Ergebnis für "The Affair" in Space Opera

Metallurgist and Mine Engineer, Second Class, Franklin Collier gets a lot more than he bargains for when he signs up for a surlenium mining job with Stellar Metals, Inc., on Dekon 6. In fact, almost nothing is the way it seems, it turns out. Franklin and the rest of the crew are supposed to be collaborating with the elegantly humanoid and highly advanced Dekonians in this mining venture. Lieutenant Jacobs thinks the Dekonians have a perfectly Utopian society. But something is amiss.

Eleven years ago, Army Ranger Jason King lost his job when the aliens came to Earth and outlawed war among nations. Now he makes a fairly decent living as the top real estate broker on the planet Sylox, the capital of the Galactic Union. His clients are primarily Humans coming to the planet to work at the huge Embassy Complex, and they find Earth-like housing—along with a little taste of home—in the sprawling Enclaves of Sylox.

A letter arrives at Nest Cottage, warning of danger for all former companions of the Doctor. Intrigued, Mrs Wibbsey begins a correspondence with one Polly Wright - and soon finds herself with an unexpected guest for Christmas. But shadows are gathering in the Hexford snow and old scores are waiting to be settled. With Mike Yates and other friends around her, Mrs Wibbsey must navigate her way between facts and half-truths if she's to keep the Doctor's secrets safe, and live to tell the tale....