EARLY SPACEPORTS
In the late 21st century, orbital industry floods the world with riches, riches which can wash up against the unsuspecting just as readily as they accrue to those who reach for them.
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MANX PRIZE
Charlotte Fisher lives under colliding skies.
It’s the second half of the twenty-first century, and mankind has reached Earth orbit but not much farther. Orbital debris is a by-product of the industrial activity, and it’s dangerous both to everyone up there and the bottom lines of the corporations offering a prize to get rid of it. Charlotte heads up a team chasing the Manx Prize for the first successful, controlled de-orbit of a dead satellite. To win, she and her team must out-think and out-engineer a cheating competitor, dodge a collusive regulator, and understand the temptations offered by a large and powerful seastead.
The sky’s not the limit. It’s the challenge.
Lots of space law, real and imaginary, in this one.
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FAR FLUNG
In the very near future a seastead offers consumers a choice in governing systems. Navy Capt. Adam Tenney’s daughter takes that offer, but what can he do for her when pirates threaten the seastead, the U.S. refuses to recognize it, and he is trapped in a desk job on land?
A novelette.
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THE SKY SUSPENDED
A novel of asteroids past, crowds, lawyers and a starship.
It is the 22nd century and a generation has passed since asteroid scares led to the creation and launch of a single interstellar starship. Calvin Tondini is a new attorney with the government, and has no intention of watching from the sidelines as the starship's return and its discovery of an Earth-like planet sets the bureaucratic response in motion. Can someone who has no business in the matter unearth the secrets that will allow the rest of humanity to reach the stars?
This one has space law (some real, some not), space lawyers, and space policy.
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KINGS OF THE HIGH FRONTIER
Three-time Prometheus Award winner Victor Koman brings us his epic novel of humanity's next stage of evolution: the jump into space.
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ATLANTIS ASCENDING
Living in space is far different from what Lani Stiles and her best friend Jonathan envisioned when they signed on with the Atlantis Power Company. They hoped to escape a decimated post-industrial Earth in the year 2167 to work on the first space-based solar power station. The recruitment posters told a far different story from the broken promises, treachery, and secrets once they survive the trip to space from Yellowknife, Canada. They are thrust into an environment where they are little more than slaves to the ego of Atlantis' architect Emile Arkinson. Lani's only hope to surviving the harshness of Atlantis may be Emile's son Zach Arkinson, soon to embark on a desperate mission to Jupiter to save the Earth.
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FIRESTAR
It is the beginning of the twenty-first century and one woman is determined to bring America and the world back on track in the technological future. She has the strength, the intelligence, the money. It will be done. This is the story of the rebirth of innovative technological expansion on Earth and in space.
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The history of exploration and establishment of new lands, science and technologies has always entailed risk to the health and lives of the explorers. Yet, when it comes to exploring and developing the high frontier of space, the harshest frontier ever, the highest value is apparently not the accomplishment of those goals, but of minimizing, if not eliminating, the possibility of injury or death of the humans carrying them out.
For decades since the end of Apollo, human spaceflight has been very expensive and relatively rare (about 500 people total, with a death rate of about 4%), largely because of this risk aversion on the part of the federal government and culture. From the Space Shuttle, to the International Space Station, the new commercial crew program to deliver astronauts to it, and the regulatory approach for commercial spaceflight providers, our attitude toward safety has been fundamentally irrational, expensive and even dangerous, while generating minimal accomplishment for maximal cost.
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