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Richard F Weyand
THE REFORMS MUST CONTINUE At the age of twenty-seven, Deanna Dunham Garrity has become the Empress of Sintar, absolute ruler of 150,000 worlds and their 300 trillion inhabitants. She would…
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SOME UNEXPECTED HELP WITH THE SINGLE-PLANET PROBLEM Billionaire industrialist Ted Burke understands that humanity has always balanced on the edge of a knife. A single planetary cataclysm could wipe out…
The concluding two novels of the Childers Trilogy, in one volume. COLONY WAR
The CSF has new technology coming on line, but will it be ready in time to head…
Military genius Jan Childers founded Galactic Mail & Defense to put an end to interstellar war by fielding an overwhelming military force. Funded by the universal provision of mail and…
Eleven stories of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances. - Roak is plowing his fields when he receives The Call. - Harry Hunter is making an ordinary freight run when…
Computer engineer and science fiction author Rich Weyand tells sixty-two of his favorite stories in this engaging memoir. Funny and insightful, he demonstrates just how ridiculous life can be, and…
THEY WERE ON THEIR OWN In September 2245, the artificial intelligence known as Janice Quant dropped 100,000 colonists and their supplies in the subtropical zone of the planet they named…
Jan Childers grew up orphaned in the slums of decaying post-diaspora Earth. She was raped, beaten, and starved. Yet she survived.
She escaped to become a citizen of the Commonwealth…
JAN CHILDERS IS BACK! Senior Captain William Campbell and Rear Admiral Jan Childers are on the Grand Tour. Eight planets in two years. While Childers’ heavy cruiser squadron trains up…
Forty years ago, the Emperor Trajan committed to supporting the Western colonies and not interfering in their politics. But when some colonies fall into tyranny, must he support despotism without…
The Council Revolt has started. The Council has struck at the Throne. As the Council plots to place their own candidate on the Throne, a single survivor is dragged out…
IT STARTED AS A SIMPLE FAVOR... Bert Mangum, an operative for the secretive Agency, is back on the Crossroads space station waiting for a new assignment when Detective Elina Stavros…