
friendship doesn't run any smoother than true love. Brun thinks Esmay's
a stuck-up prig, and Esmay thinks Brun's a spoiled rich brat who's
making a play for Barin Serrano, Esmay's first love. So when Brun falls
into the hands of a repressive religious militia movement, Esmay finds
herself n disgrace, suspected of conniving at the capture. Even Barin,
now being pursued by the beautiful and ambitious Casea Ferradi, has
turned against her, and Brun's powerful family doesn't want Esmay
anywhere near the rescue attempt.
Meanwhile,
Brun has to figure out how to survive as a pregnant,
barefoot prisoner on a planet where female captives are surgically
muted to keep them from contaminating others. Her luck may have run
out, but her courage hasn't — she's determined to free not only
herself, but also other, younger captives. This burst of initiative
imperils her own rescue, and it will take double her own luck to save
her.
Hunting
Party
Corrupt
Admirals and Politicians are hunting humans as prey!
Sporting
Chance
Winning
Colours
Booted
from the fleet as her reward for saving a
villianous superior from catastrophe, Heris Serrano has been marking
time captaining a rich lady's interstellar yacht. But though she was
hired only to chauffeur Lady Cecelia from pleasure to pleasure aboard
the good ship Delight, things happen when a Serrano is around.
Heris has at last been offered a chance for vindication and
reinstatement in her beloved space navy. All she has to do is save the
galaxy from an interstellar mafia gone beserk.
The first step will be to take one destroyer, two P.T. boats, one ore
scow, and - oh yes - the space yacht Sweet delight, and stop an
invading fleet dead in its tracks. Impossible?
Well, it may take some time ...
Change
of
Command
Against
The Odds
The
worst has happened: Fleet is tearing itself
apart. Some of the mutineers see injustice in the unequal spread of the
rejuvenation drugs taht offer virtual immortality to the rich; others
are simply thirsty for power, or for blood. The Loyalists, meanwhile,
fight desperately to preserve the rule of law in Familias Regnant space.
But
when Esmay Suiza-Serrano is unceremoniously booted out of Fleet,
the apparent victim of Family politics, she has no idea of the
whirlwind of conflict into which she is about to be drawn. As the noose
tightens on the galactic civilization, great battles will be fought and
greater loves affirmed...and old friends will meet their destinies.
The Deed of Pakesenarrion
Sheepfarmer's Daughter
Paksenarrion
- Paks, for short - refuses her
father's orders to marry the pig farmer down the road and is off to
join the army. And so her adventure begins - the adventure that
transforms her into a hero remembered in songs, chosen by the gods to
restore a lost ruler to his throne.
Divided Allegiance
Paksenarrion,
once a sheepfarmer's daughter, now
a veteran warrior, meets new challenges as she breaks up a robber gang,
dispells an ancient evil possessing an elvish shrine and is accepted
for training at an academy for knights. Clearly, a high destiny awaits
her.
Oath of Gold
Two
realms face an unstable change of rule: in
Tsaia, a long Regency is nearly over, and in Lyonya, a dying king has
no legitimate heir. The sword which could declare the rightful heir of
Lyonya is lost.
Sassinak w/Anne
McCaffrey
Sassinak
was 12 when the raiders came. Old enough
to be used, young enough to be broken -- or so they thought. But they
reckoned without the girl's will, forged into a steely resolve to
avenge herself on the pirates who had killed her parents and friends.
When
the chance comes to escape, Sassinak grabs it, thanks to the help
of a captured Fleet crewman. Returned to the Federation of Sentient
Planets, she initiates her revenge by joining Fleet as a raw recruit,
surprising everyone by her rapid rise to senior rank. And then her
vengeance begins in earnest.
Generation
Warriors w/Anne
McCaffrey
Lunzie,
fresh from her adventures in The Death of
Sleep, has discovered that the one good heavyworlder she ever met isn't
so good after all . . . Dupaynil, having made the mistake of pushing
Sassinak too far, has been exiled to Seti space aboard a tiny escort
vessel - where he's discovered that the crew are in the pay of the
planet pirates . . . Then there's Sassinak, ordered to report to
FedCentral for the trial of the mutineer Tanegli. She's been told to
disarm her ship when it enters restricted space; she'd been told her
crew can't have liberty or leave; and she'd been told to follow all the
rules. But the only person who might be able to stop the disaster ahead
has never been one to follow the rules . . .
The Legacy of Gird
Surrender None
Larry Elmore
|
Liar's Oath #2
Gary Ruddell |
The Legacy
of Gird (Compilation)
Gary
Ruddell |
Surrender
None: Review
Paksenarrion
could never have fulfilled her
destiny had it not been for one who came before. Gird, the peasant, the
armsman, the Liberator who taught his people that they could fight -
and win - against oppression.
Liar's Oath
When Luap, sworn
follower of Gird, discovers a
distant land he can reach by magic, he considers what harm it would do
to break his oath and crown himself king of this far-off land.
The Legacy
of Gird (Compilation)
Vatta's War
Trading in Danger
Kylara
Vatta is the only daughter in a family
full of sons, and her father’s only child to buck tradition by choosing
a military career instead of joining the family business. For Ky, it’s
no contest: Even running the prestigious Vatta Transport Ltd. shipping
concern can’t hold a candle to shipping out as an officer aboard an
interstellar cruiser. It’s adventure, not commerce, that stirs her
soul. And despite her family’s misgivings, there can be no doubt that a
Vatta in the service will prove a valuable asset. But with a single
error in judgment, it all comes crumbling down.
Expelled
from the Academy in disgrace–and returning home to her
humiliated family, a storm of high-profile media coverage, and the
gaping void of her own future–Ky is ready to face the inevitable
onslaught of anger, disappointment, even pity. But soon after
opportunity’s door slams shut, Ky finds herself with a ticket to ride–
and a shot at redemption–as captain of a Vatta Transport ship.
It’s
a simple assignment: escorting one of the Vatta fleet’s oldest
ships on its final voyage . . . to the scrapyard. But keeping it simple
has never been Ky’s style. And even though her father has provided a
crew of seasoned veterans to baby-sit the fledgling captain on her
maiden milk run, they can’t stop Ky from turning the routine mission
into a risky venture–in the name of turning a profit for Vatta
Transport, of course.
of
plans sails her and the crew straight into the middle of a colonial war.
Marque and
Reprisal/Moving Target
Now
the lessons she learned in that trial by fire
are about to pay off: because this time, the war has come to her. To be
exact, someone unknown has launched a full-throttle offensive against
Vatta Transport Ltd., Ky’s father’s interstellar shipping empire. In
short order, most of Ky’s family is killed, and subsequent attacks
sever vital lines of communication, leaving Ky fighting, in every
sense, to survive.
Determined
to identify the ruthless mystery enemy and avenge her
family’s name, Ky needs not only firepower but information. And she
gets both in spades–from the band of stranded mercenaries she hooks up
with, from her black-sheep cousin, Stella, who’s been leading a secret
life, and from Stella’s roguish ex-lover, Rafe. Together they struggle
to penetrate the tangled web of political intrigue that’s wreaking
havoc within InterStellar Communications, whose effective operation
their own livelihoods–and perhaps lives–depend on.
But
the infighting proves to be infectious, and it isn’t long before
Ky’s hired military muscle are turning their suspicions on the
enigmatic Rafe, whose wealth of knowledge about ISC’s clashing factions
and startling new technologies has begun to make him smell like a
rat... or a mole. With swift, violent destruction a very real
possibility, the last thing Ky needs is a crew divided against itself.
Engaging the Enemy
Kylara
Vatta has had to leave a glowing future as
a military cadet far behind, and now carves out a living in the brutal
cut-throat world of interplanetary trading. Her chosen way of life is
tough but rewarding and she thinks she is more than capable of holding
her own. That is, until a threat emerges that nobody could have forseen
...
Command Decision
Kylara
had to leave a bright future as a military
cadet, and was thrown into the brutal world of off-world trading. This
subsequent career in the family business was tough: marked by war,
mutiny and attempted assassination. But then her home was attacked and
her parents killed - their trading empire left in ruins. Now she must
save what is left of the family and the business, with few friends and
too few assets. She must make full use of her hard-won experience to
not just survive, but to restore the shattered fortunes of the Vatta
family and their allies. Now, Kylara Vatta, space-trader and sometime
privateer, has destined herself for a dangerous and unpredictable
future. She will muster an interplanetary taskforce and forge them into
a lethal weapon: one that the pirates who destroyed her family will
never forget ...
Victory
Conditions
A
vast and hostile force is attacking prosperous
trade centres, destroying their space fleets then moving on, leaving
death and chaos in their wake. Admiral Ky Vatta's family was decimated
by one such attack and Turek, the pirate force's leader, will not
escape her vengeance. Ky has a loyal taskforce, but the enemy have
three times the ships and the firepower to match. She must offset these
advantages with her knowledge of military strategy and her ace:
superior ansible technology, facilitating fast and accurate in-space
intelligence. The alternative to victory is unthinkable - devastation
of interplanetary trading networks on a galaxy-wide scale - and the end
of a way of life.
Novels
Remnant Population
Fred Gambino |
Speed of Dark |
Phases
Collection of Short Stories |
Remnant Population Review
People
had always told Ofelia what to do; for
once she was going to do what she wanted. She refused to get on the
cryo ships, refused to leave the only world she could call home. And
when they finally came for her, she hid, not that the authorities
looked all that hard for one crazy old woman. Now Ofelia is alone,
content to live with no more demands on her self or her time, the only
remaining settler on an abandoned planet. The new settlers arrive. At
first she fears they have come to reoccupy the settlement she has come
to think of as hers - but they land far away. And as Ofelia secretly
listens, they are slaughtered to the last child by stone-age aliens no
one knew were there. Now it will be up to Ofelia to save the aliens
from Earth's wrath.
Speed of Dark Review
Lou Arrendale is a member of that lost
generation, born at the wrong time to reap the awards of medical
science. Part of a small group of high-functioning autistic adults, he
has a steady job with a pharmaceutical company, a car, friends, and a
passion for fencing. Aside from his annual visits to his counselor, he
lives a low-key, independent life. He has learned to shake hands and
make eye contact. He has taught himself to use “please” and “thank you”
and other conventions of conversation because he knows it makes others
comfortable. He does his best to be as normal as possible and not to
draw attention to himself.
But then his quiet life comes under attack. It
starts with an
experimental treatment that will reverse the effects of autism in
adults. With this treatment Lou would think and act and be just like
everyone else. But if he was suddenly free of autism, would he still be
himself? Would he still love the same classical music–with its
complications and resolutions? Would he still see the same colors and
patterns in the world–shades and hues that others cannot see? Most
importantly, would he still love Marjory, a woman who may never be able
to reciprocate his feelings? Would it be easier for her to return the
love of a “normal”?
There are intense pressures coming from the world
around him–including
an angry supervisor who wants to cut costs by sacrificing the supports
necessary to employ autistic workers. Perhaps even more disturbing are
the barrage of questions within himself. For Lou must decide if he
should submit to a surgery that might completely change the way he
views the world . . . and the very essence of who he is.
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