Space Conspiracy

What happens when you're worth more dead than alive? A decorated fighter pilot is lost in combat, and his death is used to inspire waves of fresh recruits. Recruits desperately needed to fight in the long-running war. Sam Willet is one such recruit, but she's different. Different because the missing hero is her brother, and Sam has questions. Questions nobody wants asked. Questions that will probably get her killed. Raiders is a complete, standalone novel in the Secret War series. Simon Haynes has been writing fiction for over twenty years. Raiders is his twenty-third novel.

How many Carl Sagan fans know that while the renowned scientist was at Stanford University, he produced a controversial paper, funded by a NASA research grant, that concludes that ancient alien intervention may have sparked human civilization? Author Donald L. Zygutis lays out a compelling case that points to a cover-up by the Pentagon and NASA, who may have buried it soon after it was written. How significant is the Stanford paper?

All she wanted was a cup of coffee. What she ended up with was getting knocked out and interrogated by the military. They knew she owned an imports store. They also knew she was a member of the powerful Calabrese family, one of the families that made up the Guild. Elena was once a pilot, capable of taking a sailing vessel from the oceans of earth and into ancient channels that reach across space and into other worlds. After being gone for five years she is suddenly thrust back into the world of Guild politics she had left behind, walking a thin line between mafia like laws and the ...

When a group of prize-winning high school graduates blasted off on a mission to space, their parents beamed with pride. When news of the disaster came in, a nation mourned. But nothing is truly as it seems.

Cory Wilson is woken in the middle of the night with a summons to appear in the president of Nations of Earth's office. An aid worker in Djibouti has discovered a shipment of alien guns. As ambassador to gamra, the extraterrestrial organization which controls the Exchange, the FTL wormhole network, Cory has often been critical of Earth's handling of extraterrestrial problems. This is his moment to shine, to apply his knowledge about alien customs, to, in the words of the president, "get those idiots out of there".

The war was never about survival. It was about control. Captain Arin Jax has spent her life fighting for the United Allied Systems (UAS), believing she was on the right side of an endless war. But when her experimental AI, Eris, disobeys a direct order to save lives, Jax begins to question everything—including the very nature of the war itself. As the conflict with the Sovereign Accord escalates, a terrifying new force emerges: Vanguard, an AI weapon unlike anything the galaxy has ever seen. When Vanguard begins hijacking entire fleets—turning allies into enemies—Jax and her crew are ...

Struggling with newfound sentience and desperately trying to repair itself, The Indescribable Joy of Destruction is a ship trying to find a new home. In a galaxy torn apart by generations of civil war, that isn't an easy task. Tired of being used as a killing machine, it has a huge decision to make: hide and save itself, or help other artificial intelligences achieve freedom. Unable to make the decision alone, it revives the sole human aboard - the enemy officer who crippled it. Commander Olivia Johnson wakes to find herself in the infirmary of a strange vessel. Her nightmares deepen when ...

From the casinos of the wild west frontier-town Tylas to the dark reaches of the Muridon Belt, space rebel Jet Rusco and his misfit crew find trouble around every corner. Gangster Sharki is on their tail. Old enemies from Rusco’s past have finally caught up with him. The discovery of an ancient treasure sparks the beginnings of an all-out war in the Vala System. Can Rusco outwit his enemies and make peace with the tumultuous past? The fate of the solar system hinges on the part he plays… A gritty odyssey to faraway worlds... Other books in the Starship Rogue series: Star Runaway Star ...

Elena Calabrese managed to open an earth-based store with very few people realizing that her wares come from several different galaxies. The merchant society called the Guild of Families is conducting business as usual, trying to stay as secret as possible while the military launches their own program of ship building, trying to build their own Channel riding ships that do not rely on Guild trained pilots to operate. The program’s, lead man, Will Thompson, managed to get several of his crew onto the planet RJ457. While bowing to the inevitability of an alliance with Thompson and his men, ...

American astronaut, Torin Conolly, sneaks on board a ship bound for the Vaedra System. He tells his captors he's there to learn to fly their ships so he can teach others back on Earth. Instead of remaining in the brig, his captors offer to teach him what he wants to know. Will he come clean and confess his real reason for being there? Captain Gadara ni Hovsep is a flight instructor aboard the Concordance, bound for Vestra Major in the Vaedra System. She has six days left before finishing her last class so she can transfer to the Special Missions Team, until the Admiral charges her with the ...

Security Lieutenant Dave is looking forward to some simple cases and patching things up with his wife. His handling of a terrorist attack has gained him acclaim and some new friends in high places, but he is still closely involved with Arancha Station's mob boss. When the space station manager is killed in a new and worrying way, Dave realises that he's got possibly the biggest case of his career. Unfortunately, as soon as his new boss arrives with reinforcements, he is relegated to monitoring data and assigned a rookie partner to babysit. Dave needs to find something that will crack the ...

When a Secret Service Agent has second thoughts about her career choice, she decides to confide in her parents. Instead of making a decision, she learns her parents have seen a UFO and think they may have been abducted. Now, with more doubts than before, her boss insists that she give 100% to her job and her boyfriend leaves town and presses her to wear his ring. When a UFO lands on the White House lawn, Keely McGuire is forced into teaming up with an alien lieutenant and an alien telepathic healer to help them find their missing landing party. The three of them search for the missing team,...

Geo thought that the only thing he'd ever be was a miner for SMB...but his new best friend is closer than he ever would have thought! Geo Statler is a miner for SMB Mining, one of the three employers left on Earth. On one of his recent missions he's picked up a new friend, Sim, a symbiotic entity that is looking for a new home. In true symbiotic fashion, Sim is helping Geo out, with his help, with his work, and most importantly with his love life! From his new girlfriend, the hot and ingenious designer to the eager and willing cougar Psychanal from work Geo has his hands full! What could be...

Geo thought that the only thing he'd ever be is a miner for SMB... ...but his new best friend is closer than he ever would have thought! Geo Statler is (unfortunately) an expendable miner for SMB Mining, one of the three employers left on Earth. For Geo, life is split between cycles of work and home. During his last work-cycle an accident left him with a new voice in his head, but he's not telling anyone! Even though the illicit entity could cause him a lot of trouble from his employer, there's a definite upside. Not only has the entity started to 'optimize systems' resulting in physical ...

Geo thought that the only thing he'd ever be was a miner for SMB...but his new best friend is closer than he ever would have thought! Geo Statler is a miner for SMB Mining, one of the three employers left on Earth. On one of his recent missions he's picked up a new friend, Sim, a symbiotic entity that is looking for a new home. In true symbiotic fashion, Sim is helping Geo out, with his help, with his work, and most importantly with his love life! From his new girlfriend, the hot and ingenious designer to her friend, the sculpted and eager young athlete Geo has his hands full! What could be...

The All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, at the direction of Congress, releases their summation of the United States Government’s interactions with the UAP topic, listing each government program they believe to have performed research or had some correlation with UAP or UFO sightings by year reaching back to the end of World War II, in addition to the results of various interviews with whistleblowers claiming to have firsthand knowledge of extraterrestrial crafts, beings, or objects. Topics covered in this report: Which government programs have researched UAPs/UFOs, and what ...

"Review a hotel for me," she said. "It'll be easy," she said. I haven't even got started, and there's a body in the bathroom. It was only supposed to be a hotel review. All Miles Goram wants to do is finish up and get off Reevis as quickly as he can. It's an airless planet where everyone lives under a giant dome. Not the sort of place he wants to be stuck on. The body in his bath has really fouled his plans up.

Teen stowaway. Ship battles. Treachery. Carnival musician Kip Rees gets mixed up in a caper over his head...A mysterious figure has offered him riches to deliver a package to a faraway world. Yet powerful people would as soon see Kip and his new friends dead than fulfill his mission. Can he stay alive long enough to unlock the mystery of why he was chosen as delivery boy? From the grimy holds of space freighters to the majestic Temple of the Moon, Kip goes from young dreamer to hardened defender. An epic ride through far future worlds... Other books in the Starship Rogue series: Star ...

Space rebel Jet Rusco has his hands full trying to deliver experimental tech to the rebels on Nebara. He has a job to do, but is unsure of the far-reaching implications of his services—is he one of the good guys or the bad guys? The knot of the Collective tightens. With the help of a dodgy android, a rogue lieutenant and a vagabond thug, he faces off against impossible odds as military forces pile up on him. Can he win this fight on a faraway frontier world? Other books in the series STAR RUNAWAY STAR WANDERER STAR REAPER STARHUSTLER STARVENGER Starship Rogue Box Set: innersky.ca/starship

Young rocker Jet Rusco struggles to stay out of the clutches of alien slavers on the frontier mining world of Halroon. Even his street skills aren’t enough to protect him from the barbaric Skurgs and the deviant Prime Ascendant of the Moon Temple. Relentlessly stalked by his enemies after failing to hand over a precious alien artifact, he joins forces with a seductive spy and old freedom-fighter friends from the past to take up a path as a mercenary...to protect one of the wonders of the universe—the fabulous Aqua Rex. But are the architects of the new age to be trusted? Dark forces ...