Walt Edinger

My inspiration for this story came from a book I recently read that ended where I thought it should begin, with a massive departure of colony ships just before Earth's destruction. What kind of world would one build to avoid the problems faced by our destroyed planet or would we be doomed to repeat our mistakes? My novels take up these questions.

The colonists left in over a hundred ships before Earth destroyed itself. The Colonial Administration sent them in different directions hoping that some part of humanity might survive and avoid the mistakes they had made at home. 

Over the past thousand years, the colonists on C63 believed they were the last bastion of humanity and they built a world without individualism, without competition. They worked together and shared their harvest. Over the centuries, the Council worked behind the scenes to ensure their values were preserved for the greater good.

But a newly appointed Archivist discovers that at least one other colony survived. Sharing this knowledge that had been hidden in the Archives for centuries would allow them to reconnect with another branch of humanity. How will the Archivist navigate around the Council and will their values survive the challenge of new ideas from the outside?

The colonists left in over a hundred ships before Earth destroyed itself. The Colonial Administration sent them in different directions hoping that some part of humanity might survive and avoid the mistakes they had made at home. 

Over the past thousand years, the colonists on C63 believed they were the last bastion of humanity and they built a world without individualism, without competition. They worked together and shared their harvest. Over the centuries, the Council worked behind the scenes to ensure their values were preserved for the greater good.

But a newly appointed Archivist discovers that at least one other colony survived. Sharing this knowledge that had been hidden in the Archives for centuries would allow them to reconnect with another branch of humanity. How will the Archivist navigate around the Council and will their values survive the challenge of new ideas from the outside?

After escaping from Blackrock and crash-landing on a planet far outside the normal trade route for the Barons' ships, Kelsey spent years wishing she could go home again. When she learned that workers were being recruited for mining a new source of Lustar, she knew that they had found her home world and she was determined to return to The Plots and help her people.

What she discovered when she arrived was a world divided between her people and the outsiders who had come to strip their world of its wealth, bringing with them modern technology and ideas of profit and competition. To preserve what was left of their values, the new leader of The Plot, Joale, isolated her people and shunned the off-worlders and any of her people who had left and been exposed to the ideas of outsiders, including Kelsey. Her world had been shaped by the values of cooperation and sharing and was turning its back on its people to try to save what was left of the old ways. To find a place for herself among her people in this changed world, Kelsey tries to find a way forward for her people and herself.

Detective Doble and his partner, Ros Welston, share a love of puzzles. That may be why they make such a good team. But this is Ros's first murder investigation. The victim, Professor Emil Kjellbert, had been working on a cure for Alzheimer's Disease, and while some people were excited about his breakthrough, his methods raised concerns. The local pastor described the professor as playing God, and he encouraged his parishioners to take a stand against the evil in their town. But others in the campus community also stood to gain from his death. The number of suspects continues growing as Doble and Ros work to piece together the clues in the first of three campus murder mysteries.