Book 1: The Perihelix
(second edition)
Length: 92,500 words approx
It doesn’t come as much of a surprise to find Pete and Lars hold secrets of their own. Each has been too closely mixed up with Imperium business in the past, and they want nothing to do with it. But their pasts catch up with them. In the first book, they are drawn into a chase around the Alpha Quadrant to find pieces of the Perihelix, a legendary weapon which will free the enslaved and deliver defeat to the enemies of the righteous. Or something like that.
Book 2: Curved Space to Corsair
Length: 90,000 words approx
Big Pete and the Swede, together with Maggie and Dolores, who is now a free woman, take a holiday in the miners’ new spacecraft while some building work goes on at their villa. “Maybe ten weeks will do it,” Maggie estimates.
Dolores is training to qualify as a space pilot. Pete has had a call to his home planet, Corsair, to save them from disaster, so they set off in that direction to give Dolores more space hours, only for a slight error of course to land them in a horrible mess. Meanwhile the Imperium declares war on the Federation, while a little personal business by one of the senators leads him off in the direction of the Viridian System to start a canny land grab.
Guidance: 18+
Book 3: Zanzibar’s Rings
Length: 92,000 words approx.
A Galactic crisis: the entire comms system destroyed. No waypoints, no navigation aids, no database access… and how will spaceships in flight get home–or to any destination?
Dolores is stuck in warp with a very dangerous passenger, Pete gets his shuttle back home on manual. But how come anything in close contact with pure orichalcum fixes itself? Just flying through Zanzibar’s Rings solves the problem–as the Federation’s fighters find, as they descend on the Viridian System to take possession of the planets.
Buy the Books
The Perihelix: ebooks at Apple bookstore, Amazon, B&N, Kobo and Smashwords
Curved Space to Corsair: ebooks at Apple bookstore, B&N, Kobo, Amazon; and Smashwords .
Zanzibar’s Rings: Amazon, Apple bookstore, B&N and Kobobooks.
The Viridian System Series Box set: all three ebooks, reformatted to match. All three are now in UK English (The Perihelix was in US English).
Smashwords ~~~ Apple ~~~ B&N ~~~ Kobobooks
Paperback editions available from Amazon, Bookshop.org, B&N and Waterstones
The Perihelix ISBN: 978-0-36-821665-7
Curved Space to Corsair ISBN: 978-0-36-821704-3
Zanzibar’s Rings ISBN: 979-8-21-000560-1
Order from your favourite retailer. UK Recommended price £14.99 [2024]. Paperback distribution is via the Ingram network, usually delivered within two weeks.
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