Download or read book Daedalus Squad written by Robert G. Williscroft and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2019-10-26 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek “Tiger” Baily and his SEAL Winged Insertion Command (SWIC) jump from orbit to test the enhanced Gryphon-10 MK 4 hardshell wingsuit for combat applications. Every contingency has been planned. The 6-man squadron believes it is fully prepared for hurtling around the world and staging critical re-entry, but challenged to innovate life-or-death solutions with only seconds to spare, Baily’s team might not survive intact. Fly with Tiger and the SWIC on a mission that surely will test the limits of their training in Robert G. Williscroft’s third installment following Daedalus and Daedalus LEO.

Download or read book The Daedalus Files written by Robert G. Williscroft and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you drop from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with just a hardshell wingsuit? Navy SEAL Derek “Tiger” Baily and his SEALS Winged Insertion Command (SWIC) develop an experimental Gryphon hardshell wingsuit that can do just that. Eventually, when the presidential front-runner is seized by pirates for ransom, Baily’s 6-man SWIC team must hurtle around the world, staging critical re-entry for a rescue, challenged to solve life-or-death problems with only seconds to spare. Can they survive? Will they effect the rescue? Join Tiger Baily through all four adventures in sci-fi master Robert G. Williscroft’s Daedalus series, now collected for the first time as “The Daedalus Files: SEALS Winged Insertion Command (SWIC)."

Download or read book Daedalus Combat written by Robert G. Williscroft and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A U.S. senator—likely next president—has been seized by pirates and held for $100 million ransom. Derek “Tiger” Baily and his SEAL Winged Insertion Command (SWIC) get the call: a rescue operation with soldiers zooming in from the sky, the 6-man squad’s first real combat operation. Hurtling around the world in the new Gryphon-10 MK 4hardshell wingsuit, Tiger and his team must literally improvise on the fly when everything goes wrong and they have everything to lose. Go into battle with Tiger and the SWIC on a mission of life or death in Robert G. Williscroft’s fourth and final installment following Daedalus, Daedalus LEO, and Daedalus Squad.

Download or read book Daedalus written by Skully and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Squad Zero is the second installment in the Daedalus series. The story follows the members of the squad as they establish Daedalus the corporate entity. Initially it was a way to share costs for their workshop but it evolves into something much more. The cadets and the world in general are being lied to. In book two the mystery of the spiral and what is behind it begins to unfold. Is the forwarned Alien invasion a conspiracy theory? A hoax or something else entirely? Daedalus the series Daedo and his companions who are born into a world obsessed with Mechs for military defence, corporate power and entertainment purposes. The Squad will evolve as they age and progress through year levels at the Academy, they have the potential to be the best mech engineers and pilots the world has ever seen but will they be ready to defend planet earth by the time they graduate? Book 3 is scheduled for late June

Download or read book SLINGSHOT written by Robert G. Williscroft and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2023-06-28 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slingshot is a love story – about a man, a woman, another man, another woman, some gender-bending...and a machine, the largest ever built. Slingshot is a mystery – about a missing aviatrix, a conspiracy, a true-believer. Slingshot is an adventure – about following a dream, the ocean-deep, outer space. Slingshot is about constructing the first space launch- loop stretching 2,600 km between Baker and Jarvis Islands in the Equatorial Pacific. It’s about high finance, intrigue, unlimited ambition, heroism, fanaticism, betrayal...and about opening space to the common person. The setting is the day-after-tomorrow. Technology has advanced, the web is more pervasive than ever, but human ambition and greed remain unchanged. In Slingshot, Alex Regent, Margo Jackson, and Klaus Blumenfeld reach for the stars as they blend their skills to create the world’s first space launch-loop, backed by major software money. Environmental fanatic Lars Watson with his team of young eco-terrorists are funded by opposing financial interests, who will go to any length to halt the project. Reporter Lori Kutcher indiscriminately applies her own personal skills to ensure it is she who reports the unfolding events to a watching world. With a cast of 69, Slingshot takes you from Seattle’s world financial district, to the ocean bottom at 5,000 feet off Baker Island, to the edge of space 80 km above. You play with dolphins and battle sharks. You fly and sail and dive, you work and play and love across the vast panorama of an Equatorial Pacific being put to leash to serve humanity’s surge into outer space. While its accurate science and precise engineering will appeal to hard science-fiction buffs, Slingshot’s major focus is the grand journey, the opening of outer space to the common person by men and women who loom larger than life as they work, play, and love.

Download or read book RAN A Civilization in Hiding written by Robert G. Williscroft and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2023-12-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans and Asterians construct a huge starship, Andromeda, and set out on a voyage of discovery to the Cold Spot in the Cosmic Microwave Background—first stop, the star RAN in the constellation Eridanus. They discover an incipient space-faring civilization that has hidden itself from the rest of the galaxy. The Third Oort Chronicle centers on efforts to replace these destructive reptilian tyrants with fair-minded leaders within an interstellar system. Oort Federation Chairman John Butler and lizard leaders of the planet Arcan seek to oust Ceffid’s leader, Bopr Arclando. The same applies to Lieutenant Dombit, who cleverly strategizes against General Klarot of The Geroptic Nation. With such vast differences between species, will achieving interstellar peace even prove possible—and at what price!

Download or read book Operation White Out written by Robert G. Williscroft and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2023-01-20 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovering from his Operation Arctic Sting injuries, USS Teuthis Executive Officer Mac McDowell is tasked with laying SOSUS arrays in the southern Atlantic and off Thurston Island, Western Antarctica. Teuthis tangles with Argentine subs in the south Atlantic, then confronts a ChiCom sub off Thurston Island. Mac and his team experience serious setbacks at the hands of the ChiComs while installing a relay transmitter on a nearby mountain peak. Teuthis discovers an underwater oil operation off Thurston Island and is tasked with escorting a Taiwanese sub and underwater tanker under the cover of the largest military marine exercise since World War II: PacEx89. Teuthis is attacked by a Chinese Han-class sub and a previously unknown North Korean AIP sub despite the protection provided by three U.S. fast-attack subs. Will Mac and Teuthis complete their mission, or will they finally meet their watery graves on the Pacific Ocean abyssal plain?

Download or read book Icicle A Tensor Matrix written by Robert G. Williscroft and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Braxton Thorpe has discovered a threat to the entire Solar System, but he has a problem: he's dead. Frozen at death, he awakens to find himself uploaded into an electronic matrix. Exploring beyond the matrix and the larger GlobalNet, he discovers the Oort, a distributed electronic entity older than humanity, with an unnerving secret: aliens wiped out nearly all life on Earth once, and are coming back to do it again. The mathematical entity that is Thorpe has to find a way to convince humans of the threat, and in time to do something about it. But how, and what? If you've read Niven's "A World Out of Time" or Taylor's "We Are Legion," the opening of "Icicle" will only "seem" familiar. Buckle up for a wild ride; you ain't seen nothing.

Download or read book Operation Arctic Sting written by Robert G. Williscroft and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As USS Teuthis Saturation Dive Team Officer-in-Charge (OIC) Mac McDowell leads his submarine team laying SOSUS arrays under the Arctic ice, they capture an abandoned fully automated Alfa-class Soviet sub. Piloting their prize through the ice pack to the U.S. East Coast, they must evade or confront other Soviet subs trying to recover the sub—or sink it. Breathtaking deep-sea clashes erupt, including hand-to-hand combat with Soviet Morskoy Spetsnaz divers under the ice. Too far from Teuthis to escape, the Americans are accosted by a 5-ton orca. Will Mac’s ship survive long enough to reach friendly waters, or will the men become just another meal for a deadly whale?

Download or read book Operation Ice Breaker written by Robert G. Williscroft and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USS Teuthis Saturation Dive Team Officer-in-Charge (OIC) Mac McDowell is leading his submarine team on a mission to lay SOSUS arrays under the ice in the Arctic when they clash with a new Alfa-class highly automated Soviet submarine. Overwhelmed by mechanical problems, the Soviet crew abandons their sub near Pt. Barrow, Alaska. The Teuthis skipper launches DSRV-1 Mystic, so Mac and his crew can board the empty sub and gather intelligence. The arrival of an even more advanced Soviet sub leads to breathtaking underwater clashes with the specter of war looming. Will the Soviets sink Mac and his crew to their watery graves, or will Teuthis safely return to Alaska where Mac's new love, Kate, anxiously awaits his return?

Download or read book The Oort Federation To the Stars written by Robert G. Williscroft and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Oort Federation becomes a major force in the Solar System, Braxton Thorpe passes the Federation chairmanship to former US President John Butler. Thorpe’s group offers humanity virtual immortality, but Isidor Orlov and his Udachny Enterprises oppose their every move. While terraforming Mars for more living space, the Mars Reds prove formidable as resisters. If the Asterian starship fighter pilots are released, will they align with Phoenix or Udachny, and who will develop the right FTL technology? In this tense space adventure, Thorpe, his team, and Max the tabby cat travel to Proxima Centauri and beyond to the Aster system, 84 lightyears distant. Will Thorpe bring together humans and Asterians in their quest for intergalactic travel? Will long life prove more than mere humans can handle?

Download or read book KEID A Lost Civilization written by Robert G. Williscroft and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2024-02-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They discover a Dyson Sphere under construction by microbots, but the bots are scavenging one part of the sphere to construct another. And where is the civilization that designed this massive project? “This is cutting edge, hard science fiction at its finest. This broad-minded, far-sweeping saga is both realistic and daring. The reader feels that yes, this is what the universe is like and what man’s role in it will come to be.” Professor John B. Rosenman, Norfolk State University. The starship Andromeda stops at the Keid triple-star system on its voyage of discovery and stumbles on a derelict Dyson Sphere. The starship is attacked by microbots scavenging one part of the sphere to repair another. They map the sphere and discover several primitive races inside—humanoid, feline, and saurian. They investigate the internal structure of the Dyson Sphere with its hundred-kilometer wide tubes filled with fast-moving magnetic fluid, and I-beams with hundred- kilometer wide plates and thirty-kilometer wide flanges that are one hundred meters thick. They eventually meet digital uploads of the race that built the sphere. Then the explorers discover that the Dyson Sphere’s star is about to produce a superflare that could destroy all life inside the sphere and possibly even the Dyson Sphere itself. The explorers mount a major rescue effort to save the uploads and sapient races.

Download or read book The Starchild Compact written by Robert G. Williscroft and published by Fresh Ink Group. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Starchild Compact is an epic tale of beginnings, of roots, of what might have been, and what might be. The Starchild Compact is an adventure of heroic proportions, commencing on a planet 500 light years distant, arriving here just a few years from now, and ending up in the far distant expanses of the Universe. Jon Stock takes his exploration team to Saturn’s moon, Iapetus, that Earth scientists have determined may be an artifact. Following launch, they discover Saeed Ismail, a Jihadist stowaway, who hopes to sabotage the mission. They arrive at Iapetus, determine it is a derelict starship, and eventually meet with the Founders, descendants of the starship builders. Their revelations impact the entire Solar System with momentous implications going backward and forward in time, paving the way for a joint push to the distant reaches of the Galaxy.

Download or read book Granny Work written by Karen E. Riggs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Granny @ Work is an impassioned comment on aging, work, and technology in American culture. As Riggs challenges popular assumptions with surprising research-for example, people over the age of 60 spend more time on the Internet than people of any other age group-and trenchant cultural critique, she forces us to confront the deeply entrenched ageism in today's technology-driven workplace.

Download or read book Military Academy written by Skully and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military Academy, Book One, covers Etana Daedo's early years and his first steps within the Fortescue Military Academy where he forges friendships which will last a lifetime. The story follows him, his friends and enemies while they attend Fortescue Military Academy where they learn to build and fight with exos at the first year cadet level. The young cadets are primarily concerned with their academic and competition success within the academy. Each squaddie is special in some way, it's up to Cadet Daedo to bring out their potential in order to facilitate the success of the squad.Daedalus SeriesThe Daedalus series is a sci-fi story which follows the life of Etana Daedo, who is born in 2130 into a world obsessed with Mechs for military defence, corporate power and entertainment purposes.The Squad will evolve as they age and progress through year levels at the Academy, they have the potential to be the best mech engineers and pilots the world has ever seen but will they be ready to defend planet earth by the time they graduate?

Download or read book The Daedalus Files written by Robert G Williscroft and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Daedalus, Navy SEAL Derek "Tiger" Baily, irreverent member of the SEALS Winged Insertion Command (SWIC), makes a harrowing first base jump in the experimental Gryphon-7 hardshell wingsuit from the edge of Space. He test-flies the armor-plated Gryphon-10 in Daedalus LEO, catapulting into space by Slingshot and dropping from a record-obliterating 160 klicks. Testing the enhanced Gryphon-10 MK 4in Daedalus Squad, Baily's 6-man team believes it is fully prepared for hurtling around the world and staging critical re-entry, but challenged to innovate life-or-death solutions with only seconds to spare, it might not survive intact. Then the presidential front-runner is seized by pirates for ransom in Daedalus Combat, and the SWIC team is called to action where it must literally improvise on the fly with everything to lose. Join Tiger Baily through all four adventures in sci-fi master Robert G. Williscroft's Daedalus series, now collected for the first time as The Daedalus Files: SEALS Winged Insertion Command (SWIC).

Download or read book Variant s Fire written by Donald Lucas Hyatt III and published by Donald Hyatt. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come Home, to where the Darkest Burning Pyre resides. Come Home, to where the Pyre’s blaze guts the Abusers. Come Home, to where the Pyre incinerates what remains. Come Home, to where you belong. The year is 2035. It has been roughly two years since the Advent Virus infected every human on Earth. Most are asymptomatic carriers—they display no symptoms and are unhurt by the virus. Variants, on the other hand, are genetically enhanced by the virus and given almost supernatural abilities, previously considered to be only possible in comic books or cartoons. Meanwhile, a large minority of the world's population is ruthlessly killed by the virus, falling into comas and passing away. Alex Westsmith was abused as a child, alongside his younger brother, and his mother, at the hands of his father. The legal system failed Alex and his family, over and over, again and again. So, the teenager, armed with his Variant abilities, does what he must, scouring the city by night, hunting and killing those who abuse others. As the vigilante Pyre, alongside his best friend and computer hacker, Richard Caperno—who operates under the alias Reforger—Alex fights for those who would otherwise fall through the cracks of society. But when a ruthless new faction of radicals and terrorists abducts one of their classmates, will the Variant vigilante and his hacker ally be able to save her? Or will he have to helplessly watch abuse go unpunished yet again?