College Bound is a touching, coming-of-age story, which tells the tale of a young, working class man who overcomes financial challenges, alcoholism, and a devastating accident to attend college. The main character endures long, punishing hours in the hard rock construction trade and spends his evenings working on muscle cars but he dreams of a better life. He eventually sells everything he owns including his prized Shelby mustang to swap a life of cutting stone and pouring concrete for a c...

An energetic young boy dreams about jumping to the moon. An adult tells him he can do anything if he tries hard enough. So the boy jumps and jumps. He gives it everything he has only to discover there are some things you cannot do, no matter how hard you try. Realizing he can never jump to the moon, the boy is forlorn until he sets a new goal for himself that is lofty and challenging, but also realistic and attainable. Through hard work, perseverance, study and teamwork the boy climbs a ta...

It is the year 2091 and humanity is suffering the effects of unmitigated global climate change and ecosystem collapse. An opportunity to save the human species from extinction presents itself with the discovery of two identical twin moons in the constellation Gemini that have ideal conditions for life. But a divided U.S. Congress is unwilling to provide funding because the two parties cannot agree on a constitution for the new space colonies until a savvy scientist, Maximilian Oppenheimer,...

"The single most important and valuable Heinlein book ever published."—Spider RobinsonRobert A. Heinlein has been hailed as one of the most forward-thinking science fiction writers of all time, and Expanded Universe (presented in two volumes) offers the perfect collection of his works to provide readers with true insights into his uniquely creative mind.Heinlein personally selected each story or essay for inclusion in this collection, which is ordered chronologically, start...

Red Thunder, Red Lightning, and Rolling Thunder—"action-packed, science-packed homages to Heinlein's best work"—now in one volume (Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing).Enjoy all three novels in Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author John Varley's Mars saga!Red ThunderAs Chinese and US spacecraft compete to be the first to land on Mars, a former astronaut, his cousin, and four teens from Flor...

From William Forstchen, the New York Times bestselling author of One Second After, comes Pillar to the Sky, a towering epic to rank with Douglas Preston's Blasphemy and Michael Crichton's Prey...Pandemic drought, skyrocketing oil prices, dwindling energy supplies and wars of water scarcity threaten the planet. Only four people can prevent global chaos.Gary Morgan—a brilliant, renegade scientist is pilloried by th...

IT ALL HAPPENED SO FASTOne minute the two space Hab astronauts were scoop-diving the atmosphere, the next they'd been shot down over the North Dakota Glacier and were the object of a massive manhunt by the United States government.That government, dedicated to saving the environment from the evils of technology, had been voted into power because everybody knew that the Green House Effect had to be controlled, whatever the cost. But who would have thought th...

An anthology of near future science fiction from VICE’s acclaimed, innovative digital speculative story destination, Terraform—in print for the first time.Terraform hones the predictive capacity of science fiction and seeks new, vivid, and visceral ways to depict the future we’re hurtling toward, translating the decay and anxiety that surround us into something else, something unexpected, something that burns like a beacon and upends the ...

Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror classic, The Crawling Hand. Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching at last its doomed manned mission to the desolation of Mars. Three space pods with nine Americans on...

"One of the most thrilling writers working today. Miss him at your peril."- Blake Crouch, Dark Matter"Like Stephen King, he knows how to summon serious scares." - Bentley Little, The BurningA free post-apocalyptic Kobo thriller. Free prequel novella to the AFTER series.AFTER: FIRST LIGHTThe beginning of the end...When NASA scientists detect intense solar activity, the warnings go un...

Thoughts on nature, politics, love, and much more—from the environmentalist and author of such classics as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang.Finished just two weeks before his death, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness is a collection of Edward Abbey's observations, both bitingly witty and inspirational, on a wide range of topics—from philosophy and writing to music, money, sex, and sports.Abbey chose each passage himself f...

The bold story of Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA during the space race and was depicted in the film Hidden Figures.You've likely heard of the historic Apollo 13 moon landing. But do you know about the mathematical genius who made sure that Apollo 13 returned safely home?As a child, Katherine Johnson loved to count. She counted the steps on the road, the number of dishes and spoons she washe...