A colonization fleet headed for Spica IV meets with disaster. Only a few humans survive the catastrophe. One of the survivors is a Space Marine who takes charge of finding any other living people and begins to repopulate the human part of the fleet. They meet hostile humans and hostile aliens. This is how they keep going as permanent residents of space.
A Swarm Cycle Story
Martin Wolfe is second from the youngest in a family of siblings left behind by the Confederacy's pickups. He is also the only male, and that soon makes him more than just an annoying brother now.
A story in the Catalum Universe
A cute and adorable species came to the galactic conference station claiming that they were the rulers of the galaxy. Naturally, no one took them seriously.
Aerie says: click here Sammy and friends find themselves at a furs convention. Sammy finds things a bit too hot too handle after Aerie has her fitted for her own baboon-fursuit.
A Swarm Cycle Story
Dan Thorpe just lost his wife and stepchildren to the extractions, but Corporal Ayumi Tanaka of the Sheriff's Department shows up at the right time to become his co-sponsor and primary partner. Together, they find concubines and start a new family.