Farspace 2 is, at times, darker, more cautionary and less care-free than its predecessor. It is an exploration of the dangers of the future that we will be challenged with, should our species be so fortunate to reach that distant land. There are stories about control—by entities that want to harm or protect us. Stories about exploration—not the happy, "everything is wonderful out there and all will be great if we only go" stories, but rather the "yes it's dangerous out there, and we can ge...

When aliens descend on Planet Beatnik, fifteen-year-old Caralee, three-year-old Lissie and nineteen-year-old Danuel flee to the woods. Separated from the city (and the girls' mother and father,) the three of them find food, water, and shelter, but then the girls are captured in giant spiderwebs. Danuel does his best to free them, but the aliens catch him as well. What do the aliens want? Why are the kids being indoctrinated in mediation procedures? When the aliens finally release the three...

Mattie has one dream that guides her through life. She wants to become a spaceship captain like her uncle. The only problem with that is that the Lunar Academy does not accept females. Mattie launches a campaign for the right to attend the only college for those wishing to become Spacers. She engages the media and goes on a T.V. show that does interviews of People in the News. But there is a reason why females are excluded from the moon-based academy, and Mattie must circumvent that as wel...

Eighteen year-old Susan applies for a college scholarship, but is scooped up in an alien sweep. Renamed Shaara and married to the alien, Shaarvan, she is forced to adapt to customs and traditions that she finds appalling. In fact, nothing is good about the situation, but adaptation means learning to find the positive, and she always did want to travel.

Kira marries an alien through a proxy wedding, having fallen in love with him via conversations over the communication system where she works. When the alien lands, Kira and Cegan meet in person for the first time. Their love is not long impacted by alienness, but their relationship is stressed by cultural misunderstandings, the hounding of the media, Kira's distraught father, and a government, which is horrified that alien technology allowed Cegan to slip through their warning systems. Bu...

Shaara is adapting to life with an alien husband. He is strict and demanding, yet she tries to please him. But when they land on Altar, his home planet, nothing seems to go right for Shaara. She is constantly doing or saying the wrong thing. Everything is new to her and frankly alien. But occasionally her husband is loving, and her new parents-in-law adore her.Things might be looking up until, Thenos, Shaarvan's brother, begins to cause trouble.

Kidnapped and mind-wiped by an alien slave trader, Shaara is quickly sold to a small time gambler who mistreats her. Depressed by the horror of her life, she contemplates ending it, but discovers the beauty of the horse-like creatures living on a ranch nearby. Meanwhile, on Altar, a scheming Thenos, Shaarvan's brother, has begun a civil war meant to place him on the throne of Altar. His devious plans for Shaara have gone dreadfully wrong, and he, like Shaarvan, searches for her. In this th...