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Nothing ever happens smoothly on Chamal. Intelligence is not confined to a single species on Chamal, but floats freely among the various breeds of warm-blooded furry creatures. One step separates the wild from the wise and the wise recognize the moral depravity their biology presents. When the human scout ship Cousteau arrived, the wise saw
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Not an easy world … A world where all the warm-blooded animals can interbreed and the genes for intelligence spread freely is not an easy world. The wise creatures of Chamal, risen up from the wild, live together like cats and dogs and lions and lambs. Those genes mix and spread rapidly, wise tribes rise
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Space cadets go looking for trouble … and find it. You don’t need an academy, just put those cadets on ships of their own, give them their lesson plans, and see what they come up with. The Solar Patrol cadets on the Able Countryman find an abandoned military base in an asteroid, left over from
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The Slow Space series — book 2 Another great delight — “The Long Game” is set for release on March 15. ================== How you can have a decent space opera if you can’t travel faster than the speed of light: Stay in the spaceport, everything will come to you. Alex has come to the spaceport
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Guy Stanger is a scout just coming of age on the icy world of Asgard. Scouts have been waiting for decades for Colony Day, the arrival of the breakthrough colony, and now it’s here. Using a soliton drive, the colonists have traveled from Earth at the speed of light, leaping across space and time in
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I read an article about an island in New York that is owned entirely by a single family (including a distant First Lady). Being a science fiction writer, I transmogrified it into a tiny planet with a black hole in the middle … … which pulls in ancient aliens who could build things with black