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Star Lawyers Complete First Season : Books 1-6 and Bonus 6.1 Novella
Star >The Complete First Season Box Set - Books 1-6 plus Bonus 6.1 Novella. Follow the exploits of Tyler Matthews and his Star Lawyers Corporation in the bestselling Star Lawyers series by Tom Shepherd. from their first case at the Galactic Rim world Suryadivan Prime (Jump Gate Omega) to the climactic courtroom brawl at the old Imperial center on Rahjen (Capital Murder). Throw in a couple of fleet clashes for total control of known space, a dangerous but lovable shapeshifter cat who adopts the Matthews Family, Latina assassins sworn to bring justice for all, and a base ship crewed by holographic females originally programmed as pleasure providers. And Suzie. Tyler's AI computer program who acquires a personality, free will, and finally full independence as a bio-energetic humanoid woman. Courtroom dramas and starship clashes, bursting with action, humor, romance, alien civilizations and great characters—Star The Complete First Season Box Set delivers all the nail-biting adventure that makes Star Lawyers one of the best sci-fi series available today. Special Box Set Star Lawyers 6.1 – Alienable Rights, brand new novella available only with the Complete First Season collection. Patrick Henry Deck Plan and extensive Star Lawyers Glossary Arrested on an alien world. Who you gonna call?"
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Published January 11, 2021
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Tom Shepherd
30 books41 followersTom Shepherd flew medical evacuation helicopters in Vietnam, where he received two Distinguished Flying Crosses, the Air Medal, and the Purple Heart. He has worked as a Japanese linguist, public school teacher, and graduate school instructor. Shepherd is originally from Reading, Pennsylvania, but lived in Alaska, Germany, Indochina, and the Republic of Korea. He spent the balance of of his professional career working with churches in the Deep South, California, and the Midwest and serving as Professor of Religious Studies at Unity Institute near Kansas City, Missouri. Author of a wide array of
articles and nonfiction books, plus more than twenty plays and two novels for the middle grades, Dr. Shepherd “retired” in 2016 to write novels full time.
Star Lawyers is his new series, which readers have described as “Star Trek meets Law&Order.” Tom Shepherd lives with his wife, Carol-Jean, and their genial pit bull, Riley, in Tucson, Arizona.
articles and nonfiction books, plus more than twenty plays and two novels for the middle grades, Dr. Shepherd “retired” in 2016 to write novels full time.
Star Lawyers is his new series, which readers have described as “Star Trek meets Law&Order.” Tom Shepherd lives with his wife, Carol-Jean, and their genial pit bull, Riley, in Tucson, Arizona.
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January 13, 2021
“ When the delights of life may be obtained by trade, only a fool hungers for war.”
“Gookie-Poo,” Sweet Love. Oh my! I love this endearing term! With your permission, Dr. Tom, I’m going to use it in my everyday life.
Star Lawyers is THE BEST Space Opera Legal Thriller I’ve ever read in my whole life! All the stars in the Galaxy are not enough for this series! Chapeau, Thomas Shepherd.
Simply stunning! It’s hilariously witty, heartrending, and emotional. You will cheer out loud and curse just as loudly. It runs full tilt out of the gate and really never slows down. That a Space Opera can contain so much excitement, thrilling courtroom action, without the need of much battle or war scenes, is a fantastic feat, a fascinating series indeed. I wish it never ends.
Wonderful real life characters that I can’t help become attached to, harsh and humorous dialogue that keeps the storyline flowing with tension filled action, and naturally fast paced. It has been a long premise, and many controversial situations, conspiracies, intrigue, emotional and edge of seat moments, each more and interwoven, a tapestry of deceit, government betrayals, struggles for power.. against which the Star Lawyers have to outdone. It was wonderful to be back aboard the Patrick Henry, and visit another intricate, totally different and surprising alien court. The yarn is getting more tangled, and it’s a pleasure to see how the lawyers and their fantastic holographic team unravel bit by bit the threads of a tightly woven selfish and power driven desire of galactic domination, regardless of how many deaths or civilisations fall. I savoured every sentence and paragraph, and I really can’t say which book of the series is better; the more I read the more I’m captivated and fascinated by the story, by the magnificent imagination of the author. I remove my hat and bow to the writing splendours of Tom Shepherd. I am totally, head over heels enamoured of this series!
And of course, I highly, highly recommend it.
“Gookie-Poo,” Sweet Love. Oh my! I love this endearing term! With your permission, Dr. Tom, I’m going to use it in my everyday life.
Star Lawyers is THE BEST Space Opera Legal Thriller I’ve ever read in my whole life! All the stars in the Galaxy are not enough for this series! Chapeau, Thomas Shepherd.
Simply stunning! It’s hilariously witty, heartrending, and emotional. You will cheer out loud and curse just as loudly. It runs full tilt out of the gate and really never slows down. That a Space Opera can contain so much excitement, thrilling courtroom action, without the need of much battle or war scenes, is a fantastic feat, a fascinating series indeed. I wish it never ends.
Wonderful real life characters that I can’t help become attached to, harsh and humorous dialogue that keeps the storyline flowing with tension filled action, and naturally fast paced. It has been a long premise, and many controversial situations, conspiracies, intrigue, emotional and edge of seat moments, each more and interwoven, a tapestry of deceit, government betrayals, struggles for power.. against which the Star Lawyers have to outdone. It was wonderful to be back aboard the Patrick Henry, and visit another intricate, totally different and surprising alien court. The yarn is getting more tangled, and it’s a pleasure to see how the lawyers and their fantastic holographic team unravel bit by bit the threads of a tightly woven selfish and power driven desire of galactic domination, regardless of how many deaths or civilisations fall. I savoured every sentence and paragraph, and I really can’t say which book of the series is better; the more I read the more I’m captivated and fascinated by the story, by the magnificent imagination of the author. I remove my hat and bow to the writing splendours of Tom Shepherd. I am totally, head over heels enamoured of this series!
And of course, I highly, highly recommend it.
January 27, 2023
Entertaining space listening 🎶🔰
Another will written box 📦set of six novels and a novella space opera adventure thrillers by Tom Shepherd (Star 🌟Lawyers). A great six box 📦set about lawyers traveling through space for the role of the defense lawyer in world 🌎 that have strange laws. It is about a family and friends relationships a father running a corporation from earth 🌎. A mother the admiral of a fleet of spaceships. Three brothers, sister, and cousins practicing law in space. Each story is different with interesting characters and lots of action leading to 👍 the unexpected conclusions. I read these individuality and would highly recommend this series and author to 👍 readers of paranormal space opera adventure novels 👍🔰. Enjoy the adventure of reading 👓 or listening 🎶 to Alexa read books 📚. 2023 😀😯👒😤
If you are a reader of space opera novels give this series a try. It is different from what I usually read in space opera books. Happy reading in 2023🌙
Another will written box 📦set of six novels and a novella space opera adventure thrillers by Tom Shepherd (Star 🌟Lawyers). A great six box 📦set about lawyers traveling through space for the role of the defense lawyer in world 🌎 that have strange laws. It is about a family and friends relationships a father running a corporation from earth 🌎. A mother the admiral of a fleet of spaceships. Three brothers, sister, and cousins practicing law in space. Each story is different with interesting characters and lots of action leading to 👍 the unexpected conclusions. I read these individuality and would highly recommend this series and author to 👍 readers of paranormal space opera adventure novels 👍🔰. Enjoy the adventure of reading 👓 or listening 🎶 to Alexa read books 📚. 2023 😀😯👒😤
If you are a reader of space opera novels give this series a try. It is different from what I usually read in space opera books. Happy reading in 2023🌙
January 23, 2021
I already own all the Star Lawyers books 1-6, I am eagerly awaiting the 7th book, First Class to the Stars coming soon (not what you think!) and I honestly bought the Complete First Season because I really wanted to read the Bonus 6.1 Novella, Alienable Rights.
Can we talk?
The characters in Star Lawyers are in some ways more real than the people in real life that I know. In a way, I feel as though Tyler, Suzie, J.B., Rosalie, Lucy the shape Changer, Dr. Solario, Noah, Lovey, Mr. Blue, all of them have grown up with me since I have read every book from Jump Gate Omega (book 1) to Capitol Murder (book 6) that takes place on Rahjen, where between Tsukiya House and the Lutzak Horde our heroes (and the rest of the galaxy) are in deep doo-doo. For all their flaws and foibles, the Matthews and Co really feel like family.
One of the things that I love the most about the books is the human nature of the characters. They don't do what you want. Bad guys can be worse than bad. people are fallible, and their various shortcomings are exposed, as well as their noble actions, and towering intellects. They make mistakes, they act poorly, in short, they are real people. I'd say human, but they are not homo sapiens in many cases.
Tom Shepherd (Dr. Tom) has done nothing less than an incredible job at worlds building. Yes, worlds. There are a lot of them in Star Lawyers, and there are lots of different cultures, languages, religions, name it and claim it. I don't think I have ever seen a better job at world-building. He is incredibly detailed and descriptive, prompting me once again to quote Sci-Fi author Ray Jay Perrault, who said "A good SciFi Author shows you an alien world; a great one takes you there."
Tom takes us there every single time, with so much vivid detail you can smell the scents, hear the sounds, and practically taste the food. He even wrote a spinoff series called Star Lawyers Origins, in which he tells us just how we arrived in the 32nd century with the galaxy the way it is.
While the books have had plenty of space battles, plenty of action, and a veritable overdose of high octane non-stop adventure, the series is beginning to go in a slightly more jurisprudence direction: We are getting, and according to Dr. Tom going to get, even more, courtroom action and case solving, and less space action. And that's what I signed up for, and that's perfectly okay with me. I think Alienable Rights, the 6.1 Novella is an example of that: The story is about a young cadet at the naval space academy on Emily-4, who has a dalliance and liaison with a gal who is underage - by Human standards. By her race's standards, she is 28. Her people mature twice as fast as humans. Of course, there is a lot more to the plot than that, there is Tyler's aunt, the Admiral in charge of the academy, and HER love interest, and then there is the girl's father, and what he's up to. It's the usual knotty mess that Tyler and Suzie (actually mostly Lovey Frost in this story) must unravel; as usual under pressure and short on time and information.
One of the things I love so much about the Star Lawyer's books is the relentless pursuit of the truth, and the absolute conviction to do what's right in the grand sense, not just what's convenient or will make money.
But the most important thing to know is that these are rollicking adventures that will keep you up late and you will be turning the pages non-stop to see what happens next, and trying to explain why you are so sleep-deprived the next day. Good thing these are books because they are most definitely habit forming!
What are you waiting for? Get in and buckle up!
Can we talk?
The characters in Star Lawyers are in some ways more real than the people in real life that I know. In a way, I feel as though Tyler, Suzie, J.B., Rosalie, Lucy the shape Changer, Dr. Solario, Noah, Lovey, Mr. Blue, all of them have grown up with me since I have read every book from Jump Gate Omega (book 1) to Capitol Murder (book 6) that takes place on Rahjen, where between Tsukiya House and the Lutzak Horde our heroes (and the rest of the galaxy) are in deep doo-doo. For all their flaws and foibles, the Matthews and Co really feel like family.
One of the things that I love the most about the books is the human nature of the characters. They don't do what you want. Bad guys can be worse than bad. people are fallible, and their various shortcomings are exposed, as well as their noble actions, and towering intellects. They make mistakes, they act poorly, in short, they are real people. I'd say human, but they are not homo sapiens in many cases.
Tom Shepherd (Dr. Tom) has done nothing less than an incredible job at worlds building. Yes, worlds. There are a lot of them in Star Lawyers, and there are lots of different cultures, languages, religions, name it and claim it. I don't think I have ever seen a better job at world-building. He is incredibly detailed and descriptive, prompting me once again to quote Sci-Fi author Ray Jay Perrault, who said "A good SciFi Author shows you an alien world; a great one takes you there."
Tom takes us there every single time, with so much vivid detail you can smell the scents, hear the sounds, and practically taste the food. He even wrote a spinoff series called Star Lawyers Origins, in which he tells us just how we arrived in the 32nd century with the galaxy the way it is.
While the books have had plenty of space battles, plenty of action, and a veritable overdose of high octane non-stop adventure, the series is beginning to go in a slightly more jurisprudence direction: We are getting, and according to Dr. Tom going to get, even more, courtroom action and case solving, and less space action. And that's what I signed up for, and that's perfectly okay with me. I think Alienable Rights, the 6.1 Novella is an example of that: The story is about a young cadet at the naval space academy on Emily-4, who has a dalliance and liaison with a gal who is underage - by Human standards. By her race's standards, she is 28. Her people mature twice as fast as humans. Of course, there is a lot more to the plot than that, there is Tyler's aunt, the Admiral in charge of the academy, and HER love interest, and then there is the girl's father, and what he's up to. It's the usual knotty mess that Tyler and Suzie (actually mostly Lovey Frost in this story) must unravel; as usual under pressure and short on time and information.
One of the things I love so much about the Star Lawyer's books is the relentless pursuit of the truth, and the absolute conviction to do what's right in the grand sense, not just what's convenient or will make money.
But the most important thing to know is that these are rollicking adventures that will keep you up late and you will be turning the pages non-stop to see what happens next, and trying to explain why you are so sleep-deprived the next day. Good thing these are books because they are most definitely habit forming!
What are you waiting for? Get in and buckle up!
February 22, 2021
argh so annoying...
Can some-one please explain why this authors ongoing support of domestic violence is tolerated ?
He repeated has the female lead (Suzie) physically and verbally abuse the male lead (Tyler). Even to the extent of giving him a black eye, falsely accusing him of infidelity, refusing to apologize when she finds out she is wrong, and so on time after time.
If this was the other way around, male abusing female, people would be SCREAMING.
Is the author a misandrist ?
1st book started off OK, but by the 6th OMG, lazy writing (a pet hate) e.g. Rosalie is a highly trained assassin who never misses, never spares whacking the target, but CONSISTENLY misses killing the main bad guy, really, multiple times, across several books !!! If you need to keep the bad guy alive, then do not have them engage, it is just STUPID to expect your audience to swallow, hitting targets whilst jumping, leaping etc, but missing easy simple shots, it is just LAZY writing.
Terrible gaps in continuity, and logically inconsistences.
Poor characterisations of supporting characters.
Worst of all is the particularly American habit of re-explaining EVERYTHING about a character in every additional book. I lost count of the number of times I had to skip pages in the 6th book whilst the author re-explained the background and motivation of a main character. Are you being paid by the word ? Again it disrupts the flow of the narrative, spoiling all the positives.
Compared to Science Fiction authors of the 50's through to the 80's sadly lacking.
Suggest the author reads Heinlein, Asimov, Herbert to see how to write 1000+ page consistent stories with well developed plots and characters.
Do not want to read anything else by this author.
Disappointed.
Can some-one please explain why this authors ongoing support of domestic violence is tolerated ?
He repeated has the female lead (Suzie) physically and verbally abuse the male lead (Tyler). Even to the extent of giving him a black eye, falsely accusing him of infidelity, refusing to apologize when she finds out she is wrong, and so on time after time.
If this was the other way around, male abusing female, people would be SCREAMING.
Is the author a misandrist ?
1st book started off OK, but by the 6th OMG, lazy writing (a pet hate) e.g. Rosalie is a highly trained assassin who never misses, never spares whacking the target, but CONSISTENLY misses killing the main bad guy, really, multiple times, across several books !!! If you need to keep the bad guy alive, then do not have them engage, it is just STUPID to expect your audience to swallow, hitting targets whilst jumping, leaping etc, but missing easy simple shots, it is just LAZY writing.
Terrible gaps in continuity, and logically inconsistences.
Poor characterisations of supporting characters.
Worst of all is the particularly American habit of re-explaining EVERYTHING about a character in every additional book. I lost count of the number of times I had to skip pages in the 6th book whilst the author re-explained the background and motivation of a main character. Are you being paid by the word ? Again it disrupts the flow of the narrative, spoiling all the positives.
Compared to Science Fiction authors of the 50's through to the 80's sadly lacking.
Suggest the author reads Heinlein, Asimov, Herbert to see how to write 1000+ page consistent stories with well developed plots and characters.
Do not want to read anything else by this author.
Disappointed.
April 2, 2021
Childish humour ruins cool concept
I could see this serialized in the 1970s in playboy and being super successful... now characters that might have seemed bold and novel just seem childish and annoying. Some great ideas and clever plot lines, unfortunately ruined by the characters.
I could see this serialized in the 1970s in playboy and being super successful... now characters that might have seemed bold and novel just seem childish and annoying. Some great ideas and clever plot lines, unfortunately ruined by the characters.
December 11, 2021
Great Series!
And one hell of a fun ride. Read 1 thru 6.1 as one loooong novel. Loved the world building, or rather, galaxy building and the characters were great. Who would have thought a Sci Fi novel about lawyers could be so much fun. From space battles to court room shenanigans, there is so much going on you can’t help but cheer for the star lawyers.
And one hell of a fun ride. Read 1 thru 6.1 as one loooong novel. Loved the world building, or rather, galaxy building and the characters were great. Who would have thought a Sci Fi novel about lawyers could be so much fun. From space battles to court room shenanigans, there is so much going on you can’t help but cheer for the star lawyers.
May 8, 2022
Thoroughly enjoyable characters and plots
Until recently I hadn't read any of the author's work. Now after reading this collection and the first few Prequel books I am a big fan. The whole universe and the characters(human and alien) provide a great way to tune out of our normal existence.
Until recently I hadn't read any of the author's work. Now after reading this collection and the first few Prequel books I am a big fan. The whole universe and the characters(human and alien) provide a great way to tune out of our normal existence.
February 11, 2021
Great concept and execution. Highly entertaining with great cast of characters, devious plot lines and some actual meat beyond just dueling space armadas. Pleased to finally find something to recommend.
February 19, 2021
Excellent and refreshing
This is a different slant on space conflicts with humour and rounded characters
Great storylines for each individual book and running through the series
A must read boxset :)
This is a different slant on space conflicts with humour and rounded characters
Great storylines for each individual book and running through the series
A must read boxset :)
June 1, 2021
Pathetic
Pathetic if I'd wanted to learn how read. Spanish and Portuguese, I'd have bought a text book.add bad grammar,and ages of descriptions of things that. only exist in the author's mind
Pathetic if I'd wanted to learn how read. Spanish and Portuguese, I'd have bought a text book.add bad grammar,and ages of descriptions of things that. only exist in the author's mind
December 22, 2025
Great change from straight military SciFi. Good read with good one liners.
I've been looking for Sci Fi that isn't just military Sci Fi. Found it here. Enough twists and turns to keep you guessing, and some good chuckles along the way.
I've been looking for Sci Fi that isn't just military Sci Fi. Found it here. Enough twists and turns to keep you guessing, and some good chuckles along the way.
February 7, 2021
Must read
Addictive, witty, challenging, an absolute delight and so compelling. Couldn't put it down. Immensely enjoyable and a definite must read.
Addictive, witty, challenging, an absolute delight and so compelling. Couldn't put it down. Immensely enjoyable and a definite must read.
May 20, 2021
Perry mason in the stars...
June 5, 2021
Hard to put down
Took a while to get into the characters but excellent flow and enjoyment, always a good read. Will read the author again.
Took a while to get into the characters but excellent flow and enjoyment, always a good read. Will read the author again.
January 24, 2025
Had fun reading.
This is a good change from the usual "shot them up" novels. Mostly fast paced, but full of solid sfi.
Thanks for the chance to review .
This is a good change from the usual "shot them up" novels. Mostly fast paced, but full of solid sfi.
Thanks for the chance to review .
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