Aeon's Legacy - E-book - ePub

Here for the first time are all four novels in the series, and the novelette "Spike, " which unfolds between the last two books in the series, plus a bonus novella, Mascot, which unfolds in the same interstellar location as the final book. Hurricane Moon. In the late 21st century, with Earth wracked by climate change, an ambitious private foundation launches a starship to find a new world. Aboard the starship Aeon are Catharin Gault, an idealistic astronaut-physician, and Joseph Devreze, a geneticist as brilliant as he is irresponsible.  Aeon discovers two Earth-sized planets in orbit around each other.
Planet Green has abundant plant life. Planet Blue is an oceanic world covered with hurricanes. The green world with its bright blue moon seems like a perfect stage for the drama of civilization to begin anew and turn out better this time. But the journey took too long. A millennium of cryostasis-cold suspended animation-has caused insidious genetic damage. Now Catharin must rely on the irresponsible genius Devreze to help her repair the human genome if there is to be a future for the colony on Planet Green.
Their mutual attraction ratchets up even as their conflict escalates. Together Catharin and Joe must decide how they can face, and embrace, a future utterly at odds with Aeon's planned mission and their own expectations. Downfall Tide. It has been twenty-four years since Planet Green was colonized by the starship Aeon. In that time much has changed, thanks to unremitting hard work by the first generation of astronauts, scientists and explorers.
They have built the beginning of a new civilization on that distant world with its ocean-covered hurricane moon.  Unknown to them and their children, everything is about to change. In Star Crossing, the final journey of the starship Aeon has reached yet another world-a hopeful new beginning after the disastrous events in Downfall Tide. The first generation of colonists from Earth either perished or had to be left behind.
Now their children encounter wonders and terrors, monstrous aliens and marvelous allies, in a place stranger than anything they ever imagined. It's like a Bermuda Triangle in space .