Author: danmelson

It started innocently enough. Joe was the engineer on one of Earth’s first explorations beyond the Solar System, using borrowed Imperial technology. Captured on a hostile planet, he has to make a plan for his crew to escape – and then he discovers his real mistake! He becomes a Missionary of Civilization on a primitive planet caught between massive empires – and the enemy has to think it’s all … has to think it’s all native ingenuity! more

Earth needed help – and nobody else was going to step upGraciela Juarez has gone from a late-twenties college student to Second Order Guardian and one of the Empire’s better pilots. But events on Earth are building to a climax, and the Empire is determined to let Earth sort things out for itself – or not. It really doesn’t matter to them.But it matters to Grace. By whatever means necessary, she … means necessary, she will save Earth from the demons – and from its own insanity.more