Giraut Books in Order

Leaving his proud, isolated home culture, Giraut joins a diplomatic mission to a society he expects to dislike. New travel technology is bringing distant worlds together, and his arrival exposes tensions that challenge both cultures and himself.

Diplomats Giraut and Margaret arrive on a harsh planet whose human societies hate each other more fiercely than their environment threatens them. Restoring contact with the wider civilization forces the pair into dangerous cultural and political conflicts.

Giraut reluctantly returns to diplomatic work when a movement seeks to exploit recorded human personalities as entertainment. Carrying a second consciousness himself, he must confront personal history while trying to prevent an interstellar moral crisis.

Targeted for assassination as he approaches fifty, agent Giraut returns to his home world amid rising political tensions. An underground movement holds a recording filled with dangerous secrets, drawing him into conflict between human and artificial consciousnesses.