In the great land of Nebula, all boys reaching the age of eighteen must undertake a dangerous initiation into manhood. Will of Harken, a Prince of Noble blood, is no exception. On his eighteenth birthday, Will is sent alone to a desert isle where he must kill a vicious shape-shifting beast. The beast will test all of Will's courage and resolve, but no more so than the evil men, who in his absence have murdered his father, and are now out to kill him. Will escapes the assassins, only to be kidnapped by sky pirates who pilot him thousands of miles from his home to be sold into slavery. Thus...

Forty-seven years into the new millennium, the US Government has been downsized to a tenth of what it was at the turn of the century. The Defense budget has been slashed and Private Armies financed by large corporations are now waging perpetual war. Ben Denning, a young psychic with the ability to read thoughts, is recruited by the largest and most powerful of the mega-corporations to be a spy in a war being fought on the moon - the battle over the lunar mining rights to Helium 3, the most important fuel of the future. What at first seems like the opportunity of a lifetime soon turns into a...