When humans first looked up at the stars with wonder, they knew there were gods.Those gods spoke to humanity, and for thousands of generations, the word of many gods was handed down, amended, and handed down again. Over time, mysticism became ritual, and with the advent of the written word, rituals became orthodoxy. The stories in this book describe how humans heard the word of their gods down through the ages, and how we learned that the gods' words were a source of great power.

In 1954, Ensign James Cortell wakes up from a coma with memories of an alien scientist who had visited Earth some fifty thousand years ago. Years later, he realizes this knowledge should not be taken to his grave.Earth’s extraterrestrial visitors altered Homo sapien DNA to produce modern humans. Soon the industrialist overlords among the alien race realize that genetically altered humans offer a source of cheap labor. A galactic slave trade is born. When an unplanned mutation begin...

Some fifty thousand years ago, a race of extraterrestrials visited Earth. In their quest to seed the cosmos with sentience, alien scientists created the first modern humans by altering Homo sapiens’ DNA. However, the alien race’s noble intentions were derailed by greed and power lust, leading to the birth of a galactic slave trade and a war that spanned multiple worlds.In the midst of this chaos, a miscalculation by Domhanian scientists produced a vicious race of giant humans known...

The first two books in 'Eden's Angels', a series of science fiction novels by Gary Beene, now available in one volume!Alien Genesis: In 1954, Ensign James Cortell wakes up from a coma with memories of an alien scientist who had visited Earth some fifty thousand years ago. Earth’s extraterrestrial visitors altered Homo sapien DNA to produce modern humans and soon, the industrialist overlords among the alien race realized that genetically altered humans offered a sou...

"Practice random acts of kindness" is a catchy little phrase. It is also nonsense, for there should be nothing random about the decision to be kind. THE SEEDS WE SOW: A Story of the Greatest Kindness offers historical proof that it is the most powerful of all decisions.This book tells the story of the intertwined lives of Dr. George Washington Carver, Vice President Henty Agard Wallace, and Nobel Laureate Norman E. Borlaug. It shows how their kindnesses were passed on and enhanced ...

While the Serefim Presidium is forced to retreat from Earth, their homeworld, Domhan Siol, is unraveling. Beset by climate change and economic upheaval, their society teeters on the brink of collapse.The greed and power lust of the returning plutocrats inflame political tensions to the point of violence. The import of sapien slaves from Earth to Domhan Siol tears an enormous hole in the ancient civilization's moral code, and the Domhanian Confederation spirals into an interplanetar...

On January 6, 2021, over 100,000 people showed up at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to attend President Trump's "Stop the Steal" rally. For four hours, the crowd was whipped into a frenzy by speakers' exhortations to "Never give up! Never conceded!"The President of the United States brought the rally on the Ellipse to a close with these words, "Something's wrong here. Something's really wrong. Can't have happened…we fight. We fight like Hell and if you don't fight like Hell...

Among the stars, the rules are different.In a war-ravaged solar system where Earth clings to the remnants of its fractured colonies, the only thing more dangerous than venturing into the unknown is what lies within it.The elite Space Core have been tasked with an impossible mission: to infiltrate the uncharted territories beyond the Kuiper Belt—known as Wild Space—and neutralize a threat that could plunge the entire system into chaos. But Wild Space is no o...

Yellowstone meets The Day After Tomorrow in this gripping geological suspense about two people consumed by a decade of grudges, forced to survive a crumbling, angry Earth.When an asteroid knocks the moon off its axis, scientists predict Earth’s eventual destruction. But years pass with life mostly unchanged—until volcanoes erupt, wildfires spread, and sinkholes swallow entire cities.And the cruelest twist? You have to survive the apocalypse with the person ...

Winner of 15 literary awards, the #1 bestselling Tachyon Tunnel series is a gripping blend of adventure, romance, and hard science wrapped in an exploration of what happens when innovation outruns human wisdom.When engineer and scientist Alex Durant achieves a breakthrough once thought impossible, reality itself begins to bend. The tachyon tunnel is the most significant leap in human history. It unlocks th...

In the year 2524…The decades-long war between humanity and the Kithoryhan Concord has ended, and in its aftermath, the millions of marines who battled across the stars for victory have returned to their homes battered, weary, and depleted.Therapist Malcolm Garner has accepted an assignment from Central Command to counsel one of those marines; The war hero known to the populace as Kajan Venshakova.But the bitter woman that he meets is nothing like the legend whose ex...

Disaster sends a man across the universe in search of answers to life's big questions in this humorous classic adventure by a Science Fiction Grand Master.When a massive flood wipes out Earth and spoils his date, lone survivor Simon Wagstaff finds refuge in an abandoned Chinese spaceship, the Hwang Ho. Accompanied by three new companions—a dog, an owl, and a beautiful robot—and his electric banjo, Wagstaff sets off on an extraterrestrial adventure. He trav...