Scott G Gier: 5 books

Fleet Admiral Runacres has taken the Tellurian fleet into the Red Zone. Now the Ulaggi mean to punish the humans for approaching too closely to their empire. Ulaggi battle cruisers, human motherships, and konish dreadnaughts converge on Genellan. Sharl Buccari and her corvettes are all that stand...

Del Rey Discovery of the Year 1996John Campbell Award Honorable Mention 1996Science Fiction Book Club SelectionFirst Contact--TWICE. Genellan—refuge for a ship’s crew and a detachment of spacer Marines, abandoned by an exploration fleet fleeing annihilation. Stranded, the humans struggled...

Trafalgar in Space! Genellan, humanity’s first colony in space, is attacked. Thousands die, but the aliens are repulsed. The cost is dear in lives and ships, but worse—the Ulaggi learn the location of Earth. The Tellurian Fleet commander orders all ships back to Sol-Sys. Too soon, the Ulaggi attack....

Science Fiction Book Club SelectionSharl Buccari was a living legend. She had established a foothold on Genellan—a beautiful new world, raw and unforgiving—becoming allies with the native cliff dwellers.Now the challenge was to engineer peace with the other race inhabiting the same system—the kones—and to build a colony for the children of humanity.

Two super alliances compete for the galaxy as mankind spreads like a bloody stain, consuming entire planets for resources. Some colonies will live, but most will die. A rebel organization and its messianic leader strive to obstruct the devastation, as the overwhelming power of humanity collides on the planet Daystar.Good will always battle evil…but how do you tell the difference?