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According to Barker, who first published the book in the 1960s, Rampa's claim that his body had been taken over by a Tibetan Buddhist monk was in no way disproved. In fact, Barker provides a letter from a Tibetan Buddhist scholar stating that Rampa's writings about the inner workings of Tibetan Buddhism were quite accurate and actually revealed closely guarded secrets of the Himalayan monasteries.

THIS INTERSTELLAR VOYAGE MIGHT BE OUR LAST With androids in control of Earth, and humans relegated to colonies on Mars and the outer planets, tensions are rising, and war looks inevitable. Looking for a way to escape the looming conflict, Alexander and Catalina de Leon board the Liberty with 70,000 other colonists on a voyage to Proxima Centauri, but it’s going to take them nine years to reach their destination, and a lot can happen in that time. As the trip progresses, everything that can happen does, and what was meant to be a monotonous voyage becomes a fight for survival against ...

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 ...

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.

Terry is a linguist studying an ancient language on a distant planet. In her daily search for anything to break up the monotony, she accidentally breaks her ankle and hits her head. When she comes to, she is being cared for by the local beings that they had all assumed were low intelligence animals. But she meets their doctor, sees their village and comes to befriend them. Her scientific mind and curious nature sets her on a new path: learning to communicate and live in harmony with the local beings.

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".

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.

Short Sci-Fi stories from the Lighter Side of yesterday and all your tomorrows; alternative todays; and all those maybe times in between. From orbits and vectors the other side of the spiral arm, to the smoking field at the back of the Yew Tree pub. From Boudicca's helping hand, to the secret behind Toothsavers; Why did the mountain have to move to Mohr? Have the Potens got this Planetary Takeover quite right? It's Absolutely Disgusting, isn't it? the way these immigrants seem to hate everyone on the planet? You only Have One Vote - How important can that be? You turn your back for five ...

She saved one planet. Now another world wants her services. If she can't get them to give up their piracy, will she be forced to walk the airlock? Success on a grubby mining planet full of injustices and inequalities brings a Federation diplomat to the attention of pirates, who kidnap her to work a similar miracle on their planet. But this time, she has a jailor who thwarts her every move. Worse, if she fails, “Beloved Leader” will deliver a cruel death. To enter this spine-tingling, strange world of lies and double-speak, get the book.

Please Note: This story is also part of book 10 of The Hunter Legacy series, The Long Road to Gaia. Thirteen doesn't like humans. The last thing he wants is to be assigned a mission to babysit them. Given a choice, he'd happily let them blow themselves up, after he saved all the cats first. Exactly how humans could ever have anything to do with galaxy wide consequences is completely beyond his ability to understand. When asked to perform an intervention, there was always freewill to choose not to. But in this case, does he really have a choice? This is a 5000 word short story, set in The ...

Jorey is crazy about Elory but she pulls away from their relationship so he ends it. Things happen that makes him wonder if he ended it too soon. Maybe it was a mistake, but is it too late to fix it? Elory is crushed when Jorey dumps her. With Christmas coming soon, she hopes the holiday will give her a little magic to lure Jorey back to her before it’s too late. Will a little Christmas magic at the right time help fix things or is their love beyond repair?

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. ...

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 ...

"Superb! An engrossing novel full of intrigue…" — The Prairies Book Review. The crew of the colony ship New Hope left behind a dying planet in a desperate attempt to insure the continuation of their species in a distant star system. However, things didn't quite go as they had planned. Chronologically, Colony Ship New Hope follows Second Contact, the second entry of The Chaos Trilogy. Another Cassiopeia Adventure, it is intended to be read after Mankind 2.0, the third book in the series. Author's note: Whether you enjoy reading this or not, I would appreciate any honest reviews. It's the...

The final prophesy for the Commander says that he must face a trail to stand before the oncoming darkness. Neither Roy nor Katreena knew what that would be, just that it would one day happen. It would be the moment that would change everything, for it is the last of the prophet Queen’s predictions.

En un futuro no muy lejano, se produce un hecho monumental. El momento que tantos anhelaban que pasara. El momento que muchos pensaron que nunca pasaría. Lo que pasa en las películas, cobran vida ante el ojo del mundo.Extraterrestres. Ellos no vinieron en paz. No llegaron después de un viaje de cinco años para explorar nuevos y extraños mundos. Seguro que no vinieron por dulces ni para llamar a sus casas. Criaturas de una galaxia distante están motivadas por lo mismo que ha motivado a todos en la Tierra durante milenios: La Conquista. Los atacantes, conocidos en la Tierra como "...

A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. His theory changed the way we think about space and time, revealed how our universe has been expanding from a hot, dense state called the big bang and predicted black holes. Where the Universe Came From is a 13.8 billiion-year journey through the cosmos.

INSTA-LOVE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN . . . ANNABELLE WINTERS STYLE! I come face to face with him on an abandoned space station far from Earth. He says he’s not of my world, an alien experiencing the needs of the flesh for the first time. A need to reproduce. A need for a mate. He says I'm the last hope for his race. Oh, and he says I'm his. By the moons of Jupiter, I'm his! OK, by now you know what the CURVY FOR HIM series is about, and you know how crazy it is. Drama, madness, and over-the-top steam. Twists, turns, and chaos. Sweetness with a touch of darkness. No cheating. No cliffhangers....

It had been ten years since Roy came to New Terra. At the conclusion of the great interstellar war against the Serpent People, Roy went from being an ace fighter pilot to a simple farmer, married to his beloved wife Katreena and father to their three beautiful children. He had discovered a happiness that he had long given up on having again in his lifetime. However, their lives were overshadowed by a dark prophesy.

Can a twenty-year-old mount a rescue op against hardened veterans? After finding a place to call home in the dreary frontline trenches on Allegra, Matthew has just one mission in mind: Rescue. Marie, the front's stand-in medic was taken captive by a rival faction that was supposed to be on Matthew's side. However, in war, "supposed to be" is anything but a guarantee. Now Matthew has to turn his rifle on those who fought beside him. Problem is, those he's declaring a personal war on are hardened soldiers and Matthew is still a newbie. But, he's got a secret weapon. His guardian angels, the ...