Greed is universal among all species. Which is why Sargon of the Horem turns the asteroid starship Hekar toward a small yellow star, hoping for a productive First Contact with the Human species. But his decision is controversial among the other aliens occupying the starship. The Arrik flyers are convinced that any new First Contact must be done using overwhelming military force. Sargon’s own people favor a secretive entry to Sol system with a period of covert observation. The six other alien species living on the asteroid starship have their own motivations for seeking Trade with a new species, and debate rages among them as Hekar nears Sol. But the controversy and conflict among the Aliens of the Compact is minor compared to the reaction of Human nations, corporations, religions and individuals. It becomes the job of Jack Harrigan, CNN newsman, and Sargon to convince humanity that greed is more profitable than interstellar war!

Slave-taking aliens kidnap Bill MacCarthy and Jane Yamaguchi from the remote Rocky Mountains. But the aliens are in for a surprise! Bill is a retired Navy SEAL and Jane is an Air Force Space Command captain. Together they must breakout from escape-proof cells, fight the ship's crew, capture the captain and take over the starship—all before they are delivered to buyers on an alien world. Along the way they gain alien allies, including a naive ship AI. But will their escape survive a space battle at the Market world where captives are bought and sold? All that is certain is it was a bad move to kidnap a SEAL!

Jeff Webster is a reluctant superhero. Ever since he was four years old he’s been able to teleport himself to distant places, read minds and move stuff around with mind power. But growing up in Los Alamos, home of the atomic bomb and lots of scientists, taught him the dangers of standing out. With both parents dead, he holds down a simple job but wonders what he should do with his life. Help people in danger? Block terrorist schemes? Become famous for his unique abilities? Watching him is FBI Special Agent Janet Van Groot, newly assigned to monitor adult children of people who work at the national labs, in hopes of catching a hidden foreign spy. What happens after Jeff’s first rescue effort leads him, Janet and the entire nation into a future no one could have expected.

An Archeologist Opens an Ancient Tomb. His Discovery Reveals A Secret. A Secret Some Will Kill to Keep Buried.On the planet Na-Dina, the tombs in the Ancestor’s Valley have lain undisturbed for six thousand years. A fully intact royal chamber promises treasures beyond reckoning, but no one expected ancient Mizari artifacts. When a member of the team is brutally murdered, Ambassador-at-Large Mahree Burroughs arrives, determined to find the killer…no matter the cost. What she discovers will change her life, the lives of the Na-Dina, and the lives of everyone in the Cooperative League of Systems.Praise for the StarBridge Series“Rousing adventure…a very exciting and reader-enticing series!” — Andre Norton“This series offers well-told tales with a welcome note of realism about interspecies relationships…Recommended.” — Booklist“This is space opera in the best tradition…just tremendous; I’m delighted to recommend it.” — Judith Tarr“A highly emotional and surprisingly successful story…With its touches of humor, and an intriguing set of characters, the action-packed plot races along!” — Locus“…the series is batting a thousand!” — DragonReview"T. Jackson King is a professional archaeologist and he uses that to great advantage in Ancestor's World. I was just as fascinated by the details of the archaeology procedures as I was by the unfolding of the plot . . . The novel opens with the discovery of artifacts from the lost colony of the Mizari in a tomb of an ancient Na-Dina emperor. This is a discovery that the modernist faction of the Na-Dina do not want getting out, and some of them will do anything to keep it under wraps. What follows is a tightly plotted, suspenseful novel."---Absolute Magnitude magazine"The latest in the StarBridge series from King, a former Rogue Valley resident now living and writing in Arizona, follows the action on planet Na-Dina, where the tombs of 46 dynasties have lain undisturbed for 6,000 years until a human archaeologist and a galactic gumshoe show up. Set your phasers for fun."--Mail Tribune newspaper"Another of A.C. Crispin's StarBridge adventures, this one fleshed out by T. Jackson King. There is a murder on the world of Na-Dina, at an archaeological dig in Ancestor's Valley where Human and other archaeologists are in the process of finding artifacts that contradict the beliefs of many of the planet's natives. The murder is only one element of the plot, but its solution winds up the story nicely. Recommended."---Norm Hartman, Book Net #10"In this book Ambassador Burroughs and archaeologist Gordon Mitchell become the targets of a radical faction that will do anything to gain the power of more advanced species, even kill . . . this was another fine book in the (StarBridge) series and a tribute to King."--Lyn McConchie, author of the Beastmaster seriesFrom the AuthorT. Jackson King (Tom) is a professional archaeologist and journalist. He writes hard science fiction, anthropological scifi, dark fantasy/horror and contemporary fantasy/magic realism--and he never took a college creative writing class nor bowed and scarped to a literary opinion-maker. That said, Tom has long loved a good story. He works at sharing his best efforts in imaginative stories with reader worldwide. And for those who like to know where an author grew up or has lived as an adult, the answer is Lots Of Places! Some of them include Garden Grove, Calif.; Belmont, Calif.; Medford, Oregon; New Orleans, LA; Paris, France; Tokyo, Japan; Nashville, TN; Knoxville, TN; Silver City, New Mexico; Show Low, Arizona; Salt Lake City, Utah; Pinetop, AZ; Huntsville, Alabama; Tucson, AZ; Cortez, Colorado; Safford, AZ; and Riverside, Calif.

Wasp-like aliens kill all the senior officers of the starship fleet led by the Battlestar Lepanto. That puts Ensign Jacob Renselaer on the spot. Can he find out why the aliens killed his ship's officers? Can he take command of the Battlestar? Does he want to be the leader of ten heavily armed starships that never expected to encounter aliens? Deep in the Kepler 10 star system, mutual misunderstanding between two peoples who cannot speak to each other leads to multiple space battles. Somehow Jacob becomes the leader he never wanted to be. His close friend Daisy the pilot helps him, as do other friends on the Battlestar. On the alien side, Hunter One is determined to kill the invaders who threaten his new colony world. His people the Swarm have never been defeated. Now, he faces Soft Skins who do not flee at the loss of their leaders. In a distant star system, people human and alien die, scheme, and fight for survival. None of them have ever faced combat before. But now, both sides learn what it is like to have someone seek your death and the death of your friends!

Slave-taking aliens invade the solar system and attack Earth to teach humanity it cannot overthrow the millennia-old system of Buyers, Market worlds, and Collector ships. Former SEAL Bill MacCarthy and Air Force captain Jane Yamaguchi lead America and the world in a fight against six invading Collector ships. But even with the help of two American subs and two small transports, their ship Blue Sky is badly outgunned. Can they win this fight? Or will they and all humans end up as slaves sold at the nearby Market world? This tale gives retired Navy SEAL Bill MacCarthy his biggest surprise, bigger than being kidnapped by aliens! The Collector ship aliens he and Air Force captain Jane Yamaguchi defeated earlier now return to the solar system in a six-ship fleet armed to the teeth. Bill and Jane have just their single starship. The aliens plan to destroy Earth's space industry and capture hundreds of humans for sale to Buyers on distant stars. Bill and Jane discover that their first effort to subvert a galactic system of people Buyers, Market worlds, and Collector ships was not enough. Now they have to do more. That begins with getting the Joint Chiefs of Staff on their side as they figure out how to fight rampaging aliens. Their efforts eventually lead them to the nearest Market world where intelligent people are bought and sold into forced labor. A final confrontation with hundreds of Buyers puts the survival of humanity on the line!

Jacob Renselaer arrives in the Kepler 22 system, carrying a wasp ambassador as a sign of humanity’s hope for an end to its first interstellar war. But that hope crumbles as Jacob, his girlfriend Daisy, ambassador Hunter One and Marine chief O’Connor watch unknown aliens drop thermo-nukes on the wasp colony world, killing wasp larvae and adults. These new aliens pursue Jacob’s ships and a fleeing wasp ship. To Jacob’s horror, the new aliens attack with mobile balls of antimatter! Facing sure death, Jacob retreats to the Kepler 63 wasp colony world where Hunter One demands that he and his fleet defend a colony with 23 million wasps. Where does his duty lie? Must he fight and risk lives and ships to protect their former enemies? Or will help arrive from his father the admiral, or from other wasps? When the shark-seal aliens arrive at Kepler 63, battles happen that threaten the lives of all three peoples—human, wasp and amphibian. Can Jacob and his friends win a fight where they are badly outnumbered? Or will a fight to defend wasp civilians end in the destruction of the Battlestar Lepanto and all of Jacob’s hopes for a future with Daisy? All that is certain is that the amphibian aliens are relentless, their mobile antimatter balls are something no ship can escape and communication is impossible with creatures who talk with skin color patterns!

Matt Dragoneaux hates the cloneslavery and indentured bondServant status that most people, human and alien, live under in the Anarchate galactic culture, a society with no law, no justice and little freedom for the galaxy’s many species. Pursued by Anarchate battleglobes for the crime of saving his love Eliana’s home planet, Matt declares war on the Anarchate. Saving a few worlds from oppression is not enough. Ending a two million year old alien tyranny is his new aim. With the help of BattleMind and Mata Hari, two AIs created by the ancient T’Chak aliens, Matt fights one battle after another, dodging antimatter beams as he makes Hit-and-Run forays. Finally he seeks help from the T’Chak of the Small Magellanic Cloud. Getting there will take all the talents of Matt, Eliana, Mata Hari, BattleMind and new partners in the effort to bring hope, justice and freedom to the galaxy. But the Anarchate aims to turn Matt’s ship into a black hole—if they can catch him!