A constellation of shining stories set in the vastly diverse space opera world of the Liaden seriesThe sixth Constellation collects eleven stories set in Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s vast, versatile, and beloved Liaden Universe®. Themes range from military to western to found family, and include discovery stories and novel outtakes. All showcase Lee and Miller’s deft touch with characterization and their acclaimed world-building skill. Also included in this volume...

Long ago, the Elder Fey sundered the world, raising the kaleigh to confound their enemies, and to keep the Vaitura safe.The enemies of the Vaitura have long since gone to dust, and a new folk now populate the lands beyond the kaleigh. The new folk have no kest—no power such as the Fey have. However, they have their own powers—a brilliant aura of which they seem unaware, and a new metal, inimical to Fey.Altimere of the Elder Fey, one of the last surviving a...

NEW ENTRY IN THE BEST-SELLING LIADEN UNIVERSE® SERIESA world divided cannot stand.A people divided cannot thrive.The Oracle has Seen the end of Civilization, and the end of the Haosa, too. Reactions to this are—mixed.On the one hand, foresight is a notoriously erratic Gift. On the other, can Civilization—or the Haosa—afford to assume that the prophecy is an error?And if the Oracle has Seen truly—is it possible to al...

Three space adventure novels in the popular Liaden Universe® series in one popularly-priced Omni edition:**Local Custom—**Master Trader Er Thom yos'Galan knows that Liaden custom is to be matched with a proper bride and provide his clan, Korval, with an heir. Yet his heart is immersed in another universe, influenced by another culture, and lost to a woman not of his world. And to take a Terran wife such as scholar Anne Davis is to risk both his honor and r...

Thirtythree shorter tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time in two megavolumes. Seventeen tales to start with in Volume One!The nationally bestselling Liaden Universe® novels are treasured by space opera aficionados for their wit, worldbuilding, strong characterizations, tender romance, and edgeofthechair action.Since 1995, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller also created shorter tales, illuminating additional facets of the Liaden experience. Here is a vas...

Baltimore-born Jen Pierce is starting to settle into her new job as a reporter at the Wimsy Voice, and her new life in small-town Wimsy, Maine. The town's busy enough to keep a reporter hopping, though violence is usually on the level of one neighbor punching another in the nose after they've both had too much beer. Then, in very short order, a handsome stranger moves to town, and a local preacher is murdered at the barn-raising for a newly settled Wiccan couple. Jen's bucolic life is abou...

Civilized Behavior is a companion volume for the Liaden Universe® internal trilogy made up of Trader's Leap, Ribbon Dance, and Diviner's Bow. The three fiction shorts are "Neutral Ground," a greenhouse of themes and conceits that were expanded and imported into Ribbon Dance and Diviner's Bow; Ribbon Dance outtake "Mother's Love;" and short story "Core Values." Also included is an "Author's Explanation," original to this volume, and the ...

Splinter Universe Presents!Something a little bit differentWhat this collection is--it's Something A Little Bit Different. We will explain. We'll try to be brief. And we'll start with what it isn't.It isn't a Liaden Universe® novelIt isn't a collection of Liaden short storiesIt isn't an Adventure in the Liaden Universe®So what is it, you ask...

Double Vision is a yours, mine, and ours collection from long-time Liaden Universe co-authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. This volume of twenty-nine early works was originally published in 2009 by SRM Publisher, Ltd. This is its first electronic edition.Titles included are: Ginger and the Bully of Lowergate Court, Sharon Lee; The Cat's Job, Steve Miller; A Matter of Ceremony, Sharon Lee; Coffee Cat, Sharon Lee; The Big Ice, Sharon Lee; Rain Day, Steve Miller; Master of The Winds, ...

A NEW NOVEL IN THE NATIONALLY BEST-SELLING LIADEN UNIVERSE® SERIESA door never closes, but a window opens . . .With origins in the Old Universe, the malevolent, acquisitive intelligence of Tinsori Light sought to infect others with itself and send those agents out into the wide new universe to infect even more.For centuries, two heroes stood between Tinsori Light and the vulnerable universe—Light Keepers Jen Sin yos'Phelium and Lorith of the Sandera...

Times are perilous, violence rife, and the future uncertain. Success and the survival of all you hold dear may hinge on how you manage change.Some people advise that we “Embrace Change!” Other people realize that change has edges, and if you embrace it the wrong way, it may feel a lot more like a knife than a bromide when it touches your guts.Here are two Lee and Miller novelettes set in the Liaden Universe®, "Street Cred," original to this chapbook; and "Wise Child," repri...

Here Comes the Sun!Rising temperatures, melting glaciers, violent storms, and excessive heat. The future seems bleak…but there are signs of hope.In SOLAR FLARE, we ask you to step into a world where we have managed to mitigate or even reverse the disastrous effects of climate change and our own destruction of our world. Race down the depleted waterway of the Mississippi in a solar-, wind-, and water-powered boat. Sail through the skies in a floating hydroponic dirigible. Sk...