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Steal Across the Sky Tor 2009   The aliens appeared one day, built a base on the moon, and put an ad on the internet: “We are an alien race you may call the Atoners. Ten thousand years ago we wronged humanity profoundly. We cannot undo what has been done, but we wish humanity to understand it. Therefore we request twenty-one volunteers to visit seven planets to Witness for us. We will convey each volunteer there and back in complete safety. Volunteers must speak English. Send requests for electronic applications to witness@Atoners.com." At first, everyone thought it was a joke. But it wasn’t. This is the story of three of those volunteers, and what they found on Kular A and Kular B.

Nano Comes to Clifford Falls Golden Gryphon Press 2008 Features 13 stories, including the Nebula-nominated “My Mother, Dancing.” The stories range from hard SF to a Tom Corbett pastiche written for the Anaheim Worldcon book honoring the late Frankie Thomas. Introduction by Mike Resnick.

Dogs Tachyon Press 2008 The treat of terrorism and biological warfare becomes all too real when the danger comes from a family’s most cherished pets. Tessa Sanderson, ex-FBI agent, has moved to a sleepy Maryland town in order to escape her tragic past. When the town’s beloved dogs begin viciously attacking pet owners and their children, federal CDC agents determine that the dogs are carrying a mutated flu affecting the aggression center of their brains, for which there is no known cure. Tessa offers her unofficial assistance to Animal Control Officer Jess Langstrom, who has been ordered to round up all of the dogs and quarantine them. Meanwhile some of the locals, unconvinced of the threat, are preparing to protect their pets by any means necessary. But Tessa, the widow of an Arab who roused the suspicions of her FBI colleagues, has another secret: someone is sending her threatening emails in Arabic claiming responsibility for the virus, and she resolves to go deep undercover in order to expose a deadly conspiracy. Dogs is a topical, fast-paced, biological thriller that will scare you while it makes you think.

Nothing Human Golden Gryphon Press 2003     NOTHING HUMAN starts in 2005 and covers nearly a hundred years. Thirteen-year-old Lillie falls into a coma, during which some anomalous genes come on-line in both her and about seventy other children in the eastern United States. How did this happen? Who engineered these otherwise normal kids, why, and how? As time progresses, these questions get answered, while simultaneously the Earth's condition deteriorates. Eventually a choice becomes clear: genetically engineer our descendants even more radically than Lillie, or else let humanity die out entirely. But would the results still be human?

Crossfire Tor 2003 Crossfire is the story of a human colony settling on a distant planet, a colony formed by Jake Holman - a man trying to escape a dark past. But as this diverse group of thousands comes to terms with their new lives on a new world, they make a startling discovery: primitive humanoid aliens. There are only a few isolated villages, and the evidence seems to indicate the aliens aren't native to the planet - even though they live in thatched huts and possess only primitive tools. When the humans finally learn the truth, they find themselves caught up in an interstellar war. In the end, a handful of human colonist will have to choose sides in the struggle. A lot is riding on their decision - not just the fate of their new home, but the fate of all humanity.

Probability Space Tor 2002 In Probability Space, humanity's war with the alien Fallers continues, and it is a war we are losing. Our implacable foes ignore all attempts at communication, and they take no prisoners. our only hope lies with an unlikely coalition: Major Lyle Kaufman, retired warrior, Marbet Grant, the Sensitive who's involved with Kaufman; Amanda, a very confused fourteen-year-old girl; and Magdalena, one of the biggest power brokers in all of human space. As the action moves from Earth to Mars to the farthest reaches of known space, with civil unrest back home and alien war in deep space, four humans - armed with little more than an unproven theory - try to enter the Fallers' home star system. It's a desperate gamble, and the fate of the entire universe may hang in the balance.

Probability Sun Tor 2001 This is the sequel to Probability Moon, which features some returning characters and some new ones. It also features a newly-discovered fifth major force in the universe, opening up new possibilities in quantum physics; a first close-up glimpse of the bellicose Fallers; and further adjustment by the hapless aliens of World as Terrans return for the second ancient artifact they unknowingly possess. The space war gets much more complicated, and so does its effect on all the characters involved.

Probability Moon Tor 2000 Probability Moon is the first book in a new trilogy, set on the planet World, which was featured in the Nebula-winning novelette “The Flowers of Aulit Prison.” Humans have come to World to investigate one of its moons, which is not a moon at all but an ancient artifact of some kind. The aliens of World, who are pre-industrial, are unaware of this, but they are very aware of humans. Worlders share consensual reality, a biologically-based common view of the world, and are astounded and angered to discover that humans do not. This causes complications for the anthropology team on the surface, while the military physicists in orbit are discovering that the moon is not at all what it seems, or what they’d hoped it was, but rather something else far more dangerous.

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