A natural disaster plunges Earth into a decade without a summer. What happens next is the question for Rudy Bragg and his family as they are suddenly plunged into a storm unlike any in human history.

Fyodor Braava's 2332 A.D. adaptation of the book 'Phobos' is widely considered to be the worst production ever made. Plagued at its start with bad decisions regarding crew and cast, the besieged director made the fateful decision to conduct principal recording on location in the hinterlands of Mars. This book chronicles Braava's 2332 production from it's early inception and through the infamous recording sessions and beyond.

A much hyped television program encourages the world to select volunteers by popular vote to colonize an alien world. A breakneck paced space program will choose a final destination midflight. A miscalculation forces the ship's only conscious crew member to take drastic action to avoid disaster, placing the care for the one thousand human lives in the hands of a machine intelligence not meant for the job. Too far from home for radio contact, with no one to help, and facing a primitive alie...

With space tourists in orbit and tickets purchased to the Moon, it boggles the mind what the next few decades may hold. 2084 is a collection of imaginative short stories looking at the next sixty years. No teleporters. No jump ships. Just people pushing the boundaries of this brave new world.

A terrible natural disaster has plunged the Earth into a decade without a summer. On the ground, it is a calamity that will reshape lives forever. In space, the severing of the tenuous flow of critical resources could be an extinction event. A group of citizens has been plotting in the shadows for decades for a day without Earth. However, their bold plan hinges on the generosity of an alien race.

Elise is one of the first generation of settlers on humankind's first interstellar colony on Gliese 832(c). Forced evolution has put her society in a place where digital and physical realities are nearly indistinct. Yet, after encountering refugees from another settlement, Elise finds herself questioning the comfort she has known. She sets out on an adventure entangling her with both one of the youngest people in the new world and an old enemy.

Guy Moon is a pirate given a second chance. He is exiled to a paradise colony world sixteen light-years away with ten million other souls. While they slept, time moved on. The machines meant to serve them are now in charge. While the machines seem bengin, they pressure the new arrivals by stages to join a bizarre hive mind. As old friends slip away, Guy discovers allies to overthrow their machine masters and reclaim their world.

Robbie is a prospector, a spy, and a veteran explorer of the deep. When a businessman hires him to search for a lost relative beyond the edge of the solar system, Robbie and his crew embark on a voyage beyond their expectations.

Located on the western coast of Africa, the nation of Mauritania has a deep history stretching back as far as the pharaohs of Egypt. Yet, something new is happening in the Saharan nation. Something extraordinary.

This book provides an overview of the linguistic situation in Brunei, including a historical overview and a synopsis of the current education system. It investigates pronunciation, particularly the intelligibility of Brunei English and the vowels of Brunei Mandarin, and it also describes the acquisition of Malay grammar, Malay politeness strategies, the use of language online, language in the courts, a comparison of Malay and English newspapers, the language of shop signs, the status of Du...

In the complex, multilingual societies of the 21st century, codeswitching is an everyday occurrence, and yet the use of students’ first language in the English language classroom has been consistently discouraged by teachers and educational policy-makers. This volume begins by examining current theoretical work on codeswitching and then proceeds to examine the convergence and divergence between university language teachers’ beliefs about codeswitching and their classroom practice. Each cha...

*** THIS IS A RERELEASE OF A PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BOOK ***All Rena wanted was to steal back a spaceship and earn enough money to buy her freedom from her travesty of a life. Her mission to recover stolen property from pirates backfired and she became a possession when she encountered cyborgs instead. Now, one of them will own her. Rena is a survivor…and she wants the very tall, big, brutally sexy cyborg who doesn’t like to share anything that belongs to him.Steel is beyond ...