Updated 12-04-2023
Hurrah! Now back in print and electrons
Machiavelli advised that, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." And he only schemed about petty squabbles between Italian city-states.
That brings me to InterstellarNet: New Order, the latest installment in my InterstellarNet future history.
Good fences, said the poet, make good neighbors … and interstellar distances made very good fences.
Earth and its interstellar neighbors have been in radio contact for a century and a half. A vigorous commerce in intellectual property has accelerated technical progress for all the species involved. Ideas, riding on radio waves, routinely cross interstellar space -- almost like neighbors chatting over the interstellar back fence. But there is a way over, or under, or around, almost any fence. Sooner or later, when we least expect it, the neighbors, friendly or otherwise, are going to pay a call....
InterstellarNet: New Order chronicles the startling events of Second Contact, upfront and personal, as humanity discovers that meeting aliens face to face is very different -- and a lot more dangerous -- than sending and receiving messages.
"Faster-than-light travel is such a commonplace convention in SF that we seldom consider the flip side: a universe in which FTL does not exist. In this book … Edward M. Lerner uses such a universe to great effect."
— Analog Science Fiction and Fact,
on InterstellarNet: Origins
The following links are all only historical. Stay tuned for new links when reissued.
(InterstellarNet began in InterstellarNet: Origins, with First Contact of the radio/SETI kind. I blogged about it here. InterstellarNet: New Order opens decades later and stands alone. Which isn't to say New Order doesn't build on Origins ...)
At Amazon:InterstellarNet: Origins
and here for the Kindle edition
InterstellarNet: New Order
and here for the Kindle edition
(To my long-time readers: as A New Order of Things, an earlier version of InterstellarNet: New Order was serialized in Analog in 2006. InterstellarNet: Origins expands upon and novelizes several stories that first appeared over several years in Analog, Artemis, and Jim Baen's Universe. Details here on my website.)
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