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Book The Ostinato Trilogy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Greg Alldredge
  • Publisher : PublishDrive
  • Release : 2018-06-30
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 504 pages

Download or read book The Ostinato Trilogy written by Greg Alldredge and published by PublishDrive. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the entire Ostinato Series: Book one: Live life on the edge of sanity. Trevor, an orphan at thirteen, bounced around the Far-east searching for something, trouble was he didn’t understand what. Wracked with insomnia and tired of traveling the world, he’d returned home to be more “normal” and took a job from his older brother, he failed at normal. When world events reignite his pursuit of the inexplicable to a sleepy West Texas town, his world took a turn to the bizarre and unimaginable. Caught between fantasy and reality, Trevor must face his greatest fears and admit some things can’t be explained. Unseen forces drive him to his destiny. Will Trevor be able to discover what created the Lights in the Night and get the girl, or lose his grip on sanity? Don’t miss Lights in the Night, the first of the Ostinato series by Greg Alldredge. If you like tales with quirky characters and a metaphysical search for hard to answer questions, then this Speculative Fiction will have you turning the pages! Come check it out! Book two: Crystal is back and people have been bad... Five years after the events leading to the worse party every, 'The New Age Rage' which left thousands of people in the desert without food or water, events have continued to unfold unknown to the sleep little town of Marysfield. The world governments agreed to bury the facts concerning the events that surrounded Marysfield. The problem with conspiracies to conceal data is, truth never goes away. Information is the most potent weapon in the modern age. Marysfield had prospered over the previous five years. Trevor’s family had grown, and his business had become enormously profitable. Little did he know dark forces had spent the quiet years gathering strength preparing for the day when they could let their presence be known. A storm was quickly approaching the earth. What would be the government’s response? How will the individuals of the planet react to the upcoming dark days? How will the population survive a “Darkness at Midday?” Join the inhabitants of the growing town of Marysfield Texas as they deal with an Alien Encounter of unknown origin. Travel around the world with a small group of individuals prepare for the coming darkness. Who will survive? Book three: War is coming to Marysfield! Mister Death has made an ultimatum, the interdimensional sisters must get out of town or else! Crystal and Misty have been so weakened by his clandestine attacks that they have only one place to turn: West Texas! Thank god for those gun tote’n Texan freedom fighters willing to throw down their lives to protect the universe from the evil megalomaniac Mister Death! How will the Earth ever survive? Read the final installment of the Ostinato series to find out!

Book Potology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dr. Nuke
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780952008217
  • Pages : 67 pages

Download or read book Potology written by Dr. Nuke and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Season Of The Harvest  Harvest Trilogy  Book 1

Download or read book Season Of The Harvest Harvest Trilogy Book 1 written by Michael R. Hicks and published by Michael R. Hicks. This book was released on 2011-02-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the genetically engineered crops that we increasingly depend on for food weren't really created by man? What if they brought a new, terrifying meaning to the old saying that "you are what you eat"?FBI Special Agent Jack Dawson investigates the gruesome murder of his best friend and fellow agent who had been pursuing a group of eco-terrorists. The group's leader, Naomi Perrault, is a beautiful geneticist who Jack believes conspired to kill his friend, and is claiming that a major international conglomerate developing genetically engineered crops is plotting a sinister transformation of our world that will lead humanity to extinction. As Jack is drawn into a quietly raging war that suddenly explodes onto the front pages of the news, he discovers that her claims may not be so outrageous after all. Together, the two of them must face a horror Jack could never have imagined, with the fate of all life on Earth hanging in the balance...

Book Aethereal Trilogy Megabook

Download or read book Aethereal Trilogy Megabook written by Chris Wilcox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THREE COMPLETE NOVELS, ONE MEGABOOK SERIES! The first three novels in the epic science fiction/fantasy series from Bestselling author Christopher W Wilcox Sr., including: Aethereal: The investigation of a series of mysterious terrorist bombings leads Special Agents Judy Deavers and Eric Johansson into a secret world where myth and reality collide. What they discover is so explosive that it could tear the very fabric of the civilized world apart. The ultimate fate of humanity is in the balance and it is a race against time to stop the last clock from ticking down. Aethereal Revealed: "We are not now, nor have we ever been, alone on this planet." With those words, the President of the United States reveals to the world the existence of the Æthereal, the nearly immortal beings who serve as guardians against the Gray menace. Is humanity ready to share their world with real fire-breathing dragons? For many normal humans like Danny Trasker, their lives are turned upside down as they become partners with the Guardians. For terrorists, the revelation of the Æthereals is a call for jihad. Aethereal's Clans: Spyder, the irreverent cyberpunk turned Head of the Guardian Science Support Staff, finds himself the de facto ambassador to the Ursars, a race of twenty-foot tall, telepathic and telekinetic purple bears. Forming unbreakable bonds with Korin, son of the Clan Father, Spyder soon finds there are some things that are worth more than your own life. Family, friends, and Clan, Spyder risks them all in a life-or-death struggle against the marauding Grays. GET THE COMPLETE FIRST THREE BOOKS OF THE SERIES IN THIS MEGABOOK RELEASE!

Book Shipwreck  Island Trilogy  Book 1

Download or read book Shipwreck Island Trilogy Book 1 written by Gordon Korman and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An action-packed survival suspense from bestselling and award-winning author Gordon Korman. Six kids. One shipwreck. One desert island.They didn't want to be on the boat in the first place. They were sent there as punishment, or as a character-building experience. Now the adults are gone, and the quest for survival has begun.

Book The Sunspacers Trilogy

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  • Author : George Zebrowski
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2014-04-01
  • ISBN : 1497635012
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book The Sunspacers Trilogy written by George Zebrowski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sunspacers Trilogy is a trio of novels of an alternate, earth-based civilization. In Sunspacer, young and idealistic philosophy student Joe Sorby must come to terms with adulthood while negotiating the gross injustices of interplanetary commerce. In Stars Will Speak, an alien signal is broadcast from the farthest reaches of the known galaxy . . . but will the scientists of earth decipher its warning in time? In Behind the Stars, young Max Sorby returns to Earth after spending all of his life on a mobile space habitat, fearing that the only home he has ever known will be lost to him forever.

Book The Complete Owner Trilogy

Download or read book The Complete Owner Trilogy written by Neal Asher and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 1378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Owner Trilogy by Neal Asher, including The Departure, Zero Point, and Jupiter War. The Departure: Visible in the night sky the Argus Station, its twin smelting plants like glowing eyes, looks down on nightmare Earth. From Argus the Committee keep an oppressive control: citizens are watched by cams systems and political officers, it's a world inhabited by shepherds, reader guns, razor birds and the brutal Inspectorate with its white tiled cells and pain inducers. Soon the Committee will have the power to edit human minds, but not yet, twelve billion human being need to die before Earth can be stabilized, but by turning large portions of Earth into concentration camps this is achievable, especially when the Argus satellite laser network comes fully online . . . This is the world Alan Saul wakes to in his crate on the conveyor to the Calais incinerator. How he got there he does not know, but he does remember the pain and the face of his interrogator. Informed by Janus, through the hardware implanted in his skull, about the world as it is now Saul is determined to destroy it, just as soon as he has found out who he was, and killed his interrogator . . . Zero Point: Earth’s Zero Asset citizens no longer face extermination from orbit. Thanks to Alan Saul, the Committee’s network of control is a smoking ruin and its robotic enforcers lie dormant. But power abhors a vacuum and, scrambling from the wreckage, comes the ruthless Serene Galahad. She must act while the last vestiges of Committee infrastructure remain intact – and she has the means to ensure command is hers. On Mars, Var Delex fights for the survival of Antares Base, while the Argus Space Station hurls towards the red planet. And she knows whomever, or whatever, trashed Earth is still aboard. Var must save the base, while also dealing with the first signs of rebellion. And aboard Argus Station, Alan Saul’s mind has expanded into the local computer network. In the process, he uncovers the ghastly experiments of the Humanoid Unit Development, the possibility of eternal life, and a madman who may hold the keys to interstellar flight. But Earth’s agents are closer than Saul thinks, and the killing will soon begin. Jupiter War: Alan Saul is now part-human and part-machine, and our solar system isn't big enough to hold him. He craves the stars, but can't leave yet. His sister Var is trapped on Mars, on the wrong side of a rebellion, and Saul's human side won't let her die. He must leave Argus Station to stage a dangerous rescue -- but mutiny is brewing onboard, as Saul's robots make his crew feel increasingly redundant. Serene Galahad will do anything to prevent Saul's escape. Earth’s ruthless dictator hides her crimes from a cowed populace as she readies new warships for pursuit. She aims to crush her enemy in a terrifying display of interstellar violence. Meanwhile, The Scourge limps back to earth, its crew slaughtered, its mission to annihilate Saul a disaster. There are survivors, but while one seeks Galahad's death, Clay Ruger will negotiate for his life. Events build to a climax as Ruger holds humanity’s greatest prize -- seeds to rebuild a dying Earth. This stolen gene-bank data will come at a price, but what will Galahad pay for humanity’s future?

Book The Kaiju Connection

Download or read book The Kaiju Connection written by Jason Barr and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a kaiju a kaiju? What makes an ape a large ape, and why do we sympathize with some, such as King Kong, and not with others, such as Konga? And what makes a giant person become a "monster"? This book provides a new perspective on kaiju and reveals that our boundaries for the genre are perhaps not so solid. The work focus primarily on newer kaiju works, ranging from Colossal to Shin Godzilla to Godzilla vs. Kong, but also touches on classics such as King Kong, Mighty Joe Young, Godzilla Raids Again, and lesser-known works such as What to Do With the Dead Kaiju? and Agon. Like our ancestors we have collectively adopted giant monsters into our culture, especially our pop culture. Within the domains where giant monsters walk, we experience the rigidity of our moral structures, and the fleeting borders of our definitions of humanity. Within the kaiju film genre rest our own assumptions about what makes a monster a monster, and, more importantly, what makes a human a human.

Book Pure

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julianna Baggott
  • Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
  • Release : 2012-02-08
  • ISBN : 1455503045
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Pure written by Julianna Baggott and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julianna Baggott presents her beautifully written, riveting, breakout novel, PURE, the first volume in her new post-apocalypse thriller trilogy. We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers . . . to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies. And now, at an age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia to either be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run. Burn a Pure and Breathe the Ash . . . There are those who escaped the apocalypse unmarked. Pures. They are tucked safely inside the Dome that protects their healthy, superior bodies. Yet Partridge, whose father is one of the most influential men in the Dome, feels isolated and lonely. Different. He thinks about loss-maybe just because his family is broken; his father is emotionally distant; his brother killed himself; and his mother never made it inside their shelter. Or maybe it's his claustrophobia: his feeling that this Dome has become a swaddling of intensely rigid order. So when a slipped phrase suggests his mother might still be alive, Partridge risks his life to leave the Dome to find her. When Pressia meets Partridge, their worlds shatter all over again.

Book The Illuminatus  Trilogy

Download or read book The Illuminatus Trilogy written by Robert Shea and published by Dell. This book was released on 2010-01-13 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of The Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the coverups of our time--from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill.

Book The London Trilogy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward St. Boniface
  • Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2013-12-01
  • ISBN : 1783061251
  • Pages : 760 pages

Download or read book The London Trilogy written by Edward St. Boniface and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a trilogy about three young men finding the fulfillment of their youthful ambitions, from the late 1980s onwards, in rock music and journalism, up to the present day and middle age. As middle age comes on, each must accept a wider responsibility for their past sins. Having either emigrated to or been born in London, all of them become caught up in tantalising opportunities in the capital to fulfill their ambitions of success and fame. Each of them also finds that success comes with an immense price for them personally, and private failures that unmercifully torment them. Their hopeful idealism and dreams become tainted by ruthlessness, opportunism and betrayal of their principles. As each character grows older, he realises he wants to redeem himself and somehow resolve the worst things he has perpetrated in his life – but true redemption requires genuine sacrifice; one even more intense and difficult than their hard-won successes of the past. It may be more than any of them can endure. All of this happens against the background of London’s fantastic, fabulous variety and wealth and exoticism, opportunity and glamour, corruption and poverty and loneliness and harshness. Its pitfalls, rewards and insatiable demands as a fast-moving cultural and media capital are a significant part of the novel’s tone, with an intensified sense of time and place. Edward St. Boniface takes inspiration from a wide range of authors, including Ray Bradbury, Mark Z. Danielewski and David Foster Wallace. The London Trilogy is a work of adult contemporary fiction that will appeal to fans of highbrow and literary novels, bildungsromans and satire.

Book The Grace of Kings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ken Liu
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2015-04-07
  • ISBN : 1481424297
  • Pages : 656 pages

Download or read book The Grace of Kings written by Ken Liu and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Time 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time Two men rebel together against tyranny—and then become rivals—in this first sweeping book of an epic fantasy series from Ken Liu, recipient of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. Hailed as one of the best books of 2015 by NPR. Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast conscripted armies, silk-draped airships, and shapeshifting gods. Once the emperor has been overthrown, however, they each find themselves the leader of separate factions—two sides with very different ideas about how the world should be run and the meaning of justice. Fans of intrigue, intimate plots, and action will find a new series to embrace in the Dandelion Dynasty.

Book Call Down the Hawk  The Dreamer Trilogy  Book 1

Download or read book Call Down the Hawk The Dreamer Trilogy Book 1 written by Maggie Stiefvater and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Boys, a mesmerizing story of dreams and desires, death and destiny. The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming - they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives - they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To trap them. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all.Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality.Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it.Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer . . . and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed. . . .

Book The Earthrise Trilogy

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  • Author : colin owen
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2015-06-08
  • ISBN : 1326298860
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book The Earthrise Trilogy written by colin owen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Earth Rise Trilogy tells the story of how one man's vision for saving humanity unfolds as disastrous events take their course. Told through the lives of a family and small community, the story unfolds to reveal much that is rotten in humanity, but how, ultimately, all that is good in humanity triumphs. Both heart warming and exciting, this book takes you on a journey that is both humorous and adventurous. A real page turner!

Book The Petrovitch Trilogy

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  • Author : Simon Morden
  • Publisher : Hachette+ORM
  • Release : 2013-03-12
  • ISBN : 0316242594
  • Pages : 719 pages

Download or read book The Petrovitch Trilogy written by Simon Morden and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Metrozone -- post-apocalyptic London of the future. While the rest of Britain has devolved to anarchy, the M25 cordon protects a decaying city filled with homeless refugees, street gangs, exiled yakuza, crooked cops and mad cults. And something else; something new and dangerous. Enter Samuil Petrovitch: a Russian émigré with a smart mouth, a dodgy heart and a dodgier past. He's brilliant, friendless, cocky and -- armed only with a genius-level intellect, prototype cyberware and a prodigious vocabulary of Russian swear words -- might just be most unlikely champion a city has ever had. Welcome to the future. Mind the gap.

Book Dead Mech Trilogy Box Set

Download or read book Dead Mech Trilogy Box Set written by Jake Bible and published by Jake Bible Fiction LLC. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 1139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military Sci-Fi Adventure Series - The Apex Trilogy chronicles the zombie apocalypse where the dead have mechs. Dead Mech: In a Post Apocalyptic far future, there is only one thing that can save the fragile civilizations humanity has cobbled together: the mechs. A ragtag crew of mech pilots must battle the undead hordes, cannibal tribes, and religious cults in a daily race to keep humanity safe. But now a threat worse than anything has surfaced and is growing stronger. The undead have reanimated in their own battle machines and created the rise of the Dead Mechs! Dead Mech is a zombie filled, post apocalyptic, military scifi, mecha action/adventure novel like no other! Reviews: “It’s mechs. It’s zombies. It’s zombies in mechs. You already know you’re going to buy it. So just get it over with.” -New York Times Bestselling Author Scott Sigler “Even if you're (Like me) kinda over zombies, go get this awesome book.” -John, Goodreads review “When I started this book I was already a fan of Jake Bible, but THIS book made me an even bigger fan.”- Laura, Goodreads review “Giant fighting Robots + Zombies = EPIC”- Amy, Goodreads review “Suspenseful, psychotic, and artistically profane.” Mason, Goodreads review The Americans: The exciting sidequel to DEAD MECH is a hellride through Europe, Asia and beyond as American Ghost Heather Walton must save her family, her friends, and an all important cargo. The world has survived the North American zombie apocalypse, but Americans struggle to maintain their place in a world where the powers that be no longer want them. And will stop at nothing to put an end to their standing and their very existence! Reviews: “A very different book from "Dead Mech," but you still have the great characters, non-stop action, and imaginative technologies. I finished it in 2 days (work interrupted me!) And immediately downloaded the final book in the trilogy.”- Beth, Goodreads review “4+ stars. All I can really say at this point that might make sense is: what the literal fudgesicle did I just read from cover to cover practically without stopping?”- Ziggy, Goodreads review “Brilliant book, I have read Jake Bibles other Apex Trilogy book - Dead Mech - and thoroughly enjoyed it, and have been waiting for the next part of the trilogy. This book did not disappoint!”- Kay, Goodreads review Metal and Ash: Will fifty foot battle mechs be enough against hundreds of thousands of techno-zombies ready to wipe everything living off the scorched map that is the wasteland? Alliances are formed and broken, mech pilots are made and murdered, secrets are revealed and agendas destroyed, and thousands of bodies fall and rise again What began in the wasteland of DEAD MECH, continued alongside in Europe and Asia in The Americans, now has its epic conclusion in Metal and Ash! Reviews- “Wow wow wow!!!! I literally could not stop reading this book. Action packed all the way to the last page. I'm sad that it's over.”- Amy, Goodreads review “A great end to the Apex series.”- Matt, Goodreads review “To start in, this was the best of the 3 books. Hands down, I felt that as a whole, this last book was the real prize.”- Bex, Goodreads review Keywords: zombies, mech, post-apocalyptic, mecha, wasteland, apocalypse, science fiction, undead, mecha, mechs, scifi, action/adventure, military, armor, power armor, cyberpunk, technothriller, post-apocalypse, techno-zombies Key Phrases: the walking dead, apocalyptic fiction, apocalyptic books, post-apocalypse books, zombie apocalypse weapons, mech warrior, battletech, post-apocalyptic books, post-apocalyptic fiction, post-apocalyptic collection, zombie apocalypse survival kit, zombie apocalypse books, battle machine books, military science fiction kindle books, technothriller books, military scifi books Other books by Jake Bible: By Series: Roak: Galactic Bounty Hunter Series The Z-Burbia Series The Mega/Team Grendel Thrillers The Flipside Sagas Max Rage: Intergalactic Badass! Black Box Inc. Series Dead Mech/The Apex Trilogy The Salvage Merc One Series Fighting Iron Series Dead Team Alpha Series The AntiBio Series The Kaiju Winter Series Reign of Four By Genre: Science Fiction- Roak: Galactic Bounty Hunter Series Max Rage: Intergalactic Badass! The Flipside Sagas The Salvage Merc One Series Drop Team Zero Outpost Hell Galactic Vice Agent Prime Dead Mech/The Apex Trilogy Fighting Iron Series Mech Corps Reign of Four The AntiBio Series In Perpetuity Thriller/Action/Adventure- Max Rage: Intergalactic Badass! The Mega/Team Grendel Thrillers The Flipside Sagas Blood Cruise Agent Prime Galactic Vice Post-Apocalyptic- The Z-Burbia Series Dead Team Alpha Series Dead Mech/The Apex Trilogy EverRealm Fighting Iron Series The AntiBio Series The Kaiju Winter Series Zombies!- The Z-Burbia Series Dead Team Alpha Series Dead Mech/The Apex Trilogy EverRealm Horror- The Z-Burbia Series Blood Cruise Stone Cold Bastards Fantasy/Urban Fantasy/Dark Fantasy- Black Box Inc. Series Stone Cold Bastards EverRealm YA/MG Novels- ScareScapes! (middle grade scifi adventure Intentional Haunting (2014 Bram Stoker Award Finalist- YA horror) Little Dead Man (YA zombie apocalypse)

Book The Starchild Trilogy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert G. Williscroft
  • Publisher : Starman Press
  • Release : 2018-08-30
  • ISBN : 046361965X
  • Pages : 1439 pages

Download or read book The Starchild Trilogy written by Robert G. Williscroft and published by Starman Press. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 1439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In book one, Slingshot, three scientist/engineers reach for the stars as they blend their skills with a host of skilled colleagues to create the world’s first Space Launch-Loop. A team of young eco-terrorists will go to any length to halt the project. One woman is determined to scoop the story, reporting events to a watching world. Slingshot ranges from Seattle’s financial district, to the ocean bottom off Baker Island, to the edge of space, and across the vast panorama of an Equatorial Pacific. It’s a love story, a gender-bender, and a mystery about a missing aviatrix, a conspiracy, and a true-believer. It’s about high finance, intrigue, heroism, fanaticism, betrayal…and humanity’s surge into outer space. In book two, The Starchild Compact, an international team ventures to Saturn’s moon Iapetus to verify it really is a derelict starship. They discover the Founders, descendants of the starship’s builders who arrived in our Solar System 150,000 years ago. Together with the Founders, the explorers advance Founder science with momentous implications for the entire Solar System, paving the way for a joint push to the distant reaches of the Galaxy. But, a Persian Caliphate stowaway sabotages the mission, hoping to destroy science that he believes violates Islam. The Starchild Compact blends tomorrow’s science with human foibles, fears, beliefs, and political intrigue, speculating on how civilization might develop while traveling on a generational starship, and how modern humans might interact with remnants of that civilization. In book three, The Iapetus Federation, besieged Israelis on Earth make their way to Mars as the Federation expands throughout the Solar System. While global Jihad rages on Earth, putting millions to the sword, the Starchild Institute develops wormhole transportation. But will this new technology be ready in time to rescue all that is left of the United States, the beleaguered Lone Star Conservancy, and remnants of other cultures around the globe? From hand-to-hand combat in the oceans, to battles on Earth’s surface, to struggles in interplanetary space, our heroes fight to survive and expand to the far reaches of the universe.