Rock Opera

Exarch Devlin Stone, hero of the Word of Blake Jihad and architect of the Republic of the Sphere, has returned only to find his beloved nation under siege and in danger of breaking apart. As threats bear down on the Republic from all sides, Stone and his inner circle must move fast to bolster Terra’s defenses from all who seek to conquer the birthplace of humanity. However, not all of his allies have heeded Stone’s call to arms.

Captain Arturo Sanders was having a bad day. First the routine destruction of some ancient automatic defense batteries became a disaster, when his ship’s screens failed, and he had no choice to abandon ship. Then he had to rescue two left behind crew people, which meant he missed the main shuttle evacuation leaving him and his two companions in a shuttle on their own at the rear.

We have entered an age where we now have instant, unlimited, free access to the history of recorded music. We have the ability to listen across genres and eras. This is a world-wide phenomenon. This book is a guide to taking advantage of this astonishing new power. This book is also a way to appreciate one of our great cultural legacies; one that is very alive today. It is about American popular song and the body of work referred to as the Great American Songbook. These tunes are appreciated and treasured by listeners all over the world. This book is an effort to introduce you to the songs,...

Two worlds preparing their defenses.... A ship struggling to get back in the fight.... An enemy continuing its relentless attack.... A former enemy that could hold the answer.... With the fate of billions in his hands, Captain Scott is offered a way to save them all and end the bloodshed, but if it backfires, he could lose everything. Sometimes, there is no good choice.

Ensign Carol Hansen is six months out of Fleet University, and six months out of a toxic relationship that made no sense to anyone but her. Serving aboard Liberty is everything she had aspired to. But that sweet time comes to an abrupt, violent end when Liberty is destroyed in an unexpected attack. Carol is lucky enough to be "ashore" in the alien city below, and barely survives the death raining down from space.

Gods and demons seducing mortals. A war for Eden. Hot dark fantasy and reverse harem romance. Beneath the Vatican hides an ancient portal to alien worlds where gods and demons wait for the gate to open. Only Ashley Rowan can wield the key. Mithra has worked for centuries to find that rare human with the Nephilim genetics necessary to activate the key and open the sealed gateway. “Your patience is rewarded. I crossed rivers of time and space for you.” Ashley Rowan has no one in her life but the voice in her head, the sultry whispers of Mithra. He haunts her nightly dreams. “Pledge ...

In this much-anticipated final installment of The Preeminent War series, the Preeminent go 'all in' to crush the ISC Fleet and remove the hated 'Vermin' from their space. They're empowered with a new weapon: a deadly new ship whose real threat Cobra's brain trust can't decipher.

In his debut novel, rock legend Pete Townshend explores the anxiety of modern life and madness in a story that stretches across two generations of a London family, their lovers, collaborators, and friends. A former rock star disappears on the Cumberland moors. When his wife finds him, she...

Return to the greatest contest in the galaxy in this “beguiling, bewitching” (Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of the October Daye series) sequel to the hilarious USA TODAY bestseller Space Opera from New York Times bestselling author and finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, World...

Far away in the Sea of Tranquility is the Island of Infinity, home to the world's lost creatures. Infinity has a secret for the world but Moog, a boy from Battersea in London, and Rockford his dog are the only ones who can deliver its message. Travelling to Infinity, Moog and Rockford are drawn into an adventure that threatens the entire human race. At its heart Lost on Infinity, the first adventure from Rockford's Rock Opera, is a tale about extinction. But it's a hopeful story that shows that even the smallest creatures, and humans, can make the biggest difference.

Carol Hansen and her Antares shipmates are going back to solve the mystery they found at Beta Hydri, taking a retinue of academics with them. But back at Fleet HQ, there is growing frustration about how to run a war when a light-year-per-day just doesn’t seem nearly fast enough.

Systemwide’s ship Sierra-22 has suddenly gone quiet. In the International Space Council mining fleet, that never happens. OK, well, it did happen once before, and Systemwide Rare Earth Recovery Services CEO Liz Galloway still remembers her father Lucas delivering a deafening red-faced lecture before firing that captain, and it never happened again. Until today.

The book shares with you the Eternal Games of life. The games and all the energy platforms of existence before you retire your quest and just go home to GOD. From Steven Machat, the renaissance man who used a lifetime of experience with music and film, a rock n’ roller’s perspective, who has lived everywhere and studied the arts and sciences of those beings who shared this quest from our globe, comes answers on how we are created and why.

Welcome to future-shock. Hold on tight and buckle yourselves in, because the future is on a relentless onslaught, for better or worse. This is a collection of the short speculative fiction of Gabriel Walker Land. Most stories are flash fiction, meaning less than 1000 words. Each contains a story of mystery, action, romance, and suspense.

Randy Forstmann was destined to be a multi-multi-billionaire, but that was hard to see as he labored for seven years of patient experimentation in his skeptical father's basement. Coached by a brilliant but eccentric mentor, and supported by his wife Kenna and sister Dagny, Randy discovers the secret to achieving previously impossible speeds: gravitons. Lots and lots of gravitons. And, of course, anti-gravitons. After long years in that old basement, he makes the breakthrough he was looking for, and then is faced with finding the path to turn a small prototype into a practical system.

A Hard-Boiled Detective in a Lawless Belt Out past the orbit of Mars, where the sun’s just another cold star, the asteroids don’t belong to Earth anymore. They belong to whoever can hold them. And right now, someone is trying to own the people who live on them—one lethal dose at a time. The drug is called mxRNA. It rewrites your genes, turns you into whatever its makers want: super-soldier, compliant worker, or quiet corpse. When a body turns up in the abandoned supply tunnels of Ceres Station, gutted and glowing with rogue code, the only man crazy enough to take the case is Robert ...

Tredd Bounty is a navy reject turned bounty hunter, living in the grimy world of Spit City on orbit around gas giant Heeg. When he is given the chance to take on a dangerous yet lucrative mission to find and capture the mysterious Starcrasher device, rumored to have the power to move the stars themselves, it seems like his luck is about to turn. He gathers a motley crew: an ex-navy pilot suffering from random black-outs; a Jindalar groupie hiding a shocking secret; a strapping Andron mechanic unable to step foot on any planet; and an eccentric doctor.

Far away in the Sea of Tranquility is the Island of Infinity, home to the last one of every extinct animal species. This is where the sticky Cocklebur Ick must now find a home. But her search brings her into the domain of the mysterious King of Nowhere, the most feared creature on Infinity. The King of Nowhere, the second adventure from Rockford's Rock Opera, is a tale about extinction and redemption. It's a hopeful story that shows that even the smallest creatures can make the biggest difference and that although we may sometimes may feel lost, there is always hope.

EPISODE 7: In 2719, long after Earth is destroyed during a Space War, humanity is scattered all over the galaxy as a minority of homeless refugees. Suffering rejection and mistreatment by xenophobic aliens, warmongers, and all kinds of privateers, the humans will do anything to survive, even go to the extreme. (Standalone version.) Available also in print as part of the STARCALL Anthology, Vol.1, illustrated by the author.

Since this rock opera is based on my Baby Boomer generation, the war representing my father was of course WWII. Although my father fought in the South Pacific, this story is more symbolic by starring an American soldier in Europe. During this European theater of war, the soldiers socialized with the citizens of the countries they passed through and fought in. As a result, there were many babies born in Europe with an absent American father.