After the end of the world, a tropical paradise might just be the hardest place to survive.The virus robbed humans of their higher thought processes, turning them into uncontrollable savages. The Hawaiian Islands are separated from the rest of the world by thousands of miles of ocean, but that couldn’t stop the virus. Civilization fell, and it fell HARD.Can paradise survive the end of the world?High atop a dormant volcano, a team of scientists prese...

What would it really take to make the Six Million Dollar Man? a medical thriller on earth and in space!Glenn Armstrong Shepard had his sights set on going to Mars as a flight surgeon, but a training accident on the Moon left him crippled. Now he has a new plan: to be fitted with bionic prosthetics and come back even stronger.Fate and the Space Force have other plans, and Glenn is grounded. Another doctor—his ex-fiancée—takes his place, and Glenn wi...

The planet of Azure is nearly idyllic—there is a high standard of living, industry is booming, and the two races—Human and Wrogul—get along well with each other most days.But underneath it all, there is tension between the races. Despite having no reason for it, the Humans don't always trust the Wrogul, and there is a faction within the Wrogul community that doesn't want its young growing up "Human."When a large group of Wrogul move into the ocean and strange things begin h...

Sequel to THE MOON AND THE DESERT!Saving the Marsbase One mission made Glenn A. “Shep” Shepard a hero. Commanding Marsbase itself might get him killed.Colonel Shepard—Earth’s first fully bionic augmentee and the man who once crossed interplanetary space to pull off an impossible rescue (The Moon and the Desert)—finally reaches Mars. His new command sits under the Eumenides Dorsum ridge on Amazonis Planitia, a city hewn into caverns...

What would it really take to make the Six Million Dollar Man? a medical thriller on earth and in space!Glenn Armstrong Shepard had his sights set on going to Mars as a flight surgeon, but a training accident on the Moon left him crippled. Now he has a new plan: to be fitted with bionic prosthetics and come back even stronger.Fate and the Space Force have other plans, and Glenn is grounded. Another doctor—his ex-fiancée—takes his place, and Glenn will have t...

When Todd's critically damaged ship dropped out of hyperspace near the Human colony world of Azure, he had no memory of his past. He didn't know who he was, or even what he was, and the Humans didn't either. That didn't stop the colonists of Azure—they took him in, anyway…even though they didn't understand how he could do some of the things he could do.Todd and his descendants consider themselves Human—eight armed and water-breathing—but Human, nonetheless. After seventy y...

Joseph Conrad is widely recognized as one of the greatest writers of the early twentieth century. Robert Hampson traces Conrad’s life from his childhood in a Russian penal colony, through his early manhood in Marseille and his years in the British Merchant Navy, to his career as a novelist. It describes how these experiences inspired Conrad’s work, from his early Malay novels to his best-known work, Heart of Darkness. Robert Hampson also discusses Conrad’s important relations with...

It was just a bunch of junk......but the millennia-old emergency suit was anything but junk, and Petekil Ekil has to figure out how it works.Three linked short stories from the Salvage Title Universe introduce Pete and his friends Orlin, Jinx, and Jerry. They have a tendency to get into trouble, but it's okay, Pete has a talent......for rescue.

Azure Colony avoided the larger conflicts of the Omega War and Guild Wars, only to fall prey to rogue mercenaries. Now they're rebuilding, but strange forces are at work. New friends on the ground and mysterious lights in the sky promise "interesting times" for the Humans and hyper-intelligent Wrogul of Azure.Meanwhile, mercenary leader Verne and Peacemaker Harryhausen resume their search for the ancestral home of Azure's Wrogul. They encounter distrust, deceit, and misdirection fr...

It was a meteor......or was it? Skip Davis was a camp counselor teaching an astronomy class when a bright light streaked overhead. A secret spacemission crashed at the edge of Skip's camp, and now he has to keep that secret. He also needs to make a decision that will affect his future.The first installment of a new youth adventure series.

The Tedd Roberts CollectionHere are six stories of science...fantasy?From alien teachers, to a social media wolfpack, to students with a bit of extra talent; from artificially intelligent faculty to a professor who's a bit...vitally-challenged. The stories in this collection combine a bit of science, with a bit of fantasy and campus shenanigans.These tales of Teddy's RatLab are now published in one place by the head LabRat himself, without a pen-name!

Introducing the Wrogul...Squiddy was a four-foot tall intelligent cephalopod; a skilled surgeon known for implanting brain-machine interfaces in human mercenaries. He was also known to be ...creative... with rules and regulations. One day, it would all catch up with him.Here are three stories of the Four Horsemen Universe foreshadowing the events of Do No Harm.