Coyote Universe

"The terrific conclusion to one of the best science fiction trilogies of the last decade." -Baryon Earth is dying. Corporate and political greed have devastated the environment and depleted natural resources. To ensure humanity's survival, people must take to the stars and find new worlds to inhabit. More than two hundred years ago, dissidents from Earth escaped from an authoritarian regime by hijacking a starship and colonizing the planet Coyote. It is the last, best hope for the human race. Utilizing newly developed wormhole technology, Earth's governments plan to start transporting people between worlds near instantaneously. They're ready and willing to settle Coyote, socially, culturally, and politically. One of Coyote's original colonists, Carlos Montero, fought a revolution to prevent his home falling prey to the forces responsible for ruining Earth. To protect his people-and a civilization native to Coyote-from Earth's impending resettlement he knows he must make diplomatic alliances even as his enemies plot to overthrow the Coyote Federation . . . "The best space colonization saga to come along in decades." -Rocky Mountain News "Familiar scenarios are handled with skill and a sense that the consequences matter and that ordinary humanity and a human-scale environment can still generate a story worth telling." -Locus

An interstellar adventure of earthborn people seeking freedom from tyranny on another world from a Hugo Award–winning author. The totalitarian United Republic of America rose from the ashes of a nation that once represented democratic liberty on Earth. Its rulers wish to expand their ideological ambitions to the stars where they will establish a new colony on an inhabitable moon known as Coyote. The crew and colonists aboard the Alabama undertaking this mission are not representatives of the Republic. They are those who have suffered under its cruelty and seek the free life that has long been denied them. More than two hundred years have passed since these intrepid rebels stole the starship and left Earth. The colonists have endured tragedies during their journey and struggle to survive with scant resources on an alien world with dangerous life forms to make Coyote their home. But those still living on the despotic planet they left behind have not forgotten them . . . "Full of pleasant surprises." -The New York Times Book Review "One of the best space-exploration novels." -Rocky Mountain News "An homage to wonder, hope and determination . . . Steele has constructed this glorious tale of a new starflung Mayflower from the legacies of Heinlein, Twain, Hemingway and others-and he has founded it on the essence of America." -Stephen Baxter, multi-award–winning author

An alien philosophy has the power to unite-or divide-humanity on a colonized world in this science fiction adventure from a Hugo Award-winning author. Besieged by overpopulation, dwindling resources, governmental collapses, and environmental destruction, the people living on Earth and its solar system colonies face a dire future. Light years away, the colony planet of Coyote offers humanity the best chance of survival, but its leaders are limiting immigration from Earth to protect the civilization they struggled to establish-and the world they call home. Meanwhile the alien hjaad have been permitted a place on Coyote, an embassy where they can strengthen ties with humans through cultural exchanges, the most significant of which is the Sa'Tong-tas. Containing the hjaad's ethical knowledge and philosophical beliefs, it's an AI book that engages its readers through conversation. Ex-convict Hawk Thompson was just carrying out his mindless community sentence before he encountered the Sa'Tong-tas. Now, he believes he has a purpose: not only to share the hjaad's philosophy of moral behavior towards all living beings, but to live that philosophy through selfless service to those in need. He is now the chaaz'maha, a teacher with lessons that people across Coyote wish to hear. Religious leaders see these alien lessons as blasphemy. And as the chaaz'maha gains more followers, they see him as a threat to the human race who must be eliminated . . . "This one is, for me at least, the best of the [series], with better characterization and a more interesting story wrapped around an understated mystery. I'd be very surprised if this is our last visit to this particular planet." -Don D'Amassa, Critical Mass

A Hugo Award–winning author presents a generational saga about the fate of human freedom on a colonized alien world. The settlers of the extrasolar moon Coyote escaped the tyrannical United Republic of America on Earth to create a home for themselves where they could pursue lives free from persecution-a colony they named Liberty. But that regime was overthrown by the Western Hemisphere Union, a social collectivist government that seized Republic resources and followed the colonists across the stars to claim the settlement-and the world-as Union property. Outnumbered and outgunned by an occupying force, Coyote's pioneers nevertheless refuse to surrender. Abandoning their village, they settle on a different continent where they establish the town of Defiance, hidden from their enemies. But when Liberty's meager supplies prove insufficient to feed and house the one thousand people who arrived under the Union's banner, violent factions arise and compete to survive, undermining collectivist beliefs and military authority. To prevent Union expansion and retake Liberty, the people of Defiance are willing to wage war. But even as the human conflict escalates, the challenges of Coyote's alien landscape threaten them all . . . "Would make Robert A. Heinlein proud." -Entertainment Weekly "Unlike most series books, readers will enjoy this one whether they have read the first installment or not." -Rocky Mountain News

In this "fast-paced"* science fiction adventure, an expedition from a distant human colony travels to Earth to find a lost spiritual leader. Multi-Hugo Award-Winning Author Decades have passed since a bomb planted onboard a spaceship destroyed the starbridge between Earth and the colony planet of Coyote. It was the act of an extremist desperate to prevent the chaaz'maha-a teacher of the alien hjaad ethical philosophy-from sharing his beliefs with the human race. Now, a ship from Earth has arrived with a single passenger bearing news. The chaaz'maha lives, and his teachings have caused chaos around a world already plagued by environmental disasters and dysfunctional governments. Inez Sanchez, the daughter of Hawk Thompson-who now calls himself the chaaz'maha-seizes upon the opportunity to meet the father she believed dead. With diplomatic ties between Earth and Coyote long severed, Inez joins a covert team to reach humanity's home world-a world in anarchy that she has never known, and a world where her father has many enemies determined to kill him . . . "Filled with nonstop action. Fans of the Coyote saga know Allen Steele consistently provides thought provoking tales of interstellar exploration." -*The Best Reviews