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...

THEY INVADED.THEY CONQUERED.THEY UNDERESTIMATED.The War of the Worlds gets turbocharged in this nonstop action-packed thriller about a group of survivors thrust into extraordinary circumstances.When aliens arrive on Earth, the tiny town of Little Creek isn't any more prepared than the rest of the planet.Without warning or provocation, the otherworldly creatures begin to lay waste to everything.In the chaos that follows...

Book 1 - Imperial SunsetHumanity’s thousand-year-old interstellar empire has been rotting from the inside for over a century, thanks to venal, corrupt, and power-hungry sovereigns from a dynasty many consider illegitimate. The latest in that lineage, an increasingly psychotic empress, is pushing her realm toward catastrophic collapse as admirals and generals rebel against her rule. That rebellion quickly drags the once mighty Imperial Fleet into a devastat...

Unthinkable . . . impossible . . . unstoppableSix months ago, Sean had everything. Now she has nothing but her private detective work, one client with a missing husband, and a growing body count.All of the victims live in the same luxurious building as the missing husband. All of them have some connection with Pierce Sangstrom, the megacorp whose systems power every computer in the world. And, according to the medical examiner—who just happens to be Sean's ...

An interstellar adventure of earthborn people seeking freedom from tyranny on another world from a Hugo Award–winning author.The totalitarian United Republic of America rose from the ashes of a nation that once represented democratic liberty on Earth. Its rulers wish to expand their ideological ambitions to the stars where they will establish a new colony on an inhabitable moon known as Coyote.The crew and colonists aboard the Alabama undertaking thi...

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...