The mining city of Talos on the planet Hephaestus has been attacked by an invisible enemy, and Bug Team Alpha with DNA-enhanced bug-like capabilities is sent by the Colonial Coalition to help protect the planet--but they find a more complicated situation then they anticipated, for the mining is injuring the crystal entity that lives in the planet's rocks.

Detective Harriet Blue of the Sydney Police Department prides herself on an uncanny ability to catch the most deviant of criminals. So when her brother is charged with a brutal string of murders, it rocks her world. Shocked, in denial, and facing uncomfortable questions about how much she knew, Harry is transferred to Perth to avoid the media circus. Investigating the disappearance of a worker in an isolated mine deep inside the desolate Australian...

When Belle Song accidentally discovers a rare and valuable mineral deposit near Mount Olympus on Mars, a huge mining company moves in to claim rights. But to mine the land, they put Mars' water supply at risk. Soon, protesters and company officials clash, and Belle and her friends learn about the complexities of protecting the environment.

When Sebby Daniels escapes his dysfunctional family by seeking refuge in a glen in the middle of a devastated mining area, he experiences a series of very unusual events. In an attempt to determine the cause, he and his sister discover that the tunnels and caverns in the glen lead to the secret facilities of an astrophysicist who has been buying up all the land behind his family's home.

Despite the difference in their populations and political status, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea have comparable levels of economic dependence on the extraction and export of mineral resources. For this reason, the costs and benefits of large-scale mining projects for Indigenous communities has been a major political issue in both jurisdictions, and one that has come to be negotiated through multiple channels at different levels of political organisation....