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Crossfire
Tor, Feb 2003, 24,95, 364 pp. ISBN: 0765304678 The end days seem apparent for the troubled earth so Mira Corporation CEO Jake Holman and his company manager Gail Cutler decide to build a starship The Ariel to escape. They sell passage to six thousand wealthy patrons from an assortment of earthlings. The group travels through space before establishing Mira City on the planet Greentrees. The settlers meet the Furs, who are also from off world....
Crucible
Tor, Aug 2004, 24.95, 384 pp. ISBN: 0765306883 Four decades ago Jake Holman and thousands of settlers following him were trapped in the middle of an inter-galaxy war between the militaristic humanoid Furs and the serene flora-like Vines. Jake and his followers supported the Vines against the bellicose Furs though the odds heavily favored the latter. The Vines used a last-hope virus to remove the aggressive tendencies of the Furs. Jake is o...
Probability Space - Probability Trilogy 3
Tor, Sep 2002, 24.95, 367 pp. ISBN: 0765301709 The war between mankind and the Fallers goes unabated as humanity's enemy still ignores any transmissions from their opponents. If anything, the hostilities are turning worse at least for humans as it looks inevitable that the Fallers are going to win. An alien victory means the end of humanity because no one survives a battle let alone a war with the enigmatic Fallers. The taste of defeat leads...
Probability Sun
Tor, Jul 2001, 24.95, 348 pp. ISBN: 0312874073 A couple of centuries into the future, the Fallers are defeating the Earthlings in an interstellar war. Time seems to be running out for the Terrans as nothing works against their unbeatable foes. Desperate, the Terrans return to World, a place whose sentient inhabitants Worlders kicked humans off planet due to different “realities” (see PROBABILITY MOON). The human crew consists of scie...