New Space

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.

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.

One man. One Gate. A choice that will echo across the stars. Elias Cade never asked to be a savior. Haunted by a past he barely survived and pulled through a Gate not meant to open, he finds himself on Andara—a world of radiant suns, warring Houses, and ancient technology alive with memory. But Andara doesn’t want a hero. It wants a key. Drawn into a conflict older than time, Elias must navigate a fragile alliance with Kaelenn, a warrior bound by honor; Princess Alura, a ruler bound by prophecy; and the Wordless, a living weapon created for silence—and reborn for purpose. Together, ...

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 ...

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. ...

"The Gods of Avalon were envied by Mortals, but it was Pandora's hubris that unleashed a plague that turned men into Monsters. Then, the Gods came to fight the Monsters. And in fighting them, the Gods became Monsters too." A Galaxy at the brink of Extinction. Two Star-crossed lovers. Their choices will change the course of history. Ava is a Spacetraveller —one of the 3 billion people that have been wandering through deep space for ten thousand years in search of a place to call home. And they finally found it: Exer, a habitable planet in a solar system at the edge of the Xperyion Galaxy. ...

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.

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 ...

It's Christmas time but what does it mean on Jaded where humans and Majuri warriors are learning to live together? Dervac has found his fated mate among the human females and his joy knows no bounds until she rejects him. He will not give up and he will claim her if it's the last thing he does. Hannah has things to do and a sharp eyed, curious mate is the last thing she wants, at least for now. Can Dervac figure out what she's up to and save her from herself? Will she let him? On a new world as a new civilization begins, will love grow? Mature readers only due to graphic sex.

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.

"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...

Mars is a lawless planet, its frontier teetering on the edge of anarchy. Jack Taylor is thrust into the crucible when descendants of the First Colony, led by the self-proclaimed New God of Mars, unleash a melee of violence upon the land unlike anything ever seen on the Red Planet. Together with a retired Ranger known as The Gray, Taylor journeys into the badlands to rescue the woman he loves and to right the wrongs no matter the price to be paid.

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.

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 "...

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 ...

One shot at saving a world. One life to give. When things—dark things—swoop and crawl from the pollution, something must be done to prolong the life expectancy of Trenton’s dying three-tiered world. Recruited for a last desperate attempt at ending the contamination, he takes on a grueling and perilous climb to the top of a colossal tower perched atop a high plateau. His mission; steal vital transporter equipment. With the conditional aid of sketchy underground technology, Trenton abandons the safety of his familiar biosphere, a hardcore sacrifice he accepts for the slim hope of ...

Set in the near future - a routine space transit vessel runs into problems. Meanwhile, some passengers aboard the vessel are hiding secrets. A science fiction short story set in space.

In The New Camelot, Frank White explorers the nature of the Camelot myth and how it relates to the modern day space program. This leads to a surprising insight into how humanity's future in the stars may unfold.

The recent events on Orionis have turned Ava Amherst’s fragile world upside down. Now homeless, she needs to hear the truth from the man she believed she loved. Ava confronts Wesley with her suspicions and learns that her new friends are not what they appear to be, causing her to feel devastation and uncertainty regarding her future. Ava also learns that the universe is not what she was led to believe when Wesley and his crew take her to their beloved planet of Kyanos. She is given a rare chance to begin a new life again, however her opportunity is cut short when his enemy, Kaden, attacks...