Four Day Planet & Lone Star Planet

"Four-Day Planet" is set on a planet called Fenris, where extremes in climate have resulted in an extremely small population with very few off-world contacts. The protagonist is a 17-year-old reporter who fights to overturn the corrupt ''government'' and coercive mercantilist monopoly on ''tallow-wax'', the sole export from Fenris. "Lone Star Planet" is set on New Texas, where everything from cows...