Naomi Kinder's saving the solar system from a black hole incursion makes her the most-celebrated hero of 2097, but a capsule from 2313, teeming with new technologies and warning of the future nanobot invasion of the Earth, challenges Naomi, her Russian-Belgium lover Leo, and her friend Bonnie to travel more than 200 years forward in time to prevent humanity's destruction.Meanwhile on a future Earth, mankind battles for its very survival while forces on Luna and Mars consider "sanit...

As the Nazi regime falls to invading Allied armies, infamous SS General Heinrich "Gestapo" Müller escapes with the help of a concentration camp inmate psychiatrist. But a former US Army intelligence officer, Tom Junger, is in pursuit—not to arrest him, but to kill him. Tom must deceive not only a small group of Jewish supporters, who want Müller brought to Nuremberg for trial, but also his beautiful partner, who he suspects is a British spy after Müller's NKVD-Soviet double agent files. To...

Calder is normally a kick-ass hype comm tech, but because she's too afraid to transport via interstellar body faxing, she's spending time and credits to travel home the old-fashioned way by space ship. Then she discovers through her Paradise Operating Interface (in the form of a Red Messenger devil, no less) that the pilgrim ship won't be making its scheduled stop for her transfer. Instead, the ship will end in everyone's destruction—as planned.David Brin wrote: "Death and Faxes, b...

Suppose you could travel in time to see Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine, Socrates, or W. C. Fields. Or you could revisit your teen years through the power of Beatles music to alter your present—or accompany a time traveler from the future. Wouldn't you leap at the chance? In Time Travel Times 5, Vincent Miskell, the author of Godspeed Inc. and Rescuing the Future, invites you along on five fantastic journeys through time:Selling July 4th: They'd never have gotten aro...

Godspeed Inc. owns the sweeper ship Naomi uses to mend the spacetime rifts that Godspeed's faster-than-light Q-drive ships rip open as they smash out of the solar system. Now Naomi wakes with something really big bearing down on her—something that's come through a rift, threatening Earth. Time is running short as she races to Umbriel, a moon of Uranus, to salvage and reactivate an old sweeper ship with a Q-drive hidden there. But then she gets company.This first Naomi Kinder scienc...

"You do not sound happy, Herr Carson," a voice behind me said with a marked German accent.Startled, I jerked around to see Sigmund Freud in the prime of his life.After being astounded by how holographic technology's resurrected scores of celebrities and historical figures, Professor Alex Carson gets swept up in a struggle between Red Chinese and neo-Nazi forces who both want Sigmund Freud's early journals, journals stolen by a young Gestapo agent in March 1938 during the sec...

This book of funny and clever parodies will have you laughing, smiling, and nodding your head. It pokes fun at Whitman with "I Sing the Body Bubonic," at Poe with "The Raving," at Dante with "Declined Comedy," at Coleridge with "Rime of the Ancient Maintenance Man,"—and at Emily Dickinson, Shelley, Frost, Donne, Wordsworth, e.e. cummings, Robert Service, and Blake.Here's the beginning of "The Androyd" (after Blake);The AndroydAndroyd, Androyd, lasered brightT...

Thomas cannot help dreaming of faraway adventures, magic trees, treasures, and scary dragons. But his daydreaming keeps getting him into trouble. His older brothers laugh at him and keep calling him "Dreaming Thomas." Then one day, he gets the chance to help the old King and the King's beautiful princess daughter.Enjoyable for most toddlers and older children who can read, Dreaming Thomas is illustrated and written by the author of The Giant Who Woke Up in the Middle of the Night: ...

"To Ignite a Fire on Enceladus" is an imaginative science fiction variation or update on Jack London's "To Build a Fire," a 1908 classic story for survival in the frozen terrain of the Yukon. Except now, a space miner is struggling to stay alive on an icy moon of Saturn where he has crash-landed with a dog. But Enceladus is no ordinary moon; it has ice volcanoes that regularly erupt, blasting water, ice, and different kinds of gases into space toward the rings of Saturn. This peculiar feat...

Yob the Giant keeps waking up in the middle of the night. Clunk, clunk, clunk, he walks on his large wooden shoes down the dark stone stairs to the kitchen. He hears all sorts of scary night noises. Then he is surprised by a voice.Enjoyable for both toddlers and older children who can read, The Giant Who Woke Up in the Middle of the Night is illustrated and written by the author of Dreaming Thomas: A Fairy Tale. Children of all ages love the building suspense and happy ending of th...