Sometimes I like to daydream of what it would be like to be in a bookstore and overhear the following conversation:

“Do you have Toni V. Sweeney’s latest novel?”

(That’d be an ego-swelling event.  I’d have to fight not to rush over and hug the customer.)

And the clerk’s a...

The Prisoner of Valathia takes place after their escape from Tamerlane’s hi-tech prison, and the defeat of Darius Drake's apocalyptic plans for the humanoid home-worlds, Titanya the Pirate Queen joins Sylvan Silla Low in becoming an agent of the Alliance.

Now partners...

How Are Conscientious Objectors Treated in the Future?

Allan McAllister is a paxist in a world at war, what we today would term a conscientious objector.  His uncle Egan Rand is the leader of a movement protesting the current war in which the UTF—the United Terran Feder...