Tales of the Velvet Comet Books in Order

The Velvet Comet offers wealthy travelers a spaceborne brothel, casinos, restaurants, and shopping. A struggle within its corporate owner brings a hired operative aboard with orders to destroy the enterprise, threatening its workers and management.

A guest’s murder brings detective Andrew Jackson Crane to the Velvet Comet, where corporate interests demand discretion. Conflicting loyalties among the station’s managers and a computer’s probing attention complicate his search for a killer.

Religious crusader Thomas Gold campaigns to close the Velvet Comet. Meanwhile, alien employees Titania and Oberon attract a different intervention when outsiders decide to liberate them from work they themselves have no desire to abandon.

Twenty-three years after the Velvet Comet closes, writer Nate Page arrives to research a musical about its history. Alone aboard the station, he finds that its computer, Cupid, insists on exposing uncomfortable truths behind the project.