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In an alternate 21^st century Solar System, Earth learns that we have neighbors too intelligent, too nosy, and too near to ignore...

The View Beyond Earth

How do twenty-first century humans react when we confront comparable intelligence living in "our" solar system? Microbiologist Tandra Grey finds new hope for an ailing Earth and a new vision of her own future when she makes first contact. The 2014 revision of Cary Neeper's 1975 classic A Place Beyond Man—even more relevant today.

The Webs of Varok

• Silver medal, YA fiction, Nautilus Book Awards 2013
• Science fiction finalist, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards 2012

What does it take to secure a stable, equitable way of life, across generations? Tandra's mixed-species family leaves a struggling Earth for the ancient sustainable world of Varok, but their hopes are threatened when a genius with a hidden talent sets her eye on Varok's wealth—and Tandra's soul mates.

The Alien Effect

Raised on the Jovian moon Varok, Shawne longs to return to Earth and help her devastated home planet build a new civilization—one that can thrive for millennia. When she and her “mini alien invasion” set up a school in California, they face unexpected lessons of their own, unaware of the long-term consequences of their collision with life on Earth.

An Alien's Quest

Only two decades after first contact, even Earth's people know of Haralahn, the great-fish spiritual leader on distant Ellason. Shawne Oran-ElConn-Grey determines to seek his guidance, as she struggles to tame a haunting disillusionment that followed her home from Earth. Her quest for meaning draws everyone she loves away to the Kuiper Belt and into a genetic mystery on the watery home planet of the ellls.

The Unheard Song

In this Archives of Varok prequel, a humanoid invader and aquatic native struggle to communicate in their race to ensure peace and a sustainable future for the wild seas of Ellason.

The five-volume Archives of Varok series follows a family of mixed alien races on quests from Earth to the Kuiper Belt, with several stops in-between.