Ryder is faced with new dillemmas on every hand. Things are going well with Cynthia, but now he must meet her father. Also to bring peace to the Orion's Spur he must entrust his life to Debbie, who will be flying him through an asteroid field only so Ryder can attempt to negotiate with the pirates of Haumeah to convince them to have a show down with the Sagittarius league.

The sea is no longer silent.The Arlo has completed its historic mission, delivering unimaginable riches to Salt Industries and saving Arthur Salt and his son Marshall from financial collapse. But wealth brings attention—and danger.Salt Industries stands at the center of a geopolitical storm. Hostile governments circle them like predators, the Manifest Destiny Cartel continues its relentless pursuit, and the powerful Yamaguchi yakuza clan has its own agenda.As the bo...

Teen and Young Adult Science Fiction at its best.The epic conclusion to the Orion's Spur series . Death looms with every choice. Ryder must find a way to end the war between Sagittarius and PerSius or there will be nothing left of the Spur. What is the cost of peace?Reading this and the earlier books has been a great ride. I like the world---universe building that the author has done. The settings and characters stay with you long after you finish the book.

Usually being beaten up and hospitalized by the school bully isn't considered to be a great turning point in your life. Fifteen year old Ryder faces some of the common challenges of any young man his age: isolation, sibling rivalry, first love, and bullying. Life takes a sudden change when he is invited, along with his sister and five classmates to spend a year abroad.Read the contract! Instead of going to Europe on Earth Ryder and his friends are conscripted for a year of service ...

All is quiet, or is it? What looks to be a large PerSian invasion fleet is on the edge of Demeter space and the Saggitarian Armada that is supposed to defend Demeter leaves port. This leaves Ryder and his team in a struggle to find a way of defending Demeter with the scraps left behind by the armada.Meanwhile a secret lurks in the inner tunnels of Demeter that could either save or destroy the planet, and explain the attempts on the team's lives. Will the team be able to find the an...

William Joshua Ryder is a lost soul on Earth — too smart for his peers, too young for responsibility, and too shy for love. But when Ryder, his fearless younger sister Debbie, and their friends are kidnapped and transported to an isolated world more than a hundred light-years from Earth, they discover their lives were never ordinary to begin with.Someone believes they hold the key to ending a war that has consumed Orion’s Spur for generations. Two ancient factions have fought so lo...

After surviving two kidnappings the year before Ryder and his friends think they are done with Demeter. But when a mysterious illness starts manifesting in Ryder's little sister Debbie the team knows they have to find a way to return to Demeter before its to late. But not all is safe the mysterious planners of the nefarious plots last year are still unknown and the group must survive more attempts on their lives. Will they survive another adventure on Demeter?

Twenty years after The Event reshaped humanity, the world is a scaled-down version of itself. Shrunk to less than two inches tall to combat overpopulation and environmental collapse, people live in miniaturized cities and use advanced technology to navigate their world.Eric Brice, the son of a hero lost to a bird attack, is part of the first generation born into this miniaturized world. On a class field trip to Cape Canaveral, disaster strikes when their toy-sized bullet train is s...

Young, visionary scientist, Marshall Salt believes humanity’s future lies in the asteroid belt. With his closest friends, he has developed groundbreaking technology capable of extracting untold wealth from the cosmos.Their ambitions come with a staggering price tag - tens of billions of dollars. To fund their dream, Marshall must turn to the last person he ever wanted to ask: his estranged father and reclusive billionaire, Arthur Salt.As they uncover the ambitions of global...

Twenty years after The Event reshaped humanity, the world is a scaled-down version of itself. Shrunk to less than two inches tall to combat overpopulation and environmental collapse, people live in miniaturized cities and use advanced technology to navigate their world.Eric Brice, the son of a hero lost to a bird attack, is part of the first generation born into this miniaturized world. On a class field trip to Cape Canaveral, disaster strikes when their toy-sized bullet train is s...

In Communicated Stereotypes at Work, the editors and contributors posit that stereotypes communicated in the workplace remain a pervasive issue due to the dichotomy between the discriminatory and functional roles that these stereotypes can play in a range of professional settings. Contributors demonstrate that while the use of stereotypes in the workplace is distasteful and exclusionary, communicating these stereotypes can also appear-on the surface-to provide a pathway toward bon...

The Hemlock Journal Issue 09 is the most Global issue to date. It features works of poets, writers and artists from around the world.