space colonies

A forbidden room is unsealed and all at once the heroic pilot Saito discovers a deceptive avatar of his onboard. Then, an incoming asteroid forces the "Sidonia's" mobile units to enter a positive-gravity environment to skirmish. Assistant Commander Yuhata Midorikawa's mettle is tested.

Tensions rise as some crewmen on the "Sidonia" feel that it is humanity's aggressive posture towards the alien Gauna that has made the Gauna so hostile against them. Meanwhile Hero Tanikaze and his friend Shinatose are promoted, just when the heir of the Kunato family succumbs to dangerous experimentation.

When the Sidonia engages a new type of Guana that is winning the war against the young pilots, rookie pilot Nagate Tanikaze devises his own plan of attack to protect his squadron. Meanwhile, the history of the Guana is revealed and Tanikaze encounters a jealous rival.

"On a lunar colony, fifteen-year-old Phaet Theta does the unthinkable and joins the Militia when her mother is imprisoned by the Moon's oppressive government"--Provided by publisher.

Flynn, leader of the rebellion on Avon, captures Jubilee "Lee" Chase, captain of the forces sent to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but later saves her and the two, caught between sides in a senseless war, flee together.

Sixteen-year-old Mitsu, a window-washer on the Ring System, a space colony in orbit around Earth, must decide if he should descend to the Earth in an experimental device to try to change the Ring System.

When sixteen-year-old Mitsu, a window-washer on the Ring System, a space colony in orbit around Earth, is asked to man an illegal craft headed for the planet's surface, he must decide between duty and obeying the law and taking the journey of a lifetime.

controls the only method of faster-than-light travel that doesn't result in horrible mutations among the star travelers. Now a deadly software virus is attacking Guild members, so the Guild's investigators, led by Dr. Masada, must learn where it came from and how to defeat it before interstellar society breaks down. Meanwhile, a young woman, Jamisia Shido, has to flee for her life from a space habitat near Earth, where all mutations are forbidden and launched, if discovered, into Guild-controlled interstellar space. Secret illegal therapy for a disaster that killed her parents has left Jamisia with an acute form of multiple-personality disorder--and may have made her the key in the fight against the virus. The plot of this stout novel is simple, with few really original details, and the Guild and Jamisia subplots fail to connect until far into the story. Still, Friedman (the Coldfire trilogy) keeps her tale moving at a vigorous pace that's boosted through an abundance of well-chosen details, such as those accruing to the characterization of Jamisia's unruly guest personality. The novel may read like a cross between cyberpunk and Star Wars, but it is likely to hold readers' interest tenaciously. The ending neither requires nor precludes a sequel, so readers are left with some hope of again encountering Jamisia and the duel between the Guild and Earth that backdrops her adventures. (Nov.).

Waverly and Kieran are finally reunited on the Empyrean, but when Seth is mysteriously released from the brig the night of a strange explosion that sends the ship off-course, tensions between Kieran and Seth reach a boiling point, as Waverly ponders following her heart, even if it puts lives at risk.

After five hundred years, the Earth ship seventeen-year-old Terra and her companions were born and raised on arrives at Zehava, a dangerous, populated world where Terra must take the lead in establishing a new colony.