New Space

Twenty lighter, more intimate, stories from the furthest orbits of the time-space continuum When the gods coming visiting, are we included on their agenda? Or their menu? The ship has suffered a massive structural failure – a Breach: Level Two. Do you still have a future? The Galactic Emperor is passing through your hospitality lounge. “Please,’ they ask, ‘stand in for him at tonight’s banquet.” But why? In his brutal suppression of a city rebellion, the Lord of Tyre has one last matter to deal with. After all the trauma and mistreatment I endured in the alien prison camp, why ...

The Iron Belt is at war! Corporations fight in the street, employing mercenaries controlling powerful armoured mechsuits in their pursuit of victory. The war is a lie, provoked by the sinister terrorist group known as Black Rose. Xander Cain and his friends have beaten them once before. Now their newly formed mercenary company has been tasked with assaulting a Black Rose on the planet Cyclops. A bizarre tidally locked world, Cyclops is a place of eternal night and freezing cold. Winning will be Xander’s biggest challenge yet, as his company charges into the waiting jaws of the enemy. ...

Here Valiant Thor, the "Stranger at the Pentagon", reveals long-sought-after details about his Venusian space fleet, such as the various types of spacecraft assigned to Earth, their general locations, deployment numbers, and crew structures. Also covered are orbiters, shuttlecraft, and security issues such as "thought surveillance".

She holds the key to humanity’s survival—if she can unlock the truth buried inside her own mind. In a near-future Earth ravaged by unstoppable disease, the last hope for survival lies in the stars. The Rangatiratanga, the Absolute Sovereignty of New Zealand, launches three Galaxy Cruisers toward distant exomoons—each ship a final lifeline for the human race. But one by one, the ships are lost. River, a brilliant but isolated prodigy, may be the only one who can stop the destruction. She is unknowingly bound to a Māori prophecy—an ancient myth colliding with quantum reality—that ...

Step into a visionary tale of urban innovation with "Blueprinting Tomorrow," an extraordinary journey into the architectonic renaissance shaping our cities' destinies. This riveting eBook reveals the impetus behind the future urbanism movement, meticulously dissecting the complex, multi-faceted beast that our cities’ planning and design have become. As you delve into Chapter 1, you will discover the quintessence of 21st-century urbanism, tracing its historical roots and witnessing the transformative power of technology on our built environments. "Blueprinting Tomorrow" doesn't just ...

After the Compound deals with a fight for its existence, another threat arrives, as its most mysterious resident is forced to deal with her dangerous past, putting the present lives of all Compounders at risk... Elsewhere, comet survivors that already left the Compound (looking for past foes, searching out better futures, trying to locate ties to the past, investigating more trouble from the heavens) navigate a new world filled with equal parts danger and hope. New alliances are made, and greater enemies are encountered, including a familiar foe that Marc never forgot. Will our survivors ...

Welcome to the world, Metis, titan of wisdom and sagacity. Actually, you’re a new built artificial brain, part of a dispersed architecture neural net system designed to run a wing-ship. A jump capable starship operating in the Pamplona Sector. But the Pamplona Sector is caught up in a revolution. The Battered Birdie, the ship you’re installed in, is a pirate ship and its captain is a crook and casual killer. That’s the situation Metis finds herself in. Doctor Schmitz did build a moral center into her, but like all A.I.s, she’s designed to serve, not to rule. That means taking orders...

The Owls are arrogant, utterly convinced of their superiority, and hardly worth being called a threat. Jane is fighting a war she doesn’t understand. But the Owls are a threat to everyone else, and Jane is yet to find out the real stakes involved in this war. With Jane in the middle of known space, Baron Fred is trying to hold things together at one end in Gaia, while Walsh is holding down the diplomatic fort at the other end. For Fred, finding out the real cost of maintaining your ideals comes home to him in the most personal way possible. Walsh on the other hand, is tired of being the ...

Want to turn empty rooms, unused buildings, or underutilized spaces into consistent monthly income? How to Start an Event Space Business: Turn Empty Rooms into Cashflow is your complete guide to launching a profitable event venue—perfect for weddings, parties, pop-ups, workshops, and more.

Space Marketing introduces marketing principles, strategies, and tactics through the lens of space. The space industry is changing and the competition is exploding as countries from all over the world enter the space race. Marketing is crucial to differentiate your brand and launch ahead of the pack. Space companies will have to understand marketing principles if they hope to compete for customers, investors, and contract bidding wars in the new commercial space industry.

What if the richest person in the world looked out across the human landscape and came to the conclusion that the “chaos” is approaching, that social collapse at the hands of murderous extremists is on its way and may well fatally undermine civilisation? With such vast resources at their disposal what would they do? Would they begin a process to save humanity from itself … even if humanity didn’t want to be saved? On the trail of missing nuclear warheads, an investigative journalist, Richard Austin, is convinced that the politician and industrialist – Trevallyan - has the warheads...

Jack Bishop is a long way from home. With no way back to the Earth he once knew, Jack considers himself alone in the galaxy… that is, until he receives a distress call from his old Ark ship, the Final Dawn.

In 2029 the Earth is in crisis and its only hope is... a talking pug with a mustache and glasses. Can he change the fate of the entire universe? Puggy’s earliest memory is waking up in a field in Texas, just before his human family discovers him and he becomes their beloved pet. He’s always felt…different, and not just because he is able to speak, something that he intuitively knows he needs to keep to himself. Things are bleak on Earth; it has been overdeveloped with huge buildings, blocking sunlight and becoming nearly uninhabitable with drastically declining resources. The New ...

In Beyond Earth, the authors offer groundbreaking research and argue persuasively that not Mars but Titan - a moon of Saturn with a nitrogen atmosphere, a weather cycle, and an inexhaustible supply of cheap energy, where we will be able to fly like birds in the minimal gravitational field - offers the most realistic and thrilling prospect of life without support from Earth.

Rotha Blackwell, Deputy Marshal and acting personal bodyguard for General Athers, a charismatic and well-respected wartime prophet-historian, does his job well. However, in the midst of split factions, civil war, and a plague of cybernetic alien monsters known as the Scythe, which threaten to annihilate the human race from existence, can Rotha effectively safeguard the man? Upon Athers’ back, fate, a legion of hateful dissenters, and an innumerable horde of deadly Acrids have painted a target. Prophecy may protect the defender, but can one’s skill with a blaster, battlefield strategy, ...

The Chronicles of Syra! Book Three. Earth continued to try to rebuild, or at least the United States did. But Syra must now concentrate on Earth II and it's inhabitants. The population begins to grow on Earth II and discoveries are made every day. New settlements are created and a government established. But an age-old enemy was discovered, and what he informs Syra of, motivates her to have her people build Earth II's first military base and fleet to protect them from a danger they know, will soon find them. Soon a great epic battle ensues, the shields of Earth II hold up, except one break ...

Bobby Sneyd, New Frontiers' CEO, Inc, is worried. The company has fallen on hard times, in part due to the activities of a bidding cartel on Terra. Sales are down; transportation income is down, and the prospectors can no longer find the valuable metallic asteroids the company depends on. And as always, jealous nations on Terra look toward Mars and plot to take over and stamp out the upstart nation! The prospectors have become angry with the company. They lack a leader, but they’re about to find one. Arguably, the last person they would have chosen. But not all will follow him.

Tefu grows up in a small post-apocalyptic city-state on the tiny ice moon of Saturn, Enceladus. She’s a musical genius and as the 20-year-old daughter of heroes, people have high expectations of her. She tries to define her identity and discover her calling amid impending interstellar war. Overcoming her fear of performing solo, she’s on her way to realize her dream when a jealous peer tries to thwart her ambitions. She attains fame but cuts herself off from her loving family. Guilt and loneliness lead to paralyzing stage fright. Can she be forgiven by the family she has hurt? Will she ...

In this gripping work, veteran reporter Christian Davenport chronicles the mad scramble to shape humanity’s off-planet future. He takes readers behind the scenes at NASA and the Pentagon as China’s aggressive moon mining and military plans raise alarms, onto the sprawling Cape Canaveral factory where Bezos works toward Amazon-style lunar deliveries, and onto SpaceX launch pads as Musk’s engineers log 100-hour weeks, ultimately pulling off the harrowing but triumphant launch of its first human spaceflight mission.

The only thing keeping Jenny Starchild alive is her interface with the Arachne, an artificial brain that keeps Jenny's organs operating and controls a warship. But the situation also makes her powerful, and she knows what she's going to do with her life. She is going to weave a new star nation out of the materials she has at hand: A strand of compassion here, a strand of fierce pride there. The love of community of the alien Parthians woven together with human individuality. The computing and reasoning abilities of artificial brains woven together with the genetically engineered Cybrants. ...