Category: Empire Of Humanity

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…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SP1Q66M Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/31RXpa Asina and I each had half an hour of putting out those routine little metaphorical fires that seem to sprout like magic when the boss is away even momentarily.  Hers had to do with the supply of metals – both iron and aluminum – that our shipyards and plane…

Tessa was desperate, and a two year contract with an Imperial Embassy looked like the way out. Helping a newly contacted species develop to a point where they’re ready to deal with the universe is a years-long project, and those whose missions succeed can expect more lucrative contracts in the future as well as the…

This novel releases Monday September 21. The links are for pre-order until then (and should still be good for ordering live) Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHWGLT2B Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/u/bzYwqn For tolerably obvious reasons, our Morelli guests were kept confined in a special area of the ship; not really a jail or whatever they called a jail onboard…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WQGYK7L Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/3JDXpK Our first lead was a three-master that would have been recognizable to those who sailed the clipper ships of the 19th century on Earth.  The tall masts would be full of sails under weigh, and the hull was designed to cut through the water, outspeeding any steamer.  There was…