Download or read book H2LiftShips Beyond Luna written by Bob Freeman and published by Indies United Publishing House, LLC. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H2LiftShips, a tech manual for a future "Imagine a world, exactly like ours, but different" You all knew we would settle on Luna and start mining the Asteroid belt. Mars, dry, dusty with thin unbreathable air, is just a prison planet with the added hell of lawyers and accountants in charge. Asteroid groups are unified in their desire for independence to try different governance methods. It may not be our future, but it is a future we can get behind. Travel the solar system on solar sail ships. Meet hard-working sentients: humans, canines, simians, and octopuses, plying our heliosphere for fun and profit. You won't find any exploding rockets, evil aliens, laser blasters, or sparking computers, instead, you'll find hacked comm lines, buried Luna casinos, pirates, dust balls, and weaponized beef jerky. And after your cruise through the Asteroid belt, Mars, and Luna, settle down on Earth for a party in the desert, they'll bring the Carne Asada burritos, you bring the fun. No matter what regime is in charge, Gig workers have to jump from job to job, trying to earn enough for food, shelter, air, and waste disposal. Welcome: Join humans, simians, canines, and octopuses in our new future, gigging and living in the void.

Download or read book H2LiftShips A Back Story Vol 4 written by Bof Freeman and published by Bob Freeman. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The back-story for H2LiftShips, following our intrepid sentients in the void, the Luna Casino, and the Asteroids, with a little old school schooling and celebrations. This is where we fill in the answers to some of your questions: >How did an asteroid citizen, born and bred, learn to drive a sports-car on Earth? >What happens to you after being abandoned on a divorce asteroid? >Why is Jack so afraid of prison? What traumatized that poor little puppy? >Are the bioGels sentient? And are they plotting against their owners? >What does it take to be a SolarSail Captain? >Do octopuses really think that they are better than the terrestrials? >>(spoiler, yes they do).

Download or read book H2liftShips written by Bob Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's cold, rocky and a little dark.Solar Sail cargo ships ply the commercial space from Earth to the distant Asteroids.Trade, politics, revenge, and poker keep the population warm in the -70'C emptiness surrounding their homes.

Download or read book Backstory written by William L. Myers, Jr. and published by Oceanview Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunting one killer—he finds another—in the mirror In the aftermath of his wife's apparent suicide, Jackson Robert Hunter wakes up outside a bar with a badly battered head and no memory. Revelations convince Jackson that his wife's death wasn't a suicide, but a murder, and he sets out to find the killer. While hunting the villain and struggling with his amnesia, Jackson discovers that his own backstory is a dark one, littered with broken hearts and dead bodies: a wife he betrayed; a lover he abandoned; a squad of crooked cops he double-crossed; and a city that lives in fear of his name. Jackson's odyssey takes him from a small town in Kansas to Philadelphia, then back cross-country to Las Vegas. Along the way he encounters a sister he didn't know he had, a niece he failed to save, and a mentor ready to lead Jackson down the darkest of paths. Finally, at the end of his journey, Jackson discovers that it's not another man he's been running to, or from, but his own damning deeds, and the paradoxical redemption they might bring. A Unique Blend: Perfect for fans of The Bourne Identity as well as fans of Gone Girl

Download or read book H2LiftShips BosonsWave 2 written by Bob Freeman and published by H2LiftShips - BosonsWave^2. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broken on the shoals of Luna, Captain Graciela's Solar Sail ship, BosonsWave is reborn as BosonsWave2. Refurbished, refitted, and squared, Captain Graciela is ready to sail off and trade throughout Sol's heliosphere, free of advertisers or constraints.If only the bioGel money-changing devices still worked, it would be easy to exchange goods for ¿Standards. The HiveSisters' mutated AI tablets infected all of HiveMother's bioGels they could find. AI computers could be picky and hard to use on a good day. Now angry and seeking revenge, the sentients had to deal with random attacks, bad attitudes, and a broken economic system.Captain Graciela could escape the Hive Wars, which she may or may not have started, but not her family. Parents, simians, and octopuses sail to Earth and struggle with heat, moisture, and gravity, longing for their cool, ZeroG asteroid lifestyles. The heliospheric Navy, Pirates, the Mort asteroids, and Earth itself team up to bring the AI-controlled algal rocket ships to heel.

Download or read book UFO Cow Abduction written by Matt Smiriglio and published by RP Minis. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This out-of-this-world kit for sci-fi lovers is loaded with special effects! It includes: -3-inch diameter spaceship, equipped with a hinged cockpit dome from which a curious alien peers, and featuring multiple light and sound effects: By opening the cockpit dome and pressing the alien's head, sound of spaceship engine plays, followed by eerie pre-abduction music. Six blue lights around the spaceship flash in rotation. Additionally, two bright LED lights beneath the ship glow, casting a beam of light in search of a specimen to abduct. When the spaceship is hovered in close proximity to the cow, a magnetically powered "abduction" occurs which simultaneously prompts new light and sound effects. Lights beneath the ship flash and music changes to a pulsating sound with intermittent cow mooing. When cow is abducted and alien head is pressed again, sound of the spaceship flying away plays, concluding your invasion and shutting off the spaceship. -Miniature cow and faux grass mound -Transparent display stand to hover spaceship over cow when not invading the countryside -32-page book, The Cow Abduction Chronicles, featuring full-color illustrations

Download or read book Atop an Underwood written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “indispensable” (Chicago Tribune) collection of more than sixty previously unpublished works from Jack Kerouac, ranging from stories and poems to plays and excerpts of novels “Fascinating . . . provides a poignant picture of a life brimming with promise.”—The Boston Globe Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his classic On the Road, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write. Atop an Underwood brings together works that Kerouac wrote before he was twenty-two years old, including an excerpt from The Sea Is My Brother. These writings reveal what Kerouac was thinking, doing, and dreaming during his formative years and reflect his primary literary influences, including the source of his spontaneous prose style. Uncovering a fascinating missing link in Kerouac’s development as a writer, Atop an Underwood is essential reading for Kerouac fans, scholars, and critics alike.

Download or read book The Simulation Hypothesis written by Rizwan Virk and published by Bayview Books, LLC. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Simulation Hypothesis, by best-selling author, renowned MIT computer scientist and Silicon Valley video game designer Rizwan Virk, is the first serious book to explain one of the most daring and consequential theories of our time. Riz is the Executive Director of Play Labs @ MIT, a video game startup incubator at the MIT Game Lab. Drawing from research and concepts from computer science, artificial intelligence, video games, quantum physics, and referencing both speculative fiction and ancient eastern spiritual texts, Virk shows how all of these traditions come together to point to the idea that we may be inside a simulated reality like the Matrix. The Simulation Hypothesis is the idea that our physical reality, far from being a solid physical universe, is part of an increasingly sophisticated video game-like simulation, where we all have multiple lives, consisting of pixels with its own internal clock run by some giant Artificial Intelligence. Simulation theory explains some of the biggest mysteries of quantum and relativistic physics, such as quantum indeterminacy, parallel universes, and the integral nature of the speed of light. Recently, the idea that we may be living in a giant video game has received a lot of attention: “There’s a one in a billion chance we are not living in a simulation” -Elon Musk “I find it hard to argue we are not in a simulation.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson “We are living in computer generated reality.” -Philip K. Dick Video game technology has developed from basic arcade and text adventures to MMORPGs. Video game designer Riz Virk shows how these games may continue to evolve in the future, including virtual reality, augmented reality, Artificial Intelligence, and quantum computing. This book shows how this evolution could lead us to the point of being able to develop all encompassing virtual worlds like the Oasis in Ready Player One, or the simulated reality in the Matrix. While the idea sounds like science fiction, many scientists, engineers, and professors have given the Simulation Hypothesis serious consideration. Futurist Ray Kurzweil has popularized the idea of downloading our consciousness into a silicon based device, which would mean we are just digital information after all. Some, like Oxford lecturer Nick Bostrom, goes further and thinks we may in fact be artificially intelligent consciousness inside such a simulation already! But the Simulation Hypothesis is not just a modern idea. Philosophers like Plato have been telling us that we live in a “cave” and can only see shadows of the real world. Mystics of all traditions have long contended that we are living in some kind of “illusion “and that there are other realities which we can access with our minds. While even Judeo-Christian traditions have this idea, Eastern traditions like Buddhism and Hinduism make this idea part of their core tradition — that we are inside a dream world (“Maya” or illusion, or Vishnu’s Dream), and we have “multiple lives” playing different characters when one dies, continuing to gain experience and “level up” after completing certain challenges. Sounds a lot like a video game! Whether you are a computer scientist, a fan of science fiction like the Matrix movies, a video game enthusiast, or a spiritual seeker, The Simulation Hypothesis touches on all these areas, and you will never look at the world the same way again!

Download or read book Shadows Over Somerset written by Bob Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Somers is brought to Cairnwood, an isolated manor in rural Indiana, to sit at the deathbed of a grandfather he never knew existed. He soon finds himself drawn into a strange and esoteric world filled with werewolves, vampires, witches... and a family curse that dates back to fourteenth century Scotland. In the sleepy little town of Somerset, an ancient evil awakens, hungering for blood and vengeance... and if Michael is to survive he must face his inner demons and embrace his family's dark past. Shadows Over Somerset is the first Cairnwood Manor Novel.

Download or read book Void of Power written by Andrew C. Raiford and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Void belongs to everyone and belongs to no one. Because of the Cultural War Treaty, the federal government or any agent under their control cannot enter the Void. Ruled for nearly sixty by gangs and drug cartels, the "settlers" of the Void must live by their wits and their skill at arms. Raised by scientists who had been sequestered in an underground complex in the Texas panhandle, the Walsh family employs their genius and talents to forever change the quality of life for the citizens of the Void using technologies far beyond the imagination of ordinary people. When government forces enter the Void on a capture-or-kill mission which has targeted two extraordinarily gifted children, they run headlong into this family of geniuses and Texas Rangers who dedicate themselves to protect the children. The feds soon realize that they are mice attempting to capture one very mean, intelligent cat.

Download or read book Selected Letters 1957 1969 written by Jack Kerouac and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1999 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of an American original in his own words, offering unparalleled insights into the mind and life of a giant of the American literary landscape.

Download or read book Nobody s Road written by and published by Indies United. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n 2045 America is ruled by ‘The Brain’. It’s a country of dried-up rivers, computer project educations, holographs, and robots. Most species have died off and even fresh air is scarce. Children don’t form bonds and therefore can’t love. They become drones – dangerous killers. The answer lies on a road in Pindar Corners but to find it is to risk the loss of your soul. In need of a hero, Harry Erin Cooper steps up to the plate and, along with his wife, Adina, they restore what should have been.

Download or read book The Crimson Deathbringer written by Sean Robins and published by Crimson Deathbringer Saga. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A galaxy-conquering alien fleet ... ... is on Earth's doorstep. A formidable alien armada stands on the brink of vanquishing the cosmos, their gaze set firmly on every inhabited world. The last line of defense? An eclectic crew of improbable champions: a maverick starfighter pilot, a daredevil stuntwoman, a lethal super-assassin, and a cosmic prankster with alien tricks up his sleeves. Their mission: to shield not just humanity, but billions of other intelligent lifeforms spanning the multiverse. Meet Jim, a quick-witted pilot grappling with OCD, planning to propose to his love when his life is disrupted by the sudden appearance of his blood-soaked friend, Kurt. This unexpected twist spirals Jim's life into a chaotic vortex of complicated problems which include time travel and visits from alternate universes, with an impending galactic war threatening the very fabric of human existence at its core. Can this unlikely rag-tag group of heroes overcome their dysfunctions to shield first the galaxy and then the multiverse from the relentless onslaught of invincible alien forces? The Crimson Deathbringer masterfully weaves nail-biting action scenes with wily humor, creating a riveting space opera saga. If you revel in immersive narratives like Star Wars, Star Trek, or Stargate, or if you're captivated by intense space battles, unforgettable characters, formidable foes, and unexpected, Game of Thrones-style plot twists, this series is penned expressly for you. Grab your copy now and embark on an adventure of galactic proportions! Also available in Spanish, Italian, German, and Greek! Praise for The Crimson Deathbringer: Sean is, simply put, an incredible storyteller - truly one of the best. His words weave universes and breathe life into characters in ways that leave readers spellbound. And it seems you all agree! Ever since we launched his book a week ago, Sean has been topping the charts, maintaining a steady place as a bestseller. Brandon Ellis, the author of Project Atlantis The Crimson Deathbringer is a mix of funny and clever dialogues, action and adventure, with scenes that made me chuckle, bite my nails, and shed a tear or two. All while it kept me at the edge of my seat, trying to guess what would happen next. And no, most times I guessed wrong. Jina Bazzar, the author of Heir of Ashes

Download or read book A Touch of Death written by Rebecca Crunden and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thousand years in the future, the last of humanity live inside the walls of the totalitarian Kingdom of Cutta. The rich live in Anais, the capital city of Cutta, sheltered from the famine and disease which ravage the rest of the Kingdom. Yet riches and power only go so far, and even Anaitians can be executed. It is only by the will of the King that Nate Anteros, son of the King's favourite, is spared from the gallows after openly dissenting. But when he's released from prison, Nate disappears. A stark contrast, Catherine Taenia has spent her entire life comfortable and content. The daughter of the King's Hangman and in love with Thom, Nate's younger brother, her life has always been easy, ordered and comfortable. That is, where it doesn't concern Nate. His actions sullied not only his future, but theirs. And unlike Thom, Catherine has never forgiven him. Two years pass without a word, and then one night Nate returns. But things with Nate are never simple, and when one wrong move turns their lives upside down, the only thing left to do is run where the King's guards cannot find them - the Outlands. Those wild, untamed lands which stretch around the great walls of the Kingdom, filled with mutants and rabids.

Download or read book The Golden Viper written by Sean Robins and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kanoor has fallen. Despite their crushing defeat on Earth, the Xortaags are back, and with a genius plan that can be the brainchild of only one man in the galaxy, they've conquered the Akakie homeworld. Not being the forgive-and-forget types, the Xortaags have chosen Earth as their next target. Moreover, if they have enough time to reverse-engineer all the advanced technology they found on Kanoor, they will rule the universe forever. Now it's up to Jim, Kurt, Oksana and Tarq to save not only humanity but also every single sentient species in the universe. And to make things worse, an even more sinister threat (yeah, more sinister than the Xortaags) is emerging in the background.

Download or read book A Shot at Mercy written by Timothy Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emmitt Wasson's life wasn't perfect. But with a decent job and a loving family, his life was pretty good. That is until a horrific accident left him and his family spiraling out of control. Dealing with unfathomable grief, Emmitt slowly reasserts himself as the man he believes his family needs. As he struggles to bring chaos under control, he is faced with a new set of challenges. Blighted by her father's failings, Emmitt's daughter goes off the rails. Fueled by resentment and angst, she makes a series of choices that set her on a dangerous path. With his daughter's future hanging in the balance, he faces a battle requiring a strength and a faith he has yet to understand.Through unlikely friendships, he will discover the drive and determination he needs to face an immense struggle he isn't sure he can even win. But fight he must, especially if he is to rescue his daughter from the demons that are tearing her apart.

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