Thrive Space Colony Adventures

An ex-cop who cannot die. A moon full of settlers who cannot thrive.Mahina's terraformers built a high-tech urban paradise. Then Earth flooded the colony with desperate refugees, cop Sass Collier among them.The settlers who arrived with Sass died decades ago. Outside the citadel, their descendants die weak and young.Sass fought a rebellion against the city once. She won concessions to give the settlers a chance at health. She paid with 20 years in prison.Now she's out, a reformed character. She recruits a motley crew and finds odd jobs. She intends to mind her own business – how to make a profit with the skyship Thrive.But her fellow settlers are still failing.While her business model careens toward circus acts, Sass dares to defy the city again, to solve Mahina's failure to thrive.Pick up Skyship Thrive because you love upbeat character-driven SF with fun technology, and hard science fiction with rivets. Suggested for fans of Firefly, Jenny Schwartz's Xeno-Archaeologist, or Nathan Lowell's Golden Age of the Solar Clipper. Please see author's website for audio. Series complete.

Pirates, slavers, and deviants!Captain Sass Collier leads her motley crew across the treacherous rings of gas giant Pono, seeking a cure for the steady decline of Mahina Colony. Tantalizing clues point to Sagamore, Mahina's sister moon.To get there, Sass needs to upgrade her decrepit skyship. Her crew of would-be heroes need to earn their space legs. And ex-cop Sass is probably the wrong person for the job.But no one else is willing to try.Only the deranged denizens of the rings can enable them to reach Sagamore. The social rejects in orbit prove as dangerous as the asteroids.But if Sass can't figure out why the settlers are failing, her colony is doomed.Sass won't let that happen.If you love exciting civilian space adventure, with an ensemble cast of well-meaning misfits, you'll love book 2 in Ginger Booth's Thrive Space Colony Adventures. Suggested for fans of Firefly and Heinlein.

Five months there. Five months back.And seven months waiting for the planets to align. In a tiny ship never meant for deep space.Denali is one hell of a trip.But the leading mind in nanite medicine is stranded there. Captain Sass Collier wants him back, to cure failure to thrive syndrome in her own colony.Each of the crew has a motive to embrace the risk. The lucky ones wish for adventure. Adventure is assured.But Denali holds another prize beyond their wildest dreams.Can Sass hold her fractious crew together, get the goods, and meet her launch window home?Pick up Interplanetary Thrive because you love a rollicking space opera with heart!

The heroes left behind.Sass Collier and the Thrive vanished a decade ago to visit another star. Most of her crew stayed behind on their home moon.Ben Acosta, captain of the ringship Prosper, still joyfully plies the spaceways. Until his ex decides to head into space with an audacious plan.The Thrive crew reunites to test a faster-than-light breakthrough that could change everything.Experimental conditions may be adverse. Mileage may vary.Can Ben keep his decrepit ship flying, help his ex prove ground-breaking new physics, save innocents, steal priceless technology, and pay the kids' tuition?The Thrive Space Colony Adventures resume with book 5! Because you love space opera with action and heart.

Sass versus AI!Sanctuary, high-tech paradise with small-town charm!Leave a message at the beep.In a flash of old-fashioned warp, Sass's crew catches up in time to Prosper.Eager to greet a new world, instead Sass's comms are blocked by an AI from hell.Sanctuary is refuge to the Colony Corps, who transported refugees from Earth to the stars. Compared to Thrive's home moon Mahina, it's a paradise. People are healthy. Their dome stretches over sports fields. Electric horses and fun three-wheelers are available to venture out, complete with breath mask.Robots do the work.Something is off here – Sanctuary's diabolical AI.Can Sass liberate the colony from its protector? Are Sass and Clay the perfect foils for this AI? Or the most vulnerable?And must Thrive crew get jailed on every world they visit?Join Thrive for Sass's showdown with that nemesis your mother warned you about - someone just like her.

Have warp, will travel! A three-world tour!Thrive Spaceways proved its new warp gate by saving Sass's butt on Sanctuary. Now Ben and Copeland seek to turn their invention into a business. The Sanks hire them to visit the European theme world of Cantons.But first the reunited crews owe a whirlwind trip home for inventor Teke. After 15 years, how does Denali of the pterodactyls fare?Next stop is Sanctuary. Will the AI Loki let his people go?And then on to Cantons' city-states of…pikemen and Renaissance wizards?Rejoin the motley crews of Prosper & Thrive for another space opera romp across the sorry stars of the refugee diaspora on the wing and prayer plan!

Fresh world, first colony!Denali colony is failing. But a pristine Earth-like planet beckons - beautiful Sylvan!Sass Collier and Thrive escort the colony expedition.Woefully underfunded, understaffed, and ill-equipped, they're settling the first new human world in a century. The expedition leader's motto is Fail Fast.And they're doing a bang-up job of it!But is the problem lovely forested Sylvan? Or sabotage?Join the motley crew of Thrive for another space opera romp across the sorry stars of the refugee diaspora on the wing and prayer plan!

Can Ben tame the monster AI?Evacuating the planet Denali brings Ben Acosta to his knees. Thrive Spaceways is bankrupt. His marriage is on the rocks. And his homeworld Mahina is in chaos from the deluge of offworld refugees. Pushy arrogant refugees.He's disgraced. Fair enough - he blames himself.But another 40,000 will die on Denali if he can't turn this around.Ben hatches a plan. The AI Loki is like a genie who grants wishes. A hostile, insane, ugly genie, with a track record for enslaving humans and building starships with asteroid-slicing guns.If he can harness Loki, Spaceways can still save Denali.Instead he's trapped inside an airless rock with Remi. Can they survive?Join the motley crew of Thrive for a space opera buddy story, lost in space!Series Finale of the Thrive Space Colony Adventures!