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1) Tristar
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The crew decide to investigate the strange psychological repulsion in the area of the Tristar and find a powerful and deadly insane machine is causing it on a paradise world.
2) Settlng In
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The crew adventure together. They meet Sisstuh and Fesch and discover a colony of Ape's mother race
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Two books from the Flight of the Maita that were nominated for awards.After the Old GodsKroon (Book two) is experiencing a plague that could destroy the entire population – and they can't contact the empire.This was not meant as a part of the Flight of the Maita series, but was added by request of several readers.
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Now You See It – Now You Don'tThe crew are asked by Wahnee to investigate a planet that has disappeared – and they find one actually hasChangesThe son of Net, book five, decides to become a sorcerer. He is a decent person and this is the story of the time he was a young man until his old age.Gothic WorldMaita wants to make some overhauls and changes so Z goes to a world in a pre-industrial stage for a vacation.As one would expect, it's a working...
6) How Odd
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The crew are called to a world where there seems to be outside influence. They find a gleaming marble city with some strange inconsistencies. It is soon obvious there is outside influence that could destroy the people´s chances to advance.Second part, they go to the planet the inyterlopers have based a colony of people on. they are interfering as badly with an evolving culture - or are they?
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Kroon (Book two) is experiencing a plague that could destroy the entire population – and they can't contact the empire.This was not meant as a part of the Flight of the Maita series, but was added by request of several readers.Critic comment:I was one who asked Moulton to place this into the Flight of the Maita series. It is a very realistic tale of an AIDS-like plague, and the solution is not beyond belief. It is a good character study.– KL Rating...
8) Growing Up
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The crew have a problem on the world Bear was from (book one: Flight of the Maita). There is interference that leads to a band of escaped criminals.
10) On the Dome
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The crew decide to go exploring while Tab and Kit are getting settled in the detective business. The Krofpth are discovered. TAR-1 is met, and other adventures.
11) Gothic World
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Maita wants to make some overhauls and changes so Z goes to a world in a pre-industrial stage for a vacation.As one would expect, it's a working vacation. There is something very wrong on this world – something that could prove disastrous in a century or so.Critic commentInteresting concept about how a racial psychological trait can be manipulated – either for the positive or negative.I see what P means about the golems. Hilarious
12) Fun and Games
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A being is picked up by Fleet who had the exact code for Drove in digitals on his tags so Maita and crew go to Drove to see what it's about. It turns out the code was his dog-tags and he was a soldier in a war between unlike cultures on two planets in the same solar system.Naturally, the crew decided to intervene.
13) Us Barbarians
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Z gets to be a barbarian when he, Kurk, and Thing (and later, the golems) go to a world to try to find why it is so cyclical for disaster.Critic commentA rollicking good comedy with a very serious theme. Moulton has a deep insight about what drives a society (or he convinces me he does). Sometimes something very simple is the most important factor in societal evolution. – IA Rtng: ***½
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Tab and TR respond to a plea for help from a Feach. It seems a Feach has been kidnapped – after supposedly witnessing a "Murder, Khlien Style".Critic commentThis was a truly fun book. Tab as a bumbling Maitan verged on the hilarious. I could picture that woman's face as he described the reason for the colors on the map.– IA Rtng: ****
15) Duty's Call
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Theron is kidnapped! Maita and the crew meet the beings from another galaxy, who came to them in aid of a Maitan colony. There are also IMMINS there! As is always the case where Immins are concerned, there is danger and trouble. Maita and the crew go there to solve the problem. The golems are included.WHEN will they finally be free of Immins - in either galaxy?
16) Heku
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Taken from the story "Heku" in SSFSS and expanded into a book, plus an added later section when Maita and the crew return to find the engineers of the Vood.Heku is the story from SSFSS. The book, Male Progeny Six/Heku, is a study of good, "normal" and evil.****
17) Con Game
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Someone is trying to run a scam on the traders guild? Jornians?Amateurs!Z is the perfect one to handle this one. It will be great fun to watch him outcon a con!Gloria Donnel is introduced, and Inge (Ingenious), her Asimovian ship.
18) A Strange Place
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The crew are called to a world with three separate types of evolutions separated by raging seas. Before long the races will meet and it will mean disaster – unless the empire's do-gooders can prevent it
19) Odd Couple Out
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Kurk takes a vacation on Hades, his home world in another planal. Thing goes along.C'mon, Kurk! You should know better by nowCritic commentThis was as funny as anything I've ever read. There is a great deal of humor in most of Moulton's work, but this one is the pinnacle. Definitely. Thing is a delightful character.– IA Rtng:*****
20) Not Again!
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The berserker is B-A-A-A-C-C-KCritic commentI seem to start off my critiques of Moulton by saying it is the kind of thing I do not care for, then saying it was quite readable.Moulton tends to a certain triteness in his writings, but overcomes that with the concept and other presentation.One would think that a story about a "berserk" military machine would be one of those juvenile special-effects things with no other content and a plot that is weak...
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