Netwalk Sequence

IN A TECH-DRIVEN FUTURE, CONTROL OVER A WIRELESS TECH WHICH ALLOWS THE CREATION OF DIGITAL PERSONALITY UPLOADS AFTER DEATH LEADS FOUR GENERATIONS OF POWERFUL WOMEN TO SOME HARD, DIFFICULT TRUTHS. At first, family matriarch Sarah Stephens and her daughter Diana Landreth appear to agree on just how they're going to manage that unexplainable, destructive, city-killing device called the Gizmo. The...

An urgent summons from her daughter Bess brings Melanie to the side of her dying brother Andrew. Andrew has rejected uploading into Netwalk--but circumstances may change that decision. What choice will Andrew make...and how does it affect Melanie's infant granddaughter Kylee?

IN A TECH-DRIVEN BIOREMEDIATION FUTURE, HARD CHOICES MUST BE MADE. Powerful mother. Powerful daughter. Sarah Stephens and her daughter Diana Landreth run bioremediation companies dependent upon neural nets and nanotechnology to operate complex biobots. Sometimes competitors, sometimes collaborators, while they disagree, they are still mother and daughter. And then the Disruption Machine begins...

IN A TECH-DRIVEN FAMILY, HARD CHOICES PASS TO THE NEXT GENERATION Mother against daughter. Grandmother against granddaughter. Melanie Landreth has maintained a lonely outpost as the President of Do It Right North America for seven years. Her grandmother, Sarah Stephens, the President of the Confederated States of North America, rules the continent with an iron fist. Melanie's brother Andrew is...

IN A TECH-DRIVEN FUTURE, HARD CHOICES FORCE UNEXPECTED FAMILY ALLIANCES Sometimes happy endings don't stay that way. Over a year after Melanie Fielding helped her mother Diana Landreth overthrow a repressive North American government headed by her grandmother Sarah Stephens, she faces even more problems. The new Netwalk technology that allows Sarah's personality to exist after death is...

IN A TECH-DRIVEN FUTURE, ESTRANGED SIBLINGS UNITE Melanie Fielding and her brother Andrew Landreth-Stephens may not have always agreed on much over the years. But when it comes to their children, and the potential threat presented to them by the mysterious device called the Gizmo, Melanie and Andrew are in firm agreement. The Gizmo is toxic...

IN A TECH-DRIVEN FUTURE INVOLVING SPACE, LEARNING TO SURVIVE MATTERS Bess Fielding has a natural affinity for life in space. But that doesn't mean that she—and her beloved, Alex Jeffreys—don't have things to learn about survival in space. THREE STORIES. TRANQUILITY FREERIDERS—Bess and Alex promote the notion of skiing and snowboarding on the...

IN A TECH-DRIVEN FUTURE, ALL SECRETS WILL BE REVEALED. Powerful families have powerful secrets. No surprises there. But when secrets end up creating vulnerabilities—especially when they are revealed just before a possible invasion of the Solar System…then secrets aren't just inconvenient, they become a big problem. The revelation of Sarah...