Earth is dying and its first starpilots are the only real hope.Tasha has survived five years of brutal training, her body transformed by a nano-technology no one fully understands.Her job: link Earth to the stars in a ten millennia old wreck, train the first-ever crew from Earth, and build a space station fit to trade with the stars. Without the eco-system stabilizing tech interstellar trade can bring, the price of her failure will be the end of all life on Earth.But a...

Set in an alternate universe during the time of Caesar, witness the might of the Roman Legions as they clash against fantasy adversaries.

In the continuing debate of how to confront the challenges of climate change, individuals, advocacy groups, and political parties in the United States offer arguments and solutions based on economic and political viewpoints. But what if we are beginning from a distorted view?In this book, F. Stephan Mayer argues that our psychological representation of the world is at the heart of the underlying causes of climate change. Mayer posits that we need to change the way we see the world ...

Surviving initial training was just the beginning. Now, can Brian faces his deepest fears ?He has already faced the dangers of the outlying worlds, pirates and mad AIs, surviving, but with deep scars. He has also made powerful enemies along the way.Separated from his friends, facing both jealousy from colleagues and hatred from enemies, and with a new set of skills to master, the odds stack up against Brian while everyone else is betting against him.Can he find new ...

Becoming a starpilot can get you killed.Landing on a faraway planet, Brian doesn't know the rules of the pilot's academy, of the planet he has reached or what it takes to fly among the stars. He is sure of only one thing. He has to survive his training if he wants Earth to receive the support it needs to face the collapse of its ecology.If you want to recapture that sense of wonder from reading Robert Heinlein's "Have space suit, will travel" and the tale o...

To cross wormholes, human pilots need the help of nanorobots. Great? Not really. Overuse them and they will kill you.Those nanorobots are delivered by a Human Federation trading among stars. Earth is the latest planet who has joined it and requires its help to overcome its ecological collapse. The deal is simple: Earth will obtain what it needs if it can provide starpilots able to survive those nanorobots.These books follow the adventures of different starpilots, the challe...

A politician who faces death to run for election...The crew of a generation ship confronted to the hardest decision...Cyber-induced nightmares and no one to turn to...Sometimes funny, sometimes dark, those stories explore different facet of our futures. They revisit old golden-age themes but with modern twists.This book incorporates previously published 6 long stories, more than 40 flash fictions and more than 20 images created by Michel Rigaux for that antholog...

General Torkal has just promoted Marcus Scout Master of the First Legion of Antiago. Fame, glory, and who knows?

When you are named Child of the Federation, the Federation gives you a fresh beginning and your past is erased from all databases. But Isara was named when she was barely a year old with nothing to erase.Or so she thought until forty years later, now a confirmed starpilot, she finds out that she comes from Filb, the planet which witnessed the worst catastrophe the Federation has ever known. And murders accumulate around her as she tries to dig into her own past?With no clue...

Humanity once dreamt of stars. No more. Will Captain John Lester last voyage from Titan Primary find new opportunities?

Spooky, scary, otherworldly, magical…You can find all kinds of stories in this collection of haunting cat stories for children.And if you think the perfect solution to a frightening dilemma or phantom is a kitty or two, well, you might just be right.But don't make them angry…Discover all sorts of tales in this collection of haunting children's stories for the kid in us all.All proceeds from this book will be donated to St. Jude's Children's Hospital

This is an unusual book—in many respects. It's born out of a frustration teaching Critical Thinking courses over the years and feeling that the most interesting issues raised in those courses are typically either ignored altogether, or quickly brushed aside, by the 'normal' Critical Thinking text. The effect was that a Critical Thinking course was a smattering of Baby Logic, some very simple Intro to Statistics and Probability, add in the usual Informal Fallacies and some beating up on the...