Cracking the Sky

by Brenda Cooper

The Child Goddess

by Louise Marley

Pandora's Gun

by James Van Pelt

Blue Yonders, Grateful Pies and Other Fancy Feasts

by Ken Scholes

The colony planet of Fremont was supposed to be free of all genetically altered beings—a new home for a pure race. So when six genetically altered children were abandoned on Fremont, they were not welcome. They vowed to get off the planet by any means necessary. Joseph and the others managed to escape, although Joseph finds their new home hostile, frightening, and deeply challenging. Chelo is left behind with her new-found love, Liam, and her best friend, the troubled Kayleen. Both sets of teens must contend with hostile adults, daunting environments, and unexpected challenges. And when Chelo’s very life is threatened, Joseph must find a way to save her.

The Making War is the long-awaited final book in the award-winning series that began with The Silver Ship and the Sea. Six genetically engineered children fought to survive in a small town where everyone hated what they were, on a difficult planet full of out-sized predators with long teeth and sharp claws. Because they were stronger than the colonists, they found a way to live, and eventually a way to leave. But when they returned to their home planet, Silver’s Home, they were weaker and untrained. Powerful humans there could create microclimates and new species. They could—and had—created whole worlds. But while most of the six were no longer particularly powerful, Joseph discovered he had a uniquely strong version of the genetic traits that allow some people to travel the threads of data that define civilization. This also allowed him to pilot starships, which he is doing as The Making War begins, leaving the peaceful geoengineered moon Lopali to join a vast space battle.

Only five of the original six remain. The strongman, Bryan, was killed by winged humans. In spite of that, Alicia the risk-taker has abandoned the others to try the dangerous transformation that might give her wings on the planet Lopali. If she survives, she will be owned. She will lose her rights as a human. Even though she abandoned him, her best hope for freedom rests in Joseph. But he will be one young man in the fight between two powerful fleets with hundreds of warships on each side.

For help, Joseph has his pacifist sister, Chelo, and her two partners in marriage, Liam and Kayleen. They are headed to war to fight for the rights of the winged and others.

Joseph knows it is his destiny. He’s seen himself flying beautiful and deadly spaceships in battle. But the last time he fought, he killed people after he defeated them. The nagging fear he could again lose control and murder in blind rage weakens him. Kayleen, who has a little of the same power, has been driven to the edge of insanity even though she is nowhere near as strong as Joseph. Can he find his own strength and center, stay sane, keep Kayleen sane, avoid his enemies, and fight for Alicia all at once?

Prisoners of a war they were barely alive for … Fremont’s Children must find their way in a world that abhors their very nature, or discover a way to leave it …

In her award-winning novel, The Silver Ship and the Sea, kick-off to the Fremont’s Children series, Brenda Cooper explores what it means to be so different that others feel they must oppress you.

Six human but genetically enhanced children are stranded on the colony planet Fremont by a war between genetic purists and those that would tinker with the code. Orphaned by that war, the only remains of the children’s heritage are an old woman like themselves who was left for near dead at the end of the war, and a mysterious silver ship that appears to have no doors.

To preserve themselves the children must leave the safety of the insular community and brave the wilds of Fremont, beautiful but dangerous. An echo of their own natures, or a proving ground of their genetic worth?

In this battle of wills and principles, what does the future hold for Fremont’s Children?

Pack Dynamics: A Price to Pay

by Julie Frost

Thought Gazer

The Ydron Saga 2
by Raymond Bolton

Reading the Wind

by Brenda Cooper

Infinite Fantastika

by Paul Di Filippo

Selected Stories: Fantasy

by Kevin J. Anderson

Wings of Creation

Fremont's Children, Book 3
by Brenda Cooper

Walpurgis III

Evil versus Evil
by Mike Resnick

Freemont's Children, Book 3

From the Endeavour Award Winning Author of The Silver Ship and the Sea.

Six friends work to stave off a war that will cross five planets.

Now young adults, the children who were left behind on Fremont as spoils of war have been banished. In spite of the fact that they saved Fremont from a mercenary force, they head back towards the birth world of their parents, Silver’s Home.

Their mentor, Marcus, stops them halfway home with a warning. Joseph is wanted for questioning by the Port Authority on Silver’s Home, and could be arrested. Marcus sends them to the planet Lopali, home of humans who have been genetically enhanced to fly. There, Marcus leads them into a last-ditch effort to stave off full-out war over the right for one being to own another.

They soon find that beautiful Lopali is not as peaceful as it seems.