Category: Empire Of Humanity

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HX6XEE8 Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/mdN7Gl Earth needed help – and nobody else was going to step up Graciela Juarez has gone from a late-twenties college student to Second Order Guardian and one of the Empire’s better pilots. But events on Earth are building to a climax, and the Empire is determined to let Earth…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FQTL7XY Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/b5MvQ7 The stons were dead, but that left Grace alone to try to learn to control her new abilities. When a solution presents itself, she begins learning just how far there is to go on the new journey she started. A new family, a new home, and learning to adapt…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FDLKNXU Books2read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/4AwOxJ A duel in the shadows as echoes of an ancient war wash up onto a new planet! Life in the Empire has finally settled down. The last of the ston rebels have taken amnesty, and re-joined civilization – or have they? A massive terrorist attack kills millions and the…

The prior step ended with the realization that not only did government have to be minimalist, and consciously so, it had to be composed of people who would be paying a personal price if it – or they – failed. How do you do that? One constant of the people who make country- and civilization-killing…

In the late 1970s, it became fashionable to bash the large scale stellar states that featured so prominently in science fiction. It was “plainly impossible” and exhibit A was always the writer’s preconception of what government did: Social work and industrial boards of this and that and regulations concerning the use of typewriters and television…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHWGLT2B Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/u/bzYwqn “Looks like they’re concerned about contamination,” I told the four Morelli, “We’ve been asked to drop you on your planet’s outer moon.  Sergeant Mitrisa has inquired about a flight path, but she can’t get a response for at least another two hours thirty.” At that moment, Ambassador DeelKonosh entered…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW9288ZF Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/m2KD0G “Esteban Scimtar di Juarez, you have passed the threshold of adulthood.  There is no return to childhood in this life.” The ceremony was pure show.  My eldest had wielded most of the trappings of adulthood for years.  The few deficiencies had already been rectified within a second of his…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SKN2Y6Y Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/mKpGlP It never begins dramatically. It started on an ordinary day, when I’d been doing the perfectly ordinary thing of gathering evidence for a hearing.  The case I was investigating had to do with the tort of infringement.  In this case the plaintiff was alleging the defendant was generating excessive…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KTF1YGW Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/31xj8a Ilras, quit trying to squirt your sister with ketchup.  The inverse square law is on her side. But mom!  I’m just trying to teach her defense!  Meanwhile, baby Imtara giggled in delight at frustrating her brother’s dastardly plan. Dear, even if she was asleep, she’d have plenty of time…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075X4L8ZJ Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bzaevD Later, Asto and I were in our quarters.  He’s a tall, thin Guardian; the body type sometimes known as ‘hound’ on Earth.  Six feet six, broad shoulders, long legs, and thin as a whip, except for tiny little bulges here and there, intended to give him a reserve of…