Product Overview
Jack Holloway works alone. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCorp's headquarters on planet, 178 light-years from the corporation's headquarters on Earth, Jack is content as an independent contractor. As for his past, that's not up for discussion.
Then, in the wake of an accidental cliff collapse, Jack discovers a seam of unimaginably valuable jewels, to which he manages to lay legal claim just as ZaraCorp is cancelling their contract with him for his part in causing the collapse. Briefly in the catbird seat, legally speaking, Jack pressures ZaraCorp into recognizing his claim, and cuts them in as partners to help extract the wealth.
But there's another wrinkle to ZaraCorp's relationship with the planet Zarathustra. Their entire legal right to exploit the verdant Earth-like planet is based on being able to certify to the authorities on Earth that Zarathustra is home to no sentient species.
Then a small furry bipedtrusting, appealing, and ridiculously cuteshows up at Jack's outback home. Followed by its family. As it dawns on Jack that despite their stature, these are people, he begins to suspect that ZaraCorp's claim to a planet's worth of wealth is very flimsy indeedand that ZaraCorp may stop at nothing to eliminate the fuzzys before their existence becomes more widely known.
Old Man's War Series
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#2 The Ghost Brigades
#3 The Last Colony
#4 Zoes Tale
#5 The Human Division
#6 The End of All Things
Short fiction: After the Coup
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The Androids Dream
Agent to the Stars
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded
Fuzzy Nation
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Lock In
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