Kress, Nancy

Leisha is a beautiful, intelligent genetically modified woman, who is one of the first twenty "Sleepless" on earth that are initially treated as interesting anomalies and, later, as objects of envy and scorn.

Lovely Princess Kirila rejected royal traditions to seek wisdom and truth of the Tents of Omnium at the Heart of the World.

A diverse group of men and women, fleeing a troubled Earth, arrive on the planet Greentrees where they plan to start a colony under the leadership of Jake Holman, but they are dragged into war when they discover the planet is already inhabited by two alien races, the DNA-based humanoids known as the Furs, and their deadly enemies, the Vines, a race of sentient plants.

"In an America decimated by economic collapse, teenage Amy jumps at the chance to star in a reality show--but what she doesn't know is that it may kill her before it pays off"--.

Humans are in a war against aliens amid the discovery of a new planet inhabited by humanoids, creatures trying to determine whether or not to kill scientists from Earth who seek to study them.

A spaceship from Earth arrives filled with military personnel ready to help in the fight to save a human colony from destruction by alien hands.

The people of 2339 live in a utopia without war, disease, and crime, but they pay a price for it.