The Alien Debt

Part of a classic sci-fi series! Classic sci-fi at its best! You’ve got to read this book to truly appreciate the genre!

After she and her husband, Tregare, overcome the corporate lords who had enslaved so much of Earth, it took them years even to start undoing the evils of that time. Then once the human wrongs are ended, or at least their end well under way, there remains one more wrong to right, the inhuman one. The alien Shrakken figured heavily in the freeing of Earth, even after their first envoy to Earth had been ruthlessly slaughtered and their technology stolen. Rissa, Tregare, and their precocious tweenage daughter Lisele set out to return stranded Shrakken to their homeworld, and to offer advanced technology as a gift of friendship. But the Tsa have arrived, a telepathic species that attacks Shrakken worlds, destroying the minds of the inhabitants, and moving on. Our heroes fight a desperate defense against the mind-burners. Then the Tsa capture Lisele ... Not to worry, it's a feel-good swashbuckler with strong family values - even if driving the pram into interstellar combat isn't most people's idea of proper child care. Busby offers a great space opera built around a strong female lead. It's good adventure, lightyears across even if not very deep. -- wiredweird

Their victory over the Imperial tyranny of United Energy and Trasport complete, Bran Tregare and Rissa Kerguelen set out to aid the Shrakken aliens in their war against the telepathic killers called the Tsa. But on route to battle, the Tsa attacked, and Bran and Rissa's scoutship crashed on the wilderness world of Shaarbant. Leaderless, their starship's crew fought the Tsa with an untested, time-twisting stardrive, while Bran, Rissa and their daughter Lisele faced an equally desperate struggle for survival on a perilous and primitive planet.