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  • An intergalactic gathering of three hundred Core Ships, attended by the founder of the Anillan Project--the program responsible for the entire fleet from conception through construction, crewing, to launch. All Kaelin needs to do is give speeches. Fi...



  • Exploration, at the vanguard of a golden new age A ship the size of a small planet. A century-long voyage between galaxies. A crew that will grow from five thousand to five million. A renegade group determined to ensure the mission fails. Sera Logan ...



  • Respect is earned, not given. But so is disrespect -- Dannell believes. Not everyone aboard her new ship agrees, and the crew gives its new commander a decidedly cold welcome. A brutal attack forces them to put aside their differences and work togeth...



  • Action and adventure abound A mysterious thousand-year-old starship from a hundred years in the future. An entire colony brutally murdered. Clashing civilizations on the brink of all-out devastating war. Living jewels. Space pirates. A whole planet ...



  • Colonists run afoul of a planet's mysterious inhabitants. Religious and military leaders both fight to keep the enemy from destroying on of their worlds most sacred artifacts, and a planned military assault turns into a desperate rescue mission inste...



  • Facing excitement and myriad dangers, intrepid crews sail among the stars. Planets explode, or come to life Shipmates fight off enemy invaders, or sometimes battle each other instead. Challenges abound, from political turmoil to good intentions run ...





  • Caught in a blizzard and then separated from his shipmates and stranded on a desolate ice planet, Percy is afraid he's going to die. Then he's rescued by a band of people who've been hiding there -- but he soon discovers that it's their fault he's t...






  • The Element of SurpriseComrades in arms Meg Nichols and Allie Oshikawa just want to enjoy the concert during their brief leave on Jupiter's moon. Some local rabble, though, mistakes the soldiers for easy targets.Weights and MeasuresTechnology: the be...



  • CursedModern science and weapons go up against an ancient entity who ferociously guards his solitude. He wants people to stay off his mountain. They want him to quit killing.Ill Met by MoonlightCompetition versus cooperation. Lying low versus lashing...





  • A Wrinkle in TimeArcheologist and former Earth Military Force officer Luke Parillo finds thousand-year-old wreckage all the time. But this ancient ship came from hundreds of years in the future.Hunter and PreyA nursery full of cute little babies. Cut...



  • Competition versus cooperation. Lying low versus lashing out. Relocated from Cleveland, all manner of supernatural beings inhabit Pittsburgh's underworld. But will they, and can they, stay hidden?...






  • Evacuating a dozen scientist before catastrophe strikes: no problem. Preventing the moon-sized asteroid from slamming into a planet teeming with life: huge problem. And the researchers there expect a war-weary captian to help them solve it and avert ...







  • A medical crisis. Ruthless pirates. A brand new senior staff. No time for the new crew to figure each other out and forge the essential bonds of cooperation and trust before they plunge into the pandemonium. Too many lives depend on them....




  • Claim jumpers target the wrong people when they kidnap several Earth Military Force officers. Before long, the hostages turn the tables. Not satisfied with escape, they want to capture the whole gang....



  • A captain willing to take any steps to protect his homeworld. A doctor who believes innocent offworlders deserve protection as well. The two men: not just close friends, but shipmates as well. Can either convince the other to relent?...



  • A fire triggers an evacuation of a packed sports stadium -- mere minutes before bombs go off. No injuries, but tensions on the already contentious planet soar even higher. The crew of the Earth Military Force ship Triumph needs to find the culprits b...



  • Thieves take advantage of a careless captain and highjack his cargo of precious gems. His friends chase after it, trying to recover it before anyone else learns of the theft -- and before the thieves sell it....



  • Technology: the best -- if not the only measure -- by which to judge a planet? If not, what other criteria apply? And how much weight should they carry when a new world petitions to join the interplanetary union?...









  • An ancient artifact with religious significance and perhaps even mysterious power. Religious leaders want it to unite the planet. Military leaders want it to stop a war. Their enemies want it to prevent both....




  • Sacrifice. A stealth ship on a mission deep in enemy space. Their assignment: knock out the planetary defenses of a vital munitions factory so Earth's fleet can swoop in and destroy it. But at what price? And who pays?...




  • Yuwellan: living jewels, beautiful beings comprising every shade of blue. As tiny as a few centimeters to as huge as thirty meters in diameter. They invite a human colleague to share in their people's most sacred ceremony....



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    Angel Cats At home regardless of where: on an intergalactic Core Ship in the 35th century, in the White House or on a megayacht 21st century, or in a hacienda in the 16th. Always defending their turf and helping their family-feline or otherwise. Some...



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    Outcasts on the run. A solitary scientist hiding from the rest of the galaxy needs help to save two friends of hers: two con artists mired in lethal trouble. She enlists a mutinous soldier eluding the military and a heretical priest fleeing her order...



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    Feline Aryn takes good care of her human. Dru had given her her wings, after all, but Aryn would have liked her anyway. Dru does her best to help people, and creates a great deal of trouble for a bunch of nasty fae at the same time. When the fae atta...


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Kris Katzen has published 38 books.

Kris Katzen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Playful Angel, was published in December 2021.

The first book by Kris Katzen, A Time of Joy and Sorrow, was published in November 2010.

No. Kris Katzen does not write books in series.