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Archeologists in Spaaaace!!! Terraformed planets. Ancient, primitive cultures. And an old stone talisman with surprisingly high-tech innards. Is the talisman a star map? Does it, as the ruthless Velkaryans think, point to a cache of alien weapons? Homeworld Security thinks it might, and wants to send the archeologist who found it, Hannibal Carson, to go look. Too bad the only ship available is piloted by his ex-girlfriend.... With a thriving black market in alien artifacts, Carson is used to dealing with tomb raiders -- but they’re nothing compared to what he faces this time. Set fifty ...

The third adventure of Jason Curtis, owner/pilot of the ship Starfire. After the events of "Renee," Jason finds himself lonely and pursued by associates of the terrorists whose plans he foiled. He's helped out by a seemingly harmless fellow who'd like Jason's help in looking for a missing friend of his own. Of course, looks can be deceiving, and when they find something deep in interstellar space where it has no right to be . . . . “What if my friend is there?” Vandemeer said. “What? Why would she be? I doubt these guys are space pirates; I don’t see how that could possibly work. ...

UFOs? Hannibal Carson and the mysterious Quentin Ducayne have discovered more alien talismans. They provide a clue to the aliens’ home system...and to a legendary UFO abduction back on Earth, a connection which the Velkaryan cult is deadly serious about pursuing. Ducayne intends to stop them. But the real surprise is what Carson and his pilot, Jackie Roberts, discover about the aliens' past and their combined futures.... The second book in the Carson & Roberts T-Space series, sequel to The Chara Talisman. Join the adventure. Explore T-Space!

The star was the wrong color. Jason Curtis comes out of warp to find himself ... not where he expected. The first of the Curtis and his ship, Starfire, adventures. In a not-too-distant future where small starships are as common as private jets, a skilled but impulsive pilot discovers that it's often easier to get himself into trouble than it to get out of it, and that sometimes the only way out of the frying pan is . . . into the fire. A T-Space story. Note: This short story also appears in the collection Alastair Mayer: A Sampler.

The second adventure of Jason Curtis, owner/pilot of the ship Starfire. This is the story that inspired the Alpha Centauri and Kakuloa series. (This story is included as a bonus in the print edition of Kakuloa: A Rising Tide.) Jason just wanted find a beach for a little rest and relaxation. Then he met a girl . . . . "‘Starfire, this is Kakuloa control. Are you declaring an emergency?’ Air hissed out of a bullet hole in my cockpit, yellow and red warning lights lit up my control panel, the fuel system leaked, my heat shielding was probably damaged, and my spacesuit was on the wrong side...