The jump drive opened up the stars to humankind. Explorers, colonists, scientists, missionaries, and developers found worlds upon worlds. And many, many low-tech aliens.
Azureseas: Cantrell’s War
Ross Cantrell joins the animal control mission on Azureseas to earn the money he needs to start married life with his girlfriend.
The tourist corporations pay well. The psych technicians keep his brain focused. Neutralizing the large, dangerous native lifeforms is dirty work, but necessary to keep people safe. Like plinking tree cats back home.
Then Ross learns the truth about the planet’s “animals.”
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Return Blessing
Jeffrey just wants to have a good time, drinking and partying in the
human zone near the city of the low-tech, insectoid aliens native to the
planet Valoduria.
His dad disapproves his lifestyle, but the old man is willing to pay
for it. As long as Jeffrey transmits amateur xenology videos home every
week.
Jeffrey gets along fine with the Valodurians. Sure, they all look
alike to him, but humans all look the same to them, right?
Now, if only Jeffrey could tell what one particular Valodurian, with
unreadable eyes and sharp mouthparts, wants when it asks him to
“return blessing.”