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Elizabeth Moon tells a harrowing and tightly plotted story of a woman who's a starship captain with a very complicated life. It's possible you'll like this series a lot if you like stories about heroic women who don't know when to quit.

Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz team up to bring us another view of Vulcan and one Vulcan in particular in the Vulcan's Soul Trilogy starting in 2004 with Book One in HC and paperback.

C. J. Cherryh's FOREIGNER series of interstellar SF continues with Pretender.

This is a long series with a grand story-arc. There's politics, alien psychology, linguistics, and a human-alien love story to die for.

Pretender is due out March 2006.

If you're just starting this series, try the 10th Aniversary reprint of Foreigner - the first of the series.

Chill Factor is the third in the very popular Weather Warden series -- more fantasy than SF as it involves Djinn and other stretches of the imagination. However, I think those who remember the ST fanzines classed as hurt/comfort may love this series. The main character really takes a beating pursuing truly admirable goals.

This may actually be a trend in the making. If you pursue the "other books like this" links all over Amazon.com, starting with galaxy spanning SF, you come to fantasy and vampire-romance novels mixed into the SF.

S. L. Viehl is known for strong relationships driving a whopping good interstellar story.

S. L. Viehl is one of the few writers doing this kind of sf -- aliens, space-traveling civilizations, ecological problems on other planets.

Her StarDoc series are a refreshing change. Try one.

Bio Rescue
by S. L. Viehl


	List Price: $22.95 Watch for the pb, or check today's discount.

This is Intimate Adventure

Lieutenant Dair mu T'resa heads a squadron of SEAL (surgically enhanced/altered lifeform) pilots responsible for the security of the quadrant containing her home world of Kevarzangia Two. She finds a new calling in life as an interstellar paramedic leading the first Bio Rescue team. But the entire project faces opposition from a lupine species with a hatred for native 'Zangians like Dair...

Destroyer
by C. J. Cherryh

This book is part of Cherryh's FOREIGNER series (unreservedly recommended -- see some of them below) - and came out Feb. 2005.

This too is Intimate Adventure at its best.

Wyrmhole
by Jay Caselberg

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$5.99

Psychic investigator Jack Stein makes a living off his dreams, for he receives information on his crime cases in them. If his isn't a respected profession, and he isn't really all that good at it, at least it pays the bills. Now Jack has been hired by resource-hungry, interplanetary conglomerate Outreach Industries to look into the disappearance of a team of miners on Dairil III, and MORE . . .

Hidden in Sight (Webshifters, 3)
by Julie E. Czerneda

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$6.99

Here's an author to follow. She has found her audience. Beginning writers should study writing careers as well as particular authors' works.

Explorer
by C. J. Cherryh

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$23.95

check today's huge discount

I LOVE this series and I've just bought this book. I'll no doubt review it. Don't miss this!

Partners in Necessity
by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller, Michael Herring

List Price:$22.00
Most days you can get a good discount on this one - the hardcover goes for about $145. This is Meisha Merlin's quality trade paperback and contains the first 3 novels in the Liaden Universe.

People seem to think the Liaden universe appeals to the same readers that Sime~Gen does -- I read all the Liaden books (took a couple weeks) all at once, and I tend to agree. But the authors don't do enough with the ESP.

Tainted Trail
by Wen Spencer

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$6.99

Sequel to Alien Taste - check out the two-fer deal and free shipping!

Alien Taste
by Wen Spencer

List Price: $6.50

This has a semi contemporary setting and the main character was raised by wolves - doesn't know he's part alien from another planet -- a child of a survivor of an invasion force that will destroy Earth.

I've been re-reading the FOREIGNER trilogy+1 - and now find there's a 5th -- you GOTTA read these books. This is THE most rereadable series I've encountered in years. It has all the intimate adventure anyone could ask for, and solid sf, believably alien aliens who are nevertheless enough like us to make them really dangerous as well as staunch allies.

Defender (Foreigner Series Number 5)
by C. J. Cherryh

List Price: $23.95
DON'T MISS OUT ON THE DISOUNT! (trust me, you want to own this series in hardcover so it won't wear out on rereading.)
Or try the first of this 5 book series in paperback.
You'll see my review of this in my February, 2002 column.

Note the other Susan Sizemore vampire novel below. This is an author whose name you should memorize. Put her name into the simegen.com domain search engine to find all the reviews and comments regarding her.

Gates of Hell
by Susan Sizemore

Our Price: $11.50

Precursor
by C. J. Cherryh

List Price: ~~$6.99~~
See the latest DESTROYER - above here on this page.

The whole "Foreigner" series is absolutely top notch -- and a hot alien/human love story too!

The first 3 books in this series are given absolute RAVE reviews in my sf/f review column ReReadable Books.

You can find all the reviews of C. J. Cherryh's novels that we have posted by searching on her name in our domain search engine.

Book Description
Seattle's vampire Enforcer must uphold the second Law of the Blood: Death to any vampire who interferes in the affairs of children of the lower gods...

Read the online review by Harriet Klausner (see more about me) one of our simegen.com Reviewers who is the #1 Reviewer on amazon.com -- and who gave this book 5 Amazon Stars.

Partners
by Susan Sizemore

List Price: ~~$5.99~~

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Updated on Tuesday January 24, 2006.