Hard Science Fiction

With the seizure of an advanced freighter and its strategic cargo, James Van Wert is assigned to a combat vessel that possesses a groundbreaking new technology which the Fleet hopes will stop the insurgency. But James must first battle command infighting and the technological challenges of getting an untried ship ready for action, while the freighter captives travel to the heart of the enemy cabal to fight for their very lives.

The best steel is forged by the hottest fires and under the greatest pressures. So too, have the Kurdish Peshmerga been shaped by thousands of years of warfare and oppression. Now, for the first time in history, they have their own nation, and its a chance to live, grow, and develop as a unified people. But they are surrounded by hostile dictatorships intent on the destruction of their young republic.

Far into humanity's distant future, Naga, a whimsical superintelligent being, finds herself reborn. Her trusty companion Apollo – a quantum quintessence with an uncanny ability to predict the future - helps her throw a birthday party of cosmic proportions. Naga's children – Tartarus, Gaia, Iapetus and Mnemosyne – have mixed feelings about their newly reborn mother and about each other. Remembering their own trials and tribunals, they rediscover themselves and take a stab at understanding consciousnesses, complexity and what it means to be alive.

After their adventures in Nepal, Professor Elliot Brand and Nepalese agent Ashra Shah want to enjoy their summer in London together. But when Ashra is called back into action, her new mission leads to an ancient mystery that might be the greatest threat she and Elliot have ever faced.

Lux keeps inventing things or adapting alien tech (ancient tech to the aliens) because the active alien civilizations they discover through portals and probes have gone through cycles of war, decline, and rebirth several times. Lux further develops the portals using discovered alien tech. Earth empties refugee camps the UN was running (1,200,000) and sends them with a military escort for their "safety." The military sends many ships for escort duty with orders to take over the colony and use the refugees as a labor force.

Jacob Westergren, an expert in his field of study, gets paid to research the most sickening parasites known to man. But, even when he looks at the most appalling of the species, he does not see the intrusive ugliness that humanity does, he sees himself. He sees a vessel by which to purge himself of an amalgam of detestable emotions. Emboldened by promising experimentation, Jacob is anxious to unburden himself by sharing his emotional parasite, in physical form, with the rest of the world.

Charlotte Kensett: A woman born without the ability to feel empathy for others. The perfect recruit for British intelligence, although not all is as it seems. Finding herself the pawn in a high-stakes political game, Kensett must go on the run as she is branded a traitor by the country she serves.

The Star is an 1897 apocalyptic short story by H. G. Wells. Here is an impressive story based on the inter-action of planetary bodies and of the sun upon them. A great star is seen approaching the earth. At first it is only an object of interest to the general public, but there is an astronomer on the earth, who is watching each phase and making mathematical calculations, for he knows the intimate relation of gravitation between bodies and the effect on rotating bodies of the same force from an outside source. He fears all sorts of wreckage on our earth.

With the Borman suddenly out of commission and far beyond reach, cislunar space begins falling into chaos as critical satellites fail and valuable lunar mineral shipments begin disappearing in transit. Nothing is as it seems, and Marshall Hunter and the rest of the crew suspect none of it is by coincidence.

The year was 2034; the world had transformed into a digital utopia. Once a tool to simplify tasks, technology had become society's very fabric. Artificial intelligence managed everything from climate control to global finance, and virtual reality was the preferred mode of travel. Humanity has achieved unprecedented levels of efficiency and comfort. Yet, beneath this sleek veneer of progress, a digital storm was brewing.

In this story two men strike up a conversation and one reveals that he is, in fact, dead as the result of titanic war in the future. In this bold premise Wells once more reveals a startling and empathetic story.

Elton Cuauhtemoc John is taken hostage before he can start his dream job. Now, he & a multicultural science team are racing against humans’ inevitable self imposed demise to invent an Faster Than Light phone. After all, how useful is another Earth after civilization collapses?

The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident. Soon after arrival he discovers that Kiln has a secret. Humanity is not the first intelligent life to set foot there. In the midst a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem are the ruins of a civilization, but who were the vanished builders and where did they go?

In this book, Eva (Allie Dans) invites Witt to join her band EOD (Eve of Destruction) on a trial basis. When she’s attacked by an overenthusiastic fan one night, she protects herself using her ability to form small ports. Witt quickly recognizes the presence and power of her psychic talent. Then, when Ruchia invades Ucryn, Roni, and Hax decide that assassinating Pootin might stop the war. They recruit Witt to join them because their combined abilities should make such a task much easier. When Eva finds out about their plan, she wants to come along.

The Quantum Wayfarers are under attack. Their gates have been blown wide open, and a rift in the multiversal space-time continuum is now expanding on a lonely research planet within the cosmic boundaries of TriColony Sigma. The Court of Enigmus is subsequently called to arms, equipped only with Zira’s warnings of the ‘other-place’ and all the dangers it contains. He and Qaira are assigned to cross the rift, find out what has caused it, and amend its expansion.