Tim Kilray, Laura Rawlins, and Jonathan Jaynes fight back cat-like aliens who try to make the most weak-willing among them into a striped man like them.
A mate on a whaling boat doesn't know if the greater danger lies with the predators of the deep or with the treacherous Russian pirates who would steal a man's fair catch. A mighty beast who refuses to be caught answers that question, bringing rough justice to the seas.
A successful space pirate tries to conquer a world without technology to use as a base. He is surprised to find that the inhabitants are actually advanced "homo superior" with psychic powers, and they easily imprison him and his men.