Top Thirty Gems of Central Galactic Concordance
Planet: Capet Dedrum "Concordance Prime" (CFW
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City: Spires
Day length: 23.54 Standard hours / Year length: 379 days /
Gravity: 0.989 G
The city of Spires is the prime city of Capet Dedrum. More
commonly known as Concordance Prime, it is the seat of the Central Galactic
Concordance's government. Spires is a gleaming showcase of graceful, artistic
curved spires of glass and light and an iconic skyline famous throughout
the civilized galaxy.
Spires and the surrounding metroplex is home to 8 million
residents and hosts more than 1 million visitors per year. It is a beautiful
coastal city with year-round temperate weather and enough rain that rainbows
are a common occurrence. The city's environs harmonize with lush local greenery
and lively fauna, including over fifty species of birds of paradise.
Tourist attractions include the Central League
Remembrance Hall, the unique skyward lotus parks, exclusive 10-star
restaurants, such as the galaxy-renowned Fermat's Last Repast, a thriving live
performance district, and the city itself. The city's glass roadways, structures,
and towers gleam with reflective sunlight during the day, and shine with
spectacular programmed light shows at night, earning its nickname as the City
of Light.
Visitors have an enviable choice of public transportation
options for getting around in Spires, the most popular of which are the
transparent skytrams, reminiscent of a thrill ride in some sections. Clear
glass pedestrian walkways are plentiful, and all vehicles—ground, low air, and
orbital—are well managed through centralized traffic control, making for safe,
dependable travel. The city's space port offers shuttle
transportation to the Capet Dedrum Space Station, a key hub for interstellar
travel and commerce.
In addition to the High Council of the member planets in the
Central Galactic Concordance, Spires is home to the Galactic Court, the CGC
Military Command, and the Citizen Protection Service. Weapons are strictly
controlled in Spires.
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Overload
Flux and Minder Rising are the first books in the Central
Galactic Concordance science fiction romance series. They can be read in any
order, though Overload Flux takes place before the events in Minder
Rising. Overload Flux is a 2015 SFR Galaxy Award winner.
Overload Flux (A Central Galactic Concordance Novel)
The Central Galactic Concordance has been stable for two
centuries, but trouble is brewing. A pandemic is affecting hundreds of
civilized planets, and someone is stealing the vaccine...
Brilliant investigator Luka Foxe's hidden mental talent is
out of control, making him barely able to function in the aftermath of
violence, and the body count is rising. The convoluted trail leads to a corrupt
pharma industry and the possibility of an illegal, planet-sized laboratory. In
the face of increasing threats, he must rely on an enigmatic, lethal woman he
just met, but she has deep secrets of her own.
Mairwen Morganthur hides extraordinary skills under the
guise of a dull night-shift guard. The last thing she wants is to provide
personal security for a hot-shot investigator, or to be plunged into a murky
case involving sabotage, treachery, and the military covert operations division
that would love to discover she's still alive.
Minder Rising (Central Galactic Concordance Book 2)
In the future, all citizens are tested for minder talents by
the Citizen Protection Service.
Injured agent Lièrén Sòng is recovering from a near-fatal
crash. He should be back on duty, interrogating criminals for his covert field
unit, but his forced planet-side recovery in Spires, the capital of the
galactic civilization, brings unexpected benefits when he makes friends with a
woman and her son. Imara Sesay, road-crew chief and part-time bartender, with a
perfect memory and a knack for fixing things, breaks her ironclad rule never to
get close to customers when she asks Lièrén to teach her son how to control his
growing minder talents.
Unexpected deaths in his field unit make Lièrén suspect he
isn't a lucky survivor, he's a loose end. He should pull away from Imara and
Derrit to keep them safe, but when the local CPS Testing Center is entirely too
interested in Derrit's talents, Lièrén must make an impossible choice. Can he
stay alive long enough to save Imara and her prodigy son?
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About the Author: Carol Van Natta is an
independent author of science fiction, including Overload Flux and Minder
Rising, the first two books a new science fiction romance series, and Hooray
for Holopticon, a retro science fiction comedy. She shares her Fort Collins, CO
home with a sometime mad scientist and various cats. Any violations of the laws
of physics in her books is the fault of the cats, not the mad scientist. Find
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