Bøker av Ginger Booth

How can Nexus be the Oracle? On a hardscrabble colony world, Nexus tracks a mysterious rat outbreak to a shy tortoise-like alien, who calls him Oracle. If his addled visions amount to fortune-telling, Nexus can't read the tea leaves. He foresees alien crocs ravaging Earth and enslaving humanity. Another vision depicts him happy in love. How to evade human extinction and win the girl is unclear. Word leaks that Nexus is the new heir to a powerful fortune, compounding his social challenges. To save the human race, escape gold-diggers, repair his space mink, and win the woman of his dreams, Nexus must decode his visions...and talk to people. For readers who love the quirky found-family spaceship of Firefly, or the gritty future of Murderbot. A must-read for fans of Booth's Thrive series.

When Nexus catches the attention of the alien croc ambassador, his first space travel goes weirdly astray. A backwoods Earth terraformer, young Nexus is awkward with people, good with creatures, at a time when the human worlds are bumping against the alien races who surround them. He sets off to explore human space. But to leave home, he must first repay a debt of honor, and smuggle a highly illegal sentient robot off-planet. Memory murky, the poor robot got stranded on Earth before Nexus was born. Nexus is delighted when the alien ambassador boards his space train to Luna. Most fear the enigmatic crocs, but he's fascinated. Then an explosion derails the train car. But was the attack aimed at the aliens? Or his forgetful robot? Join an upbeat civilian team on a hopepunk science fiction odyssey, with mystery, space trains, flying life support suits, and enigmatic aliens! Come for world-building and adventure, and stay for the characters. This fresh new series takes place 200 years into the future of Booth's long-running Thrive series.

Hudson is a nation under martial law, built from the collapse of the USA and the culling of New York City. Special agent Ava hoped for newlywed nesting this winter. Instead Hudson grumbles with famine. In Virginia, weaponized Ebola returns. And her husband is colder than the Upstate winter. Citizens grow ornery with fear. Will life ever be good again? Politics thrusts Ava back into the city. Her assignment: to investigate a string of suspicious deaths. Where they lead could break her heart. Old demons rise up from the Starve, when she too was quarantined in this damned city to die. Can she find answers in time, before the streets explode into riots? Ava must confront her gang-rat past, in this noir turn in a desperate city.

Thrive's next generation is put to the test. Dark-humored Frazzie, and stolid engineer Tiktok, win rank and cadet berths on Sass Collier's exciting mission to investigate the dead colony world of Aden. Eerie ruins nestle among Aden's dark rugged canyons, and a quarter million settlers are gone. What destroyed Aden colony? Meanwhile Frazzie's father, admiral Ben Acosta, migrates Rayas Colony. Cadets can transport the people. But the Rayans also need their precious space station transferred. That engineering feat requires Ben. Do they have the League's blessing? No. Do they care? Also no. Sass and Ben foresee no major hurdles. They've succeeded at similar missions before. Then the Colony Corps abruptly loses them both. When Frazzie and Tiktok face what killed planet Aden, can they survive their coming of age?

Discover high-tech prizes, and horrors, in the series finale! Tripping through terrifying futures, Ben Acosta strives to regain his home universe and timeline. But is he truly the one piloting his lost starship? Or does someone else have an agenda? Meanwhile on the home timeline, the Colony Corps limps along bereft of its star players. Led by Ben's struggling son Nico and daughter Frazzie, the B team reopens the last known colony world of Gandhi. With breeding habits like rabbits, Gandhi proves the most populous colony yet. Their tech solution to the terraforming problem can revolutionize the League! But their social mores combine the worst of all worlds, subjugating women and lower castes. On a world where uneducated mothers raise a dozen kids apiece, can Frazzie make an impact? And can Nico revive Sass and Clay? Don't miss the time-traveling, Bollywood spectacular series finale of Thrive Colony Corps Space Adventures!