Rick Partlow: 10 books

Guardians are defenders, carers and guides. Some look after individual people, others whole planets or universes, but all share a strong belief in their responsibility to protect their charges. The Guardian is an anthology of eleven science fiction short stories by writers from across the globe....

Sandi and Ash never set out to be heroes. She joined the the Fleet to please her mother. He signed up to escape the grinding poverty of the Housing Blocks, and the unlikely friends envisioned boring, peacetime careers as shuttle pilots. The Tahni Imperium had other ideas… Caught...

Some renegades are born rebels, some forced into it to survive, while others make the choice on principle. The Renegade is an anthology of eleven science fiction short stories by writers from across the globe. It is part of the Newcomer series of scifi anthologies. The stories are:- Conscience...

Ash Carpenter never thought he’d see Sandi Hollande again. She’d sacrificed her military career to rescue him from behind enemy lines during the war, then she’d taken a demotion and a desk job and disappeared from his life. But now she’s back, wanted for a murder she didn’t...

Sandi Hollande and Ash Carpenter are outlaws for hire. After they managed to rescue an innocent hostage from the clutches of two rival criminal cartels, they’ve gained a reputation, both with families who want to retrieve lost loved ones from places the authorities can’t go…and with Fleet...

Sandi. The prodigal, the outlaw, the rebel. Ash. The straight-arrow, the hero, the leader. Korri. The cyborg, the mercenary, the relic of an older time. Kan-Ten. The alien, the exile, the outsider. Together, they’ve worked openly as hired guns throughout the Pirate Worlds, fighting for lost...

Revenge is heading to Earth at the speed of light… The Gaia probes left a dying Earth millennia ago in a bold effort to spread life to a lifeless universe. Unfortunately, not all of those worlds were uninhabited... The aliens watched their world die to swarms of nanite terraformers,...

A disaffected playboy searches for redemption. A traumatized war vet searches for meaning and truth. A ruthless Corporate Council fixer searches for the one big score that will make her career. What they all seek, on the same remote colony world, is....The Gate of Dreams. A 6500-word short story set in the Birthright universe.

Alex Kane was broken. Broken by the war, by the death of his lover, ready to kill himself...until his old bosses from Fleet Intelligence offered him a chance at redemption with one last mission. All he had to do was walk into the middle of a gang war, penetrate an insular cult of cyborgs...

Holly is torn between her duty to the Commonwealth military and her devotion to an old love. Alek wants to start a revolution...but not without Holly. When she's sent to the edges of human space to capture or kill him, will Holly choose her duty...or her heart? JUDGEMENT CALL is an 9000 word short story in the Commonwealth universe of Glory Boy and Birthright!