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The fifth and final instalment in Peter Salisbury’s Passengers series. Best-loved characters and scheming criminals pit their wits against each other over establishing exciting new colonies, while political defectors from the colourful Sentience home world escape violent oppression using a hidden resistance network. The irrepressible pioneering spirit of twins Harry and Suja takes them to long-abandoned worlds.

In this third book, characters from the first two Passengers novels are brought together for further adventures. With the news media in a frenzy imagining man-eating aliens, Ben and Lori need all the help they can get in breaking the news that an alien race had been found. Meanwhile, doing penance for their previous misdeeds, Symch and Goster have a shock in store for their jailers. Spider technology is licensed for industrial use but at a price, and old foes reappear to do no-one any good but themselves. Raife and Nancy find their semi-tropical city to be more of a handful than they ...

The second of Peter Salisbury's Passenger novels. The electronic mind patterns and DNA records of Raife Harris and Doctor Nancy Zing have been travelling for one hundred and twenty years. They will be the first humans to see Zeta Nine. The AI system aboard an Explorer ship is only interested in worlds habitable by humans. Raife and Doctor Zing are naturally excited when they wake to find Explorer 5017 in orbit. The viewscreen displays a beautiful Earth-class planet covered in lush vegetation and warm seas. Even better, there is an apparent absence of biohazards and predators. Everything ...

Number five in the Junker's Moon series. Marshall Brion, owner of Junker's Moon Scrap, Salvage and Servicing Company thought he had seen a ghost when FBIS agent Vanessa Robin came to make an arrest. Months ago, he had seen pirate Vanessa Longtail killed before his eyes, yet now her name was different and she was in the uniform of a law enforcement officer, who not only failed to recognise him, but had no apparent desire to end his life. It was a puzzle Brion felt compelled to solve but he had no idea that the circumstances were at least as troubling to Vanessa herself.

The first of Peter Salisbury's Passengers novels. Data detective Ben thinks he’s succeeded in his latest drugs bust. Now he needs to find some different answers: how did humans use cloning to populate other planets across the Milky Way; how can we communicate almost instantaneously between one star system and the next? After much research and watching old movies, he also discovers that FTL drives never quite worked, suspended animation was too much like being dead, hyperspace was never found, and matter transporters still make a mess. Ben takes a holiday, exchanging mind and body with ...

The fourth book in the Passengers series follows the accelerating development of three major colonies. New dangers and frustrations challenge Raife and Nancy as they work to safely bring up their twin children. They must also wrestle with social unrest as Zeta Nine expands in a direction and at a rate which threatens the stability of the colony as a whole. With less of a head start, Blis on Zexx 2 attempts to keep tight control over the colonists, despite his complete dependence on them for protection. The Free Sentia colony is filled with dissident individuals of the Sentience race working...

A feel-good zombie story with a happy ending? You're kidding, right? No, that would be British Zombie Breakout Parts One to Four Omnibus Edition. The sleepy little fishing village of Kilkorne escaped the scourge of the killer virus that turned most of the population of the south west of England into a zombie-ridden graveyard. Things went quiet after the first wave of zombies were rounded up, while the laboratory which spawned them sought a cure and a method of detecting a newly infected host. Before the vaccine was found, the zombies broke out again. They headed straight for the coast – ...

In a headlong dash from a gang of scavengers, Carl trips on a heavy metal object. A glance reveals a bloodstained microscope, a symbol of everything that has happened since the bioweapon. Millions died from haemorrhagic fever, fighting and destruction, and now he must survive in the ruins of civilisation. He dodges into an alley and through a ruined shop, diving inside a delivery truck parked out the back. Sacks of old clothes deaden the sound as he shuffles beneath them. Minutes pass in growing silence. Carl has escaped with his life, but for how long? Can his luck hold out, not just ...

Old Store: Lost Tales 1 More action and adventure set in the Families post-apocalyptic world. This first volume of stories complementing 'The Old Store: A Science Fiction Anthology' adds a new dimension to the experience of Snake's encounter with rival gang boss Rat. New stories then relate the perils the Families fall into when dealing with dwindling supplies of fuel and ammo. This edition is formatted to display Font Sizes and Faces on newer Kindles. Editor's note This first volume of three 'Lost Tales' is published in conjunction with the twenty-six entirely different episodes already ...

Book 2 in the Ripper's World series. Veteran fighter Ripper Lee survived the viral Blight which killed billions around the globe but within weeks of regaining his old fight status, he is on the run again. Lorrayne Trent's world-dominating regime brands him a terrorist after assisting a group of anti-establishment rebels. Now he is in a new fight, one in which he has to prove his innocence. Only two people can help him: the lover who swore never to see him again and his spineless agent.

Book 3 in the Ripper's World series. Regi's luxury voyage by airship with legendary fighter Ripper Lee fails to go as planned when Corpie rivalries intervene. Dropped unexpectedly into the darkest depths of the Wastes, Ripper and Regi are pursued by Tics until they find temporary sanctuary. Inevitability, while locked in a fight for their lives, the fugitives find that the Rebs have quite different plans for Ripper's future.

Book 1 in the Ripper's World Series. Ripper Lee, veteran fighter, saw the world collapse under a viral blight inflicted by the pharmaceutical giant Viral Benefits Corp. He was amongst the survivors who escaped from the mounds of the dead in the remains of the old world. Through the smoke the lucky ones emerged into a new world of rampant profit and corrupt corpies. Did Ripper have any reason to remain true to his ideals of fair play?

Post-apocalyptic science fiction: an anthology of twenty-six themed episodes set in a future where the population of several continents has been ravaged by a flu-like pandemic. The disease killed hundreds of millions within weeks. Some countries closed their borders in time to stop the spread, elsewhere only the toughest, smartest and genetically immune individuals survived. A close-knit group of men, women and children drive across a wilderness of broken concrete. They scavenge for food while trying to stay one step ahead of groups of starving marauders. The Families attempt to use their ...

The first story in this collection is now a full-length novel entitled Bleak World, written by the same author. Available both in ebook and paperback formats. Flight 1401: A collection of contemporary and near future science fiction short stories: a young man is faced with deadly danger in a post-apocalyptic wasteland; a child finds a cache of century-old 'buried treasure'; a dying father reveals a secret world to his son; on a plane trip from NY to London, a youth's computer tablet is more capable than he anticipated; and the pressure to find new sources of fossil fuels leads to an ominous...

More Lost Tales involving new characters and adventures from the Old Store Anthology. Another standalone Lost Tale in the post-apocalyptic Old Store collection. After narrowly escaping the massacre suffered by Rat's biker gang, Calli seeks a route less likely to end in deadly pursuit. Still with a thirst for adventure, she joins a small party riding a train across the neglected landscape. They are not long out of the city when they realise that being stuck on a fixed track can be even more hazardous than being on the road. Bonus story: 'Bad Water'. One of the characters from 'On Track' ...

What could motivate an elderly but incredibly rich widow to fight to her last breath in a personal vendetta against The Association, the most powerful commercial empire in the galaxy? Xandra, a wily senior with more years behind her than ahead, warns her assistants that Association assassins are only minutes away, but they choose to ignore her, with disastrous consequences. That same day Johann had left his home planet to travel the Pan-Orion Spaceway in search of new challenges. He was young, newly qualified and full of shiny expectations, so his chance meeting with the eccentric and ...

The Old Store: A flu-like plague has ravaged the human population, leaving a few individuals to survive any way they can. Resources are scarce and it is a struggle to survive in a hostile and decaying environment. Some individuals band together to form gangs, like Rat's bunch of lawless opportunists. Others seek to protect what remains of their families and try to avoid trouble. Lost Tales 3: Rat Attack, plus bonus story 'Ambush'. Gang leader Rat roars across a destroyed landscape, leading his gang of motorbike marauders armed with a newly found cache of automatic weapons. Rat is bent on ...

Yet more action and adventure set in the Families post-apocalyptic world. This is a second volume of stories complementing 'The Old Store: A Science Fiction Anthology'. If it had only been the occasional peril befalling the Families in their acquisition of new stocks of fuel and ammo, things might have gone more smoothly. The presence of Rat's gang, Snake's deserters and Snake's bid to retake what he'd lost combine to add to the danger. Editor's note This second volume of four 'Lost Tales' is published in conjunction with the twenty-six entirely different episodes already existing in 'The ...