Captain Sass Collier got her crew to Denali.Can she bring them home again?Marooned 35 million miles from their home moon. Not enough fuel to reach orbit again, let alone Mahina. The locals seem friendly. But the planet Denali itself is hostile, from volcanoes to microbes.Thrive has 6 months until their launch window opens – and closes.The prizes Denali offers are jewels beyond price. An actual starship awaits on the sea bottom. The greatest nanite scientist ...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The heroes left behind.Sass Collier and the Thrive vanished a decade ago to visit another star. Most of her crew stayed behind on their home moon.Ben Acosta, captain of the ringship Prosper, still joyfully plies the spaceways. Until his ex decides to head into space with an audacious plan.The Thrive crew reunites to test a faster-than-light breakthrough that could change everything.Experimental conditions may be adv...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. She can't die. But this moon is killing her people.Sass Collier took years to buy a spaceship, a dream born in humiliation and defeat.Four decades ago, Sass arrived on the unpromising moon Mahina with refugees from Earth, the home planet now falling out of living memory. As a marshal, she mediates disputes between the elites of the capital and destitute settlers wresting a living from the moondust.Then an ‘air drop’ kills h...

Pirates, slavers, and deviants!Captain Sass Collier leads her motley crew across the treacherous rings of gas giant Pono, seeking a cure for the steady decline of Mahina Colony. Tantalizing clues point to Sagamore, Mahina’s sister moon.To get there, Sass needs to upgrade her decrepit skyship. Her crew of would-be heroes need to earn their space legs. And ex-cop Sass is probably the wrong person for the job.But no one else is willing to try.Only the deranged ...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Sass versus AI!Sanctuary, high-tech paradise with small-town charm!Leave a message at the beep.In a flash of old-fashioned warp, Sass’s crew catches up in time to Prosper.Eager to greet a new world, instead Sass’s comms are blocked by an AI from hell.Sanctuary is refuge to the Colony Corps, who transported refugees from Earth to the stars. Compared to Thrive’s home moon Mahina, it’s a paradise. People are heal...

An ex-cop who cannot die. A moon full of settlers who cannot thrive.Mahina's terraformers built a high-tech urban paradise. Then Earth flooded the colony with desperate refugees, cop Sass Collier among them.The settlers who arrived with Sass died decades ago. Outside the citadel, their descendants die weak and young.Sass fought a rebellion against the city once. She won concessions to give the settlers a chance at health. She paid with 20 years in prison.Now...

An ex-cop who cannot die. A moon full of settlers who cannot thrive.Mahina's terraformers built a high-tech urban paradise. Then Earth flooded the colony with desperate refugees, cop Sass Collier among them.The settlers who arrived with Sass died decades ago. Outside the citadel, their descendants die weak and young.Sass fought a rebellion against the city once. She won concessions to give the settlers a chance at health. She paid with 20 years in prison.Now...

Five months there. Five months back.And seven months waiting for the planets to align. In a tiny ship never meant for deep space.Denali is one hell of a trip.But the leading mind in nanite medicine is stranded there. Captain Sass Collier wants him back, to cure failure to thrive syndrome in her own colony.Each of the crew has a motive to embrace the risk. The lucky ones wish for adventure. Adventure is assured.But Denali holds another prize beyond th...

Five months there. Five months back.And seven months waiting for the planets to align. In a tiny ship never meant for deep space.Denali is one hell of a trip.But the leading mind in nanite medicine is stranded there. Captain Sass Collier wants him back, to cure failure to thrive syndrome in her own colony.Each of the crew has a motive to embrace the risk. The lucky ones wish for adventure. Adventure is assured.But Denali holds another prize beyond th...

Every ruin tells a storyAcross the vast expanse of space and time lie the remnants of civilizations that reached for the stars—and vanished.Silent cities carved into asteroids. Derelict megastructures drifting between galaxies. Temples buried beneath the red sands of dead worlds.This book contains 13 bold tales of humanity’s encounters with these cosmic ruins. Think Indiana Jones meets Arthur C. Clarke.Follow determined xenoarchaeologists as...

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • “An interstellar suspense thriller . . . sweeping in scope and emotional range.”—San Antonio Express-NewsIn the star-spanning civilization known as the Intersolar Commonwealth, twenty-three planets have fallen victim to the Prime, a technologically advanced alien species genetically hardwired to exterminate all other forms of life. But the Prime is not the only threat. The Starflyer, an alien with...

A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic "robot western" from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic.It’s been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots. Humankind is extinct. Every man, woman, and child has been liquidated by a global uprising devised by the very machines humans designed and built ...