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The Toxins Case: The Adventures of Constable Smith continues the story of Capella Smith from Grant Ross's previous book Read the Small Print.
Having left her flesh and blood body on Earth, Capella is now in spirit form and has adopted a new spirit body. She has teamed up with Angelina Skyward, the Chief Detective Inspector of the Interstellar Police (ISP), to pursue criminals throughout the Milky Way. Their main challenge is the Interstellar Mafia...
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At the heart of the Concord, unrest is festering. Unrecognized by the Elite, the ruling class, an undercurrent of rebellion is surging through the enslaved Bond class. It's a threat that could bring down all of civilization, creating a third Dark Age. Lord Alexand, first born of the House of DeKoven Woolf, stands to inherit a vast industrial empire along with a seat on the Directorate, the Concord's ruling body. But he sees the writing on the wall...
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The riveting third installment of the Clash of the Aliens series, an epic post-apocalyptic science fiction space opera. The Clan mobilizes and conquers Ohio to get C-17 planes to rescue the Qu'uda survivors on Andros. The Clan flies to the west coast and builds spacecraft using alien fusion drives in submarines. A Hoo-Lii craft emerges from a warp in space-time and is attacked by the Qu'uda. The humans uses nuke missiles to overwhelm the Qu'uda ship....
4) Triploidy
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When their baby is born with a genetic defect caused by an extraterrestrial intelligence, new parents must fight to save their child-and humanity.
A medical mystery . . . and a threat from beyond the stars.
For Jon and Marianna Knox, the birth of their daughter Persephone marks the happiest day of their lives. Until they learn that Persey is suffering from a rare but fatal condition called "triploidy."
Her doctors are baffled, and with...
5) Obedience
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CLEANSING THE GALAXY OF THE EIJEN FILTH IS A SACRED DUTY. For three hundred years, the Republic has outlawed genetic engineering and its associated technologies. Nearly a decade ago, Oryelle (Ori) Tey, an engineered, enhanced super soldier, was found in the remains of a warship, drifting at the edge of Republic space. From the webs and tunnels of Xia, Ori is sent to the Republic, a humanoid civilisation still wracked by the aftershocks of the Great...
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En la vastedad del universo, donde la oscuridad cósmica se mezcla con la danza de las estrellas, existe un rincón misterioso que desafía la lógica y estira los límites de nuestra comprensión: el agujero negro. Este fenómeno gravitacional, donde la gravedad se vuelve implacable y la luz se desvanece en la insondable negrura, ha sido el tema de especulación, asombro y fascinación a lo largo de la historia de la astronomía.En este viaje intergaláctico,...
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As the architect of IGMC's AI VELMA, CeCe Pain stumbled onto a secret so dangerous, she knew she had to act, even though it would trigger rippling consequences throughout the universe. Plagued by guilt over the lives her decisions have affected, she yearns for freedom, only to be overtaken by an incomprehensible horror that could break her forever. Now her life hangs by the thinnest thread--one woven with both love and hatred. If she makes it out...
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When Commander Tauran's young son, Lausus, is diagnosed as one of the despised changeling mutants, Tauran believes the government assurances that his boy will be treated well. His less trusting wife, Beatra, however, flees with Lausus to a changeling planet.
After years of leading troops into battles against the mutants, while tirelessly searching for signs of Beatra and Lausus, Tauran seizes on an offer from a trusted, yet rogue, scientist with...
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In the prequel to the Saga of Shadows trilogy and Hugo Award nominee The Dark Between the Stars, humanity recovers from war as new threats loom.
Nine years have passed since the end of the titanic Elemental War, and the human race is still picking up the pieces. The Terran Hanseatic League has become the Confederation, and King Peter and Queen Estarra work to heal wounds among the factions of humanity, as well as with the alien Ildiran Empire.
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10) Naughty & Nice
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A zombie detective must save Christmas after someone steals Santa's list in this humorous mystery short story by a New York Times–bestselling author.
Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I., finds himself tackling a bizarre Christmas case when Santa Claus himself becomes a client, hiring Dan to recover some very precious stolen North Pole property. If you like werewolves, vampires, evil elves, zombies, as well as a lot of belly laughs, curl up with this story...
12) Laisrathera
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The Queen of the Eldritch has offered Reese Eddings a life out of a fairy tale, one beyond the imagination of a poor girl from Mars who'd expected to spend her life eking out a living with a rattletrap merchant vessel. Unfortunately, the day Reese reached out to accept Liolesa's offer, Hirianthial's enemies betrayed him-and his entire planet-to a race of sociopathic shapeshifters with dreams of conquest. Now the only thing between Reese and a castle...
13) Dissonant State
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A unique, compelling, and hopeful space opera, Dissonant State is sure to delight fans of Ann Leckie, Becky Chambers, and Martha Wells. Kay Wilder despises Ravel Corporation, whose occupation of her home planet left Kay with a useful but debilitating power to hear others' emotions. Unlike her brother Jasper, an activist who fights corporate injustice, Kay has always stayed as far away from the corporate states as possible. Until now. Because Ravel...
14) Atlas Station
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Welcome to Atlas Station. We hope you'll stay a while.
Earth-born Doctor Faye Heson has always believed in freedom. When hers is taken from her after she is kidnapped and forced to the isolated space habitat of Atlas Station, she's ready to fight anyone who gets in her way. When she learns she can't return to Earth, she grudgingly accepts the position at the understaffed clinic, where she throws herself into her work and struggles to understand...
15) The Black Map
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On the outer edge of the galaxy, some salvage jobs are easy and some you don't come back from. Working for the mob can be like that. For Booker Ward and the crew of the salvage ship Kristi, this new job they've just been handed will end up being more than they bargained for.
The crew's employer found what it thinks is a Centurion class battleship from the fall of the Realm. Nothing like the ship has been seen in the galaxy for centuries. Images...
16) Death on Taurus
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On Taurus, there's only one good way to die.On the bullfighting planet of Taurus, in the far distant future, a genetically-engineered race of half-man, half-bull stages ritual blood sacrifices to the gods-human viewers light-years away. Vizzer, the high priest who presides over the daily slaughter, loathes the fights and wants to end them.When news arrives that the humans have destroyed themselves in an interstellar civil war, he deposes the king...
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2091-The Year the Earth Changed
As Yellowstone erupts, sending humankind into an extinction-level event, countries, cities, and enclaves of the elites create desperate, innovative ways to survive the coming ice age.
Some scientists uplift entire cities into the sky above the disaster, others build undersea colonies, while some look to space. A few delve into the darkness of genetic modification and try to evolve a new species of humanity.
Now,...
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Life at Descansar - Heart-warming science fiction!Ever since Maya's parents died in a freak accident, she lives alone with her little sister, Sophie.Most of the time, Maya acts like a responsible adult despite being only fifteen.But on her sister's birthday, a prank gets out of hand.Sophie disappears in the belly of space station Descansar.Can Maya find Sophie before it's too late?A story about two grieving sisters and their struggle in the Descansar...
19) Climbing Olympus
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A group of surgically altered exiles plot to destroy a corrupt plot to colonize Mars in this science fiction adventure by a New York Times bestseller.
In order to terraform Mars, Earth first had to transform people . . .
The Red Planet is a harsh place, and normal humans cannot survive there during the many years of taming the planet. But a group of humans-called "volunteers," even though they were taken from prison gulags-have been surgically...
20) Class-M Exile
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Bay-zar.
Class-M planet in the middle of no-where. Dust, dust, and more dust. Unless ya circled 'round to the more habitable region, you'd be stuck without a ship to anywhere. 'Round the corner though, you could find everything from ship parts and dried food packs, to roast dog and the rare bi-cycle. Hell, you could even buy yerself a gen-u-ine religion if you were so inclined. The ultimate tourist trap. And here I'd taken the bait. When Eerl stepped...
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