Books

Planned Pele Books

Series 1: Hold on Tight

Circumstantial Evidence (done, looking for an editor)
Hail Mary (started writing)
Hold on Tight (just the story)

Five hundred years after blowing up the navigation gate to the rest of universe, the world of Pele is a lush, successful transplant of earth lifeforms.  But 500 years is a long time to hold the vision of a long dead dreamer, and success appears to be oddly threatening to the Pele humans.

Series 2: The Gate

Dead Planet (started)
Smugglers' Blues (bits and bobs)
The Gate (just the story)

Sorry about that war... The stories of turning a dead planet into a green and fertile world and the cost of dreams. While Jack Bonner falls in love with the idea of bringing life to Pele and saving the wild of his home planet earth, the Worthton twins innovate with forbidden alien technology.

Series 3: Metamorphosis

What the (just the story)
Shangri La (concept)
Metamorphosis (concept)

Well, there's always a catch. As life expands and succeeds on Pele, the climate shifts, and so does the land. Then snippets of long vanished alien lifeforms' DNA manage to start infiltrating the expanding ecosystem, creating random waves of plagues. Into the midst of this struggle, Dr. Roberta Perry's descendants and their followers manage to resurrect the dinosaurs. Sort of.