Space Epic

Lucian must do what no mage has ever done before: Escape the Mad Moon. But between frayed mages, violent monsters, and the hostile environment, that may prove impossible. Wandering the brutal surface, every breath is a fight for survival. And things only get worse when Lucian receives visions from the so-called Sorceress-Queen of Psyche, whose Psionic Magic is second to none. Teaming up with a dedicated captain, a frayed mage, and a former Mage-Knight of Dara, Lucian sets off on a quest across Psyche. He needs a way off the moon for good.

An ancient power grows. An empire makes a desperate gamble. One man sells his soul to rescue the woman he loves. All paths intersect in the saga’s thrilling final chapter … Many months after a stunning turn of events reshaped the Collectorate, Michael Cooper has become a killing machine ready to do anything to find his beloved Samantha, who endures her own struggle 465 light-years away. Michael puts his hope in a staggering new technology with the potential to alter humanity forever. Across the galaxy, James and Valentin Bouchet have led their people to a new home world, but their ...

Unity. Deceit. War. Katrice Wylde has been many things in her life, but an ambassador who uses her body as a bargaining chip never made her bucket list. But, here she is anyway, as head Stewardess and sister-in-law Tia come asking for a favor. Kat is the only one with the strength, skill, want, and of course access to an AI that Tia can ask for this dangerous task ahead. Being a Stewardess grants Kat access to the prestigious Earth Empire’s Unity Day celebration where conquered treasures will be put on display. One of which being Tia’s lost Key. Kat now has to follow down a path she ...

A richly detailed and dramatic account of one of the greatest achievements of humankind. At 9:32 A.M. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket launched in the presence of more than a million spectators who had gathered to witness a truly historic event. It carried Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins to the last frontier of human imagination: the moon.

Readers embark on an enlightening journey through the vast cosmos of Space-Opera storytelling in "How to Write a Short Space-Opera Story: A Comprehensive Guide to Crafting Compact Cosmic Epics." This comprehensive guidebook demystifies the process of writing riveting interstellar narratives in compact form, making it an invaluable resource for both new and experienced writers. The book serves as a reliable navigational aid in your storytelling voyage, from understanding the genre's essence to devising thrilling plots, crafting relatable characters, constructing fascinating alien worlds, and...

REVELATIONS After the failed attack on the world Barathan, Zurak and his followers take refuge on a remote base in the middle of an ocean. Dominic Porter and his comrades soon find out that the apparently so benevolent Akkato are hiding a terrible secret... NOMADS. This is what the humans are called by the many races of the Milky Way. As survivors and refugees, they try to assert themselves among the cultures of the galaxy, which is called ASGAROON by its inhabitants. Some of them have managed to make a name for themselves in the feudal society of ASGAROON. Others eke out an existence as ...

The Ephialtes Trilogy chronicles the conflict between Earth and Mars, triggered by Mars' secession from the USAN in the aftermath of World War IV. Ephialtes The Codices makes up the connective tissue between books one and two of the trilogy. The collection comprises all four previously released codices together with the exclusive Ephialtes Codex V: Why Am I So Clever? Why Am I So Clever?Dr Daniel Kostovich, head of R&D at Venkdt Mars Corp and Special Adviser to the MSS, has always been a smart cookie. When he starts speculating on the provenance of his abilities he finds more questions than...

National best-selling author and winner of three Hugo Awards, C.J. Cherryh returns to the universe of her acclaimed Foreigner trilogy - with an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft stranded on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient race. The beginning of a second trilogy, Precursor follows a single human delegate living among aliens, who are just gaining access to space.

In the 36th century, humanity faces annihilation at the hands of the Formorians—a parasitic hive that corrupts and consumes all organic life in its path. As the war for survival rages on, Tristan MacArthur, an astronaut from the 24th century who returned from a deep-space voyage, continues his perilous quest to unlock the secrets of Excalibur—an ancient technology that may hold the key to defeating the unstoppable Formorian virus. After narrowly surviving the events from the first novel, Tristan journeys into the distant past with Merlin, where ancient prophecies speak of a mortal ...

Hallucination... or time travel? One man alone against the cosmos, creating his own reality! Exiled on Mars! Johnsmith Biberkopf escapes from a penal colony on the Red Planet and learns that his hallucinations are real - space and time can be manipulated. Kidnapped by Vikings who have sailed through the continua since ancient times, Johnsmith embarks on an epic adventure, an infinite journey through the multiverse. Facing alien menaces, he learns the terrifying truth about the power of illusion.

Old. Defeated. Heartbroken. A young girl, his new and only friend, is taken. The reclusive ex-Edo Mushur Cail Otan fled to a back-water planet after a series of heart-breaking events. Withdrawn from life, he refuses to form relationships with the locals until a tenacious young girl befriends him. She is kidnapped, along with the rest of her village, and suddenly Cail is thrown back into galactic affairs, where The Dominion wages war upon the weakened Commonwealth and the Skave and Zhur Thoggu follow their own nefarious plans. Having sworn to forgo his Astral powers, Cail struggles to rescue...

But something goes wrong during the teleportation, and she is separated from her other half...once again. With Mithra's help, she has to return to Kongenssoevn to bring those she left behind to the safety of the Dominion before locating Asoko. But first comes the long-awaited reunion with her mother. The young Crawling Chaos gains insights into her past life, faces betrayal, and makes a new unlikely ally. Her involuntary journey even takes her into space, where she will learn the terrible secret about the world she reincarnated into.

What if the galaxy’s deadliest weapon isn’t a blade or a beam, but the note your heart chooses to sing? Sixteen-year-old Jameus Aldren has never left the monastery-station of D’cairn. The night his father battles illness, rival ground forces from Orsina and Thaya land on the hidden moon of Oratorio—each convinced an ancient relic called the Uninstrument can win their war. Into the chaos strides the ex-monk–turned–warlord Malkeos, intent on forging the relic into a symphony of domination. With only a flame-etched token, his father’s notebook, and unlikely allies—renegade ...

Kelver had been chosen by a heretic to be the chosen one who would bring down a galactic empire that had lasted twenty thousand years and controlled a million worlds. He was sent to Uran s’Varek, the vast artificial sphere build around the black hole at the heart of the galaxy, to be trained in the ways of the High Inquest, the godlike elite who ruled the known universe. Instead, he fell in love with the beautiful, cruel White Inquestrix Siriss, and the violet-eyed boy Arryk — was entranced by the singing city of Shentrazjit — wept at the sepulcher of worlds — made love in a desert ...

In the scorching summer of 1878, with the Gilded Age in its infancy, three tenacious and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a rare total solar eclipse. One sought to discover a new planet. Another - an adventuresome female astronomer - fought to prove that science was not anathema to femininity. And a young megalomaniacal inventor, with the tabloid press fast on his heels, sought to test his scientific bona fides and light the world through his revelations.

Paladins are supposed to exist in stories and games, right? That’s what galactic space smuggler Guy Sutherland thought, too. Now he’s a Paladin. It started when he held an ancient sword, brimming with strange magic. Things got weird after that, like stat screens listing his nifty skills and attributes. The planet of Faeheim is undergoing the same change. A wave of energy is changing the world, assigning classes and levels to the fae, turning animals into monsters, and spurring the empire to commit multiple atrocities.

Top Gun heads to outer space in this throwback to the classic science fiction of Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein. Strapped in to artificial wings spanning 25 feet across, your arms push a tenth of your body weight with each pump as you propel yourself at frightening speeds through the air. Inside a pressurized dome on the Moon, subject to one-sixth Earth's gravity, there are swarms of chiseled, fearless, superbly trained flyers all around you, jostling for air space like peregrine falcons racing for the prize.

With the Primus Elites' training almost complete, Wil and his men relocate to H2 to make their final preparations. Everything seems to be staged for a swift TSS victory over the Bakzen as Wil assumes the position of TSS Supreme Commander with Saera and his most trusted friends by his side. But Tek won't let the Bakzen go down easily. He will find Wil's greatest weakness and do anything to make him crumble. The generations-old war began as a feud of races and ideals, but, with this fight, it's personal.

Three hundred years ago, a liaison-robot-turned-warrior sided with humans in the Great A.I. War. He's one of few hi-level sentients allowed to live. But all this doesn't matter now because he's on the run. Armed with emotion-chip-fueled determination and his beloved weapons, the general flees to a nearby planet where he must unravel a tangled conspiracy to prove his innocence. But that's easier said than done.

The Xortaags are back, and they’ve conquered the Akakie homeworld. If they have enough time to reverse-engineer all the advanced technology they can find on Kanoor, they’ll be undefeatable, and they won’t stop until they’ll have colonized the rest of the galaxy, starting with Earth. To make matters worse, an even more sinister threat is looming in the darkness. Unknown to our heroes, a time-travelling alien fleet is on its way to our neck of the galactic woods.