*** A B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree ***Cyrus Konami is the Chief Inspector on the first colony vessel, Aotea, to leave Earth's solar system. Deep within the machinery of the ship, a suspicious death upends the routine on board. Mysterious signals from deep space add to the confusion, along with a series of debilitating malfunctions.Cy and Lieutenant Beatriz Mattoso dig into the deceased crewman's background. The first signs point to a tragic accident. Ship scuttlebutt points t...

Think you know the Louisiana bayou region? Think again. Professional photographer Andy Crawford has spent his life exploring the ethereal swamps of Louisiana and now leads photographic kayak tours through areas largely inaccessible by bike or car. This book takes readers along for the ride.It includes:• Over 150 color photos depicting the plants, wildlife, and structures Andy has encountered in the bayou region• Stories and facts about the t...

Deep within the suburban jungle of Cincinnati, a monster has emerged, bursting out of the Rumpke Sanitary Landfill. Taking its name from its birthplace, Rumpke is a thousand feet tall, has revolting personal habits, and might be vaguely familiar to readers, considering his orange-tinged hair and proportionally tiny hands. What do Americans do when such a creature appears, lumbers around at random, and occasionally defiles a local landmark? For millions, the choice is obvious – worship it.

Part 1 of 5Cyrus Konami is the Chief Inspector on the first colony vessel, Aotea, to leave Earth's solar system. Deep within the machinery of the ship, a suspicious death upends the routine on board. Mysterious signals from deep space add to the confusion, along with a series of debilitating malfunctions.Cy and Lieutenant Beatriz Mattoso dig into the deceased crewman's background. The first signs point to a tragic accident. Ship scuttlebutt points to the deep-space signals ...

Could this be the worst job interview in the entire history of the universe? Possibly. So when Elton D Philpotts lands his dream Space Corps accountancy job he can't help wondering how it happened.And why.Somebody in the Space Corps needs Philpotts, and they need him bad.But the work is dull; nothing like the glamour job he expected. Until he sees things he should not have seen: A hidden ledger, dodgy accounting transactions, bogus gate receipts.And when a w...

The war with China was over and Lieutenant Shawn 'Calvin' Hobbs just wanted his life to get back to normal. The hero of the war, he had a small ream of paperwork to fill out, a deployment with his Navy F-18 squadron to prepare for and a new girlfriend to spend some quality time with. Life was good.Until the aliens showed up.They had a ship and needed to get to their home planet, but didn't have a crew. They had seen Calvin's unit in action, though, and knew it was the right...

Sam never knew his parents. In fact, he's never met another human—or seen a sunrise, smelled a flower, or eaten a regular meal. All of that is about to change.It's night in the desert, but he doesn't feel the cold. The sky is clear, and the stars twinkle at him. He has never seen the sky from Earth before. Everything looks so strange. So . . . alien. He shakes his head in wonderment and laughs. He can't stop smiling. This is Earth!There is a building ahead. Other people wil...

"Outstanding! Paul J. Joseph's insight is amazing. He knows his genre!"- Jonas Saul, author of the Sarah Roberts Series**Where do things go when they are lost?When a Canadian mining drone disappears in the asteroid belt it’s written off. But when it comes back with samples from another asteroid belt it could be history in the making!**From the mind of Paul J. Joseph, Author of the Turing Files

Revenge is heading to Earth at the speed of light…The Gaia probes left a dying Earth millennia ago in a bold effort to spread life to a lifeless universe.Unfortunately, not all of those worlds were uninhabited...The aliens watched their world die to swarms of nanite terraformers, but with their last breath they launched a terrible, unstoppable weapon to kill those who'd stolen their home.Patrol Captain Sam Avalon is the first human to encounter it, a missile...

A barren world. A crashed colony ship. A saboteur at work.After a tarnished military record leaves her unable to find work on Earth, Margo is hunting for a fresh start. A colonizing mission heading to a new world creates the perfect opportunity—or at least that’s what she thinks.Strapped into a crashing colony ship, she realizes how wrong she is.On the ground of their destination planet, the straight forward colonizing mission becomes a scramble for...

Jason Hurd, a man on the verge of giving up on life altogether, suddenly receives a reprieve when a dead man appears out of thin air. In the dead man’s possession Jason finds an extraordinary device, one that grants its user the ability to travel through time. With this tremendous power in his hands, he discovers a newfound determination to try to rectify the past failures in his life and avert tragedies in the lives of those he loves.But meddling with the past always has future co...

"A brilliantly created sci-fi dystopia with dashes of horror." --Readers Enjoy Authors' Dreams"Sci-fi with horror, violence, and heart thumping action." --Jane Reads (Five star review)She never worked well with others...Teenage convict Deanne Markham didn’t believe the reports of invaders from another world until the night her work crew saw the stars fall. Abandoned by the correctional officers, Deanne finds herself responsible for Mindy, a friend and fellow inmate ...