Pete Alex Harris: 3 books

Few people know the true purpose of the Badger Survey of Atlar. Ashlin Smith wants out of his boring, frustrating, and apparently pointless job. But it's about to get a lot more interesting, and not in a good way, as events foreseen decades earlier begin to unfold. A giant badger, murderous...

Jens Anders is ambitious, and reckless in his desire to make a name for himself by finding a wonder on the other side of the world and presenting it to the genius empress Celandine. He takes along his long-suffering childhood friend, Alun, and hires a mysterious translator, Aena, who has her own reasons...

Daily life on the isolated colony world of Miasma has its incongruities. There are unanswered questions. There are unasked questions. Lanton wants to solve a harmless little mystery, Emi wants what she can't have, and they both turn to the unstable but brilliant outsider, Mokan, for help....