Fiction New Colonies

In her illuminating debut novel, Aimie K. Runyan masterfully blends fact and fiction to explore the founding of New France through the experiences of three young women, Rose, Nicole, and Elisabeth, who, in 1667, answer Louis XIV's call and journey to the Canadian colony. Known as the filles du roi, their duty is to marry and bring forth a new generation of loyal citizens. Despite their different backgrounds, all three women believe that marriage to a stranger is their best, perhaps only, chance of happiness.

Today's billionaires (you know the ones) are building spaceships and are convinced our future must be made on Mars. Colony's Dawn imagines life in a sealed colony after a couple of centuries where no one had ever stepped outside or seen the sky. Not everyone is content to fill their role.

Life has become something new and vastly different. Gift and her friends have begun the exciting adventure of exploring the wondrous outside. A breathable—though not quite fully livable—environment beyond the domes and corridors. Communication and regular trade with The Russian Federation was going well. The New Europa colony saw the dawn of a new era for humanity. Acclimation to the outside environment was priority one. Creeping to second was talk of mysterious outsiders. What new challenges awaited? What unimaginable obstacles were about to manifest for Gift and her friends?

Terpsichore can't wait to follow in Laura Ingalls Wilder's footsteps...now she just has to convince her mom. It's 1934, and times are tough for their family. To make a fresh start, Terpsichore’s father signs up for President Roosevelt's Palmer Colony project, uprooting them from Wisconsin to become pioneers in Alaska. Their new home is a bit of a shock - it's a town still under construction in the middle of the wilderness, where the residents live in tents and share a community outhouse. But Terpsichore’s not about to let first impressions get in the way of this grand adventure.

Bell has spent his whole life—all eleven years of it—on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid—he loves cats and any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't they have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It's up to Bell—a regular kid in a very different world—to uncover the truth and save his family...and possibly unite an entire planet.

Supernatural investigators Ben McKelvie and Lindsay Clark and cryptozoologist Richard Severance face their deadliest challenge yet. In the New Jersey Pine Barrens, a man named Henry Drexler operates a private compound that welcomes all visitors - so long as they're racists, neo-Nazis, or otherwise in cahoots with the alt-right. But Drexler is no mere Hitler wannabe. Once he was Severance's mentor, and his research may well have summoned a monster to the Pine Barrens. To find out the truth, Ben and Lindsay must enter the camp incognito.

Kolonie Neumond: Menschliche Kolonisten verließen die zerstörte Erde und wollten sich auf einem entfernten Mond ein eigenes Utopia erschaffen. Doch die Besiedelung geschieht nicht ohne Folgen für die Ureinwohner des Himmelskörpers und ein Konflikt ist unausweichlich. Die Menschheit steht erneut in Gefahr, durch eigene Fehler endgültig ausgerottet zu werden. Band 1 - Krieg: Es beginnt, wie vieles endet: mit Krieg. Luna Peterson wächst behütet in der Stadt "Neumond" auf, mit der sich menschliche Kolonisten auf dem entfernten Mond "Predyl" ein Utopia erschaffen wollten.

Mit der Gefangennahme der ärgsten Widersacherin ist General Avrael seinem Ziel, die Menschheit auszurotten, einen großen Schritt nähergekommen, und er versucht alles, die junge Frau zu brechen. Ein Frieden der beiden Völker scheint unerreichbar. Lunas letzte Chance verlangt ein großes Opfer, das nicht nur sie selbst bereit sein muss zu geben.

Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth; and the defiant Hester Prynne, who, unwilling to name her partner in adultery, is condemned to wear a scarlet "A" on the breast of her gown for the remainder of her life.

Venture into the unknown and be captivated by a tale of resilience, adaptation, and familial strength with "Beyond the Cosmic Threshold" – an enthralling science fiction odyssey interwoven with the rich tapestry of family drama. Amidst the backdrop of the verdant and mysterious planet Eridani, a small human colony stands as a beacon of hope and new beginnings. However, for the Vale family, their interstellar relocation to escape the mundane existence of Earth unfurls into a profound journey of loss, challenge, and reinvention. When tragedy forcibly rips the patriarch from the Vale ...

Band 3: Luna beschließt, Lionels Trupp zu verlassen und sich dem Predyl Biran anzuschließen, der bald mehr als nur ein bloßer Beschützer für sie ist. Sie bekommt Einblick in das Leben der Ureinwohner und lernt mehr über ihre Kultur, Gebräuche und auch Denkweisen. Gemeinsam versuchen sie, die verheerende Feindschaft zwischen den Spezies zu beenden und gegen Hass und Vorurteile von beiden Seiten anzukämpfen.

Band 4: General Avrael, der Führer der predylischen Armee, ist besessen darauf, alle menschlichen Eindringlinge auf seinem Mond zu vernichten. Luna und Biran sehen sich einem erbitterten und mächtigen Feind gegenüber, gegen dessen Armee es kein Entrinnen zu geben scheint. Ihr Vorhaben, Frieden zu schaffen, wird immer unerreichbarer.

Band 2: Nachdem der Ureinwohner Biran ihr das Leben gerettet hat, schlägt sich Luna alleine durch die kriegszerstörte Stadt Neumond. Nach und nach trifft sie auf andere Überlebende, die den Predylern entkommen konnten. Luna gibt die Hoffnung nicht auf, dass irgendwann ihr Bruder Lionel lebendig unter den Geflohenen sein wird. Doch die feindlichen Soldaten dringen immer weiter in die Stadt hinein. Um der Ausrottung zu entgehen, müssen die letzten Menschen Neumond verlassen und in der kargen Natur zurechtkommen.

Lia Johansen was created for only one purpose: to slip onto the strategically placed New Sol Space Station and explode. But her mission goes to hell when her clock malfunctions, freezing her countdown with just two minutes to go. With no Plan B, no memories of her past, and no identity besides a name stolen from a dead POW, Lia has no idea what to do next. Her life gets even more complicated when she meets Michael Sorenson, the real Lia's childhood best friend.

London, 1807: William Thornhill makes a mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales. The Thornhills arrive in a harsh and alien land that they do not understand. When William claims a hundred acres for himself, he is shocked to find Aboriginal people already living on it - and that other recent arrivals are finding their own ways to respond to them. Soon William has to make the most difficult decision of his life.