Space Colony

Mars and the Moon have been colonized, piracy runs rampant in the asteroid belts, and a thriving society grows in the depths of space. Humanity prepares to embark upon its greatest journey - the colonization of Alpha Centauri. Then, everything changes. A deep space reconnaissance probe discovers a new Earth-like planet 12 light-years from Earth’s sun. The probe also finds something unusual, something unnerving. A new mission is created, a space fleet is formed, and humanity embarks on unravelling the greatest mystery of all - the origins of life itself.

Zero, Nyx, and the other Pathfinder colonists have adjusted to life on Kaguya. But Earth has built much faster starships-the Dreamcatcher arrives 10 years early, and the Stargazer arrives so early it actually got there before the Pathfinder did! Now the Stargazer is a lost shipwreck, and the race is on to find it, and who should show up looking for it but Nyx's dangerous family: Big Mama, Jim, and Kratt. Nyx and Zero will face kidnappers, pirates, shipwrecks, warlords, dragons, and maybe a new ally or two on their way to save the day once again.

The Starship Atlantis takes you on an unforgettable journey through the extraordinary. From alien civilizations and rogue AI to desperate missions on the brink of collapse, these stories will transport you across the stars into the heart of the unknown. This anthology features six never-before-published novellas and short stories, plus two exclusive bonus tales.

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 – ...

Orphaned on a struggling colony world, Finn was barely scraping out a living when he stumbled upon a life-changing discovery—an intact alien spaceship. Ill-prepared, but forced to flee the local crime syndicate, he stakes his future on surviving the starways with the extraordinary living ship and a mysterious spidery creature. But freedom among the starways is far from easy in a sector that is expanding faster than it can be regulated. Finn’s perils only get worse when his past begins to catch up with him. Some journeys require bold decisions, some need stout friendship, but truly ...

Tom Savage is intent on homesteading, and Phaethon is the newest planet open for colonization. Here, technology is lacking in many places. And for 200 credits, anyone can claim one square kilometer of prime farmland. But Tom has a secret or two. He is not interested in farming crops, at least not at first. Tom wants to harvest pieces of Phaethon’s sun. To do so will mean first reaching his stake out near the desert, surviving human predators along the way, bringing fugitives to justice, and dealing with the resident sand dragon population. All in a day’s work for your local star farmer...

Terror stalks a new world colony. After nearly two hundred years’ travel, humanity’s first deep space colony expedition has arrived at its new home. Ethan, the descendant of six generations who lived and died aboard ship, treads on soil and feels the wind and rain for the first time. But the new planet is not the paradise the scientists predicted. Alien predators lurk beyond the camp’s perimeter, and stowaway saboteurs are determined no one will survive. Tensions in the new colony rise, and Ethan must fight to preserve the last hope of humankind.

After nearly two hundred years space travel, humanity's first deep space colony expedition has arrived at its new home. Ethan, the descendant of six generations who lived and died aboard ship, treads on soil and feels the wind and rain for the first time. But the new planet is not the paradise the scientists predicted. Alien predators lurk beyond the camps perimeter, and stowaway saboteurs are determined no one will survive. Tensions in the new colony rise, and Ethan must fight to preserve the last hope of humankind.

The world is doomed, and time is running out. In the near future, a stellar collision with a rogue planet destabilizes the sun’s fusion output, turning it into a ticking time bomb. With the ever-increasing heat, earth will become uninhabitable within a decade. A handful of individuals will determine whether humanity survives: NASA scientist Dr. Olivia Quinn must outwit a corrupt government system and warn the public before it’s too late. Veteran astronaut Valerie McKinnon and her crew are in a race against time to build a space colony that could rescue a multitude of lives. And ...

This author has over 4,500 four- and five-star ratings on Amazon What does a wealthy businessman do when he becomes bored with his life of luxury and ease? Imagine secretly buying his passage onto the first interstellar sleeper ship. After a hundred years traveling on the ship, he will wake on a virgin planet with unspoiled seas, vast continents, clean air, and new challenges to face. It all sounds perfect. maybe too perfect. A chance to start over again, prove his mettle. It may be a good plan... but nothing ever works out that easy. A daughter with a mind of her own, the Earth-First ...

All that remains of human civilization is a fledgling colony on Concordia, a planet light years from Earth. Infighting and disaster dogged the colony’s earliest days, but through the determination and bravery of a few individuals, the remnants of humankind have clung to existence. One of the grittiest of these characters is Cherry Lindstrom. A farmer turned freedom fighter, she helped to lead the generational colonists’ rebellion. Now she must travel to the Galactic Assembly and persuade the leading powers to accept humans into their alliance.

Zero is just one of 20,000 people aboard a spaceship bound for a new planet set to be colonized. The journey is over a century long but luckily, everyone is in stasis, so they’ll be safe and sound asleep during the trip. Everyone that is, except for Zero, whose pod has malfunctioned, waking him up a hundred years early. His initial excitement in roaming the ship alone quickly turns to a heart-stopping interstellar adventure when a family of space pirates show up, trying to hijack the ship and take the colonizers hostage.

By the beginning of the twenty-second century, Earth's man-created problems, including overpopulation and climate change caused by global warming, caused Earth's powers to look to the stars for living space. A search began immediately for a likely new home for humanity. It seemed a hopeless task, but after a long and intensive search a planet that was almost a twin of Earth was discovered in a nearby system. After a short exploratory period, colonists were hurriedly recruited, prepared both mentally and physically, and placed in cryogenic pods for the five-year trip. Young Mark Jennings's ...

NINE OVER-THE-TOP INSANE INSTALOVE STANDALONES IN ONE WILD BUNDLE! THIS IS INSTA-LOVE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN . . . ANNABELLE WINTERS STYLE! THIS BOX SET CONTAINS: THE TEACHER AND THE TRAINER (97 pages) THE LIBRARIAN AND THE COP (98 pages) THE LAWYER AND THE COWBOY (96 pages) THE PRINCESS AND THE PIRATE (80 pages) THE CEO AND THE SOLDIER (98 pages) THE ASTRONAUT AND THE ALIEN (99 pages) THE QUILTER AND THE QUARTERBACK (117 pages) THE BOTANIST AND THE BIKER (131 pages) THE PSYCHIC AND THE SENATOR (77 pages) AND EACH BOOK CONTAINS: OVER-THE-TOP STEAM! (Yes, we're going there . . . ;)) OVER-THE...

On the lost colony planet of Croatoan, the job of the police force is to keep the peace, even if it means turning a blind eye to all varieties of crimes. DCI Lutero Cade knows how to play the game – but when it comes to murder, he is more than willing to rock the boat. Now, with a serial killer on the loose, Cade knows he’s about to do a whole lot of boat rocking.

Launching the Colony is the first of two volumes revised and expanded from the original Colonization Chronical. This volume follows teenager Ricky Cruz and his family as they migrate from their successful farm to be first wave settlers on the newly terraformed planet Murna. Ricky becomes part of the crew as a repair technician and shuttle pilot. Plagued with problems from the start, Ricky begins investigating the source of the problems and discovers their ship has been deliberately sabotaged in an attempt to prevent them from being the first settlers on their new home, therefore preventing ...

Founding the Colony is the second of two volumes revised and expanded from the original Colonization Chronical. This volume follows Ricky and his family after they reach Murna, after overcoming seemingly impossible system and component failures to their ship while escaping two separate piratical attacks. One of the first colonists to step foot on his new planets, he immediately begins establishing his farmstead with his girlfriend Edin. Using technology he has developed, Ricky is able to communicate directly with his Grammy back on Earth. He is concerned the ansible network may be ...

Out from under my brother’s thumb, I want only one thing: survive. Falling for my green protector? Definitely not part of the plan. Elyssa I’ve spent my life under my brother’s iron control. When I finally escape, my goal is simple: deliver the data I stole to the one person I can trust. But fate has other ideas. An explosion leaves me stranded and surrounded by my brother’s vengeful gang. Desperate, I have no choice but to trust the last male I should—a green-skinned, feral warrior who’s as deadly as he is tempting. Tass claims he’s here to protect me, but the look in his ...

Otis Hale signed up for one last job. He knew the mission was one-way: a colony expedition to a world at the edge of human space, where older settlers would build a foothold the young could one day inherit. At first, it looks like exactly what they were promised: harsh terrain, failing systems, and too much work for too few hands. Then the world starts breaking the rules. The colony begins to uncover signs that this planet is more than a bad bet and a death sentence. Hidden structures. Impossible technology. Phenomena no briefing ever mentioned.

Duty, love and war are a lethal mix. Val Standish is a farm girl on Nadolo Prime, and everyone knows there's only one way off that backwater planet: joining the Imperial Fleet. When an empire-spanning civil war breaks out, the peaceful life she knows is shattered. With war engulfing the Empire, Standish will do whatever it takes to survive, never knowing that her adventures will take her to the very heart of power, while exposing her to more danger than she’d ever imagine. Standish is a full-length standalone space opera novel in the Earth Saga series. Start here for thrilling space ...