In the year 2140, on the red planet Mars, a bold project is underway. The Tyson Research and Space Corporation has assembled teams to embark on a groundbreaking mission: launching spacecraft towards our solar system's nearest stars. Their flagship vessel, the Inside Straight, is set to venture towards nearby Gliese, with the hope of establishing first contact with extraterrestrial life.But the journey is far from ordinary. Onboard the Inside Straight...

In A Grand Imperial Heir, the enthralling sequel to A Grand Imperial War, the universe teeters on the edge of chaos once more. Years after her pivotal role in restoring Farsalian sovereignty, Princess Melorah finds herself thrust into an unexpected role as the Matriarch of Farsalia. Reluctant to embrace the weight of power, she stumbles through her royal duties until a fateful revelation unravels in the Human interstellar empire.Human Emperor Stanislaus...

Solar Subway Systems invented a way to stretch a wormhole between two points, allowing near-instantaneous travel not only between any two locations on Earth, but also between the planets and satellites of the solar system. SSS VP of engineering Charles (Scotty) Hays and Chief Scientist Robert (Bobby) Taylor, along with field service genius Carol (Kaley) Sellers, have built SSS into a major, multi-billion-dollar corporation, accidentally triggering...

"Don't kill it!" my wife screamed as the bat-thing flew at me. Why should she prefer the life of a monster to my own? What horrible secret did she hold?

Emperor Daniel Hankerson and his allies, including his new wife-and-super commando-in-one Hila Eban, have successfully ended the war on the other side of the Central Imperium. A huge fleet is now assembling at planet Davenport for the final confrontation with the New Protectorate.But before the battle can start, Daniel needs to open the FTL gate leading to the heart of the Imperium. The gates are a legacy of an old civilization, the Protectors. However,...

Join Lieutenant Suarez, a valiant member of the Imperial Marines, as he finds himself entangled in a web of intrigue and danger.When the Human ambassador engages in a forbidden affair with a Farsalian princess, the consequences prove dire, and the blame falls upon Suarez's shoulders. Little does he know that the ambitious Emperor of all Humankind, Stanislaus, eagerly awaits a chance to initiate an all-encompassing war.Buckle up for heart-pounding...

Sparks has made a promise she intends to keep…She must liberate Shalk and return him to his home world of Flanterian. Even if that means infiltrating a prison ship where horrors hide in the shadows.Greeta would leave him to rot for his betrayal, but her allegiance to Sparks is unwavering.Together they board the Sunny Horizon, hopeful, but neither certain they'll return.Meanwhile, Reyes and Faz Went, unaware of Sparks and Hat's whereabouts, have...

It was big news for reporters throughout the solar system. After a cargo-liner en route from Earth to Mars blew up as it was coming in for a landing, killing all eight persons aboard, the workers went on strike. Spacemen had walked out in a demand for higher pay and better retirement benefits. The spacemen's union included not only pilots but crewmen, mechanics, and maintenance workers at the spaceports. But was it a tragic accident-or sabotage?

Two hundred thousand feet up, things go horribly wrong. An experimental low-orbit spaceplane breaks up on reentry, falling to earth over a trail hundreds of miles long. And it its wake is the beginning of the most important mission in the history of space. America needs energy, and Dan Randolph is determined to give it to them. He dreams of an array of geosynchronous powersats, satellites which gather solar energy and beam it to generators on Earth,...

Interstellar kidnapping… or opportunity? A thousand teens and their teachers were stunned when the alien Garubis yanked Twenty-Nine Palms High School right out of California's Mojave desert, plopping it into a jungle many light years away. It was supposed to be a "gift"-a new settlement for humanity. But tell that to Mark, Alexandra, Barry and Sophie when strange parasites attack… and they don't know what to eat… and the island of Earth-buildings...