Perplexed by an unearthly stranger's inexplicable appearances, Cosmologist Roger Shore is dismayed when the alien entity’s origin becomes obvious and he is unable to do other than respond to any knowledge of faster-than-light spacecraft development. Baffled when only his voice registers on a recording of the exchange, his superior in orbital Galileo Observatory reluctantly reveals the existence of a covert effort to develop FTL interstellar flight. Sponsored by the wealthy daughter of the ...

Perplexed by an unearthly stranger's inexplicable appearances, Cosmologist Roger Shore is dismayed when the alien entity's provenance becomes obvious by making him unable to do other than respond to any knowledge of faster-than-light spacecraft development. Baffled when only his voice registers on a recording of the alien exchange, his superior in orbiting Galileo Observatory reluctantly reveals the existence of a covert effort to develop FTL interstellar flight sponsored by the wealthy da...

William Wall is the first international winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize.In this collection of interconnected stories, the beautiful and ravaging forces of sea and land collide with the forces of human nature, through isolation and family, love and loss, madness and revelation. The stories follow the lives of two sisters and the people who come and go in their lives, much like the tides. Dominated by the tragic loss of a third sister at a young age, their ...

Chin Zhonghua Renmin Gonghehuo, the Peoples Republic of China, achieves a technological triumph with its “Great Leap Upward,” the late 21st century deployment of a “space elevator” rising from an equatorial mountain in Kalimantan to an enormous microgravity production satellite in geosynchronous orbit, as well as starward to a spacecraft inertial launch and retrieval complex. This radical, innovative system permits the importation of lunar and orbital products at negligible cost, creating ...

Chin Zhonghua Renmin Gonghehuo, the Peoples Republic of China, achieves a late 21st century technological triumph with a "Great Leap Upward," the deployment of a "space elevator" rising from an equatorial mountain peak in Kalimantan to an enormous microgravity production satellite in geosynchronous orbit, and on starward to a spacecraft inertial launch and retrieval complex. This radical, innovative system permits the importation of lunar and orbital hard goods at negligible cost, creating...

Could the course and outcome of World War II be changed redundantly? Possibly, since all you need is a professional, experienced time-traveling historical researcher. The task may not be quite that simple, however, so he had better be very, very careful …The Lebe Technique, a secret “weapon” developed by a theoretical physicist among ODESSA SS exiles fleeing war crimes prosecution in 1960 Argentina, requires endless experimental trials prior to sending an ex-SS officer back to 1939 Berlin ...

Colonizing the galaxy’s near reaches, the myriad, mutated children of Earth are loosely governed by Imperium Terrestriana, and a hierarchy headed by an elite neohuman minority proactively fostering Convention, a body of civil law that featured Code Duello, and under its precepts trillions of eligible patricians and plebes wield their swords to settle all public and private disputes. Imperial explorers discover parsecs-distant Dan, a raw, idyllic world seemingly ripe for colonization, where...

Colonizing the galaxy's near reaches, the myriad, mutated children of Earth are loosely governed by Imperium Terrestriana's hierarchy, an elite, long-lived neohuman minority that proactively fosters Convention, a body of interstellar civil law featuring Code Duello; under its precepts, trillions of eligible patricians and plebes wield their swords in order to settle all public and private disputes. Imperial explorers discover parsecs-distant Dan, a raw, idyllic world seemingly ripe for col...

In American Labor and American Democracy, William English Walling drew on his close association with Samuel Gompers and other leaders of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to write the authoritative history of the labor movement in the first quarter of the twentieth century.Walling's position was that twentieth-century American democracy was not stagnant. It was a living, developing trend in society, with the AFL as its most progressive force. There could be no passive acceptance of Am...

It is lighter than air! Joseph Heller's remarkable novel, Catch-22, used black humor to illustrate the trials and tribulations of men at war. This humorous spoof of the modern U.S. aerospace industry employs plain vanilla humor to satirize the idiocies and frustrations afflicting individuals employed in a business the author, a former aerospace engineer, knew all too well. You'll encounter a plethora of outrageous characters, and some entirely lacking in character—a one time porn queen who...

The 1st of a 2-book series (THE VARIAN DISASTER to follow) tells the fictional saga of an actual barbarian Legionary, later a Roman citizen, and later still an equestrian knight, who led a coalition of tribal warriors to victory in a famous battle that annihilated three entire Roman legions. Certain contemporary historians revere this distant figure from the shadows of European antiquity as a liberating crusader, others as, “The noble savage gone wrong.” This tale of Imperial Rome and anci...

"Be fruitful," advises Judeo-Christian Scripture, "and multiply, and replenish the earth." Eight centuries BCE global population is inferred to have been roughly five millions, soaring to between 50 and 60 millions when Julius Caesar fell, and escalating in the mid-17th century to about half a billion. A significant benchmark of one billion, reached circa 1804, doubled in 123 years to 2 billions by 1927, and to 3 billions in 1960. Only 14 years later, in 1974, 4 billions crowded the world,...