Moonchild Rising

She was born and brought up in the colony on the moon, where her parents were killed in a laboratory explosion. When she applies for a job at the South Kent Special Care Facility, her background is held against her, for everyone knows that moonchildren are "weaklings".After she gets the job, she discovers that a mysterious unknown enemy has set her up to be blamed for thefts that are taking place at the Facility. Whenever he decides to spring the trap, she will be disgraced and her entire career ruined.But who is it? And what can she do to save herself?An unusual skill she learnt on the moon comes in handy.

Due to a funding hiatus for the low-gravity project, Irene finds herself on Venus as medical lab assistant and biomedical researcher. Deep in the murky yellow depths of the hot and heavy Venusian atmosphere, they find some rather aggressive native life, and Irene is forced to fight for her life and her colleagues.

Two weeks after Irene's marriage to Commander Roger Slade, he is called on a mission to Mars She watches his shuttle come in on the arrivals video, but he never turns up. But then all evidence of marriage is gone, nobody believes she is Mrs Roger Slade, and then the Commander Roger Slade that turns up isn't her Roger. Irene is not ashamed of being born and brought up on the moon. It's not as if it's a secret! So one night after a bad dream she lets it slip to her university roommate.Then the discrimination starts, with rumors of strange abilities and disabilities, as she learns that 'moonchild' is a pejorative.As she interviews for jobs, it seems that the place of her birth is an automatic disqualification, forcing her to go to extra lengths to prove her worth. As she interviews for jobs, it seems that the place of her birth is an automatic disqualification, forcing her to go to extra lengths to prove her worth. But the world conspires against her on a grander scale: she's set up as the patsy for a crime, inveigled in a conspiracy that denies her marriage, and deliberately set up to fail as she troubleshoots biomedical and xenobiology problems around the solar system.This volume presents the full Moonchild sequence of five novellas.

Irene is sent to investigate a mysterious illness on Moonbase, but the Earth-appointed administrator doesn't want her there. So once again she must deal with clashes, find allies, fight to save patients, and face the trauma of collapsing tunnels in a meteorite strike. Irene is not ashamed of being born and brought up on the moon. It's not as if it's a secret! So one night after a bad dream she lets it slip to her university roommate.Then the discrimination starts, with rumors of strange abilities and disabilities, as she learns that 'moonchild' is a pejorative.As she interviews for jobs, it seems that the place of her birth is an automatic disqualification, forcing her to go to extra lengths to prove her worth. As she interviews for jobs, it seems that the place of her birth is an automatic disqualification, forcing her to go to extra lengths to prove her worth. But the world conspires against her on a grander scale: she's set up as the patsy for a crime, inveigled in a conspiracy that denies her marriage, and deliberately set up to fail as she troubleshoots biomedical and xenobiology problems around the solar system.This volume presents the full Moonchild sequence of five novellas.