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"A young astronaut is trying to find life on Mars, but he's made a very big oversight"-- Provided by publisher.

Decades after the Battle of Corrin destroys the thinking machines and establishes Faykan Butler as the first Imperium Emperor, war hero Vor turns his back on political descendants who blame him for their downfall while Gilbertus Albans hides an unbelievable secret and the Butlerian movement sweeps through the known universe intent on destroying technology.

The inhabitants of Earth struggle to deal with the climatic chaos that erupts when the Wanderer, a huge artificial world, stops in the solar system to refuel, wreaking havoc with the tides and the weather.

Jack Holloway, prospecting on Zara XXIII for ZaraCorp, finds an immensely valuable stream of sunstone. But when he forwards footage of the planet's catlike, native "fuzzies" to a biologist friend --who believes the "fuzzies" are sentient--hired company thugs, murder, and arson soon follow to protect ZaraCorp's mining interests.

Colonized by the descendants of Earth's West African Dogon Tribe, the planet of Swazembi is a blazing, color-rich utopia and famous vacation center of the galaxy. No one is used to serious trouble in this idyllic, peace-loving world, least of all Lileala, the newest woman to be named the Rare Indigo. But Lileala's perfect, pampered lifestyle is about to be shattered. The unthinkable happens and her glorious midnight skin becomes infected with a mysterious...

JT learns that the Samirans, a race of aquatic aliens who are controling the crystals on Orbis, have created a brutal system of enforced labor that is causing the society to break down, and as JT tries to appease the Samirans and end their vicious rule, he finds his own life, and the lives of his friends, in danger.

Herb Moss is a Vegan, an engineered species that is part human and part plant. His search for adventure leads him to Spring, a sorcerer's daughter with a dangerous secret locked in her mind.

After an enforced isolation on earth, Master Sergeant Michael Venn returns to Mars to further investigate the ancient artifacts that have suddenly awakened, but is instead led to Saturn's moon, Titan, where war is brewing between the Drifters and the Gurus.

"It is twenty-five years since China established the first colony on the moon, and the lives of three people are about to collide. American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip there, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation. But hours after his arrival he witnesses a murder and is forced into hiding. It is also the first visit to the moon for celebrity travel reporter Ta Shu. He has contacts and influence,...

Exiled to Tatooine, Obi-Wan Kenobi works to hide his Jedi powers and establish an alternate identity for himself as an eccentric hermit while protecting an infant Luke Skywalker and aiding the residents of Tatooine.