The Silver Ships Series

Author's Note:

It's recommended that you read or listen to the Pyreans series before Alliance, the fourteenth novel in the Silver Ships series. The story of the Pyreans is that of a third Earther colony ship, but their story doesn’t end with Veklocks, the fourth novel in the Pyreans series. Their story merges with that of the Silver Ships in Alliance, revealing a future that includes descendants of Pyre’s characters, who readers enjoy, and our adventuresome present day Omnians of the Silver Ships series.

The Silver Ships

The Silver Ships #1

An explorer-tug captain, Alex Racine spends years in space, harvesting ice asteroids for New Terran’s water-hungry outposts. His existence is both routine and solitary . . . until his ship’s computer detects a damaged alien craft drifting into system.

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Méridien, a Silver Ships novel

MÉridien #3

The Méridiens are fleeing to their far colonies—and they have reason to run. Over the course of decades, they have lost hundreds of ships, billions of people, and seven Confederation colonies to an alien enemy: an advancing swarm of silver ships transported in the bowels of a gigantic, spherical vessel.

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Sol, a Silver Ships novel

Sol #5

Sol’s warships paid the ultimate price for threatening the Haraken and New Terran worlds. Now, Haraken President Alex Racine and his Méridien partner, Renée de Guirnon, are engaged in a desperate gamble to stop a war between their worlds and United Earth’s (UE) massive forces before it starts.

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Allora, a Silver Ships Novella

Allora #7

Until the Confederation created Allora, it had produced SADEs for hundreds of years with enormous consistency. But this young SADE was disturbed by her confinement. Trapped in metal-alloy housing on the bridge of a liner, Allora sought to possess the same freedom enjoyed by humans, who came and went from her starship...

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Omnia, a Silver Ships Novel

Omnia #9

Alex Racine, who led an elite group of humans and SADEs (self-ware digital entities), left the newly discovered planet of Celus-5 under difficult circumstances. Few of the Harakens with Alex thought there was little he could do to bring peace to the embroiled planet. From their viewpoint, the demands of the Celus-5 Swei Swee...

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Nua'll, A Silver Ships Novel

Nua'll #11

The Omnian expeditionary fleet sails for the faraway place they called “the wall.” The worlds of humankind have consolidated their resources to create a powerful armada to confront the alien federation. During the Omnians’ previous encounter with an alien fleet at the wall, the Nua’ll comm sphere spoke to them...

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Sojourn, A Silver Ships Novel

Sojourn #13

Artifice, the great enemy, has been defeated. The sister SADEs, Omnian sentient digital entities, are free from their boxes. Most humans are unaware that the sisters have duplicated themselves many more times than suspected. They now constitute a sizable, powerful group, calling themselves the Sisterhood.

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SADEs, A Silver Ships Novel

SADES #15

Dangerous forces are at work across galactic space that the Omnians are attempting to stabilize, but their resources are severely strained.

The SADEs, self-aware digital entities, express to Alex Racine and Renée de Guirnon their desire to know their creation.

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Talus, A Silver Ships Novel

Talus #17

Talus, the system comprised of Toralians and the Sisterhood, is under siege. Massive battleships, each ferrying an envoy from a federacy race, surround the Talusian home world, Toral. Two wedges, each comprised of nine federacy battleships, wait outside the system. The sisters, whom the SADEs created ...

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Q-Gates, A Silver Ships Novel

Q-Gates #19

Outpost One: Resistance is mired in political turmoil and dangerous conditions from the Colony, the race of giant devouring insectoids. Commander Jess Cinders and Admiral Bellardo fight the troubles besieging the outpost from multiple directions. Usaanans are discovered undercutting their outpost contracts...

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Libre, a Silver Ships novel

Libre #2

The surviving Méridiens have returned to Confederation space, aided by their recently discovered cousins, the New Terrans. They expect a celebration after their 71-year absence. Instead, they’re shocked to find the silver ships have destroyed half the Confederation.

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Haraken, a Silver Ships novel

Haraken #4

Nine years of tranquility came to an abrupt end when a Méridien starship entered the Hellébore system, sounding a dire warning for Alex Racine, the Haraken president. Unwanted visitors had arrived again. But this time, they’re not alien; they’re human.

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Espero, a Silver Ships novel

Espero #6

Trouble infiltrated the Harakens’ capital city of Espero, in the form of New Terra criminal gangs who grew wealthy and powerful on the moons of Ganymede, hiding behind the cover of an ill-conceived mining charter. The gangs brought stims and addictive, hallucinogenic drugs to Espero to spread among young Harakens and visitors to the planet.

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Celus-5, a Silver Ships Novel

Celus-5 #8

For the Sojourn’s initial mission, the Haraken explorer ship undertakes the investigation of Celus-5, a world identified by Willem, a SADE (self-aware digital entity), and his team of scientists, as the best prospect for a new colony.

What should be a routine survey mission becomes a disaster.To the Harakens’ surprise, they discover...

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Vinium, a Silver Ships Novel

Vinium #10

After the passage of two decades, the Omnians discovered a second, critical clue about the Nua’ll, humankind’s enemy, while investigating Celus-4, the home world of the intelligent, canine-like aliens, the Dischnya.

This striking discovery, combined with the final broadcast of the Nua’ll sphere at Libre, prior to its detonation ...

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Artifice, a Silver Ships Novel

Artifice #12

The great spheres and probes of Artifice, humankind’s enemy, haunt every inhabited world near and far. The Omnians’ long and arduous search for Artifice has ended. They’ve located Artifice’s lair in the Talus system.

The sentient digital entity rules a vast swath of worlds, known as the federacy, through ruthless intimidation. ...

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Alliance, a Silver Ships Novel

Alliance #14

The great spheres and probes of Artifice, humankind’s enemy, haunt every inhabited world near and far. The Omnians’ long and arduous search for Artifice has ended. They’ve located Artifice’s lair in the Talus system.

The sentient digital entity rules a vast swath of worlds, known as the federacy, through ruthless intimidation. ...

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Earthers, a Silver Ships Novel

Earthers #16

Omnians, Earthers, and alliance members are fighting the Colony, the horde of sentient insectoids that threaten alliance space.

The Colony has had centuries to expand through the network of domes built by the Messinants, an ancient race. The domes’ Q-gates allow the insectoids to invade planets...

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Elvians, a Silver Ships Novel

Elvians #18

Two crises challenge the Omnians. Alex Racine’s fleet draws a first-contact conflict, which faces the Ollassa, a symbiotic flora race. The Omnian fleet sails from alliance space in an effort to interdict an alien ship that arrives at the Worlds of Lights, the Ollassa system. Soon after arriving, the alien ship deploys machines to scour asteroids for resources in the system’s far belt....

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Conclave, a Silver Ships Novel

Conclave #20

The time is opportune for Alex Racine. Omnian efforts and sacrifices culminate in a singular opportunity. With fortune, he'll bring together the diverse races encountered.

Alex selects the human colonies of New Terra, Haraken, Omnia, and Méridien to solicit their attendance. Unknowingly, he sails toward a deadly encounter.

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