The story of two men and the Universe they're exposed to. One man gets to see the very secrets of Creation itself and the other ends up living the most incredible adventure a man could ever conceive of in his wildest imaginings The latter is accompanied in his adventures by a troupe of a dozen cloned French actors, six male and six female, with a spectrum of personalities and temperaments. This is a character-driven story with intriguing situations of a far-reaching nature, dealing with the always-cogent concepts of being a stranger in a strange land, of the origins and very nature of the...

This is a breezier read than the previous "Cassiopeia" books, more full of humor than its companion tomes in the series. It follows the Kleinkinders as they assimilate to living on Earth after being rooted in the Centauri system for a millennium, and Chloe Wymark as she lords it over a prospering Western Provisional government. Two new characters are introduced in Pilar Dospilar and Dant Dosjin, two visitors from the microverse within Avedon 717, the anomaly that gives the book its title. Being observers and students of the Universe, they take it upon themselves to enlighten the denizens of...

New characters are introduced as the story of a new group of expatriate Earthers in the Proxima Centauri star system is told. These are people who, after initially being welcomed by the native populace of the fairly civilized world, were eventually viewed suspiciously as witches and charlatans, and forced to live in poverty and desperation for their thousand year stint in the system. Little Zachary's world is expanded, as is the world of MarsShield's secret benefactor. Follow these new people as they put a very human spin on the continuing story of the Cassiopeia's far-flung former crew and...

A major surprise awaits you in this follow-up to "The Last Voyage of the Cassiopeia." The Mars/EarthCon war continues and comes to a conclusion. Help comes from a surprising quarter Ralph and the troupe become more involved in the war and Kessel and Mansfield's lives are changed forever Ralph gets situated in the Martian community on a permanent basis and a major new characters are introduced Ralph also learns some things about the Cassiopeia's last mission and incidents connected to it that even he didn't know about, as viewed from the perspective of history. Other things and suspicions...