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A ship under siege. A world on the brink of civil war. A distraught people seeking a new beginning. A battle weary crew that can barely hold it together. Even a legend can use a little help from time to time. The crew of the Aurora, the Karuzari, and the Corinairans must find a way to work together, or else they may all perish.

In a world of energy, anything is probable Mina had a quiet, simple life – until she agreed, in a moment of stunned trauma, she agreed to help two Den’shu who happened to cross her path. Now things are complicated. Now she must learn to control a power that could be more devastating than her wildest wish. Now she must play cat and mouse with love and death. Now she finds herself in the strangest places, confronting the strangest circumstances, wishing, but oh, so carefully, that she had never set foot outside her pocket-space that fateful day-long. Now she must confront a dangerous new ...

Something finally mattered... Kreceno’Tiv was finally in Tertius, and on his way to a promising career. Getting through Tertius mattered. He was also on the path to finding a way to destroying the OSI. The initiative had destroyed equality on his world, and was pushing other citizens, not fortunate enough to have gotten into Tertius, off-world to unknown fates. Destroying the OSI mattered. And most important - he had the opportunity to find out his top level of Nil’Gu’ua, and find out he was capable of. Knowing his own Nil’Gu’ua mattered. Other dreams and aspirations - being mated...

In the mind of one person, all things are likely... Mina finally remembers who she is. What she is. And why she wanted to forget it all in the first place. Now that she can do anything, all she wants is to act normal. Now that she can be anything, she yearns most to be human, and accepted by other humans. Now, when even the Den’shu cringe at the sound of her name, she hangs on to her one saving grace in all of the insanity that her existence has become: love is love, no matter how it came to be. When enemies turn into friends, and friends turn out to be enemies, even the ends of the ...

In a universe of laws, even the impossible must fall in line. Mina Fannon lives an average life in a world of magic. She works, plays and subsists in this world, never really dreaming of anything more. So when she encounters two natives of the world of Den’shen, she does not expect her life to change in an instant. But when these two of the Den’shu, an old race used to the ways of magic, plead for her help, she cannot say no. And then everything goes awry. Can Mina solve a mystery that even the Den’shu can’t fathom? Can she avoid the grasp of powers that suddenly take notice? And ...

A voyage to the edge of the universe. The evolution of mankind into god-like super-beings. The explosion of the sun into a supernova. It's all happening in this historic artefact from the late-sixties/seventies. This is a Sci-fi novel, my very first Sci-fi novel, written in 1973-75 - typed on an old second-hand Remington typewriter. I've dusted it off so that I can reacquaint myself with an old friend - the person I used to be. It is a book of its time.

When a top‑secret bioengineered horror breaks free in the redwoods, ex‑weapons genius Jack Donovan must climb into towering mechs and face down razor‑clawed monstrosities in a battle for Earth’s survival. STINGERZ thrusts you into sun‑baked clearings and claustrophobic underground bunkers, where every chainsaw roar and missile salvo could be your last. Perfect for fans of high‑stakes sci‑fi action and bone‑chilling horror, this pulse‑pounding epic delivers mech warfare on an apocalyptic scale—with secrets lurking deeper than any crater left in its wake. Dread, steel, and...

On the resource-rich frontier planet Ricardia, geology specialist Dr. Aris Thorne operates under the iron fist of Axiom Security's contracts, where data is treasure and discovery is strictly controlled. Tasked with surveying a desolate claim bloc, Thorne's methodical work uncovers more than just valuable ores; she finds Anomaly Kilo-Seven, a perplexing geological structure beneath a hydrothermal vent, hinting at secrets far more profound than anything Axiom bargained for. When Axiom designates her potentially monumental finding "low priority" and redirects her focus, Aris realizes that on ...

Book Two of The Lerem Must Rise Promises Lerem must rise. That is the promise. Lerem must rise. That is the price. Mener is a child of the Tribe E’Ler, and a direct descendant of Ogan, the very first Speaker of E’Lerem. The promise of a Lerem-home arising from the birth-sea had been fulfilled, and generations without count had lived, loved, and died on E’Lerem. But things had changed. Lerem did not stay forever. E’Lerem had been silent for hundreds of migrations. The Speakers were almost powerless. And as Mener looked around him, he slowly began to realize – Tribe E’Ler was ...

The largest Geomagnetic Storm of all-time hits a totally unprepared planet Earth! It sends the Western Interconnection power grid crashing down. Blackouts cover the entire Western US. Geomagnetically induced ground currents short out everything which is electronic, including computers, nearly all vehicles, appliances, cellphones, and even electronic watches. The Western US is thrown back into the pre-electronic stone age. And the loss of offsite power at the three reactor Palo Verde nuclear plant threatens to create an even greater secondary radiological release and environmental disaster! ...

Tanis is looking forward to a long journey in stasis before arriving at the newly terraformed world of New Eden. New Life. New Start. Getting a berth on the Intrepid is her ticket out of the Sol System. But nothing proves easy for Major Tanis Richards. Nothing is at it seems. What should be a simple trip is fraught with danger and filled with adventure. An array of forces seek to stop the Intrepid - no matter the cost, or lives lost. From competing corporations, to stellar eco-terrorists, no one wants the Intrepid to arrive at New Eden.

"The Twin Paradox is one of the best science thrillers to come along since Andy Weir's The Martian." — Chris Weitz, Screenwriter, Rogue One With ten years passing for every three minutes on a remote stretch of Texas coast, planes fall out of the sky, evolved species are on the hunt, and people die inside one of the most vicious ecosystems ever grown—all a result of the government’s efforts to slow down time. A lot can happen in ten years. That’s the point. Governments are always racing for supremacy, for scientific breakthroughs, for technological advantages—and these things take ...

Lt. Commander Jack Reilly was setting into his new life, married, with a new baby, and a career in the Fleet JAG office on New Harmony, where he excelled. But a new investigation into a missing cargo ship uncovers a much bigger conspiracy against the Alliance, and questions about the loyalties of his AIs threaten to unravel his home life.

From the #1 bestselling author of the Noah Hunter series, and Grim Measures, comes the sequel to Edge of Time. Where a former FBI agent and time traveler Brad Sheppard is once again thrust into the quantum realm so there will be a future worth returning to. Former FBI agent and time traveler Brad Sheppard witnesses an impossible murder in the Late Middle Ages, but upon returning to the present, his family has vanished. History has been rewritten. With nothing left to lose, Brad tears through the quantum realm and the centuries, desperate to restore his wife and daughter. But he must do so ...

The day that changed Melody's life was like any other over the previous two years. She'd found she had a gift for writing, and her career as an author had almost healed the pain of losing her job. When the Secret Service rang her bell, everything changed. Something was nearing Saturn…and it was slowing down. Had she been right about the object?

As a newly appointed junior manager within the Laundry - the clandestine organization responsible for protecting Britain against supernatural threats - Bob Howard is expected to show some initiative to help the agency battle the forces of darkness. But shining a light on things best left in the shadows is the last thing Bob wants to do - especially when those shadows hide an occult parasite spreading a deadly virus. Traders employed by a merchant bank in London are showing signs of infection.

Set in 2082, Peter Watts' Blindsight is fast-moving, hard SF that pulls readers into a futuristic world where a mind-bending alien encounter is about to unfold. After the Firefall, all eyes are locked heavenward as a team of specialists aboard the self-piloted spaceship Theseus hurtles outbound to intercept an unknown intelligence.

The Pharashian Republic’s psychopathic leader has instigated a catastrophic civil war within the Terran Empire. With the coming collapse of the Republic with the coming of a vindictive Imperial Navy, a group of ships with thousands of refugees led by Marcus Ambrose, Andrew Townsend and several Portal Ship commanders chose to escape the Republic before their worlds were scourged. Their aging Portal Ships failing, they found a world that seemed almost ideal to rebuild a civilization on that was far away from the savage conflict that they escaped from. But the struggle to rebuild is ...

His name was Biron Farrill and he was a student at the University of Earth. A native of one of the helpless Nebular Kingdoms, he saw his home world conquered and controlled by the planet Tyrann - a ruthless, barbaric Empire that was building a dynasty of cruelty and domination among the stars. Farrill’s own father had been executed for trying to resist the Tyrann dictatorship and now someone was trying to kill Biron. But why? His only hope for survival lay in fleeing Earth and joining the rebellion that was rumored to be forming somewhere in the Kingdoms.

The machine races demand a turn at the job, but the organics refuse to allow it. For more than a century, the Galactics have battled for supreme power. War and instability reign in place of peace, with every species spread over a hundred billion stars suffering as the Empire decays. James McGill discovers a scheme is underway. A new power is rising, determined to snatch the Throne from all the rest. Will this unite the Galactic Empire, or destroy it utterly?