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"My sense of smell is greater than hers. I watch her as she showers, as she eats, as she tends to others daily… and I wonder when Dr. Robyn will realize her body slowly changes?" -Steele, Xeno Sapien When futuristic Earth finds alien DNA and creates a new species of hybrids in hidden labs, Dr. Robyn Saraven helps the "creatures" escape. She uses her connections to establish their own city on Earth-Ground, where they can learn, grow, and avoid the...

Set in the universe as Sheffield's previous novel Cold As Ice, Dark As Day is a hard science fiction novel set 30 years after the Great War, and interplanetary war that nearly destroyed the entire human race, and left horrifyingly dangerous weapons caches to threaten human survival. The Solar System is finally recovering from the Great War, a war that devastated the planets and nearly wiped out the human race, and the population of the outer moons,...

An edge of your seat hard SF adventure as colonists on a new world find that nothing is what they expected and that travelling to a distant star is far more dangerous than they'd ever imagined...in Allen Steele's Sanctuary.

"Archive 99" is a collection of compelling and engaging stories that challenge the frontiers of reality as we know it. Each tale is a journey through the infinite possibilities of the universe.Volume 3

Beaten and left for dead on the beach during a raging thunderstorm, Jordan Sinclair finds himself rescued by the very healer he was sent to bring back to Sanctuary, Irene Ryan. Irene Ryan, after healing and dragging the nearly dead stranger into her home, finds herself fleeing with Jordan from a psychic assassin intent on hauling her, dead or alive, to Psychorp!

Adrian Cole's acclaimed "Star Requiem" series welcomes readers to Innasmorn, a planet where the elements are worshipped as gods....and where mankind is considered the enemy. MOTHER OF STORMS Star Requiem, Book 1 It is on this planet, where only the Windmasters can summon the devastating power of rain, gale, thunder, and lightning, that the last surviving remnants of humankind have come, fleeing the destruction of their empire at the hands of the alien...

What's more secret than a secret school on the Moon? The story of the man behind its creation! Meet Doctor Gregory Hill, mild-mannered scientist, just trying to eke out a living on the Moon. One day representatives from three different ascended alien races approached Doctor Hill and his colleagues with a proposition that would change the course of human evolution. Learn the secret origin of the school attended by Ero and his friends in I Was a Teenage...

Fifteen-year-old Dax, low-status and rebellious, never expected to be thrust onto the battlefield to fight aliens for Global Command. But she was hand-picked by Commander Viteri and torn from her family forever. Reluctant to take lives and skeptical of the true motives behind the conflict, Dax embarks on a perilous journey to uncover the secrets hidden within the wars. She bands with her squad of fellow misfit soldiers and an understanding alien to...

Adrian Cole's acclaimed Star Requiem series welcomes readers to Innasmorn, a planet where the elements are worshipped as gods . . . and where mankind is considered the enemy. As the last remnants of humankind face extinction at the hands of a ruthless alien foe, the ultimate battle is building. The terrible Csendook destroyers have gathered in the Warhive, a huge gladiatorial arena, ready to vanquish their enemy. But as the fearsome warlord Auganzar...

When 2% of the world changed into animals, police officer McKenna Largo found herself at the center of the social media storm and cultural shift. If you are looking for action and adventure with no romance? Want characters that grow and learn? Grab this complete series and go from small town cop to last hope for humanity. No ChoiceHandling the cat calling as a female police officer is one thing, being a literal cat is something else.When the world's...