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The novel “Stargazer: New Home – Ancient Foes” (“Stargazer: Neue Heimat – Alte Feinde”) by Ivan Ertlov was published for the first time in 2021 and translated from German by Marly Gram. It’s the second book in the After Terra series and follows “Stargazer: The Ultimate Artefact”.

An area of the Milky Way arm that belongs neither to the Protectorate nor to the Plachtharr Alliance is used by pirates, criminals, and various groups of different species acting outside any law of the interstellar coalitions. This becomes more than just a nuisance to a mining consortium that lost physical assets that overall, have remarkable economical value and thousands of workers.

Frank Gazer and his unique group of fellow adventurers are the perfect envoys for an unofficial investigation. The crew of the starship Stargazer find themselves using special but limited resources in an area of space where dangers are unknown. The discovery they make is a huge surprise that can alter the balance in the entire galactic arm.

The novel “The Eleventh Gate” by Nancy Kress was published for the first time in 2020.

The Eight Worlds were colonized thanks to the portals that enable interstellar travel. Everyone knows the story of the devastation of the Earth yet the situation is tense between two of the human factions, the libertarian Freedom Enterprises and the state-company Peregoy Corporation.

When a scout reports the discovery of the eleventh portal, the situation becomes complicated. A Peregoy Corporation starship sends a scout to the planet near the Eleventh Relay but a bomb kills all of its members. The last message blames the Landry family, owners of Freedom Enterprises. War seems inevitable but Philip Anderson, a scientist with unorthodox ideas, is exploring the nature of the portals and his discoveries could affect the future of humanity.