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The sequel to "Thirds." One of the seven great families- Destuta Fel, well-known for stupidity, brutality, and its hatred of tris - tries to use genetic engineering as a means of oppressing the tris and removing them from Suranan society. This tactic splits the great families and angers the tris. Most of the families believe the tris cannot and will not fight. They are wrong. Biology drives politics, and Surana explodes in protests, violence, ...

THIRDS is the first of THE NEBULA TALES, a space opera at the juncture of political science, biology, and fantasy. Reaching the Orion Nebula, humans encounter a space-faring society - Surana. Suranans are tri-sexual: there are three genders - males, females, and tris. The biology and interdependence among the three Suranan sexes result in pervasive and deeply seated discrimination against tris. Consequently, tris are excluded from much of poli...

The civil war between the tris and the oligarchs continues. However, Muriel convinces Jot that the tris cannot defeat a powerful Fel through violence. They devise a non-violent strategy derived from the biological interdependence between tris and Suranans. In this strategy, biology is politics, and persuasion and public relations take the lead. As the strategy gains traction, a still-powerful Destuta becomes desperate and more violent, and the...

RED NIGHT REVENGE is a psychodrama. Amir and Serena, naturalized Americans from Lebanon, lose their only child, Lelah, to a mass shooting at her college. Serena slowly recovers from the shock and grief. But Amir develops and succumbs to a voice in his head, that of The Beast, an angry, vicious entity lusting for revenge against the 'gun people' whom it blames for Lelah's death. As Amir does its bidding, his life is awash in blood, and he will ...

The Vote Trader is a socio-science fiction drama. Hector is a financial and business expert, working in gray markets in Brooklyn. His partner, Sarah, is a political operative for a Democratic candidate in the race for Senator from New York. When he learns from her that New York now allows individuals to buy and sell votes in political elections (like buyers and sellers do for corporate securities), his eyes light up, and he smells money. Hecto...

Sentinel is a space opera and a meditation on mortality and self-awareness. Pete Wilson, a software engineer, is part of a crew dispatched to an asteroid to build a large telescope array. His main task is to install a master computer to operate and manage the array. In his free time, Pete fantasizes about getting a date with an attractive co-worker. It's been entirely too long. Later, the computer awakens. One might say, it learns to identify ...

Milky Way Tango launches the Belt Stories - a quest motivated by romance in a space opera setting. Jimmy and Sarah, childhood friends, become lovers before leaving for college. But on the Big Date, they encounter a cruel twist of fate resulting in Jimmy's incarceration at the far end of the Belt. For ten years, he will be the sole occupant of a navigational array near the North American nebula. It is a beautiful, explosive, turbulent neighborh...

Milky Way Boogie follows Milky Way Tango. Jimmy and Sarah have taken separate paths out into the Belt. Jimmy is incarcerated on a navigational array near the North American nebula. Sarah studies at a trade school for space workers and pilots. A thousand light years separate the young lovers. They have chosen an environment of beauty and lethal challenges. Each learns the hard lesson - the Black does not forgive those who know not what they do....

Victimized by technological and human failure, Sarah, on her first voyage as a star ship captain, is stranded in deep space. She desperately wages a war of survival, marshaling every resource and idea to return her ship and her crew to civilization. But as time passes, her resources - her body and mind, her crew, the air on her ship, the food in its holds, the technologies of space travel - dwindle and fail. She is losing the war. Cold, black ...