Human Colonies

OUT OF TIME – LAUNCH POINT (Book 1) A colony ship launches toward humanity’s hope… and arrives four centuries too late. In 2258 the Aurora leaves Saturn’s shipyards carrying hundreds of scientists, colonists, and the frozen genetic archive of an entire civilization. Their destination: Kepler-452 b, an Earth-class world 1 400 light-years away. Thanks to antimatter drives and a bleeding-edge Alcubierre warp bubble, the one-way trip will take the crew just twelve subjective months… while millennia race by back home. Captain Aveline Morrow leads a hand-picked team: John Ferris – ...

In what is considered one of Heinlein's most hair-raising, thought-provoking, and outrageous adventures, the master of modern science fiction tells the strange story of an even stranger world. It is 21st-century Luna, a harsh penal colony where a revolt is plotted between a bashful computer and a ragtag collection of maverick humans, a revolt that goes beautifully until the inevitable happens. But that's the problem with the inevitable: it always happens.

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life -- but it was their mission to...

The moving, inspiring David-and-Goliath true story of freedom and justice involving one tiny nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa, and the extraordinary woman, a descendant of slaves, who dared to take on the Crown and the United Kingdom—and win a historic victory In 1973, on the...

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo...

Twice abducted. That’s me—always unlucky until I met him. Kara I never thought I'd end up homeless inside a terrifying alien spaceport. Everyone seems out to get me, with danger lurking around every corner—until I meet him. Rex is huge, four-armed, and always silent, thanks to a knot of scars on his throat. He doesn’t need words to draw me out from my hiding spot; his gestures say it all. With him, I’m safe. His touch sets my blood on fire, and his protectiveness may be the only thing standing between me and more enemies than I care to count. Rex I never thought I’d find my mate...

How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history? I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to...

The Colony Blueprint: A Story of Human Survival and Socioeconomic Harmony By Alexious Fiero What if nature has already solved the very problem we’re trying to figure out? What if the secret to humanity’s survival—and our thriving future—is hidden in the organizational genius of the humble ant, the neural networks of slime molds, or the harmony of coral reefs? In The Colony Blueprint, visionary thinker Alexious Fiero reimagines humanity through the lens of biology, technology, economics, and consciousness—asking the bold question: What would it look like if humans chose to become a...

A mercenary outcast with a perversion no one cared to think about. A holy leader, who knows her people are on the verge of great upheaval - and who wants to know more about this new tribe of demons. A battle-mother, possibly the greatest battle-mother who ever lived - if the rules of her tribe don't force her into a battle even she can't win. A keeper of the secrets of history who would control the tides of fate - if only she could. A paleobiologist with a terrible sense of humor. They are all revolutionaries, but none of them expected anything like what they're about to experience.

You are going to love this book as it will most certainly eliminate many of the questions you are having about the Old Testament of the Bible. Unlike what you possibly were told, there are actually 12 different Genesis books written during ancient times. Some were source books for Moses writing his version, but all have been accepted in one way or another by Christian groups around the world. By Cross-comparison, instead making up missing potions, we follow the Apostle Paul's command to read "All SCRIPTURES FOR ENLIGHTENMENT". Don't push truth away truth for comfort or desire to have ...

Dr. Isak Corell is a curator of dead things, an archivist of Earth’s lost ecosystems. But when he is exiled to the Pavonis Mons colony on Mars, he finds a world on the brink of asphyxiation. The nitrogen is running out. The terraforming has failed. And Earth, governed by a paralyzed bureaucracy terrified of risk, has cut the supply lines. With 500 days of air remaining, Isak realizes the machines cannot be fixed. The only solution is to fix the operator. Partnering with a rogue physicist and a disgraced engineer, Isak initiates "The Somatic Bridge"—a radical retroviral therapy designed ...

The Third book in the A.B.I.L. Trilogy The Year is 2074. ABIL is persuaded to abandon his lunar colony and come back to earth by another cry for help. Once more, ABIL races to save his human friends from a potentially apocalyptic situation when an outdated Morse Code message sparks concerns about the start of singularity. A brand-new breed of advanced android has been set free. Will mankind inevitably face extinction? Are the droids aggressive, or are they just trying to protect themselves from DomeWorld’s military and the scientists who are eager to unravel their origins? It’s clear ...

Nobody mentioned notorious space pirates worried about housing issues, but Moire Cameron must plan for enemy attacks--with even more people to protect than her crew. Increasingly desperate as her options vanish and Toren closes in, can she refuse any alliance? Even with the enemy? The triumphal, action-packed conclusion to the Sequoyah trilogy.

Everything works on Raven--unlike some ships Moire Cameron crewed on. No excuses left. Somebody created Alan, an eight-year-old boy in an adult body, and she needs to hunt them down and stop them. But can she destroy the facility and rescue the other created children? Or will she be forced to choose? Continuing the fast-paced adventure of The Long Way Home, the second book in the Sequoyah trilogy adds more mysteries and reveals more secrets of the space frontier...

Short Sci-Fi stories from the Lighter Side of yesterday and all your tomorrows; alternative todays; and all those maybe times in between. From orbits and vectors the other side of the spiral arm, to the smoking field at the back of the Yew Tree pub. From Boudicca's helping hand, to the secret behind Toothsavers; Why did the mountain have to move to Mohr? Have the Potens got this Planetary Takeover quite right? It's Absolutely Disgusting, isn't it? the way these immigrants seem to hate everyone on the planet? You only Have One Vote - How important can that be? You turn your back for five ...

The stories you’ve dreamed of; the people you crave to meet; or would love to be. The aliens who’d make you shiver, or laugh. The huge risks of guiding your spacecraft here, or there. The adventures you’d have if only you had the nerve… Or the utter romance of doing that… The humour of orbital disasters and alien conflicts; the perils of ill-advised time-interference; the sheer romance of null-gravity love; the terrors of a leaky hull; the fear of a bullying boss when you’re a thousand light years beyond.; the choices you face in the big, black Vac. Mostly a laugh or a satisfied...

The stories you’ve dreamed of; the people you crave to meet; or would love to be. The aliens who’d make you shiver, or laugh. The huge risks of guiding your spacecraft here, or there. The adventures you’d have if only you had the nerve… Or the utter romance of doing that… The humour of orbital disasters and alien conflicts; the perils of ill-advised time-interference; the sheer romance of null-gravity love; the terrors of a leaky hull; the fear of a bullying boss when you’re a thousand light years beyond.; the choices you face in the big, black Vac. Mostly a laugh or a satisfied...

Seven ships to conquer a world. In the 23rd century humanity is now using implants, marketed as the replacement to cellphones, to give themselves a virtual heaven on Earth. Unfortunately for them, the Heuristic Integrated Sentient System, the AI that created the implants, has other ideas. After ruthlessly culling the population, HISS relents, allowing a few thousands of the most militant to escape off-world, only because the price of their extermination is too high, and not for lack of trying. Now, Sofia Franke, former crippled refugee from the planet Charybdis, is piloting the frigate CFS ...

As a Di-ore, Anna was supposed to entertain. She hadn’t actually braced herself for an amorous king when she was sent to the realm of Anka, king of Charra. Anna had accepted that it might happen that she would be expected to grace the bed of the barbarian king—not that it would. But Anka was king and he did not give a flying fuck what the sky people expected to get out of their offer of a Di-ore. As soon as he had gotten his first, thorough look, he decided he wanted—and what he wanted, he took, and the hell with the consequences. What Anka had not expected was that he jumped so fast ...

Twenty-two of the brightest and darkest tales in the universe. The funniest and the most sobering stories in this world. Aspects and incidents on other worlds, and everywhere between them. - How could you forget where you left your spaceship? - The greater your ambition, the more suffering you put up with, right, Ky'at? - You're mining an asteroid, and something is stealing from the heaps of ore; trouble is, it's very fast, jumpy, and ship-sized. - The planet has been totally neglected by its previous owner; do you really want to take it on? - The vast colony globe overshot on arrival. Now ...