Imagine a world exactly like ours, but different.
A Hard SciFi #SpaceOpera series with solar sails.
Follow Captain Graciela on her solar sail cargo ship with crew of mutated simian, canine, and octopus sentients.
No aliens, no flaming swords, no blasters, no 'magical' Faster Than Light rockets, and no romance. 
Compared to “FireFly”, “The Expanse” and "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy." 

5 volumes, fun, food, and a HiveWar.

Ride a one-kilometer-tall balloon, filled with explosive Hydrogen to the edge of space.

Lite a match and fly on a tail of manufactured water beyond Earth’s shadow.

Join the other Solar Sail cargo ships traveling from one end of Sol to the other, boosted by nuclear-powered laser cannons.

Captain Graciela and her crew of mutated canines, simians, and octopuses of the H2LiftShip, the LunaCola has plans to show her dysfunctional family who’s boss.

The HiveWar, she may have accidently started, adds another dimension to a solar system filled with semi-sentient AI tablets to a complex environment.

Graciela Lucerne was done with secondary school and off to the Luna Academy to earn her Lieutenant's pip. Leaving her trading family behind was an easy choice, although her passive-aggressive mother and alcoholic father would prefer she stay. After all, someone had to do the grunt work on their solar sail cargo ship.

On Luna, Graciela, with her compadres: canines, other primates, and octopuses, learn the skills they would need to earn a berth on solar sail or rocket ships.

A Lieutenant's bar was fine, but she set her sights on becoming a captain of her own ship and competing with her parents in the great heliospheric void.

The crew of BosonsWave has lost their Solar Sail. There was no cavalry to come to their rescue at the tail end of the solar stream. It's up to the crew to find their way forward. No one wanted to be lost, cold, and dead in the voids latest ghost ship.

The HelioTail bioGels had organic algae rocket ships. They were in control and angry, looking for revenge for the slights and abuse from the Heliopause 'gels. We had the Earth's sentient mammals, the Navy, and Octopuses. It should be no contest. 

The 4th volume in the H2LiftShip Series pits the symbiotic combination of semi-sentient AI tablets and algal rocket ships against the Heliospheric Navy.

Captain Graciela Lucerne, on her repaired and renamed BosonsWave^2, joins forces with Commodore Herb Grauer on his Gorilla Class Fast Cruiser to bring the HiveWar they may have accidentally started to an equitable finish.

An assortment of pirates, gamblers, merchants, and workologists round out the story as the sentients try to move forward after the bioGel computers throughout the heliosphere are infected, crashing the economy

"After BeforeTimes" is a prequel to the five volume H2LiftShip saga.
Seal up your spacesuit and build the AI Hive factories at either end of Sol’s magnetic bubble.

Show loyalty to the hive and click a helmet into your brain and become part of HiveMother’s family. 
Join Captain Graciela’s parents, newly married and pregnant, in a daring jewel and lead-sheet theft in an elaborate scheme involving Wolf and his compadres.

Pirates are made, not born and a uranium enhanced firework display leads to expulsion from Atomic University to a job with a workologist-zero ranking on the pirate ship, TresLocos.

Banshees, the sad chatter of the world, are the audible protests of life passing away as time moves on.
Their constant whining drove José to find their source.
The one-dimensional copies of his every existence, linked together with QtmBits, were not happy to see their host standing in front of them.

Time is relatively constant where we live and its passage makes its mark on everything. José refused to be a spectator and wanted to know more.

His only competition are the other TimeExplorers, the University, with their ProtonTimeGun, and the military, who didn’t care who won the race as long as they got the spoils.