Patty Jansen

Ceren, the world that's the home of the city of Barresh, has vast swathes of untamed wilderness, most of it tribal land belonging to meta-human tribes like the Pengali.For many years, illegal organisations have seen these tribes as inroad into the...

Cory has made several commitments to members of the Asto inner circles. He needs to spend time with Thayu's son. He has also been asked to give a favour to a boy of the Azimi clan.What better to do with a couple of pre-teens than to visit the theme...

For three months, Cory and his team have hung with Asto's military in orbit, watching as drone armies attacked Earth.They could have helped more had Nations of Earth communicated with the fleet or if they could only find out where these drones come...

3 December 2114Cory Wilson is woken in the middle of the night with a summons to appear in the president of Nations of Earth’s office. An aid worker in Djibouti has discovered a shipment of alien guns.As ambassador to gamra, the extraterrestrial...

The second-quickest way to get yourself killed when dealing with Coldi people of the planet Asto is to look a superior in the eye. The Coldi people possess an instinct that demands the formation of hierarchical networks in which every person has a...

Fifty thousand years ago, a meteorite hit the planet Asto, giving its Aghyrian inhabitants mere days of notice. Three ships escaped the Armageddon. Two went to the neighbouring planet. The third, a massive generation ship, refused to take on refugees,...

The world as we know it is on a certain path to war...Delegate Cory Wilson has returned to gamra headquarters from deep space with a rather unwelcome guest: Captain Kando Luczon of the mammoth Aghyrian ship that has returned after mysteriously...

As Cory takes a well-earned rest and finally submits to proper weapons training, he and a couple of people from his household go on a hunting trip in the marshland between Barresh and the turquoise sea. A bad storm has come through recently and on a...

Two men went on a surfing trip in a remote area. Only one came back, accused of murdering the other.Sounds simple, right?Not quite, because the alleged murder happened on another planet, the accused is a member of the secretive Pretoria Cartel of...

Never has there been more at stake for the people on Earth.The referendum is simple: does Earth join gamra, the organisation that governs the Exchange, the FTL space travel network?A “yes” vote would mean substantial changes to Earth’s governments,...

Deadly creatures, hostile climate, and that is just the scenery.For many years, mysterious things have happened on the ice world of Tamer, but when a scientist goes missing from Barresh thought to be on Tamer, Cory is forced to take the issue by the...

The conflict has brewed for generations, until it has become too big to handle.Cory and his association finally return to Asto on the invitation of his father-in-law, for his official induction ceremony into the Domiri clan. They are housed in a...

An army of 7000 artificial soldiers accidentally received the same brain implant: they are all in love with the same woman.A space fleet with seven thousand artificial human marines hurtles through space at near-light-speed to an interstellar...

Out in space, your worst enemies are your fellow travellersJonathan Bartell is a young man, just out of university, when he signs up for the position of Quarantine Officer at the Orbital Launch Station.He is part of a crop of students who flocked to...

When Perrin was so desperate that he applied for a job with the Bureau of Magic Abuse, there were two things he didn't realise. One, that he might actually get the job and two, that it would involve working with magic sniffers.And what an annoyance...

Verona Rupes, on the ice moon Miranda, is the tallest cliff in the solar system. If you jump off the top, it takes 700 seconds to reach the bottom. What can you do in the most important 700 seconds of your life?Jonathan and Gaby arrive at the ice moon...

While space biologists Jonathan Bartell and Gaby Larsen attend a conference held at a base in the asteroid belt, a man approaches Jonathan in great distress.He was asked to take over command of a previously commercial research station, but strange...

If Miran had princesses, Ellisandra Takumar would be one. Smart, pretty, engaged to a high-profile man, everything a high-class Mirani woman should be. But things are not well in Miran. Many years of boycotts have taken their toll on society, and the...

Self-published authors are coming to realise that a stable career is about a backlist of titles and keeping that backlist selling.But how do you do this?Invariably, advice given by other authors includes holding promotions and lowering the price of...

A fisherwoman finds a dead man on a tiny offshore island, with no clue about how the man got there.A camel driver deep in the northern desert rescues a man who speaks no known language, but is clearly well-educated.An ancient sect that was considered...

The shocking conclusion to the Moonfire Trilogy.Lana han Chevonian is one of the world’s brightest minds on the brink of making a huge discovery. There is only one problem: she is stuck as prisoner in the harem of the Aranian king. She could try to...

Space biologists Jonathan Bartell and Gaby Larsen arrive at Johnson Base at the Moon’s south pole for a project with Professor Isaacs that is so secret, he cannot share the details with them. However, the professor does not show up to meet them.Vijay...

En route to a job in the asteroid belt, the transport ship that Jonathan and Gaby are travelling on is required to give assistance to a space station in trouble.Astoria Station stopped responding to everything except automated messages. Jonathan and...

On the backwater world of Cayelle, Tina Freeman runs a shop with her son Rex: fifteen years old, half-human, half-android with a massive chip on his shoulder about having been born without arms or legs.The shop makes a modest profit, but when a...