EarthCent Universe Books
In space, retirement is a new beginning. Harry and Irene have sold their small-town bakery after forty years of hard work to finance their dream retirement in space, but a few days into the trip, it starts to look like they and the other retirees on board have been taken in by a scam. Julie Gold (not her real name) has secretly fled Earth in the witness protection program after testifying in open court against the bosses of the drug syndicate she's been working for since childhood, but somebody has spilled the beans on her location. Can they make a new start on Flower, an alien colony ship visiting a circuit of human communities on distant worlds. Or will it prove impossible to live with the ship's guiding artificial intelligence, who is so bossy that her original crew and owners declared her a rogue and abandoned ship back when the Roman Empire was at the height of its power?
In space, you can never have too much fresh fruit. Or can you? Flower, the sentient alien colony ship on loan to EarthCent has a problem. Operating at just five percent of her capacity, she needs to attract more humans and give them a reason to stay. Join Harry, Irene, Julie and Bill for the fun in this sequel to Independent Living that shows you’re never too old to teach an alien AI a new trick.
In space, nobody can tell the aliens from the cosplayers. Science fiction meets the future as Flower, the sentient Dollnick colony ship working under contract for EarthCent, decides to host a con to bolster her anime business. But where can an alien artificial intelligence turn for the expertise to run a SciFi convention, and how can she manipulate everyone to bring about the desired results?
In space, the smartest sentient in the room is alien artificial intelligence. A visit to Union Station brings Flower the welcome addition of a honeymoon couple as the Dollnick AI prepares to host Rendezvous and promote her ship as THE place for humanity to do business. But first a distress call forwarded by the Styrx results in unwelcome visitors, creating political complications for the young power couple responsible for the embryonic Human Empire. Will Flower and her human and alien allies manage to keep the guests they want and get rid of the guests they don't want, all while launching a business manufacturing obsolete Sharf trade ships under license? Space Living is Book Four of EarthCent Universe, which itself is a spin-off of the eighteen book EarthCent Ambassador series. The first sixteen EarthCent books, also known as the Union Station series, are numbered in order. Following the sixteenth book, Last Night on Union Station, the timeline order is: Independent Living (EarthCent Universe 1) Soup Night on Union Station (Union Station 17) Assisted Living (EarthCent Universe 2) Freelance on the Galactic Tunnel Network (Stand alone, book #2 and #3 will be out in 2021) Con Living (EarthCent Universe 3) Empire Night on Union Station (Union Station 18) Space Living (EarthCent Universe 4)
In space, even the artificial intelligence stops to smell the roses. After the Alts agreed to share Earth Two with humans on a trial basis, Flower adds transporting colonists to her already packed itinerary. But it takes a certain sort of person to start farming on a half-finished tech-ban world, and Flower’s residents soon find themselves playing host to traditional communities from the Old Way movement and Alt. Can treadle technology and sewing circles coexist with advanced aliens and interstellar jumps?
In space, early is on time Bill takes another step towards his dream of opening his own café and Julie gets an understudy, while the Grenouthian director has his eyes on an award for a documentary about the settlement of Earth Two, made with help from the retirees of Flower’s Paradise. The nascent Human Empire’s School of Government is finally launching, and Samuel drafts his alien friends and colleagues to teach a seminar. The classically trained faculty members from Earth struggle to adjust to the realities of the tunnel network, and Ambassador Zerakova’s daughters find that teaching about culture is less fun than living it.
In space, everybody loves a good documentary... The retirees from the independent living cooperative on Flower are putting on a documentary film festival for elder directors, leading to a flood of submissions from the advanced species. Meanwhile, the staff of the fledging Human Empire is trying to establish a document trail for an early milestone review by the artificial intelligence that runs the galactic tunnel network. Will humans be shut out of their own awards by superior competition, and will the Human Empire’s quest to replace EarthCent be derailed?