Cirrus@Austlit

'Swashbuckling adventure on the Spinward Main!

'Five hundred years ago, she lifted into the Warp: The Epsilon Queen. The greatest space liner ever built – the grand old lady of the stars. Carrying one hundred thousand refugees, she departed on her greatest voyage, and simply disappeared.

'Five hundred years later, the mystery still endures. She remains the greatest space disaster of all time.

'But clues endure…

'Patricia Bretonard – pilot, fencer and mistress of a great many freckles, has the great mystery flung into her lap. Jemima McLeoud, a historical researcher, is hot on the trail of the Epsilon Queen. With a ship – and with a sword – they set out to uncover one of the great, romantic mysteries of space.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Adventure on the Spinward main!

'Somewhere on the Spinward Main, an archaeological expedition has gone missing.

'While on the trail of a shattering new discovery, the research vessel ‘University of Cambridge’ has disappeared without trace.

'What starts as a missing persons case deepens into something far more sinister.

'The stakes become high. Searching for the Cambridge, Patricia and Jemima come face to face with the pirates of the Spinward Main.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Adventure on the spinward main!

'Sword and spaceship writing at its best!

'The starship "Ish'ka" encounters a research vessel under attack. But rescuing the sole surviving crwewman leads the Ishk'as crew into an epic qest; a quest to save a world, and to save the cradle of an entire intelligent race.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.