Find out what REALLY happened on First Contact Day after aliens invite Earth to join the Galactic Free Trade Association. This 10,500 word novelette picks up from the prologue of Xenotech Rising and gives readers "the rest of the story." Also included are special bonus preview chapters from Xenotech Rising, the first novel in the Xenotech Support series. This novelette was previously released as Xenotech The Man Whole Sold the Earth.

Fifteen years after Earth joins the Galactic Free Trade Association the planet is flooded with alien technology. Somebody has to support all the new galactic tech and Jack Buckston, President, CEO and sole employee of Xenotech Support Corporation, does his best to keep his clients happy, find true love and prevent interstellar war. Galactic technology has cured cancer, solved the energy crisis, and eliminated global warming--but what do the aliens want from us? They can't get enough Congressional subcommittee broadcasts. They consider them reality comedies Xenotech Rising is a light-hearted...

Jack Buckston braves giant robots, armored combat infantry, nova bombs, and the challenges of picking his girlfriend's family up at the airport to help the 15-foot tall, nine-ton, pink, elephant-shaped Queen Matriarch of the planet Dauush save her people and Earth from a plague that threatens to turn them into compliant slave soldiers.

Xenotech Support partners Jack and Poly visit GALTEX, the Galactic Technology Expo in Las Vegas. There they meet old friends, thwart industrial espionage, fight off Martian tripods, rescue captured corporate bigwigs, test a mind-bending new technology, and head off an evil plot to conquer the galaxy.

Young wizards coming of age in a time of war... Will they be ready? EYNON was excited to leave his village and set off on his wander year. He'd turned sixteen today, and hoped for at least a few adventures. At high noon, he arrived a crossroads and saw a shimmer of silver in the mud. It was a thin and dirty oval, about the size of his palm. He washed it with squirts of water from his goatskin, then marveled at what was revealed. It was a silver amulet, worked with complex, interlaced designs. An oval blue gem more than an inch across, with deep facets, was set in its center. The silver danced...