Sergeant Mint Harris is chief of police in Charlestown, a settlement on Obsirion II, a planet colonised 50 years ago by the British Corporation.Nothing much happens there, and she likes it that way. However, a murder is reported, and other strange things are brought to her attention. Is there a connection?Life in Charlestown is about to change, rapidly and irreversibly. The repercussions could impact all of humanity. Can Mint keep a grip on the developing situation, and how w...

This issue will include 16 articles, which will provide an overview of the biomechanics of the procedure, several surgical options (including how to perform the operation on a fully-awake patient), as well as some novel approaches and a review of one doctor’s patient outcomes over the past 30 years.

Why does housing inequality persist in one of the world’s wealthiest nations? This book exposes how deep-rooted political and economic forces continue to shape unequal housing outcomes in the UK. Moving beyond headlines and policy snapshots, it uncovers how housing inequality is embedded more broadly within political economy, tracing how global crises, austerity, and shifting welfare regimes intersect to produce today’s housing landscape.Offering a fresh, holistic analysis, this bo...

The history of Pawleys Island, South Carolina, can be summed up in four words: rice, sea, golf, and hammocks. The rivers threading through coastal South Carolina created an ideal environment for cultivating rice, and by the mid-18th century, vast plantations were producing profitable crops and wealthy landowners. But those plantations also produced malaria-carrying mosquitoes, so the landowners sent their families to the seashore for the summer and built the first houses on Pawleys Island ...

One Person Can Make a Difference!Dr. Seuss coined the word nerd in the 1950s to describe a fictional zoo creature, not a human. Alpha Nurd is about people, clarifying its roots in the '60s, starting with the different spelling. This book will reveal a distinct picture of where the word came from and how one person can indeed make a difference in this world.Come along on the journey and discover multiple examples of nurds in antiquity to present day, some w...

WINNER OF THE THE GREEN STORIES PRIZE 2023Fairhaven – A Novel of Climate Optimism traces the lives of a group of innovators, engineers, and visionaries as they struggle against the odds to bring climate solutions to Southeast Asia and to the world.Grace Chan, a young Malaysian working at the Fairhaven infrastructure project in Penang, is terrified of what the future might bring. She reluctantly comes to terms with the role that she and her colleagues will play in addressing...

Now with a new authors’ note by authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller!A CLASSIC OF THE LIADEN UNIVERSE®All of her life, Aelliana Caylon has lived by the rules of her overbearing brother, the head of the Caylon family. Though she is a brilliant mathematician, he has convinced her that she has no worth beyond what value she might have in an arranged marriage.Then, on a dare, she plays a game of chance—and wins a starship. It is her way ...

From Every Storm is a chapbook compilation of three Liaden Universe® stories, one of them never before published. The storms of the title spring not so much from the desert or the deep blue sea but from the minds and hearts of humanity, where greed wars with truth and justice, and where sometimes the supposed end of storm is a mere hurricane eye portending greater potential for damage ahead.First up is "Standing Orders," a finalist for 2022's WSFA's Small Press Awa...

Splinter Universe Presents!Something a little bit differentWhat this collection is--it's Something A Little Bit Different. We will explain. We'll try to be brief. And we'll start with what it isn't.It isn't a Liaden Universe® novelIt isn't a collection of Liaden short storiesIt isn't an Adventure in the Liaden Universe®So what is it, you ask...

Sometimes you don’t have much of a choice when it comes to who you do business with. Sometimes you discover that the evil you know is a necessary evil.Hal Clement award-winning authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller bring more of what Liaden Universe® readers have asked for with "The Beggar King," set on Liad and about the young Daav yos’Phelium’s early training to be Delm. Then, in "Necessary Evils" they explore the time and space before Clan Korval, when the universe was degeneratin...

BOOK 3 in the multivolume Liaden Universe ® short fiction collection. Tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time. Space opera and romance on a grand scale in a galaxy full of interstellar trading clans.A dozen recent Liaden Universe short works are added to the collection in the third volume of A Liaden Universe Constellation. Ranging from comic to cosmic, only one of these works was first published before 2011. These welcome new additions bring the ...

Two stories about the folks who keep the social and technical machinery running. "Landed Alien" finds Kara ven'Arith on a space station maintenance crew when a series of inexplicable events overtake support functions. In "Eleutherios," the friars at a down-and-out abbey are taken in hand by an unlikely savior. Both stories previously appeared on the Baen Books website.