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The first US / UN invasion of the renegade lunar colony of Aristillus has failed - but the powers-that-be in Washington and elsewhere can't give up. Their political careers - and an escape from the economic decline of Earth under a command-and-control economy - depend on conquering the lunar expats. A second - and final - invasion is planned. The lunar settlers prepare to repel the onslaught, but what can a small population of 1 million do against the combined might of billions on Earth - especially now that the PKs have the secret of the antigravity drive?

Earth in 2064 is politically corrupt and in economic decline. The Long Depression has dragged on for 56 years, and the Bureau of Sustainable Research is hard at work making sure no new technologies disrupt the planned economy. Ten years ago, a band of malcontents, dreamers, and libertarian radicals bolted privately developed antigravity drives onto rusty seagoing cargo ships, loaded them to the gills with 20th-century tunnel-boring machines and earthmoving equipment, and set sail - for the moon.

When you're a time trader - someone with a ship that can hop sideways across the millions of alternate timelines - the big money isn't in technology or science, it's in entertainment. There are some universes where George Lucas didn't die on the set of American Graffiti but instead went on to make a space fantasy classic. In other universes there's a movie called "Dune" by Jodorowsky. And in some there's a guy named Tolkien who wrote a sequel to "The Hobbit". Ask any timetrader and he'll tell you: put three things together - buyer, seller, and product - and that's where the magic happens. ...

In 2055, nine years before the events of The Powers of the Earth, US Special Forces soldier John Hayes discovers a secret research project that's being shut down by the Bureau of Sustainable Research. Are the reports of uplifted dogs - creatures genetically engineered to have human intelligence - true? Can John sit by while bureaucrats end the project - and incinerate all the inconvenient evidence?

It was weird how the apocalypse snuck up on you. In the movies, there was always the one big event - the nuclear war, the virus infected monkey that bites the animal rights protester, whatever - and then everything goes to shit in the next 15 minutes. Reality wasn't like that, though. In the real world, things went to shit step by step by step, so slowly that you barely noticed, but then every now and then you look up and see it with fresh eyes, and wonder how the hell it got to be like this. At first the chance of the asteroid Mammon hitting was 1 in 1,000. Then 1 in 100. Then 1 in 10. For...

A zombie apocalypse is bad enough if you're far out in the country - but what happens when you're trapped in a two story brick building in the dense suburbs of Boston, and the streets around you are a sea of biters? Most people would give up and accept their fate...but Chris, Todd, Stacy and David aren't most people. They've got unique skills ... but also unique handicaps. Todd is the building's maintenance guy who can weld, cut, and build ... but he's also fighting a losing battle with the bottle. Chris is a hacker, who can scrape data from the web before the internet crashes for the last ...