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In 1866, Zula Smith begins life on a lab table hidden deep in a limestone cave. Not quite human. Not quite Other. A mixture of both.
Nearby La Crosse, Wisconsin bustles with pioneers heading west. Airships and paddle wheelers cross the great Mississippi River. Inventors flourish, including Zula and her father.
When her father is arrested for the murder of a young woman, Zula must find the true killer before her father is hung for a crime he didn't...
2) Dream World
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When dream becomes reality ... Lucid Dreaming, the brain child of a computer nerd and his rich friend, needs a guinea pig. Someone who doesn't mind having their brain probed, monitored, and analyzed.
Borden desperately needs the money and happily volunteers. But the money soon becomes unimportant and the dreaming all that matters.
Dreaming that takes him wherever he wants to go.
Until the day he goes too far.
A sci-fi short story, Dream World...
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Sun Li's dream of becoming a marine biologist falls by the wayside when she has to give it up to care for her sister and ailing mother. When their needs grow beyond what she can provide, Sun Li agrees to transfer her intelligence into a cyborg body in return for their lifetime care.
Now she works in one of the west coast's best known aquariums caring for the bad-tempered giant Pacific octopus named Rod. What happens when a powerful earthquake strikes...
4) Omega Lab
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Need a replacement body part? No problem with all the specialized cloning labs in the Milky Way galaxy.
Margarita King, commander of the Junkyard Dog, believes in the practice—except when it comes to her own body. She reluctantly agrees to visit Omega Lab
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A stalled negotiation leaves a translator clone with only two options: succeed or die. Translator clone Thalia Blueheart can learn and speak any language in the known universe, but her skills aren't doing her any good. Both the Motomaks and the Crenicians want total control over a new bio-energy source and are willing to annihilate anyone who gets in their way–namely, each other. The lone Zabolov at the negotiation table has yet to speak and offers...
6) Kraken Blues
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Monsters in the deep?
Rita King heads to the planet Harmos—her favorite destination for R & R— to recover from her recent ordeal. Harmos is all about Old Earth blues and jazz clubs, fresh seafood, and best of all, her friend Rose's bath house.
7) New Earth
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Danger lurks everywhere in the galaxy.
Rita King, owner and commander of the Junkyard Dog, decides to visit New Earth to give her friends some much needed rest and relaxation.
Fashioned after the historic amusement parks of Old Earth, New Earth welcomes.
9) Junkyard Dog
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Bounced through an asteroid field like a pinball, galaxy cop Rita King crashes her damaged star cruiser on a lifeless planet known only as B4629.
Holding the spot of top pilot in the elite Red Barons leaves little time for anything else in Rita's life. Maybe that's why she missed the signs that all was not well in her world.
Someone tampered with her ship. Someone who should have had her back. Someone she trusted. Until Rita discovers who wants...
10) Double Cross
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Sometimes even the simplest of tasks can go wrong.
Important banking business takes space pilot Rita King and her two companions to the galaxy's Central Bank on ZetiTau, an efficient, strictly controlled planet.
Customers show up. Conduct their business i
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After three months hiding aboard The Malapar, Amelia Blueheart wants to feel useful again. A garbled distress call from a nearby planet provides the distraction she needs. Trap or legit? Finding out means traveling to the inhospitable planet's surface. The civilization on Hyppos II reaches back many millennia, but little is known about this particular branch of Greffids, a fierce species with short fuses. Four large guards greet Amelia and her two...
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Clones.
A step above droids in the humanoid hierarchy.
Guided by the matrix, a set of rules and responses all clones must follow or perish.
Emotionless as droids, highly specialized translator clones mediate negotiations galaxy-wide. Failure to close the deal means a certain–and immediate–termination. Whisked from assignment to assignment, few survive more than a few years.
When clone T564 cannot break the impasse between two parties who refuse...
14) Alcatraz Moon
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Alcatraz Moon. Named after an obscure Old Earth prison. The most feared prison in the galaxy, located on a moon once known as Triton. Alcatraz Moon. No wardens. No workers. No communication. Only one way in. No way out. Not a single escape in five hundred years. Brandon Wilkes, a captain in the Red Barons, realizes the odds of success are against him. His mission? Rescue the Barons' commanding officer. Kidnapped and dumped inside the prison, Brandon...
16) The Four Angels
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When powerful technology veiled by the mists of time suddenly reappears, people begin to die. Forced to depart the Malapar, runaway clone Amelia Blueheart hopes to make Theopoline her new home. The city offers much that she finds attractive, but in less than a day she finds herself drawn into the heart of a dangerous situation. People are disappearing from their homes during the night and never seen again. Who were the Four Angels? What did they leave...
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Now you can enjoy the full Upheaval Series trilogy.
Slow Walk
Every journey begins with a need and a single step.
SLOW WALK, the first book in the Upheaval series, introduces the reader to a new world where survival often means choosng who deserves to live—and who should die.
EDGE OF REALITY:
Sanity is madness put to good use. George Santayana
Book Two of the Upheaval series, Edge of Reality takes the reader on an extraordinary and unexpected...
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