Space Colony

Earth builds her first war fleet! The greatest warships ever constructed in known space rise up one by one, soon dominating our skies. They strike fear into the hearts of every citizen and rebel colonist alike. Captain William Sparhawk, the very man who convinced the secretive Council to build this terrifying fleet, now has doubts about the project. What is their exact mission? How could anyone have built these huge ships so quickly? And, most puzzling of all, what's happening out at the isolated laboratory complex on Phobos, Mars' lopsided moon?

The lead character in Song of Empire, Book 1, is Siian, a seventeen year old youth who, unbeknown to himself, is a genetic cross. His mother, Melissa, is herself the daughter of a relationship between a human and a Guardian. The latter are a purpose engineered variant of humans, designed to be perfect administrators and witnesses, observing and reporting on the governments of Earth’s many colonies across the galaxies. The ruling Council of Members on Earth is concerned to prevent human/Guardian cross breeding, to prevent contamination of the human gene pool. When the novel begins, Siian ...

Interstellar colony ship Deliverance. Somewhere in deep space. The Deliverance is tragically off course, missing its rendezvous with the escaping fleet and leaving the survival of the colony in serious jeopardy. Pulled out of hibernation years too late, Caleb is thrown into the middle of the crisis and forced back into the fight. With the ship low on power and time running out, it's up to him to find some way, any way, to overcome an impossible situation and get the colony to safety. Otherwise, the only thing he'll be protecting is a tomb.

EPISODE 25: In 2040, a terminally ill poetess is planning her suicide when a new law comes to power: it is illegal to die. The global government needs people to populate terraformed planets. Winning a prestigious award, she becomes a spokesperson for the United Nations, helping to abolish death in the world forever. (Standalone version) Available also in print as part of the STARCALL Anthology, Vol.3, illustrated by the author. The eBook version is not illustrated to save on file size (1mb vs. 300mb).

All her life Cariad had one dream: to participate in humanity’s colonization of deep space. After topping her field as a geneticist, and then spending 184 years in cryonic suspension, she’s achieved her goal. But the new planet is not the paradise the scientists predicted. Alien predators come out at night, ready to feast on the new arrivals. What’s more, saboteurs have stowed away aboard the ship and are determined to destroy the new colony.

When humanity’s first deep space colonists touched down on the new planet, they had no idea it was the birthplace of a hostile alien species. After enduring numerous attacks, the survivors realize the aliens are about to enact their revenge by invading Earth. General Cherry Lindstrom commissions the building of a starship to carry a select band of colonists to the home world and warn the inhabitants of the impending war. Generations have passed since the original colony ship departed.

The militia requested help in acquiring a new ship, Matthew's seeing to it that the job is finished. The job has taken Matthew and his team into Thessalonia, and Matthew isn't about to head back home after the job is done after going this far. He's got questions that need answering and he's got Beets to kill. And there's a chance that some of his friends from Crail are in the city too! Read The Battle for Allegra: Acquisition today! Acquisition is the twenty-third book in the sci-fi novelette series The Battle for Allegra. Join Matthew as he goes over the top and ventures into the killing ...

Colonel Sean Quinn is stranded in another universe, along with 2,000 people under his command. They've been hiding from the enemy long enough, now it’s time to return home. Outnumbered against a superior foe, Sean must risk everything in a daring operation, but the mysterious enemy has a few surprises of their own. Meanwhile, a division threatens to tear the colony apart and Connor Gates is caught in the middle.

"The funniest, most brutally honest take on Mars colonization you’ll ever read!" Ever dreamed of leaving Earth behind and starting a new life on Mars? Think again. In "MARS! Or Bust!", J.P. Ames takes you on a laugh-out-loud journey through the absurd, uncomfortable, and downright terrifying realities of living on the Red Planet. What’s waiting for you on Mars? No running water. Say goodbye to showers, flushing toilets, and casual hydration. No privacy. Your "home" is a glorified tin can where everyone hears everything. No escape. Once you’re there, you’re stuck—forever. No ...

July 25, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII:a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across the surface to learn who built the hole and why. But they all carry the burdens of lives carved out on disparate colonies in the cruel cold of space. For some the mission is the dream of the lifetime, for others a risk not worth taking, and for one it is a desperate attempt to find meaning in an uncaring universe.

Earth’s descendants have scattered across the galaxy . . . Little unites them apart from their shared roots on ancient Earth. But one young starship captain, and some cadets, must save them all. Pietr Jesik worked hard to go from a nobody, to a starship captain. Now, Pietr finds himself in a sticky situation when a small space fleet makes a bombing run on the sulfur pools of Cambriol. Controversy erupts within the Quadrant Council. This bombing is the catalyst for a military and political battle that stretches galaxies. It is up to Captain Jesik and his crew to ease the growing tensions. ...

Mahina's terraformers built a high-tech urban paradise. Then Earth flooded the colony with desperate refugees, cop Sass Collier among them. The settlers who arrived with Sass died decades ago. Outside the citadel, their descendants die weak and young. Sass fought a rebellion against the city once. She won concessions to give the settlers a chance at health. She paid with 20 years in prison. Now she’s out, a reformed character. She assembles an oddball crew doing odd jobs. She intends to mind her own business. But her fellow settlers are still failing.

The planet Carico is short on technology and long on wide-open spaces. When Seth Reilly returns home to Under Rim, it isn’t the peaceful village he remembers. Trouble is in the wind, and the new girl in town, Annalee, is at the heart of it. Seth and Annalee cross Jerdix, an outlaw who tortures Seth with a device prohibited throughout the Interstellar Coalition. Unable to cope, Seth flees to a lonely camp where he becomes obsessed with taming a horse as damaged as he is. Annalee follows, determined to help him. But Jerdix is still out there. Can Seth and Annalee survive Jerdix’ threat ...

Captain William Sparhawk flies Earth's single starship on a voyage of exploration. His crew of veteran spacers begins the mission with high hopes and the best of intentions, but the universe has other plans. Instead of space merchants and potential allies, they discover Earth's impending doom. Sparhawk must decide whether to hunt down enemy scouts to keep Earth's new starship a secret or to head home to warn Star Guard of the danger. Either way, he's ignited an interstellar war.

Governor Antony Lemkin has done the unthinkable as a politician--voluntarily stepping down from his post in protest of Earth's escalating war with the Aryshans. With war drums beating and the machinery of government going full force, there's little he can do to but voice his dissent, until mega-industrialist Fabio DePino presents him with a plan: build a new Earth, far away from humanity's conflicts.

John Perry was living peacefully on one of humanity's colonies - until he and his wife were offered an opportunity these ex-supersoldiers couldn't resist. To come out of retirement and lead a new frontier world. However, once on the planet, they discover they've been betrayed. For this colony is a pawn in an interstellar game of war and diplomacy. Humanity's Colonial Union has pitched itself against a new, seemingly unstoppable alien alliance dedicated to ending all human colonization.

When a colonist dies in tragic circumstances, just a few sols before a major terraforming experiment, Dr. Jann Malbec begins to suspect that all is not what it seems. Her fears begin to grow when every attempt she makes to investigate the death is thwarted by the ruling council on Mars. In desperation, she resorts to secretly recruiting a recently arrived colonist, Mia Sorelli, an ex-cop with a troubled past, to quietly look into the incident. But Mia has some very good reasons why she left her old life on Earth behind.

From acclaimed fantasy and science fiction writer Roland J. Green. For fans of STARSHIP TROOPERS, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, and WARHAMMER. The fourth in the STARCRUISER SHENANDOAH science fiction military series! MERCENARIES ON PLANET When the Shenandoah is assigned to reinforce the Federation presence at a training colony, the ship’s crew realizes that something odd is happening on planet Victoria. The fact that intelligence agents are hard at work around them does nothing to ease their nerves. To make matters even worse, Admiral Kuwahara is heading an investigation of a powerful scandal ...

Captain Sass Collier steers her motley crew across the treacherous planetary rings, seeking solutions to the steady health decline of Mahina Colony. Tantalizing clues point to Sagamore, Mahina’s sister moon. To get there, Sass needs to upgrade her vintage skyship to a spaceship. Her crew's would-be heroes need to earn their space legs. And ex-cop Sass is probably the wrong person for the job.

Field Marshal Amy Brella brings the remainder of her invasion group home from Bardallow’s system in triumph, but with a significant bone to pick with her brother, Ricky Cruz, the Emperor of the Spindle Empire. He seems to have taken some liberties in naming the lead ship of the War Goddess class of Porcupine carriers. Ricky does make it up to her, by finally taking her to the farm she dreamed of so long ago, when he first showed her the valley above the small city she wanted him to build for the ex-shipboard slave women and girls he liberated from the Interstellars. Her Emperor allows her...