Miranda's Demons is the longest book I have written, and it is intended as a sort of "War and Peace". It is one of those books that might be better started as a download in case it is too much. The description:
In 2285, thirty-four exhausts are seen travelling at relativistic velocities to end on Miranda, the innermost moon of Uranus. On Earth, GenCorp wants to expand to Mars, where it was not supposed to be. GenCorp does a deal with the alien battle fleet: give us Mars and we shall give you what you need, which is slave labour. Natasha Kotchetkova, the Commissioner for Defence is faced with an alien race that totally outclasses any Earth military technology. War is coming, but even if Terran forces can win, who wins the following peace?
An epic with 18 major characters, four alien races, several romances, not all of which end well, treachery, a variation on "The Prisoner's Dilemma", and is set variously in 3 continents, the Earth-Moon L-4 space station, Mars, Iapetus, the asteroid belt and Miranda, and, thanks to relativity, a Roman Legatus returning from an alien planet to offer what help he could, and to meet his prophesied "only woman remaining in his life", who was also the ugliest woman in the world.
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