Young Kiwi tech entrepreneur Regan Stein has just sold ten percent of her company for a massive price. The buyer, aerospace and defence giant USDynamics wants a share of Arteis, her new cyber defence system. Plus they've picked out Regan as a fresh creative genius and want in on whatever she has planned next. Washed out from negotiations and cash rich Regan decides to take a break for six months and freshen up her thinking. Tramping off track, at the top of New Zealand’s South Island, she accepts a Satphone appeal for help from an unknown caller. Doing the right thing finds her the rescuer of a comatose man, human but yet strangely alien. Within hours her life has changed. While in orbit at the mercy of a quirky artificial intelligence and acting as nursemaid to the injured alien she finds out traitorous moves have been made against her company by foreign business powers. Trapped on the ship she is unable to fight back and instead embarks on the journey of a lifetime, assisting the AI to return the man while leaving her trusted team to deal with the attack at home. The two month interstellar journey sees a growing relationship with the AI and a formidable partnership developing. They arrive at their destination in the midst of a political crisis. Meanwhile, at home on earth her team have their own problems. They find themselves collateral damage in a corporate war full of intrigue, murky politics, and betrayal. Will Regan survive the trip across the galaxy? How will her friends deal with the threats? Will her company survive the attack? And who would want to be in Regan Stein's sights if she returns at all? This is classic science fiction, the first part of a series that includes technology, androids, interstellar travel, action, politics and mystery. The series tracks sixteen years in the life of the remarkable Regan Stein and her friends. It will entertain you, challenge you and provoke your thinking on everything from the nature of the human heart to the nature of evil. Review By Heinz Zwack on June 10, 2014 Kindle Edition Verified Purchase With the Renaissance of space opera that indie publishing and e-books brought about this is refreshingly different. It is space fiction with lots of action and lots of exotic technology - but not the usual rehash of space battles and Galactic empires. In almost 60 years of reading science fiction - probably 2000 or 3000 books and at least as many stories in the Golden age of SF magazines - I haven't found a character like Ham very often. He certainly beats "Hal" of 2001 hands-down. 5.0 out of 5 A sorely needed new heroine Review by M Travison August 19, 2014 Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase I think this was a terrific beginning to a new series but more importantly a new heroine for the scifi genre. It's also refreshing to read an intelligent scifi novel without galactic space battles or alien earth invasions. Regan is by no means a genius but she's ambitious, focused, assertive and especially knows how to assemble a good team to make her dreams reality.

Orbital Envy is a novel in the Regan's Reach series. Regan Stein, twenty eight years old and already a legend. Her Hillary Station Orbital project is steaming ahead and all the big nations want in, but on their own terms. She's having none of it, but some countries will stop at nothing to gain control. The station, or 'The Pipe' as it is popularly known, is growing rapidly, floating between Earth and Moon. It's just moon graffiti to some, while to others it is the hoped for launching pad to the solar system. Are the 'powers that be' prepared to play by Regan's rules? However, the past comes back to haunt her and when the Corans from Gliese 667 turn up to chase her down some on Earth see their opportunity to grab Hillary Station while they can. Will they succeed? And what will Regan, Marin, her team and her AI partner Ham do to restore order? Is she really just a murderess, a marauder who spread chaos in the peaceful system of another species? Or is there more to the story that her detractors don’t know? Nothing, as usual, will ever be the same. This is classic science fiction in a series that includes technology, androids, interstellar travel, action, politics and mystery. The series tracks sixteen years in the life of the remarkable Regan Stein and her friends. It will entertain you, challenge you and provoke your thinking on everything from the nature of the human heart to the nature of evil. Reviews of Regan's By Heinz Zwack on June 10, 2014 Kindle Edition Verified Purchase With the Renaissance of space opera that indie publishing and e-books brought about this is refreshingly different. It is space fiction with lots of action and lots of exotic technology - but not the usual rehash of space battles and Galactic empires. In almost 60 years of reading science fiction - probably 2000 or 3000 books and at least as many stories in the Golden age of SF magazines - I haven't found a character like Ham very often. He certainly beats "Hal" of 2001 hands-down. By M Travison August 19, 2014 5.0 out of 5 A sorely needed new heroine Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase. I think this was a terrific beginning to a new series but more importantly a new heroine for the scifi genre. It's also refreshing to read an intelligent scifi novel without galactic space battles or alien earth invasions. Regan is by no means a genius but she's ambitious, focused, assertive and especially knows how to assemble a good team to make her dreams reality.

Having dispatched the Coran AI invader in Dahlia, Regan's AI partner Ham finds himself the new Orbital Mind, a role for which he is amply equipped . . . but far from suited. It only takes a shade over eight days for him to become bored, mind numbingly bored. So what does a precocious, talented, and somewhat unscrupulous AI do while he waits for the expected second coming of Regan Stein to the Gliese 667C system? Hmmm . . . second coming . . . now there's an idea. Meanwhile, Empress Beria has conned her way into the Emperor of Cora's bed. When a drone from the Behemoth arrives back from Earth with news about Regan and her bastard son, well, what is a bitter ambitious woman to do with the information? And when a Mind from a completely different area of the galaxy arrives at Hillary Station to challenge Regan about the actions of her 'agent' back in Gliese the stage is set for action in all reaches of the Milky Way. Will Regan's reach be enough to deal with the challenges? Well, certainly not on her own.

It is more than six years since Reganism became the leading religion of the Gliese star system. That region of the galaxy is now buzzing with new business opportunities and the great Minds are enjoying their part in the game. Meanwhile, Regan Stein's reach has extended all the way to the Orion Nebula and her first colonists will be departing soon to repopulate the planet Rexis, a high tech society orbiting the star Regil on Orions Belt. Trade possibilities between the three star systems seem endless and it has all been made possible by the work of Aaron Stiles, the brilliant young scientist who cracked the secrets of wormholes and shortened travel time thoughout the galaxy. But great opportunity leads to great temptation for some. How much is enough? The question challenges both humanoid and AI Mind alike, as powerful forces move to ensure they don't miss out on the spoils. And into this hotbed of possibilities an unidentified craft arrives on the edge of our solar system. It is sending a mystery code, 'Ding Dong'. What is the craft and who is transmitting? Surely it's not the STEIN Traveler's saucer returning after all these years? What could this mean, and how will Regan and her team deal with the threats and the challenges they now face, especially from a new, powerful and cunning enemy?

Regan Stein is back in the saddle. Well - back in an android anyway and she's looking to exact retribution. She's played the negotiator, the politician and the mediator but being killed in Gliese has given her a new view on life. She's had enough of being reasonable with the Great Mind Reubus and has decided to take justice into her own hands, even without hard evidence to back her actions. As far as she's concerned Reubus' days are numbered and she'll do it without her team's support if she has to. But how do you take out a Great Mind, an artificial intelligence with the ability to back up anywhere? And even if she can win the team's support for a vigilante mission, how will she protect them from Reubus, a paranoid psychopath who will do anything in the pursuit of power? Of one thing Regan is certain, by hook or by Ham, this time Reubus is going down. But after the battle will there still be a place for her in the Gliese star system? Soon, as a consequence of her decision each of the team will face Reubus to look evil in the eye; and this time they will have to do it without the beautiful man. The question is... will they all survive?