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Richard F Weyand
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…
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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…
Recently widowed engineer Timothy Conner would always remember it as the day his life changed forever. The day he went to the estate sale. Timothy Conner bought an ancient book…
This is the fourth book in the Childers Universe. It is the prequel to Childers. THE COLONIES ARE REVOLTING
Earth’s oldest colonies are no longer struggling outposts, they are vibrant…
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…
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…
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…
WILL VAUXHALL CONQUER THE CLUSTER? King Albert of Vauxhall, frustrated in his efforts for vengeance against the people he blames for his son's death, is now building a navy to…
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…
ANOTHER INTERSTELLAR WAR! The Empire has won the war against the Alliance. But at the close of that war, an invasion fleet from the Democracy of Planets sought to annex…
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…
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE EMPIRE? The Galactic Empire is in a century-long period of decline. Emperor Augustus VI knows it. Ninety years old, he’s seen it happen during his lifetime…
Ruling over the vast bureaucracy of the Sintaran Empire is the Imperial Council. It's only check: The Empress, whose every decree is binding law. The corruption of the bureaucracy has…
WHAT'S UP WITH DALNIMIR? Reports coming out of Dalnimir are troubling. People opposed to the current planetary and provincial governor are getting mugged, they're getting arrested, some of them are…
Robert Allen Dunham IV, the Emperor Trajan, is dead. Daniel Whittier Parnell, the Heir to the Throne, is three weeks' spacing away. In the interregnum, renegade sector governors advance their…
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…
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…
THE EMPIRE'S NEW NAVY The Emperor Trajan is building a powerful new navy for the Sintaran Empire. Remotely piloted warships can accelerate faster than humans can withstand, and ships spend…
INTERSTELLAR WAR! Their resentment of Sintar's success fanned by the Democracy of Planets, the Alliance has voted to wage war on Sintar. They are mustering their fleets and gathering their…
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…
IMPERIAL ASSASSINATION! Mere hours after the coronation, Gail Anne Burke - the Empress Arsinoe - is struck down and lay dying. The attack was by the unlikeliest and most unexpected…
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…
