Minutegirls

Massive space battles! Hand-to-hand combat! Politics! Hot babes with guns!

Minutegirls... Nice young women who just want some good clean fun with power armor, plenty of high explosives, and a few cute Minuteboys.

It's 2174. From the hills of American Manchuria to the depths of Outer Space, America's Girl Militia battles Franco-German treachery to shield the American Stellar Republic.

In American Manchuria, Chinese infiltrators seeking to restore the Chinese border of long ago face off against Minutegirl border guards. Rachel Goldsmith and her fellow volunteers of the Bella Abzug brigade must use American heroism, training, and ingenuity to fight the foreign invaders.

At Alpha Centauri, the 18 states of the American planets Lincoln and Markoff field their Planetary Self-Defense Fleet. Grand Commodore Pyotr Eustasovitch Kalinin must again and again lead his ships to victory against the outnumbered but technically superior fleets of the Federal European Union and their mysterious allies.

In Paris, Federal European Union High Admiral Bernard Rohan is tasked with ending the American challenge, on European terms, while at the same time satisfying the alien allies whose existence is a secret even from the European people.

The reclusive Professor Morbius and his close friends, they whose strategy a century ago saved the United States from foreign domination, are trusted by their fellow Americans to provide leadership. But what is the strategy when you cannot even name the enemy? Morbius's intern Sandra Miller is a Mistress of the Sword, the Minutegirls' elite of the elite, but it is her wits, not her combat skills, that must sustain her through a political maze and a seemingly hopeless romance.

Senator Alphonse Humbert Meyer, chair of the States of Lincoln Senate Committee on War, must persuade his fellow Senators to defend Lincoln effectively. He may be commander-in-chief of Lincoln's military, but key decisions come from fellow Senators: Helene Duclos's Constitutional Restoration Movement always disagrees. Thoughtful Elspeth Thorne's Liberty Tree Party gives wise advice, but few votes. Senator Donna Caravelle's Social Justice Party speaks up for other issues. The despised Thomas Fuller's Democratic-Republican party calls for income taxes, conscription, government funding of scientific research, and other absurdities. Only Meyer's Movimiento Moderate Central usually supports him.