In Starry Nova, Skerow, a telepathic alien judge, lonely and working far from her home planet, sees an amphibious human enslaved and displayed in a tank as an ad for a pleasure house. She resolves to investigate and do something about this illegal enslavement. But not long after her investigation...
The rain had stopped and the sky was the deep gray-mauve of pre-dawn. In an hour the sun would stand full on the horizon. No one was on watch. She scampered to the shelter. “Koz?” She peered over the edge; he was not among the tumbled bodies of the sleepers. “Koz!” Run away? Not likely here. Over...
In the center of the vast chamber was a great column of streaming lights from the hundreds of built-in screens that announced arrivals, departures, cancellations of aircar flights around the world and connecting shuttles to and from Port City for liftoff. The column’s security cameras and spy-eye...