The moon has fallen. In possibly the most epic space story of all time, Speed, a lunar sports hero, faces out-of-this-world challenges, after the moon tragically falls to earth. Speed's life will never be the same, but great character and determination could save his friends and family.The moon has fallen. In possibly the most epic space story of all time, Speed, a lunar sports hero, faces out-of-this-world challenges, after the moon tragically falls to earth. Speed's life will never be the same, but great character and determination could save his friends and family.LaCrosse has breathed life into classic themes with complex new alien cultures, letting unique human virtues shine through the dark corridors of space and time. Ender's Game meets Lord of the Rings meets Goosebumps, in a unique mash-up of science fiction and fantasy, with some elements of horror.Children, Young Adults, and the young at heart will love this romp through space and time, battling monsters and learning to cope with challenges on a galactic scale.Spoilers!In a world where a substance called vapor dominates an intergalactic economy, a lowly earthling must use wits and cunning to fight space vampires able to change physical form.Speed has discovered a terrifying secret about the robots which are supposed to govern humanity. Before he gets a chance to correct this galactic programming error, Speed is abducted by a powerful alien species.After Speed learns to cope with his new situation, gain some new friends, and endure brutal combat training, Speed must fight a final battle where the fate of the galaxy will be decided.With a cliffhanger to match all cliffhangers, Battle Moon 2075: Ramming Speed is perhaps the most epic story ever imagined, and a fitting start to the Battle Moon: 2075 saga. To Be Continued...

Isaac Bolachek isn't exactly cut out for a zombie apocalypse. He's not athletic, doesn't like guns, and prefers tinkering with electronics over road warrior heroics. In a world now over-run with the walking dead, he feels even more out of place than usual. Then again, maybe he's the hero the world really needs.May 5th 2190, a New America celebrates its first centennial. Marking the time when a wandering rogue turned into a Prophet Warrior aligned himself with a despot general to rebuild the war-ravaged country on Five Key Principles for Survival he found hidden away in the pages of The Book of Tomorrows—one of the last books published before the fall of the civilized world. Anonymously written by someone known only as The Author, the onetime highly controversial 21st century novel is not only the root source supporting the strong foundation for rebuilding a better world, but may also be the inadvertent catalyst that led to the destruction of the old one. However, life isn’t as perfect as it appears in the so-called utopian paradise of New America. Michael Angel is meeting Eve Adams for the first time through a government mandated Selected Breeding Program. They genuinely fall in love at a museum while tagging along with a group of schoolchildren taking a computer-guided tour of history, staged with a spectacular showmanship by a computer-animated old man, who looks like a cross between Albert Einstein and The Monopoly Man. The animated man describes everything from the creation of universe, to the formation of the earth, right on up to the evolution of life on the planet with his words vividly replicated in 3-D images. Speaking with a-bravado-of-pride for all the great things we’ve accomplished, his critical rendering of the past turns into a diatribe when recounting the savage nature of man. CHAD blames the human race for practically destroying the planet in our lustful pursuit of wealth and power, along with our species propensity for putting faith in spiritual beliefs and mythical legends, instead of scientific knowledge and logical thought. He explains how it really doesn’t matter if the lessons we learn from history are factual accounts or fabled myths. Then he clearly illustrates a direct lineage to Western Civilization through the legendary tales found in Greek, Roman, English, and eventually American literary sagas. On their way out of the museum, Michael and Eve come across a graffiti-strewn painting with the letters FWF sprayed across it. The familiar tag of the Free Will Forever rebellion has been growing in strength with the recently discovered identity of the Prophet Warrior’s heir giving the rebel group a renewed hope. But then, a revealed hereditary link to the young couple forces them to set out on a fateful journey to save their future tomorrow. The World According to CHAD is a powerful prelude to Forever Tomorrow, Book One of The Book of Tomorrows trilogy. It’s also a hard, uncompromising look at how we tend to view history through rose-colored glasses and with selective memories. Someone once said all history is a lie agreed upon, especially when adding in the human factor. But no matter how twisted the pretzel logic one employs to get the answer they want, the truth will still always be true and out there for anyone to find. The history lesson contained in The World According to CHAD, along with the New Constitution for a New America, are profoundly important written words that may very well anger some people still caught in their Matrix world of self-delusion, but for those open minded individuals who aren’t ashamed of what they don’t know, and only what they refuse to learn, will feel these words should stand the test of time alongside other substantially renowned literary works

Overnight, the world has changed. A deadly virus thrusts the country into chaos. Barely escaping, a thirteen year old boy flees to the unforgiving desert to take his chances with thirst, starvation, and certain death. His greatest fears are there, as is the mysterious hope his grandfather gave him. Exposed and vulnerable, he must face them in Chris Hampton's gripping tale of Edge Walker.Overnight, the world has changed. A deadly virus, unleashed on an unsuspecting population, thrusts the country into chaos. Barely escaping the sickness, drones, and man-hunters, a thirteen year old boy flees to the unforgiving desert, preferring to take his chances with thirst, starvation, and certain death only to find he's the target of the dark medicine man. His greatest fears are there in the unknown wilderness, as is the mysterious hope his grandfather gave him. Exposed and vulnerable, he must go and face them in Chris Hampton's gripping tale of Edge Walker

What if the world holds more dangers—and more wonders—than we have ever known? And what if there is more than one world? From Heather Dixon, author of the acclaimed Entwined, comes a brilliantly conceived adventure that sweeps us from the inner workings of our souls to the far reaches of our imaginations. Jonathan is perfectly ordinary. But then—as every good adventure begins—the king swoops into port, and Jonathan and his father are enlisted to find the cure to a deadly plague. Jonathan discovers that he's a prodigy at working with a new chemical called fantillium, which creates shared hallucinations—or illusions. And just like that, Jonathan is knocked off his path. Through richly developed parallel worlds, vivid action, a healthy dose of humor, and gorgeous writing, Heather Dixon spins a story that calls to mind The Night Circus and Pixar movies, but is wholly its own.

Pornucopia is a picaresque black comedy that transgresses all bounds of everyday good taste. It begins in a near-future world where sex-vending machines and genital transplants are taken for granted. Prior Gross, the hero and sex object of this wild adventure, thinks his fantasies have all come true when a beautiful young woman seduces him on a public beach. She turns out to be a succubus, beginning his initiation into a realm populated by demons that are not merely horned, but horny. He encounters a perverse cast of characters that includes a satyr, a vampire, and a pair of luscious sisters, one of whom tricks him out of his manhood. So Prior Gross sets out on a perverse odyssey, taking him to a distant planet where he discovers the key to the return of his property and, ultimately, the origin of the universe itself.

Set in the Revelation Space universe-the first short story collection by "one of SF's best and most ambitious novelists." (SFX) With eight short stories and novellas- including three original to this collection- Galactic North imparts the centuries-spanning events that have produced the dark and turbulent world of Revelation Space. Centuries from now, the basic right to expand human intelligence-beyond its natural limits-has become a war-worthy cause for the Demarchists and Conjoiners. Only vast lighthugger starships bind these squabbling colonies together, manned by the panicky and paranoid Ultras. And the hyperpigs just try to keep their heads down. The rich get richer. And everyone tries not to think about the worrying number of extinct alien civilizations turning up on the outer reaches of settled space...because who's to say that humanity won't be next?

Life Sentence is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by James V. McConnell is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of James V. McConnell then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

Beyond the God Wall Generations of a tormented human-alien people, caged on a toxic planet, conditioned by constant hunger and war-this is the Dosadi Experiment, and it has succeeded too well. For the Dosadi have bred for Vengeance as well as cunning, and they have learned how to pass through the shimmering God Wall to exact their dreadful revenge on the Universe that created them . . .

Winner of four Hugo Awards and the Grand Master Nebula Award for Lifetime Achievement. Three high school students formed the Galileo Club to share their interests in science and space exploration. But they never imagined they would team up with a nuclear physicist to construct and crew a rocket bound for the moon. And they never expected to gain some powerful enemies in the process.

Jeremy Hanson is a Captain in the Intergalactic Command Exchange and on the fast track to Colonel. In three months, he will get his dream job as a pilot on a battleship but first he has to complete a special assignment with the General's daughter, Avon. An easy mission you would think, but not when you put a hard-headed ambitious Captain and a spoiled rotten Cadet together.All Captain Jeremy Hanson wanted to do was complete a three-month assignment with Cadet Avon Zadoorian and then be assigned to his dream job as a pilot on an intergalactic battleship. It should have been easy, but there is nothing easy about Avon, the spoiled rotten daughter of a General in the Intergalactic Command Exchange. Who will get court-martialed first in this highly volatile love/hate relationship in which they both love to hate each other? The assignment goes from bad to worse when the truth is discovered of who Cadet Zadoorian really is.

When two alien friends desire nothing more than the respect from their peers, they will push themselves beyond the limit so they can be the last one standing in a dangerous local rite of passage that will test their courage, their will, and more importantly, their loyalty to one another."You Learn. You Work. You Fight."In spite her age, Aly should be the ideal Goolian combatant in her tribe. Her reaction time is faster than any adult. Her agility is off the charts, and she’s one of the top ranked sparring students in the entire village. If she could just fire a single beam of energy from her palms, like everyone else on her homeworld, she wouldn’t get pushed around, harassed in class, or long for acceptance. The Evaluations, however, can change that. If she can be the last one standing in a dangerous rite of passage that will put her years of training to the ultimate test, she’ll finally prove her worth to her people. Anything less, and she'll be the local outcast for the remainder of her life.There’s another person in the tribe longing for the same prize due to a similar dilemma, and it will take all of Aly’s strength to defeat her. There’s only one small problem. That person happens to be her best friend.Exciting, dangerous, and moving, Evaluations of the Tribe will take you on a gripping coming of age adventure*Novel contains science fiction violence and some mild language.

The Rise of OLMAC, the fourth book in the eight-volume series Allies and Adversaries, chronicles the first conflict between OLMAC and the TELREC.Suld, owner of OLMAC, has had several thousand years to prepare for this moment, but will his ego get the better of him? Can he set aside self-doubt, and rise to be the leader OLMAC needs? And how does this conflict affect the Rell, or the sentient metaThe Rise of OLMAC, the fourth book in the eight-volume series Allies and Adversaries, chronicles the first conflict between OLMAC and the TELREC.Suld, owner of OLMAC, has had several thousand years to prepare for this moment, but will his ego get the better of him? Can he set aside self-doubt, and rise to be the leader OLMAC needs? And how does this conflict affect the Rell, or the sentient meta? Will they intervene, and change the balance of power forever?The Rise of OLMAC, book four in the series Allies and Adversaries, continues in the fifth volume, A Means to An End.

Decades after an alien virus changed the course of history, the surviving population of Manhattan still struggles to understand the new world left in its wake. Natural humans share the rough city with those given extraordinary—and sometimes terrifying—traits. While most manage to coexist in an uneasy peace, not everyone is willing to adapt. Down in the seedy underbelly of Jokertown, residents are going missing. The authorities are unwilling to investigate, except for a fresh lieutenant looking to prove himself and a collection of unlikely jokers forced to take matters into their own hands—or tentacles. The deeper into the kidnapping case these misfits and miscreants get, the higher the stakes are raised. Edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and acclaimed author Melinda M. Snodgrass, Lowball is the latest mosaic novel in the acclaimed Wild Cards universe, featuring original fiction by Carrie Vaughn, Ian Tregillis, David Anthony Durham, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Mary Anne Mohanraj, David D. Levine, Michael Cassutt, and Walter John Williams. Perfect for old fans and new readers alike, Lowball delves deeper into the world of aces, jokers, and the hard-boiled men and women of the Fort Freak police precinct in a pulpy, page-turning novel of superheroics and mystery. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

A nasty shock for the Death Queen of Neptune and her sisters combines with Bulays and Ghaavn finding out what really was going on within the Slave Ship of Space.A series planetary romance.Bulays and Ghaavn #20.Wil Litang, first mate of the tramp freighter Lost Star, reluctantly accepts the job as acting captain for a voyage, replacing the dying Captain Miccall. Unknown to him, the Lost Star has a mysterious and dangerous past. A past that has caught up with it. Haunted by this deadly past and driven by economic necessity, Litang and the crew of the Lost Star must venture far from their comfortable orbit – out into the lawless asteroid drifts of the Nine Star Nebula.The Bright Black Sea is not your typical space opera. While it has space battles, it's not military SF. And while it's a tale full of mystery and danger, star empires are not falling and the fate of the galaxy is not hanging in the balance. Rather, The Bright Black Sea is a lighthearted, character-focused adventure novel. Set in a small nebula of nine stars, hundreds of planets and vast lawless asteroid belts, it takes classic space opera motifs – space pirates, sentient robots, and rockets – and incorporates them into a rich, episodic adventure. For mystery, danger, and romance, join Captain Wil Litang and the crew of the Lost Star as they sail the black and bright space of the Nine Star Nebula in this first volume of the Lost Star Stories.The adventures and misadventures of Wil Litang continue in volume two of the Lost Star Stories – The Lost Star's Sea, which takes as its model the planetary romance, the type of story made famous by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and fondly reinvents the classic story of a stranger stranded in a strange land for the 21st century. Also available from this ebook store.Other books by C. Litka:A Summer in Amber A post-apocalyptic, steampunkish adventure/romance set in Scotland after a series of powerful solar storms has thrown the modern world back into the 19th century.Some Day Days A new adult romance/science fiction story set in Oxford and Cambridge prior to the solar storms that set the stage for A Summer in Amber.Available from this ebook store

It's the 24th century and the economy rules, AI's have rights and you can live forever given enough money and luck. Marshal "Chuy" Navarro is a contractor in a privatized army, selling his services to the Catholic Church. When needed he can be a Cop, a Spy, a Soldier, even a Terrorist. What he doesn't know is that his AI handler can peer deep into his thoughts and has another view of the future.It's the 24th century and the economy rules, AI's have rights and you can live forever given enough money and luck. Or perhaps you just seem to live forever. The story is told by an AI through immersive recordings concerning a pivotal employee. Marshal "Chuy" Navarro is a contractor in a privatized army, a highly trained agent selling his services to the Catholic Church. When needed he can be a Cop, a Spy, a Soldier, even a Terrorist. What he doesn't know is that his AI handler can peer deep into his thoughts and has another view of the future.