Space Survival

In the aftermath of the Accipiter assault on Ari’Nell, Captain Jermaine Cutter and the survivors return to find the New Texas world ship gone! He must now lead them in a desperate search for a new home on a desolate ice planet. Meanwhile, with the world ship now relocated to the seat of Gardener power, President John Austin and VP Gail Finley struggle to maintain order while, under threat from the Gardeners, the hunt accelerates for the traitor. Startling revelations from the Gardeners about the Accipiters promises to shatter established beliefs, and a desperate plan emerges to escalate ...

Ten more stories to heal the divide between man and machine. This is the sixth volume of the collected short stories of Joe Vasicek. It includes: Quantum Worlds Will AI herald the death of human creativity, or its startling rebirth? Bloody Justice (by J.M. Wight) The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed… A Mother's Last Goodbye When the living and the dead collide, a single act of selflessness ripples across generations. The Princess and the Professor When a kingdom is terrorized by a dragon, only Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life stand between chaos and salvation. The ...

Flight Decurion Seivers is stranded on a frozen moon, far from the Legion. The Perception of Prejudice is barely functioning and Percy is offline. Seivers' future is measured in days. Captain Lusimi searches for enemy survivors. By the order of the Protectors, the Sidexan Fleet is to avenge the Legion's violation of Protected System Five. He will follow his orders, but protecting his warriors and crew is his highest priority. The hunt is on. Hidden is a novelette in the Two Democracies: Revolution series. Book 0 - Independence Book 1 - Liberty Book 2 - Prejudice Book 3 - Equality Book 4 - ...

This is the story of a daring space rescue. They had captured a woman considered important for the peace of the entire galaxy. She was a witch and the people who held her planned to go back into time to a place they could sacrifice her by burning her. They had carried her back to such a place and the old religious crumbling shrine there. Who would save her? The aging ship Thunderbolt 5 had a crew which would risk all to do this. They also had an ancient and feared Vampire family on board. Was their own plan secret and deadly?

Noren knows that his world is not as it should be--it is wrong that only the Scholars and their representatives the Technicians, can use metal tools and Machines. It is wrong that only they have access to the mysterious City, which even in boyhood he longed to enter. Above all, it is wrong for the Scholars to have sole power over the distribution of knowledge. The High Law imposes these restrictions and many others, though the Prophecy declares that someday knowledge and Machines will be available. No longer the heretic he once was, Noren has come to believe in the Prophecy's intended ...

Noren knows that his world is not as it should be--it is wrong that only the Scholars, and their representatives the Technicians, can use metal tools and Machines. It is wrong that only they have access to the mysterious City, which even in boyhood he longed to enter. Above all, it is wrong for the Scholars to have sole power over the distribution of knowledge. The High Law imposes these restrictions and many others, though the Prophecy declares that someday knowledge and Machines will be available to everyone. Convicted in youth of heresy, Noren has only recently come to believe in the ...

A Thrilling Sci-Fi Adventure of Fire, Survival, and Chess! In the metal world of Ignis, every day is a fight to survive. Humanity hides in underground Burrows, where food is scarce and life expectancy is short. Eli is no stranger to hardship. Forged by unrelenting hunger, he has become a man of resilience and determination. But when a rogue AI drone, the Raptor, threatens to annihilate everything, Eli must push beyond his limits and unlock abilities that hold the key to his people’s survival. In a world where fire reigns and love fuels every struggle, Eli faces an enemy that evolves ...

A militia officer on the hunt for a murderer. A scientist with the key to humanity’s future. A girl locked in a glass tank. One seeking justice. One seeking fame. One seeking answers. With the galaxy on the brink of war, time is not on their side. Join them in their battle for survival.

This is a story about a scientist that created the world's most deadly and contagious bio weapon known to man. It released from the lab with a little help and spreads around the world like wildfire. As the virus spread how do you survive? How do you escape the death trap of the city. The infected become like enraged beasts and attacks everyone in sight. Soon they out number the survivors. A small group of people struggle to survive in a world gone mad. Is this the end of the human race? This is not a story of the undead rising. This is a story of humans being driven mad with a thirst for ...

Grid Down: The New Reality picks up with Mark and Eric's group struggling to survive. The final book in the Grid Down series follows their losses and triumphs. Can they survive long enough to see America rebuild? The group breaks up as rumors of a new life are spread across the land, whispers of a shining city on the hill where life is back to normal. Is electricity being restored? Is the world coming back together? Could this be true, or is the west still too wild to tame?

Black holes are the most extraordinary phenomenon in the universe, but they are a riddle that confounds our intuitions. Anything that enters them can never escape and yet they contain nothing at all. They are bigger on the inside than the outside suggests. They are dark on the outside but not on the inside. They invert time into space and space into time.

After the EMP - Building a Future Forced to leave Wisconsin or risk a civil war between his loyal subordinates and those of Major Charles Windham the third, the saga continues as Clint and our heroes desperately struggle to survive the journey. Now, in a post-apocalyptic world, they must rely on their knowledge, training and instincts to escape destruction, disease and death. Battling their way up the Missouri, our stalwart group reaches the small town of Independence where they join in the town’s ten-year long struggle for security and prosperity. How far into history do communities have...

In uncertain economic times, food security and self-sufficiency are no longer luxuries—they are necessities. Thrive in Tough Times: A Recession Prepper's Guide to Gardening for Survival is your essential roadmap to taking control of your future by harnessing the life-giving power of gardening. Whether you're bracing for economic downturns, supply chain disruptions, or simply want to build a sustainable and resilient lifestyle, this book is your ultimate survival tool. Packed with practical, actionable advice, this guide reveals: Step-by-Step Gardening Techniques: Learn how to start and ...

Bolormaa's vast and powerful armies have overrun Earth and cut a bloody swathe across every continent. All hope is lost. Most of Mitch Taylor's comrades are dead or captured, and all he has left is the determination to keep on killing - to slaughter as many of his enemies as possible before the overwhelming hordes engulf him. To his astonishment, he discovers he may not be alone.

Tina had no choice but to escape Aurora Station on board the Starfighter Manila: The ship was about to blow up and would have killed the entire station. But they're in deep trouble. They have less than half the crew number necessary to fly the ship safely, the engines are damaged and Tina's travel companions are on a different ship. Aurora Station fell into pirate hands, so returning is not an option and the ship isn't safe to fly long distances. On top of that, several crew members may have been exposed to genetic treatment by the pirates.

In 2019, three years after recovery of a powerful Hopi artifact from a mystery cave in Arizona, Una Waters finds herself on special assignment from D.C. to Chinatown in New York City. Unexplained acts of violence, including a cyber breach at the NYPD threaten to disrupt the lives of immigrants, forcing military intervention from General Ashcroft, now with U.S. Cyber Security. When newshound and compadre Jack Howser arrives to investigate a reported UFO sighting, Una begins to realize an episode of "missing time" at the Chinese New Year's parade may hold the answers.

One devastating event, seven teens--their families dead--and a choice no one should have to make. Samson has a close, welcoming family and when he, and six others, are violently expelled from the Spaceship Victoria into deep space minutes before watching his home and his family explode, Samson has no idea how to cope. And that’s a problem. When the EV Victoria explodes, Kay gets scared. Scared because her father and step dad were dead; scared because she was locked in a tin can with six people she didn't know; scared because they had to make a choice--wait years for rescue or travel ...

This new edition of this book includes fewer essays than the original edition, which was too long to be issued in print form at a reasonable price. It has been shortened in order to offer paperback and audiobook editions of essays about space that the author feels are worth preserving in those formats. (The omitted essays and the appendix “Space Quotes to Ponder” will remain available at her website.) Sylvia Engdahl became fascinated by the idea of space travel in 1946, and has believed since the early 1950s that expansion of our species to other worlds is vital to the preservation of ...

When Space Force Commander Wallon Jaros decides that New Earth and the terrorist group, Ingenius Souls, are no longer worth the hassle, he destroys the planet. Mad with power, the future of the solar system is at great risk. With no one left to turn to, the fearless team of Jago Maxx and Ace Skipper are called into action in their ship, Dauntless. They will have to overcome personal loss and tragedy if they are take Jaros down.

On April 11, 1970, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert were launched into space as the crew of Apollo 13. Their mission, like the missions of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12, was to explore the lunar surface. But that mission was never completed. As they began the procedure for landing on the Moon, the spacecraft was rocked by a violent explosion. Oxygen began pouring out of the Service Module, and the spacecraft began to lose power. Jim Lovell radioed Mission Control with the now-famous words, "Houston, we have a problem."