The Great Biomech War left millions dead, colonies burned, and cities turned to ash. Millions continue to endure in the harshest of conditions. The Alliance attempts to restore order, yet already new enemies have begun to strike at will, encouraged by their weakness. Border planets succumb to the raids of warlords, and many doubt how long the peace will last, after it was won at such cost.Lords of War is the first novel in the epic new ‘Mercenaries’ series that chronicles the violent struggles of the sprawling Centauri Alliance.The Great Biomech War left millions dead, colonies burned, and cities turned to ash. Millions continue to endure in the harshest of conditions. The Alliance attempts to restore order, yet already new enemies have begun to strike at will, encouraged by their weakness. Border planets succumb to the raids of warlords, and many doubt how long the peace will last, after it was won at such cost. Spartan is a living legend, a veteran of the Alliance Marine Corps, and the victor of a multitude of military campaigns. He is both loved and reviled by friend and foe alike, and now lives out on the fringes of the Alliance. He has fought for money, for his people and for the very survival of his species, and lost everything in the process. But when two of his closest friends are captured supplying weapons to the desperate Byotai settlers of Karnak, the fight becomes personal.Since the end of the war, Spartan and his friends have worked to create an elite fighting force based at Taxxu, for use by the Alliance. Using the latest high-energy weapons, armoured fighting suits and a prototype Confederate-class warship, it will be a force unlike any the Alliance has seen before. Spartan will use this and every other asset at his disposal to save his friends. Nothing, not even the entire might of the invading Anicinàbe clans and their fearsome clan leaders, can stop him, even if it means starting his own private war.Lords of War is a futuristic military sci-fi adventure that continues to expand the vast universe of the Star Crusades series. Essential and unmissable reading for enthusiasts of the Military sci-fi genre.

After hearing the disappearance of the ship Harmony in the Bermuda triangle Jack Green set out on an incredible journey to Bermuda triangle in search for its underlying secrets. Through the interdimensional portal Jack Green enter into a whole new world where survival is very difficult. Meanwhile the aliens disguised in human form are planning something very naughty.After hearing the disappearance of the ship Harmony in the Bermuda triangle Jack Green set out on an incredible journey to Bermuda triangle in search for its underlying secrets. Through the interdimensional portal Jack Green enter into a whole new world where survival is very difficult. Meanwhile the aliens disguised in human form are planning something very naughty. Is human on earth actually humans. The ground breaking, horror story like you never experienced before.

The World Humanitarian Society's Plans for population control have just begun. And the zombies, equipped with new technology and the modified XT formula, begin another siege on the occupants of the Zombie Rehab. Mindless and merciless, they come.The World Humanitarian Society’s plans for population control have just begun.After escaping the occurrence at WHS Facility 111, the Zombie Day Care, Henry Bawkula and his fiancé’, Tori, find themselves under the thumb of the WHS once again, just a few miles down the road.Meanwhile, in Washington DC, two powerful men of the WHS begin to pull the strings of the latest advancement of the XT Formula and initiate another diabolical attack on the lives of those who know too much. However, the WHS isn’t without its enemies. From an undisclosed location, another handful of heroes arise and attempt to stop the WHS’s from creating a new world order with another Zombie Outbreak. And the zombies, equipped with new technology and the modified XT formula, begin another siege on the occupants of the Zombie Rehab. Mindless and merciless, they come.

In this new military sci-fi thriller from the author of Cold Welcome, space fleet commander Kylara Vatta uncovers deadly secrets on her latest mission--shedding light on her own family's past. As Admiral Kylara Vatta learned after she and a shipfull of strangers were marooned on an inhospitable arctic island, the secrets she and her makeshift crew uncovered were ones someone was ready to kill to keep hidden. Now, the existence of the mysterious arctic base has been uncovered, but much of the organization behind it still lurks in the shadows. And it is up to the intrepid Ky to force the perpetrators into the light, and finally uncover decades worth of secrets--some of which lie at the very heart of her biggest family tragedy.

Before Anna and Sam, there was Dani and Sam. There's one rule that all Branch operatives must live by: No attachments. When Dani O'Brien entered the Branch, she planned to trade her freedom so that her family could have a better life. But joining up with the mysterious organization is more than she bargained for. Branch head Connor watches over her closely--too closely. The training is brutal, the experiments are secret, and the missions promise to be anything but ordinary. The only thing getting Dani through each day is the hope that she'll run into Sam--a young man, about her age, who wears the world on his shoulders. Find out how it all began in this short-story prequel to Jennifer Rush's thrilling and suspenseful Altered series.

With the man who kidnapped her daughter imprisoned aboard her ship, Captain Alisa Marchenko is closer than ever to reuniting her family. But her new guest has been in a coma for weeks, with the secret to her daughter's location locked away in his mind. She must find a way to sneak him into a state-of-the-art hospital on Arkadius, a planet in the heart of Alliance territory. Not an easy task when she and the cyborg Leonidas, her most trusted ally, are wanted by the Alliance army. As if that mission weren’t daunting enough, the Staff of Lore has appeared on the planet. As has the man who stole it: Alisa’s father.

Who are we? Us, who live like savages, hunted by orks and wargs both day and night. And what part do the strange creatures we call the babblers have to play in all of this?This is the story of a father and daughter and the part they played in discovering some of the truth of the many confusing questions that wandered through the minds of the people.Who are we? Us, who live like savages, hunted by orks and wargs both day and night. And what part do the strange creatures we call the babblers have to play in all of this? This is the story of a father and daughter and the part they played in discovering some of the truth of the many confusing questions that wandered through the minds of the people.…………………………………………This story came about as part of a writing challenge me and Mick Carter set ourselves to write an original ghost story. If you like this story then why not check out Mick’s as well, it’s called “Uncontainable”.Also if you have read this story then why not leave a review. Any feedback (be it good or bad) is most welcome.

After hunting down a robotics engineer he believes to be a sexual predator, a destitute man in southern Nevada finds that he's the only conscious person on a planet of suddenly comatose humans -- until his victim appears to be commanding the world's androids. Marked public enemy #1 in the eyes of a moon colony that'll do anything to sustain the human race, can he prove he isn't better off dead?In the developed world, year 2062, the human body is obsolete. Those too poor to be rid of this handicap, such as would-be pathologist Dennis Uriah, are called Organics. Fed up with a society that marginalizes people like him and his partner Pat Mallard, Uriah attempts to take justice into his own hands when Pat tells him that Isaac Livingston, a playboy of the exoskeleton-equipped Transhuman class, raped her.Immediately afterwards, every human besides Uriah falls unconscious, leaving him not only responsible for the welfare of animals that his traumatic memories compel him to save, but also in a position of extreme suspicion to the residents of a Russian moon colony. To avoid becoming the survivors' scapegoat, Uriah's only option is to discover how to reverse this apocalyptic affliction -- something that Livingston, who has somehow survived both a murder attempt and the global coma, isn't prepared to let happen when he has all but one of Earth's androids on his side.Parallel to Uriah's struggles, Sabrina Lockhart, already grappling with depression and the isolation of being the moon's sole Organic due to her religious convictions, has lost on Earth the only person she truly loves. The colony's governess requests her help to use her Organic immunity from EMPs to subdue a rogue robot, an emotionally advanced servant who has lashed out against the moon colonists after separation from her master.Sabrina knows well, however, that her community has an ulterior motive. Unless she complies with their wishes and bears children with the only other Organic, the human species may not outlast this sparse group of survivors. How will she defend her identity when the most powerful woman alive wants to exploit her as a mere reproductive utility?[Note: Although it would not be accurate to mark this book as having "adult content," there is a mild trigger warning for moderate discussion and depiction of violence, and (for those sensitive about it) some profane language and sexual content. Treat this novel as roughly on the level of a PG-13 film in terms of content appropriateness. Personally, I wouldn't get too hung up about this considering I had to read more disturbing material than this in a grade-school curriculum, but my aim here is to please readers, not to invoke the anger of parents. I promise this novel won't encourage your children to join Satanic cults.]

Simon was a successful student with a promising career ahead of him. However, a new immersive video game has been released where he is able to create his own world and shape and destroy it however he wishes. Simon grows addicted to this game and as his addiction grows worse he begins to lose touch between what is real and what is just part of the game until tragedy results.Simon was a successful student with a promising career ahead of him. However, a new immersive video game has been released where he is able to create his own world and shape and destroy it however he wishes. Simon gradually grows addicted to this game until slowly but surely his addiction ruins his college life and he becomes a recluse back at home with his parents. As his addiction grows worse Simon begins to lose touch between what is real and what is just part of the game until tragedy results.

The Navy's mission for the starship Freedom is exploration toward the galactic hub. Admiral Demba's mission objective is a search for someone she has lost, but there is a suspected sinister third mission objective. Escape from the Navy is the first task, followed by a rendezvous that changes the physics of the ship. Demba's objective then leads to tragedy, resurrection, and startling discovery.Fascinated with Admiral Fidelity Demba - his elderly (though rejuvenated) Chief of Navy Archives, Commander of the Navy Admiral Etrhnk is at a loss as to what to do about her. His attempts to thwart her escape from him are bothered by an alien being of whom he has long been aware but has only now chosen to visit him. She is a breathtakingly beautiful golden humanoid who essentially holds ultimate power over the entire Union. Yet she has no orders for him concerning Admiral Demba but merely observes his actions. Etrhnk kidnaps Samson - the boy Demba found on Earth - and causes Demba to leave the Freedom before it departs. The golden alien saves Samson from harm and does not interfere when a member of Demba's crew rescues Demba and Samson.The Freedom is launched from Navy Headquarters and is able to lose the pursuit long enough to undergo a refitting of its drive, vastly changing its capabilities.Demba's personal mission is to find friends she has lost from before there was a Union Navy. Finding them beyond the frontiers of the Union will be not only difficult but dangerous because a different enemy, more deadly than the Navy, flies ships as fast as the Freedom and only exists to raid and pillage everywhere. The cost of finding her friends will be high. And there will be a monumental discovery at the end.

Memories flood Mr. Voss as the man sits amid the winking lights of his treatment. Mr. Voss’ memories have been lost for years, and disease shrouds his mind with mist. Treatment composed of glimmer promises to restore Mr. Voss’ health, and his wife will give everything to help him return. But the children fear what the light might summon, and they hesitate to pay any of the light's cost.Elaine Voss looks upon her husband and prays that Thomas quickly returns to her. Disease has stolen her husband’s memory, so that Thomas fails to recognize the faces of his family. That disease seems especially cruel to Elaine, for her husband’s shoulders remain wide, his legs strong, and his face little wrinkled. Elaine puts her faith into the lights, and she sacrifices to pay whatever cost the sparkle requires to reunite with the man Elaine always believed Thomas to be.Vicki Voss looks upon her father as the lights dance upon him. She learned to carve her own path while the mist filled Thomas’ mind, and she wonders if a returned father would do her more harm than good. Like her mother, Vicki believes the therapy will heal her father, but she remains unsure if she desires a family reunion. Vicki fears Thomas will mock her aims and force her to remain silent and meek.Logan Voss drives through the night to return to his childhood home. Mother again contacts him with news that his father will soon walk out of the light. Yet Logan remains skeptical. He has often hurried home only to find that disease keeps it grip upon Thomas Voss’ mind. But Logan hurries home now with a different purpose; he is determined to convince his mother and sister to let their father drift forever away, believing a quiet death a better option than the monster Logan fears his family summons.

"Voodoo Planet" features Dane Thorson, a young man fortunate enough to land a job on the Free Trader ship, the "Solar Queen." Plying their trade among the stars, Free Traders visit planets -- known and unknown -- in search of profit. (Another novel featuring Dane Thorson, "Plague Ship," is also available from Wildside Press.) In "Voodoo Planet," Captain Jellico and the ship's medic, Tau, are invited to Khatka, a world settled by African refugees, to help unravel the secret of a witch doctor's growing power. Dane is invited along as cover, much to his delight. Khatka has been set up as an exclusive hunting preserve for the rich. With mysterious, possibly supernatural deaths at the hands of otherworldly creatures, disappearing equipment, and a witch doctor's "magic" (not to mention poachers!), it may be more than the crew of the Solar Queen can handle! Includes a new introduction by best-selling author John Gregory Betancourt written especially for this edition.

Two scientists deep in space decide to break the law and have a child, the first human born off-planet. Jacob Cosworth is raised to know a tiny space craft as home and alien races as his friends. When something drastic happens and he's forced to go back to Earth, he quickly learns just how far from "normal" his life really is.Jacob Cosworth grew up on the Condor One, a small deep space craft, being raised by a team of scientists lead by his parents. His first friends outside his little ship were alien species, and the first planet he stepped foot on didn't even have a name. It was the life he knew and the life he loved for sixteen years. And then something changed, something happened that made his parents send him away. With little warning, and no explanation, he was sent back to a galaxy he didn't know, and a people he didn't understand. With one family friend by his side, and a team assembled to help him out, he's determined to prove that nothing is really "alien", and that "humanity" is more than just a circumstance of birth.This is a light science fiction novel with mild language suitable for most audiences.