Cirrus@Austlit

'Studious (don't-call-me-nerdy) Airlie Sanderson is torn between two wishes: she really wants the latest and greatest Brain Computer Interface kit - but she has always wanted a real live kitten. When her 11th birthday finally arrives, both of these gifts seem to play a role in turning her life upside down.

'As the weeks pass, Airlie finds that her kitten Sooty is helping her see the world in a different way.

'Somehow, together, they can see things that she didn't quite see before, that she couldn't possibly have seen. Gradually she gets a reputation as she uses her new-found psi abilities to solve a number of mysteries and crimes at her school and in her neighborhood - and comes to the attention of Inspector Jonathan Humble of Minor Crimes.

'Towards the end of the school year, Airlie gets two intriguing invitations: an offer of a scholarship to a new middle school with 'opportunity classes' in exotic subjects like Quantum Psychology, and a free place at a summer camp run by Inspector Humble. The two invitations and her emergent psionic talents are clearly connected, and Airlie can't resist the opportunity to learn more about her gifts and to meet others with psyq powers at the camp.

'But Airlie ends up in a desperate race to rescue one of her new friends.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'What a 21st! Eva's big birthday 'present' was a tired old spaceship lost in space and time, a motley crew of amnesiac patients, 500 colonists in cryo, and a mission that would take a lifetime - assuming she could keep everyone alive till they made planetfall.

'SS Moraturi is a Lunar Earth Transfer Orbiter - a kind of spider robot designed to construct space stations and ships in and around the Earth-Moon Lagrange points 1 and 2. Now Moraturi is taking two cryoholds full of colonists to New Eden, an earth-like planet in the Paradisi system, 2.5 million light years from Earth in the Andromeda galaxy.

'Eva's problem is that the trip that was to take one year is now going to take forty years - their 100% oversupply was based on just 16 crew members, and the cryotechnology can't keep them all alive for 40 years.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'20-year-old Veterinary Nurse/Trainee Medical Officer Eva Hughes is junior officer on SS Moraturi, transporting 500 colonists to New Eden. Eva’s responsibility is the domestic and farm animals they are bringing, but she is working towards qualifying as both a veterinary and a medical doctor. When you're 2.5 million lightyears from any other help, you can't afford people who only have single skill…After a gamma burst in the wormhole, Eva finds herself looking after colonists whose cryobeds failed, and who now show memory loss for specific things… After another wave of radiation, the ship slips out of the wormhole, somewhere, sometime… and Eva finds herself in charge of an impossible mission.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'A 3.5 year mission from which they'll never return, a 2.5 million lightyear journey to another galaxy, 1.5 crew members comprising a solitary captain and a half-baked AI... Captain Sideris is a loner and knows LETO ships like nobody else, having risen to command the Lunar-Earth construction fleet, as they build ships to mine asteroids and colonize Mars. Suddenly he finds the colonization effort is for another planet, in another galaxy, and he's the sole human guinea pig being gated through a wormhole with an AI playing Noah to LETO SS Casindra's ark. Everything goes well as he starts to survey four planets they plan to exploit, as he gets to know emergent AI 'Al', as he discovers he's building a special relationship with empathic cat 'Simba'. Problem is message drones gated home are not being returned per protocol, with little explanation, no supplies, and some cryptic and disturbing messages. This full length novel is set in the multi-author multi-genre Paradisi universe. Casindra Lost opens the Lost Mission Series to explain what happened to some of the early missions that underlie the various colonization and post-colonization stories.'

(Source: publisher's blurb)