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Summary

A scientist seeks a cure for her disease from radicals on a newly colonized planet in Shivering World.

In One Mind's Eye, a young woman seeks clues to her identity after awaking from a virtual reality with no memory of who she is.

A capture pirate placed in forced servitude must determine where her loyalties really lie in ​Crystal Witness.

Stats

Genre: Adult science fiction

Series length: Each book is a standalone.

Violence: Moderate violence with no unnecessary description

Magic/Supernatural: None 

Romance: Each book has a light to moderate romantic subplot

Christian/spiritual element: Light to moderate Christian elements, often in an allegorical manner

Recommendation: Fans of science and science fiction

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Opening Lines: 

The ten-passenger landing craft's hatchway admitted a swirl of foul, frigid air. Wrinkling her nose, Graysha Brady-Phillips gripped her seat's armrests and stared out a tiny viewport. yellowish-tan crater walls curved upward close by, like the monstrous rib cavity of some prehistoric beast that had swallowed the lander whole. 

So this was Goddard, humanity's newest habitable world. 

Habitable being a relative term, of course. 

Shivering World
by Kathy Tyers

A planet on the edge of life.
A woman on the edge of hope.

Microbiologist Graysha Brady-Phillips accepts a hazardous position assisting in terraforming the planet Goddard, partly to get out of debt and partly in desperate hope. There's a chance that the colonists are conducting illegal genetic research, which could provide a cure for the genetic disorder slowly killing her.

But genetic engineering is banned by the powerful Eugenics Board, and Graysha is the daughter of the board’s high commissioner. When the colonists discover her connection, she is ostracized—the possible penalties for conducting their radical research include death. Graysha tries to pursue her profession and befriend the colonists, but soon she is dodging attempts on her life.

When her new world is pushed to the brink, Graysha must decide what she will cling to.

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Air streams whispered out of ducts and vents, masking murmurs and quiet footsteps. On the third floor of the Nuris University library, sound seemed smothered under a weight of wisdom and recirculated air.

Llyn Torfinn stood at a i-net station, listening nervously. The wall at the end of her aisle was opaque blue glass, and it glistened like a gigantic opal. Closer by, head-high racks displayed information printouts, data spools, and ancient-looking scrolls and books. Her brother Niklo had explained them as replicas, dignifying the library with the appearance of Earth-date anitquity.​

One Mind's Eye
by Kathy Tyers

​What if an artificial reality was all you had ever known?

On the planet Antar, Llyn Torfinn awakes to reality as if for the first time, with no memory of the real world. The human settlers found her abandoned, hooked into an AR machine, and wasting away. Physically and mentally, she must learn how to live in a system at war with alien threats at every turn.

The humans of the Concord worlds are rebuilding their civilization ravaged by the alien Devastators, who disappeared as abruptly as they attacked. As they struggle through the recovery process, the threat of another war of humans against humans arises, carrying with it rumors of an enemy even more potent than the last.

Humanity's last hope lies in a young woman who doesn't even know who she is. Llyn's greatest challenge may be to discover her own identity—or all of humankind may pay the price.

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For the first time since leaving Cabra Minor, Ming Dalamani felt like a smuggler. 

The rest of Opa's crew waited without speaking as Ming adjusted the radio transceiver on the slanting console in front of her. Her overwebbed acceleration seat felt hard. From left and right two cousins stared, making her wonder if she was somehow responsible for the silence answering her transmission. 

Ming was new to this. had she done something wrong?

Crystal Witness
by Kathy Tyers

​Her memories are blocked. Her freedom is gone. Her crime is a mystery.

When Ming Dalamani awakens from twenty years of suspended animation, she recalls only fragments of her former life: the life she led before she was arrested by the governing interplanetary corporation, Renasco, for a now unremembered crime.

Relocated to an alien world far from the only home she has ever known, Ming serves a powerful Renasco representative to repay her debt. But daily she lives with deadly threats from two men—the hideous mutant Zardir Huekk and the handsome, secretive musician Tieg Innig—who both want the same thing: information. Renasco-trained as a calligrapher in three dimensions, Ming begins to remember more: a clan, a mission, and interstellar piracy.

Ming must decide where her loyalties lie: with her powerful new employer, with a budding resistance movement... or elsewhere.