They're too bad for the Day Watch and too good for the Night Watch. They don't honor the Treaty, they're rude to the Great Ones, they don't believe in prophecies. They're Others. But even worse, they're children! Dark and Light teenagers, put together in a boarding school hidden from humans... Where even a simple literature teacher must become an Inquisitor.

Two worlds collide as a battle group from one reality ends up in another.

A stranger approaches you to transport a mysterious box half a galaxy away for enough money to let you retire. Do you do it? Of course! Who wouldn't? Except it seems that anyone who gets involved with the box suffers the same fate. Can anyone win this deadly relay race? This is a sequel to "Death or Glory", a translation of which is also available.

Humans are the country bumpkins of the galaxy. The aliens see them as little more than ants. A prospector on one fringe human world finds a strange box that may hold the key to humanity becoming more than just a footnote in galactic history. Or it may spell doom to all life in the galaxy. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, right? As his family motto says, "Death or Glory".

Earth is a vassal to a powerful conclave of races. Several of the vassal races, including humans, seek to upend the status quo by looking for a rival power to challenge the might of the Conclave. But what if the rival is even worse? Could there, perhaps, be a third alternative that will grant Earth and the other races their freedom? This is a sequel to The Stars Are Cold Toys.