She was born and brought up in the colony on the moon, where her parents were killed in a laboratory explosion. When she applies for a job at the South Kent Special Care Facility, her background is held against her, for everyone knows that moonchildren are "weaklings".After she gets the job, she discovers that a mysterious unknown enemy has set her up to be blamed for thefts that are taking place at the Facility. Whenever he decides to spring the trap, she will be disgraced and her...

Irene was born and brought up in the colony on the moon, where her parents were killed in a laboratory explosion. She's built a reputation for leadership and problem solving around the solar system. She's the right person for the job when the new modulated integral soliton stream opens up the opportunity for her to command a survey mission to the Alpha Centauri star system.One planet, designated AC4, looks particularly promising.The survey is going well for the team, and se...

Due to a funding hiatus for the low-gravity project, Irene finds herself on Venus as medical lab assistant and biomedical researcher. Deep in the murky yellow depths of the hot and heavy Venusian atmosphere, they find some rather aggressive native life, and Irene is forced to fight for her life and her colleagues.

Alpha Centauri and the planet AC4, now mysteriously known as Klandor, has particular meaning for her. Her aunt was part of the survey team there. In a sense she is still there.When Lorraine applies to join the proposed colony, she is completely honest and factual in her responses to every question. But she doesn't make a point of highlighting the connection. She wants to be accepted on her own merits, and she doesn't like being labeled. And she really hates that the selection commi...

Irene is sent to investigate a mysterious illness on Moonbase, but the Earth-appointed administrator doesn't want her there. So once again she must deal with clashes, find allies, fight to save patients, and face the trauma of collapsing tunnels in a meteorite strike.

Two weeks after Irene's marriage to Commander Roger Slade, he is called on a mission to Mars. She watches his shuttle come in on the arrivals video, but he never shows up. But then all evidence of marriage is gone, nobody believes she is Mrs Roger Slade, and then the Commander Roger Slade that turns up isn't her Roger.

She's the younger sister, always in the shadow of her older sister, on an alien planet, where her best friends are not even human.They're always 'the girls', the two only unattached 'maidens' on the planet. And they are expected to just sit there and look pretty, look after the youngsters, and look on as the men make the significant decisions and do the real work.Her sister's brashness hasn't really helped either. Now she's labeled 'the quiet one', while her sister has 'a v...

They're always there in the background. They say very little, but listen a great deal. There's one in a quiet corner at every meeting. There's one in every home - they like to cook and knit and master new skills. We don't know what sex they are, if they have sexes, although it seems they have children...It's not that they refuse to answer so much as that we can't understand the answer. They say things like 'the offspring are not yet ripe for the sun'. Or, 'they are in the place of ...

Irene is called back to Venus to solve some mysterious problems: another mystery illness - this time affecting people she knew from her last term on Venus. What it is, they don't know - they can't identify any pathogen. But it causes extreme pain - and three out of four people to contract it committed suicide.

Fresh research, advancing further the work of numerous scholars over a great many decades, points convincingly to a new basis for explaining the Synoptic Problem: the Gospel of Matthew was published in stages.Scholars have long debated the Synoptic Problem--questions about why and how the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke share so much common material, and yet differ in so many ways.Assessing all the primary evidence, and the widely differing scholarly views about the Syno...

A futuristic tale of intergalactic love and politics from the legendary "colossus of science fiction" and creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey ( The New Yorker).In the year 2276, Duncan Makenzie travels from Saturn's moon, Titan, to Earth as a diplomatic guest at the United States' Quincentennial. As a member of Titan's 'First Family' descended from the moon's original settlers five hundred years before, Duncan finds himself welcomed back to Mother Ea...

Are aliens ever abducted by aliens? And if they were, would anyone believe theirstory?When the Doctor and Ruby arrive on Cavia, they meet a gentle local who is certain that she has been taken for study by creatures from the stars. The Doctor is concerned to find mysterious meteors appearing in the sky, while strange robotic creatures crowd the forests, watching everything and waiting for… what?Who is interested in Cavia, and why? What is the sinist...