Stranded among strangers. Hunted by pirates. Humanity's freedom hangs in the balance. Kory Drake and the crew of Thunder are stranded in the unforgiving Arizona desert after crash-landing their guerrilla starship. Their alien military adviser, Zeta, is missing and presumed dead. Desperate for help, they stumble upon a small town under siege by ruthless alien bandits. In exchange for transportation back to their hidden base in the mountains, Kory and his crew agree to rid the town of its tormentors. But the trail of the bandits leads far beyond the Arizona sands—to a desolate crater on the...

Earth weeps under the cruel tyranny of the Archons. Years of interplanetary war have devastated every colonized world, but a last remnant known as The Free Worlds of Human Space stands ready to fight one final battle. The fate of humanity hangs in the balance. Mercy Hail and Dante Matter fly alone through the light years, desperately seeking hope for victory in the war. The last vestige of the old order of genetically engineered telepathic peacekeepers is out there somewhere. Without them, the human race might never again be free.

Ottanger is a rebel and mutant on an Earth governed by a ruthless Committee. But after its Inspectorate experiments on him, Ottanger realizes the mutation allows him to reach alternate worlds. The multiverse is revealed in all its glory and terror—and he understands that he can finally flee his timeline. Then Ottanger meets the Fenris, an evolved human, visiting his Earth from the far future. He'd engineered the original world walking mutation, so those altered could escape the Committee's nightmarish regime. And Ottanger sees that that Committee will become unstoppable if not destroyed.

Aldrich Wishart, an established smuggler, is drafted to lead a rebel uprising within the Leo Constellation against oppressive imperial rule. Shifting alliances see him in direct opposition with Lady Tisserande, the long-established authority in the region. Still grieving the loss of his fiancée, he finds a connection amid the run and gun space battles threatening the destruction of his ship and the fragile collection of renegades seeking to toss aside the Emperor’s reach. From the ice-cold mines of Duex Lunes emerges a technology that might well provide the rebel fleet the means to stand...

A farmer always needs to find a way to get his produce to market... Tom Savage’s farm is coming along nicely. Trees are producing sap. The garden’s doing well. The chickens are surviving. Even the horses are thriving. No star containment units have blown up recently. But the planet of Phaethon has problems galore. The major governmental systems have instituted an embargo, preventing all but humanitarian supplies from going there. And nothing has shown up yet. League City, the capital, is in chaos. Gangs roam the street. One woman, Haley Stonecipher, hopes to make a difference with ...