Boundary(with Eric Flint) 
"Paleontology meets Indiana Jones and 2001: A Space Odyssey."Helen Sutter knew there was something unique about the fossil that Jackie Secord found on her family's ranch; but she never imagined that it would first lead to her nearly losing her career - and then getting a new one, on the first manned ship to Mars! An attempt at the old-fashioned "novel of exploration" which Arthur C. Clarke mastered in "Rendezvous With Rama", Boundary is a novel in which the greatest opposition comes not from other people, but from the unforgiving environments that the heroes must enter to solve mysteries literally older than mankind. The sequel to Boundary, Threshold, is due out in June, 2010; Portal, the third book in the series, will likely be seen in 2012. (Spoilers/background info to come) |
Threshold(with Eric Flint)  When the strange fossil she'd discovered had ended up giving her a trip to Mars, Helen Sutter thought she'd gone about as far as any paleontologist would ever go in her lifetime. But when you've also married A.J. Baker, overconfident super- sensor expert for the only private agency in space — the Ares Corporation — and your best friend Madeline Fathom Buckley is a former secret agent who's just signed on as the chief of security for the newly created and already embattled Interplanetary Research Institute of the United Nations, there's always somewhere farther to go.The newest discoveries will take her, A.J., and their friends Jackie, Joe, and Madeline to the mysterious asteroid Ceres — and beyond, in a desperate race to Jupiter's perilous miniature system of radiation-bombarded moons. The next gold rush is on — for alien technology, hidden in lost bases around the system. And there are people willing to do anything to get it — even plan the first interplanetary war, four hundred million miles from home! |
