From Scavenger to Justice seeker, his courage shakes his world...

Little Brother had survived as an orphan on the colony planet Mother's World by following two very firm rules in his scavenging through the Alor City trash dump: First, you grabbed anything edible before the valuables. Second, you never talked to the garbage. But then the Pube girl Sally talked to him--and he talked back, even though she was tied up "garbage" deposited in the dump.

To make matters worse, Sally was not your everyday garbage person. She was a Breed, a person with a finely tailored genetic...

Jacob Renselaer arrives in the Kepler 22 system, carrying a wasp ambassador as a sign of humanity's hope for an end to its first interstellar war. But that hope crumbles as Jacob, his girlfriend Daisy, ambassador Hunter One and Marine chief O'Connor watch unknown aliens drop thermos-nukes on the wasp colony world, killing wasp larvae and adults. These new aliens pursue Jacob's ships and a fleeing wasp ship. To Jacob's horror, the new aliens attack with mobile balls of antimatter Facing sure death, Jacob retreats to the Kepler 63 wasp colony world where Hunter One demands that he and his...