Space Epic

"...awesome book... kept me on my toes. I couldn't put it down." 5-star Amazon.com review "...absolutely recommend this to sci-fi lovers. If you are someone who loves to figure stuff out for yourselves and love a good world build, you would absolutely love this book." Goodreads Review Aliens, intergalactic civilizations, first contact, alternate realities, and more. Ruled by priests with the power to bend reality, the unchanging Drue empire spans galaxies. When the Spann Protectorate's powerful candidate challenges the current emperor and wins, her very nature introduces an element of chaos...

Saga of the Blackened Star is an epic space adventure that follows the charismatic Captain Orion and his ragtag crew of space pirates. Set against the backdrop of a galaxy ruled by the tyrannical Galactic Empire, the crew of the Blackened Star engages in daring heists, epic battles, and unlikely alliances. When they stumble upon a young man with a secret that threatens the Empire's grip on power, their journey takes an unexpected turn.

With reality being rewritten, is anything guaranteed - even survival? In this fourth book of the Eye of the Ocean series, two stories interweave. Yilli, a Pinnet memstrife, a holder of memories for her people, is called to the Spann world-altar, where she discovers that the Unity’s reality is already in the process of being rewritten by the events taking place on Alisim. Yilli’s changing memories frame the story of Amli, a human, and Jenna, her Pinnet lover, who live on Amber, a moon-sized organism trapped in Unity space as they seek Amber’s memories from her life in the greater ...

Car-En, a ringstation anthropologist on her first Earth field assignment, observes a Viking-like village in the Harz mountains. As Car-En secretly observes the Happdal villagers, she begins to see them as more than research subjects (especially Esper, a handsome bowhunter). When Esper’s sister is taken by an otherwordly sword-wielding white-haired man, she can no longer stand by as a passive witness. Knowing the decision might end her career, she cuts off communication with her advisor and pursues the abductor into the mountains.

The Uran are consolidating their main battle fleet around the moons of Saturn and have reopened the ancient fuel-mining platforms. The stories circulating through the system speak of a growing arsenal of advanced weapons. Amid the rising terror of invasion, the two academics, Qira and Nessum, return to their home city on the moon Ganymede. Together, they attempt to instigate the former union of the Galilean peoples. However, Qira has other, secret plans and Nessum, who can read her better than any other, knows this. Before he can work out Qira’s intentions, he must face up to the dark ...

Paul Singh and John R. Shook draw on the latest findings from the physical and biological sciences, astronomy and cosmology, geology and genetics, and prehistory and archeology in search of answers. As they lucidly and engagingly demonstrate, the answers science gives about ourselves and the universe in which we live are incomparably more surprising and interesting than any mythical tale about some clash of titans or calculating creator.

Eighteen-year-old recluse Sam van Oen lives with his aunt near Charleston, South Carolina. He takes online college courses, works in technical support, and tries not to remember the freak storm that killed his parents 10 years ago. But never leaving the house fuels his anxiety, and his hoarding brings up memories he doesn’t want to have.

When Earth’s colonists on Mars vote for independence the enormous military spacecraft Ephialtes is sent to pressure them into reconsidering. The Martians take some countermeasures of their own. Politics turns to brinkmanship. As each side seeks to avoid conflict they are both inexorably drawn toward it and, with Ephialtes closing in on Mars, time is running out. In 2241 the dominant superpower on Earth, the USAN, successfully concludes the fourth world war. The nation breathes a sigh of relief and looks forward to the resumption of elections. Across the solar system the leading ...

A starship crashes in the land of giants and pits a space-faring race of humanoids against a barbarian race of warrior giants. The Fomorian giants watch in awe as a celestial object streaks across the sky on the eve of Samhain, the bloodiest pagan festival of the year. Druids proclaim that it's the prophesied Destroyer, and that the end of the world is near. One giant has his eye on the blonde-haired Brigit, whose fiancé awaits her in a nearby star system, and the giants attempt to barter for her.

To shift the immovable... Esalda must have fighters who are completely loyal to her, and her alone. For the treachery of her own land’s Lords has put her in a position of soon needing to defend her Nation, and possibly without the benefit of its Army. And the ways of the world, mired in thousands of revol-cycles of inertia, need a change, a shift, a push back toward the center of equitability. But where to find such fighters, and how to gain their loyalty, beyond possibility of doubt? Surprisingly, the sources are innumerable. And very, very simple. And she now has the perfect team to ...

It is difficult, I suppose, for the children of our safe, modern republic to imagine what life had been like in those days, under the Zin occupation. How does one explain the inexplicable? How does one describe the indescribable? How does one get across what it is like to live in a world with no safety, to expect, at any moment, the fatal knock on the door, to know, every waking minute of every waking day, that the very next breath might be one’s last? There are no words for such things. And so, when my grandchildren ask me, I tell them the only thing I can: We lived those days, I tell ...

Killing innocents is just the beginning. With civilizations across space in the crosshairs, can this powerful young Elemental end the bloodshed? Raya Salian dreams of peace. Pursuing her goal of exploring and mapping the universe, the young astronomer cherishes every conflict-free moment she can spend with her beloved. After completing a mission to investigate a mysterious nebula, she returns to dock with the main spaceship and is shattered to find the vessel destroyed, leaving everyone she loves missing or dead. Taking aim at those responsible, the furious young woman hunts for the ...

Kestel is sentenced to death, but fate has other plans… Snatched from the jaws of a Hydra, Kestel finds himself swept into a struggle of monsters and angels. The fate of a crumbling society hangs on Kestel’s impossible quest for revenge against a living god. Meanwhile, the island of Caelbor teeters on the brink of civil war. Spymaster Harpalus plots in the shadows, only to be faced by the woman who trained him. Will Harpalus succeed in stopping the war, or will his country be torn apart by old scores left unsettled?

Aaron Havenes and the Capitals barely survived the Imperial assault of Vanguard. And now one of their own is held captive. To get her back, Aaron seeks the help of pirate and smuggler Fiona McCorty. Fiona lost her power, her station, and now a friend to Imperial guns. Blinded by revenge, all she wants is a clean shot at the man responsible. Aaron can give that to her, but only if she helps in this foolish rescue mission.

Experience the early life of the future scientific and political hero, Eliza Williams, and the beginning of a new era! Vesha Celeste continues on with her training and journey as Yesha Alevtina shows and teaches her about Eliza Williams, through complete experiential immersion. Vesha witnesses the critical aspects that lead to Eliza's personal transformation and the formation of Pathway LLC. Eliza's work to create the first biopods for physiological and neurological optimizations will be one of her main vehicles to drive all of her advances and designs, solar-system-wide.

An alien ship appears in the solar system, and rumors are brought to mind — rumors of the humans' ancient enemy, the Nemesis. But regardless of the Nemesis' identity, another enemy endures — the Dominion, which Saturnine long ago sought to overthrow. Book III of the Dominion series.

The Celestial war has come to its peak. After two years of open war with the all-powerful Dominion, the Splinter rebellion has been driven into its most bitter dregs in a century. Their colonies falling one after another, it seems as if its just a matter of time before the noose closes around their necks. Vaughn Donovan, the wearer of the all-powerful Eye, still lurks as the greatest force in the galaxy. His plots to build new armies to hunt his enemies threatens the meager rebellion like the tick of a time bomb.

From the hate of her enemies... Comes the need for Esalda to put herself in harm’s way. The rule of Valendi is failing, and the bordering Nations watch like hungry predators, gazing covetously at the rich bounty that Valendi, the heart of the Fivendol, presents. Without a clear succession, these friend/enemy Nations would strike, ripping her land apart. To secure the future, first must come the Borders, and the first real test of her mettle. For only by going into the Border Fortholds can she find out for certain that the ruling Lords are enemies, and that they mean ill for King and ...

Pro tip: When a bunch of alien cats from outer space start blowing up cities without warning, prior plans may have to be altered. Be prepared to improvise. Yosi Weismann had a simple gig: Babysit a grossly irresponsible young man, who just happened to be a prince. Let His Excellency sow his wild oats. Don’t let him kill himself, or anyone else, in the process. Piece of cake for a man of his skills. A glorified vacation. That's how things were supposed to go, at any rate. Now Yosi is marooned on a foreign world, surrounded by people whom he doesn’t understand, hunted by enemies who ...

Even in our darkest hour, it must be stated clearly, the Living Goddess did not abandon Her flock. For beneath the alien jackboot, even when very hope itself seemed lost, there arose, by Her Grace, those yet willing to hold high the torch. We were rich. We were poor. We were young. We were old. We sprang from the soil of this planet. We came from far off-world. We were herdeiros. We were minorities. We held advanced degrees. We were illiterate. We’d been born to arms. We had never touched a weapon in our lives. We were as varied as Her Panoply, our paths to Her Truth – as many as the ...