Edward F McKeown

The Galaxy is breaking up as the Confederation of Species fractures. Maauro and her new companion, Dassa, have reached their safe Inner Worlds and sold their fabulous cargo of gems, but restlessness plagues Maauro the AI. She seeks a greater purpose for her existence. That purpose arrives twofold as she selects new crewmembers for the Seachange and learns of an expedition to an alien world on the periphery of known space, where traces of her ancient Creators have been found. But new and unexpected enemies dog the starlanes now, including the fabled Mystic Pirates.Maauro in seeking a wider meaning to her existence, wants to create a new "network" of biologicals around her. Her recruiting focuses on a refugee camp where among others she selects a young boy who has withdrawn from war-torn reality into the fantasy that he is a robot. Seeing a mirror of her own questions about existence, she takes him under her wing. But can she help him answer questions that she, herself, has not resolved?The second book of the Seachange series begins a new adventure and a unique peril for Maauro.Do Androids Dream of Alien Smugglers, Galactic Heroes, Space Pirates, and Alien War? Heroes attack a Secret Pirate Hideout and find terror and despair. Alien Artifacts on a Mysterious Alien Planet hold unknown danger. Rocket into this Science Fiction Spectacle of a Sentient Machine and High Adventure. Military Science Fiction Space Opera Romance is presented in a unusual mold.

Robert Fenaday must drive the starship Sidhe across uncharted space to rescue his wife before war breaks out. But can he save his command from mutiny and his former lover Shasti Rainhell from death as well, or will he be forced to make an impossible choice?

Reluctant privateer Robert Fenaday searches the stars for his lost wife. He's joined by the genetically engineered assassin Shasti Rainhell, whose cold perfection masks a dark past. Government spymaster Mandela blackmails them both into a suicidal mission to a doomed planet. Leading a team of scientists and soldiers, they must unravel the mystery of a world's death before an ancient force reaches out to claim their lives.

Robert Fenaday must drive the starship Sidhe across uncharted space to rescue his wife before war breaks out. But can he save his command from mutiny and his former lover Shasti Rainhell from death as well, or will he be forced to make an impossible choice?

Having survived the nightmare world of Enshar, Robert Fenaday abandons privateering and his quest for his lost wife to begin life anew with the genetically engineered assassin, Shasti Rainhell. But spymaster Mandela has other plans for the pair: intrigue and murder on Shasti's home planet of Olympia. Fenaday must fight his way to Shasti, facing her deadly creator and an alien mystery that could destroy the Confederacy.

Reluctant privateer Robert Fenaday searches the stars for his lost wife. He's joined by the genetically engineered assassin Shasti Rainhell, whose cold perfection masks a dark past. Government spymaster Mandela blackmails them both into a suicidal mission to a doomed planet. Leading a team of scientists and soldiers, they must unravel the mystery of a world's death before an ancient force reaches out to claim their lives.

Having survived the nightmare world of Enshar, Robert Fenaday abandons privateering and his quest for his lost wife to begin life anew with the genetically engineered assassin, Shasti Rainhell. But spymaster Mandela has other plans for the pair: intrigue and murder on Shasti's home planet of Olympia. Fenaday must fight his way to Shasti, facing her deadly creator and an alien mystery that could destroy the Confederacy.

Maauro and Wrik's adventures continue, but will they do so together? Maauro having acquired the wealth and special materials she needs to reconstruct her severed arm, awakens from her repair to find Wrik Trigardt gone. Compelled by his dark past, Wrik has set off on a journey to redeem himself to the people he left behind. Lost Planet is being torn apart as the split between Wrik and Jaelle Tekala has become irrevocable. How could this day get worse? Enter Candace Deveraux of Confed Intelligence, with word that a sextet of stolen combat androids and a ruthless cyber-hacking genius have broken free of Confederate control and are bound for the same world as Wrik. All the Difference opens a new chapter for Maauro in her ongoing voyage into emotional sentience. For Wrik, it is a confrontation with his past, that will determine who he will be from now on. The fourth book in Edward McKeown's The Maauro Chronicles, and set in the same universe as the Robert Fenaday/Shasti Rainhell stories, All The Difference continues Maauro and Wrik's ongoing adventures as they discover secrets others dare not seek.