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Kuiper Station What appeared to be a simple but ambitious goal of establishing a new colony in the Kuiper Belt, a colony to service mining activities there, was more than it seemed. One side, led by the Solar Federation and the Jackson family, was determined to break humanity out of its almost century long stagnation and push it to embrace the stars. The other side, led by the Terran Federation, was determined to block such expansion and maintain...
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An interwoven moving and insightful memoir, a healing help-guide for abuse survivors, and a practical handbook for those wishing to confront their perpetrators through the justice system and seek compensation. A story of a tragic upbringing involving sexual and physical abuse at school and at home. John SaundersOCO brutally honest account brings hope for institutional healing."
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Persephone loves the free-wheeling lifestyle of an inter-planetary freighter pilot. Like her namesake of Ancient Greece, she lives a two-fold life. Part of the year sequestered in deep space and part in various ports with a good friend and hopefully a willing man. Until her heading converges with fellow pilot Reggie. Shy yet quirky, teasing yet kind. He possesses great depths that only Persephone can cross over. When their orbits suddenly diverge,...
4) Bone Dance
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Back in print, Bone Dance is a classic techno-fantasy from Emma Bull, author of the bestselling Territory
Sparrow's my name. Trader. Deal-maker. Hustler, some call me. I work the Night Fair circuit, buying and selling pre-nuke videos from the world before. I know how to get a high price, especially on Big Bang collectibles. But the hottest ticket of all is information on the Horsemen-the mind-control weapons that tilted the balance in the war between...
5) The Mind
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After leaving the most beautiful planet in the Universe and the man she loves, Dora Dana Dasnan returns to her galaxy only to find that things have drastically changed. Martial law is in effect and the gene-modified, highly trained soldiers patrol the Uni planets with a single directive: to find Dora. Dora needs to disappear once again. She knows how to do it. She has done it before. But an unexpected Vision changes her goals completely and pulls...
6) Desuetude
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As a hunter, Val is an elite in her field. The cities need to expand. The wilderness and animals are hostile to human life. Val's job is to go in and eliminate the dangerous beasts.
Technological selection is coming. There is only so much land left. Where there were once vast open spaces, there are now never-ending streets. Where there was once plant life, there are now factories and rows of buildings. Progress knows no mercy.
Val is aware of...
8) Valor
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Veronica Korix's life was never ordinary. She has faced abandonment and betrayal, grown up in the wilds of Mount Vilgroth, and hunted down the worst thieves and criminals in the world. But nothing has prepared her for THIS. A great evil seeks her out and nearly succeeded in capturing her until she was rescued by - of all things - a massive, talking tree. Now, she and her allies must band together to withstand this new threat before it consumes them....
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Excerpt: "One day you were young, and you too wanted to write forecasts; and you too found that to envisage the future was arduous, that old ways of thinking and status quo ante judgments of value imposed themselves upon your mind, and made you despair of the true estimate and the adequate phrase. And you found that, however unclouded your own faculty of prognostication, you searched in vain for the magic touch which would interpret the future for...
10) Our Coming World
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The story is set in an Utopia set on a Mars whose long-lived inhabitants, benefiting from a healthy socialist regime much in contrast with the terrible state of post-World War Two Earth, kidnap the crew of a B-29 bomber and teach them things it is good to know.
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This book presents 37 stories. These pieces may be short, but these stories will excite you, challenge you, and even threaten your current way of thinking as they look into the future of humanity, their lives and future problems. Enter this space and let your imagination run wild. For this edition, the author attempts to answer the fundamental questions of cosmology. Technical words have been kept to a minimum, but essential terms are explained in...
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In the distant galaxy of Arkania, tensions between humans and the native alien species escalate over a powerful new energy source. Captain Sarah Carter leads the human forces, Elder Xanor seeks peaceful solutions, and Dr. Kaela Patel uncovers a conspiracy to seize control of the planet's resources. As war looms, they must set aside differences and work together to prevent further bloodshed and forge a new path for their people.
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Kendra's going to drag humanity to the stars no matter who stands in her wayKendra and Aiyana Cassidy's dreams are coming true.Aiyana's teleportals are growing in popularity, and Kendra's starship is nearly complete.But the Artemis Colony is throttling the planet's supply of rare earth metals.If Artemis isn't stopped soon, in twenty years ¾ of the population will be dead.They don't want a war, but if Artemis insists, Kendra's never learned how to...
14) Exodus of Evil
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With the launch of the surveillance probe behind him, Paul Tringley is free to focus on profitable business ventures once again. He still doesn't know who blackmailed him, but his hired henchmen are on the job, searching for the culprit. Meanwhile, Professor David Kingston is finding it hard to walk away from his recent experiences. A certain name continues to haunt him-Dolph Veale. In the third and final book of the Exodus of Evil Trilogy, join David...
15) Pandemonium
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USA Today praised Warren Fahy's debut novel, Fragment, as "a rollicking tale [that] will enthrall readers of Jurassic Park and The Ruins." Now Fahy sets off an even more thrilling stampede of action and suspense, bursting forth from the hellish depths of...Pandemonium.
Deep beneath the Ural Mountains, in an underground city carved out by slave labor during the darkest hours of the Cold War, ancient caverns hold exotic and dangerous life-forms that...
16) The Krinar Rake
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Author's Note: This is the remastered version of the original novella titled Krinar Covenant published in 2018. Due to unforeseen hiccups, I had to unpublish the expanded version's title, The Krinar Covenant, released on April 9th 2022, and republish with the new title, The Krinar Rake. If you already purchased the expanded version titled The Krinar Covenant, published April 9th 2022, you do not need to buy and read this one, as they are the same...
17) The Wooden Box
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Tracey's Grandmother was an inventor. She went under the name of George. "After George Elliott. Gran was a bit like that. Always taking the piss. No one would accept a female inventor, so she always called herself George and dressed like a comic book inventor. You Know. Tweed jacket. Plus fours and spats, with a monocle, although her eyes were 20/20. She was even known to wear a false moustache for publicity photos. It was for the benefit of the misogynists...
18) Last Vegas
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Everyone has their place-or so the stories go. As long as you don't look for it, you'll find it. If you try, you may never reach your final destination.Esther doesn't care much for stories-she's just looking for a fresh start. One night, at the end of her journey, she meets three unexpected friends who help her find her way.
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Amazing Stories Volume 173 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five short stories by different authors: "There Was An Old Woman" by Robert Silverberg, "Burden The Hand" by Randall Garrett, "Ozymandias" by Ivar Jorgensen, "The Wizard Of Light" by David Ely, and "Fairyland Planet" by John Silletto.
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The novel, "The Programmed People," features a seemingly "perfect" future existence. The people of "the Hive" went about their rigid lives in ignorance of their real ruler and the actual history of their race. How could one slender blonde woman crack this powerful monolithic monstrosity?
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