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Captain Asil Silverwood and the crew of the Alpha are back and this time, they are not alone! In the early twenty-second century, our world is dying and humans are in a desperate search of a new world for colonization. Asil and his crew are sent to Barnard's Star to explore an exoplanet in the Goldilocks Zone. Mysteriously, their exploration ship, the Alpha, drops from hyperspace near the star Altair. Magnetic storms and impossible radiation drive the crew to an ice planet where, unbelievably, life already exists! First encounters with alien creatures imperil the crew as they uncover the ...

... It is in times such as these, others in the universe see what makes humans so very special.... Finally, the search is over. A planet near the star Merak has been discovered! It is the Eden that was only imagined in the dreams of the scientists and explorers that had left planet Earth in search of a new home. Prehistoric by Earth standards; uninhabited with lush rain forests, viridescent grasslands and beautiful oceans, it was perfect! It was ours to colonize! There was just one small problem. There were others in our universe with the same intentions! A race to claim this planet could ...

It's simple...strap a rotating habitat to an untested fusion rocket, put six astronauts in experimental cryogenic sleep, hurtle them at nine-tenths the speed of light toward an undiscovered planet near an unknown star, wake them nine years later, and save all of humankind. SIRIUS-ly? All Asil Silverwood wanted to do was pilot commercial shuttles between the Earth and the Moon. To get money to pay for the training, he enrolled in one of those cryogenic deep-space drug studies. When he was awoken NINE YEARS later by a smart-ass AI aboard an experimental starship near the star Sirius, he was ...