Victor Koman's Kings of the High Frontier shows us a world a few years in our future where a number of individuals, from billionaire Larry Poubelle to smuggler Marcus Grant, seek to shrug off the combined shackles of Earth's gravity and Earth's government to live among the stars.
Caught between the astro-entrepreneurs and the sinister government forces that would stop them is Tammy Reis, an accomplished astronaut who suffers from nightmares that began after the Challenger tragedy and NASA's reaction to it. In many ways, Kings is her story as she transforms from a believer in NASA's mission to one of its fiercest opponents. Koman tells her story and those of the four private groups striving for space as they struggle against a government conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep humanity on Earth.