Un étranger visite invisiblement la Terre par projection astrale quand il a par inadvertance été témoin d'un meurtre. Il est maintenant confronté à deux problèmes: Devrait-il signaler le crime aux autorités et si oui, comment? Wesley Stoneham, un ambitieux avocat et politicien, vient d'assassiner sa femme dans un accès de rage. Maintenant, il a l'intention d'encadrer un homme innocent pour le crime. Mais il ne réalise pas qu'il y ait eu...

Birk Aaland is a political outcast from Earth's tyranny, and has been living for years on a planet inhabited solely by robots. Now another ship has crashed, and there is again a sole survivor -- a woman desperate to warn Earth of an alien invasion. But Birk is perfectly happy with his current exile -- until a twist of fate intervenes, causing each of them to re-evaluate their lives.

By sheer accident, the Imperial Special Investigation Service stumbled across a fiendish plot against the Empire-using a time bomb to blow up the tsaritsa and throw the galaxy into chaos. Now, to learn the truth, its agents must infiltrate a hollow mountain, the lair of a mad robotic genius, while simultaneously protecting Her Majesty from a hidden assassin. And somewhere, a time bomb is ticking.

The first great space opera decalogy of the 21st century, this boxed set represents the first time all 10 books have been gathered together in a single volume. It follows the exciting adventures of undercover agents working to preserve the peace and unity of a galaxy-spanning empire, despite treachery that turns up around every corner. The books include: Tsar Wars Treacherous Moon Robot Mountain Sanctuary Planet Stellar Revolution Purgatory Plot Traitors'...

Deborah Raboinowitz is a literary broker. She travels to alien worlds via virtual reality and sells the rights to publish Earth books on other planets. But when an alien is murdered right before her eyes, there's no way she can keep from being involved and solving the murder herself. Then, when an old friend is accused of a murder on a different world, Deborah has to solve that one, too.

On a trading mission to a backwater planet, starship captain Ardeva Korrell finds herself with a fight on her hands; she and her small crew must battle an army of robots and defeat the tyrannical, god-like beings who have enslaved the native population. The task before them is straightforward: to storm the gates of Heaven itself!

Young Alex Bredakoff always wanted to be a star trader. But it wasn't until his family moved to the Nexus space colony and he met Kasinda Venderling-daughter of a trader, and someone who's been plying the star lanes her entire life-that he realized how truly exciting-and dangerous-his life could become.

Space pirates harass interstellar shipping On the frozen world of Gulag-where the Empire's worst traitors have been exiled for centuries-dangerous plots are hatching. Time is running out for agents of the Imperial Special Investigation Service to save the Empire from the most serious revolt in its centuries-long history.

Hundreds of thousands of people have visited the pleasure moon Vesa and simply vanished without a trace. Is this part of some vast galactic conspiracy? To find out, the Imperial Special Investigation Service dispatches its two top agents to look into the matter-and the shocking truth they reveal leads to discoveries that eventually threatens the stability of humanity's entire interstellar Empire.

Having had its plans thwarted too many times by the Imperial Special Investigation Service, the evil conspiracy declares war directly on the brave men and women who serve in the agency. Impostors sabotage the Service's work, and the Commissar himself falls under suspicion. ISIS must confront itself to prevent being torn apart from within.