Space Collection

Space Captains Star Girl, Supernova 1, Comet XS, Asteroid, Galactic 6, Star Cluster and others are sent on action-packed rescue missions in this thrilling collection: Dark Secrets, Sticky Tricks, Good vs Evil and Make or Break.

The distant world of Haphez is located on the edge of populated space. The planets native superhuman race is feared and respected by neighboring civilizations. Their military and police forces are unmatched. Haphezian operative Ziva Payvan has spent most of her life being fashioned into a deadly weapon. Trained to fight and not feel, she focuses only on the mission at hand and never dwells in the pasta past that houses many secrets.

A short novella sized compilation of five mixed short stories. The stories are a hodgepodge of humor, military science fiction, space opera, and fantasy.

In war, mistakes kill. Earth's fleet has just made the biggest one ever. The alien race's sacred relic, destroyed by a misfire.... Will humanity fall?

Spilling Secrets: Planet Catlabrator is awash with water and the catralabs are drowning. When Space Agent Star Girl is sent to investigate with SA Asteroid she learns that some mission buddies are more trouble than they're worth. Can she work with Asteroid to save the planet and its alien catralabs?

This short story collection will literally carry you through space on a quest for water due to a shortage of water on earth. Go along with the astronauts and specialized teams to Mars to find water for earth. The next story on your journey will take you to Clay County, Kentucky, to walk along with Crystal and Mother Pearl as they learn about love and forgiveness in a family that has been holding back a secret. Finally on your journey, you get to watch Abby, a senior at Ridgefield High School in Connecticut, struggle through her senior year, through pain and grief and in the end find hope.

The Earth Alliance rules 82 worlds, controlling an empire that spans a third of the Milky Way. But when its leaders stray too far from the democratic principles on which it was founded, one colony - one group of daring rebels - will risk everything in order to reclaim their freedom. Before Alex Solovy was a successful interstellar scout, she was building starships and planning for the day when she would fly one she called her own.

Halfway to Better is a collection of short solarpunk stories, each exploring a near-future where were struggling to survive the climate crisis and build a better world. These hopeful climate-fiction stories take you from the bottom of the sea to the towers of a bot-filled city, from sparkling labs to flooded lighthouses, all imagining futures halfway to a better world. The Halfway to Better collection contains six short stories plus a bonus prose-poem, Rewilding Indiana, and its accompanying sky shanty.

Space is filled with wondrous and mind-boggling objects. New discoveries are made every year. This book has 199 trivia questions to test your memory. But you don’t have to worry if you get stumped. The answer is revealed and includes 557 out-of-this-world facts. This book covers a broad spectrum of thought-provoking questions, such as:

If you're looking for a fun, engaging way to challenge your knowledge of outer space, then you need this fact-packed trivia book! Enjoy by yourself or test your memory against friends and family in a galactic trivia night. If a question stumps you, we follow up the answers with over 501 mind-bending facts! Inside are 177 trivia questions to challenge everybody, from students, the avidly curious novice and above. The unfolding universe is quickly expanding minds.

At the dawn of the twenty-second century, the human race is poised for greatness. The Solar System is being rapidly colonized, and the stars are almost within reach. The future potential seems limitless.

William Brighton is graduating from the Warner Naval Academy. His world should be perfect, but someone is out to keep him from accepting the chance of a lifetime. What can a born explorer do when he's unjustly grounded? Monica's family has discovered a serious problem, one that could spell ruin for everyone. Now she's being asked to sacrifice everything to save the rest. At 16, she's always given whatever the family needs, but this time, are they asking too much? Cadets Hayes and Mitchell go camping and hiking for their senior year break from the Warner Naval Academy.

The thing the machines consume is us. Ready to lease out your mind? Or pay for your next meal with involuntary ads? The Closet Full of Time collection contains five short stories that speak to that sinking feeling that we're serving the machines instead of the other way around. That our inventions are taking things we can’t afford to lose.

Explore Garro's next adventure from the heresy on Mortem 1 to the shocking battle that changes the galaxy forever in the Infernus System.

The world is divided between Asia and the United Continents - two great super powers locked in eternal warfare. But the balance of power is about to shift in Asia’s favor. They have developed a top-secret weapon - the cohesion projector-that could lead to annihilation on an unprecedented scale.... But as far as Lorrilard is concerned, the number one problem with the projector is that it stands in the way of his profits. Can he find a way to subvert the powerful weapon and resume his enterprising exploits?

When it comes to big dreams and schemes, young Chuck Lambert would give Walter Mitty a run for his money. In fact, Chuck’s biggest dream of all is really out of this world. Because he’s got his eyes on a prize in the sky. Chuck wants to buy a planet of his own.... Madman Murphy, the King of Planetary Realtors, is more than happy to oblige. He’s got a whole galaxy of planets for sale. All Chuck needs is money . . . and a lot of it. Eleven years later, saving every penny he can scrape up, Chuck’s dream comes true. He takes possession and takes off for Planet 19453X...

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The Empire State Building has vanished into thin air! Gone, too, are Grant’s Tomb and Grand Central Station, and all hell is breaking loose in New York City! What’s the story? One grizzled old newspaper reporter known simply as Pop - a role made for Walter Matthau - is on top of it...and better stay there, because his livelihood is on the line. If Pop fails to get to the bottom of the vanishing landmarks, his job will disappear as well - and land in the hands of the newspaper publisher’s son-in-law.

In a future where Mother Earth has cast her children to the distant starts to begin anew and colonize the cosmos, the planet remains depleted of natural resources. Its air polluted by caustic iron and belching smoke, Earth faces her last desperate days in the grip of global environmental collapse. In one final and feeble effort, Earth’s Grand President Mankin musters the dregs of his fleet and sends three separate missions to the deepest reaches of space. Their mission: solicit help from far-flung colonial civilizations, or watch the planet die.

Firsten Guide is a tough, wise-cracking rebel leader who’s light years ahead of his time - and about to lead his crew into a battle that’s Beyond All Weapons. He and his fellow colonizers of Mars have faced a brutal crackdown engineered by Earth’s tyrannical government. But the resourceful Firsten has developed an extraordinary new fuel that enables him and his hardy band to escape into space - and time.

Alan is able to imagine every way critical equipment might break during the launch and landing of Apollo 11. But his experience in preventing cosmic disasters does nothing to prepare him for the pressures of a hasty marriage to a woman he barely knows—or the strain of keeping up appearances amid the shifting social attitudes of the late ’60s. When a crisis at home forces Alan back to earth, he’s faced with a choice he doesn’t know how to make: whether to let go or move forward.