Clio Finn is a Dive pilot, one of the very few capable of guiding a ship into the time stream. But she’s walking the razor’s edge of burnout—which no Dive pilot has ever escaped—relying on drugs to buy her more missions. The future of Earth may depend on those missions into the distant past, in search of viable plant species to revitalize a graying planet. For Clio knows just how high the stakes are: she and two colleagues have made a forbidden Dive to the future—and the news isn’t good.
Then a time Dive brings her team to a lush paradise that may contain the seeds that could halt earth’s death spiral. Unfortunately, it looks like more change than we bargained for—or could possibly imagine.
John W. Campbell Award Finalist 2004
“Come find what you have lost . . . .” Heeding this cryptic message from deep space, the crew of the starship Restoration journeys from Earth to a distant planet, hoping to find humanity’s lost genetic diversity. But with the human race on the verge of extinction from a mysterious scourge of dark matter, how can an backward alien world harbor a remedy? Where, in its jungles and braided rivers is the source of the message?
The crew, staggering from losses on its long journey, is now headed by an indomitable old woman and an untested young officer, Anton Prados. They will preside over humanity’s first contact with an alien race so profoundly foreign that it threatens to tear apart the mission and Earth’s last hope.
Phillip K. Dick Finalist 2003
Zoya Kundara is Ship Mother to the generation ship Star Road. Awakened from cold sleep in time of need, she has counseled its crew for centuries. But now, the giant starship has returned to earth, only to discover a world blanketed in a crystalline substance that resembles ice. As emissary to this new earth, Zoya must approach its denizens and bargain for a share of the shrinking lands.
What she finds are groups of humans huddled in underground techno-warrens and an order known as the Ice Nuns, seeking control of the physics-defying crystal mantle. Allies are few and far between, but somehow Zoya must uncover the secrets of Ice and halt its expansion. That is, if the snow witches don’t get her first . . . .
Starred Review, Publishers Weekly
The planet is called Null. It is a desert wasteland devoid of life. However, a marooned crew from earth is about to learn that it is also a planet that goes through a radical seasonal and ecological change every four years. Among this crew is a young girl named Sascha who will be swept up in the transformation.
To escape the ravages of the season, an indigenous alien culture is sequestered in an underground labyrinthine habitat. Eli Dammond, a disgraced army captain arriving to rescue the marooned crew, must penetrate the alien world and return from the depths to save the human outpost on the surface from certain annihilation.
Reeve Calder has spent his life on a space station, watching as terraforming gradually fails on his home planet of Lithia, dooming the colonists below. But now he is forced among their midst to pursue Gabriel Bonhert, captain of the station, who has set in motion a world cataclysm, using a probe that will travel down a deep mantle plume.
Reeve races against time to reach Bonhert’s base at a remote volcanic gateway to the heart of Lithia. His staunchest ally is a feral girl whose past holds the key to startling possibilities. Reeve forges onward, encountering desperate human enclaves and an alien race that both enslaves humanity and holds out the promise of a terrible transformation.
When Abbey McCrae’s teenage daughter dies mysteriously, everyone calls it suicide. But Abbey believes it’s murder, somehow connected to her daughter’s addiction to Nir, a virtual reality game. As more and more townspeople fall under Nir’s spell, Abbey and a cynical detective named Simon Haskell uncover a horrifying conspiracy involving the game, a charismatic leader named Zachariah Smith, and an alien race desperate to solve its galactic problems at the expense of an unsuspecting earth.