Future Space

Welcome to future-shock. Hold on tight and buckle yourselves in, because the future is on a relentless onslaught, for better or worse. This is a collection of the short speculative fiction of Gabriel Walker Land. Most stories are flash fiction, meaning less than 1000 words. Each contains a story of mystery, action, romance, and suspense.

The next frontier in space exploration is Mars, the Red Planet - and human habitation of Mars isn't much farther off. In October 2015, NASA declared Mars "an achievable goal"; that same season, Ridley Scott and Matt Damon's The Martian drew crowds into theaters, grossing over $200 million. Now the National Geographic Channel fast forwards years ahead with Mars, a six-part series documenting and dramatizing the next 25 years as humans land on and learn to live on Mars.

A mathematical genius. A formula that speeds up space travel called SHORTCUT. His loving wife. When Laura Maxx disappears after an attack that leaves Jason Maxx in the hospital, his only goal is to find her and bring her back. Then he gets a message from Voyager One: Laura is alive. In space. To get her back, he’ll do whatever it takes—even taking on government agents who might try to stop him.

A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. His theory changed the way we think about space and time, revealed how our universe has been expanding from a hot, dense state called the big bang and predicted black holes. Where the Universe Came From is a 13.8 billiion-year journey through the cosmos.

On completion of her training as an agent of the interstellar federation's Anthropological Service, Elana is sent to a world whose people may soon destroy their civilization. Since not enough is understood about the situation to justify any interference with their evolution, the Service has no power to act; its agents must go as helpless observers, posing as natives, in the hope of gaining knowledge that may help to save other worlds. This passive role proves intolerable to the young, inexperienced agent assigned to the same city as Elana, a city under totalitarian rule. After falling in ...

He fought to save humanity. Now he’s having second thoughts. After more than a thousand years in flight, Starship is crashing towards a new home. At its helm, a corrupted machine with unknown goals and deadly tactics. Scrappy human leftovers cluster in the middle, making plans to run if they survive the landing. War between man and machine, they believe, is inevitable. Best get away from the biggest machine in existence. For Gamma, that machine, that ship is his home, and he won’t abandon it without a fight. First up on that score, finding his friends, his partner. Arm up, take back the...

In the not too distant future things have changed, and Santa Barbara police detective John Harrow is stuck with the strangest case of his career. A serial murderer, dubbed the "Pop Top Killer", is scooping the brains out of his victims, leaving them scattered across the floor. As he works through the bizarre case Harrow discovers it might connect to national security issues far beyond his control. Calling on the Santa Barbara Medical Examiner, Dr. Ricky Goforth, and his former partner, Detective Mario Montemayor, Harrow picks his way through mysterious connections between the local ...

Venture into the world of 'Homestead Memories, City Dreams,' an enlightening journey from the comfort of rural homesteads to the bustling heart of city life. This gripping eBook skillfully combines the allure of simpler times with the magnetism of future-oriented urban dreams. Chapter one embarks on the intriguing concept of urban dreams, examining the persistent nostalgia for homestead memories and highlighting the significance of balance. The narrative invites readers to reflect on their life in the enchanting lights of the city and carve a vision attuned to their deepest desires and ...

When you were born, there was a sign of the zodiac that ruled the night sky. Astrologers believe that the particular sign appearing the moment you were born would influence your personality throughout your life. In this fun and exciting guide, you'll find out all about the signs of the zodiac and how they might make you brave, caring, fun, creative, and more!

Savage Battle for A New Star System by Anna Patterson This epic drama takes place when two Worlds collide in all out warfare and battles of cities and people. Many tired of the awful life and daily strife flee the bombing and shelling only to find peril up ahead and heartbreak and treachery in this new and to the death conflict for a new star system. This new star system is much desired like a fantasy land of enchantment.

An ex-captain. A cosmic conspiracy. Alien static shatters Nate’s peace on Mars. Mara decodes its secrets with him. Echo the enigmatic AI. Their mission: protect the Nexus, defend its power. Commander Zorin’s shadows darken their path. Broken worlds beckon with dangerous secrets. Will they unlock ancient wonders or unleash chaos? History holds its breath—heroes must rise.

Подобрать находку – легко. Избавиться от последствий – сложно. Мне, к примеру, придется оказаться в будущем, стать опекуном принцессы и обмануть бдительность ее главного телохранителя. И как было бы проще справиться с этой задачей, если бы этот телохранитель не был таким привлекательным!

This book is a fun and informative guide for BIPOC children to explore the exciting world of STEM, software and hardware development, and space exploration. Written at a 3rd-grade reading level, it introduces children to the different STEM fields and the amazing careers that await them in the future. It features BIPOC characters who are passionate about STEM and will inspire children to pursue their own interests in these fields. With parent's resources and online learning resources included, this book is a must-have for any BIPOC child who wants to learn more about STEM, software and ...

In an ocean of weightless air where sunlight has never been seen, only the running lights of the city of Pacquaea glitter in the dark. One woman, Leal Hieronyma Maspeth, lives and dreams of love among the gaslit streets and cafés. And somewhere in the abyss of wind and twisted cloud through which Pacquaea eternally falls, a great voice has begun speaking. As its cold words reach from space to the city walls—and as outlying towns and travelers' ships start to mysteriously disappear—only Leal has the courage to try to understand the message thundering from the distance.

In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his attention to the molecular world as the place where society's future needs could be met using self-replicating nanoscale machines. These modern utopians predicted that their technologies could transform society as humans mastered the ability to create new worlds, undertook atomic-scale engineering, and, if truly successful, overcame their own biological limits.

Imperium is the most expensive structure ever created. Once an orbiting laboratory, it is now a space hotel for the fantastically wealthy. But as the station preps for its first group of space tourists, Dr. Chloe Bonilla, Imperium’s resident biophysicist, finds herself questioning whether babysitting a passel of space glampers is worth the distraction from her research.

Starship captain Terry Steward, ne Terry Radnor, is committed to spreading acceptance of psi powers and other advanced mind capabilities throughout the worlds of humankind. A strange turn of fate has enabled him to overcome terrorists who would have put an end to the colony world Maclairn's plan to achieve this goal. Now with his own ship Estel, he journeys from world to world, heralding the hopeful future about which he alone knows the full truth. But the opponents of mind power still pose a threat and on Earth the persecution of people who develop new abilities is increasing. Soon ...

Thomas Coleman had excelled in everything that he attempted, even becoming a billionaire by his mid-30’s. Now, he was going to attempt his greatest adventure. He would fly in a large experimental spacecraft with a team of skilled specialists further than any man had ever traveled to the Asteroid belt to mine an asteroid reputed to be filled with extremely valuable metals. Thomas started this journey with the help of the world’s richest man with the intent of changing the world for the better with this new source of badly needed minerals. However, not everyone was happy about this ...

Una leyenda del futuro, de Agustín de Rojas, es un admirable estudio sobre la sofocación social que se lleva a cabo en una misión fallida a Titán, una de las lunas de Saturno. El viaje de regreso a tierra fuerza a los tripulantes a confrontar sus miedos más profundos mientras coexisten unos con otros en pleno estado de desesperación. Esta extraordinaria audio novela, la cual recuerda a 2001: Odisea del espacio de Arthur C. Clarke, es un "roman à clef" de ciencia ficción sobre las presiones intensas.

Three hundred people in a starship low on life support--they must land fast, or they’ll run out of air. Captain Jesse Sanders is their only pilot. How can he choose where to locate their colony with no chance to explore the raw new world? How can he shuttle them all to the surface within a few short hours? And when the site proves less than adequate, how can he live with the knowledge that his own astrogation error was what got them into such a fix? Isolated by choice on a world they have reached in secret, the colonists hope to establish a culture based on psi powers that can someday ...