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What Would You Do? If scientists from another planet abducted you to study you, like we study wildlife on Earth, what would you do? What if while you were onboard, the ship was, attacked by another alien group? Would you trust your captors' assessment, that the other ship belonged to a hostile empire and your captors were the good guys? Would you fight to protect the ship? To protect your abductors? What would you do if for service rendered to the...

THE DOOMED WORLD SPLENDOR IS ONLY THE FIRST DESTINATION Explorer Mike Christopher and the rest of the crew of the starcraft Asaph Hall must find a way to save not just one, but two intelligent species on the planet Splendor. Years later, Ambassador Chanda Kasmira finds herself coping with the unexpected results of Mike's decisions. Meanwhile, Mike's adventures continue as he works to solve a murder mystery aboard a far-flung space station, prevent...

This stunning sequel to Who knew the storm whisks the characters from the previous book, loosely based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel for children, The Secret Garden, and their offspring, off on some new and quite surprising adventures. It is a rip-roaring romp through a wacky world of pseudo-sci-fi fantasy, combining classic works of literature with film, music and art; all of which are close to the author's heart. The protagonists...

Enter the strange, dark worlds of four science fiction authors in this anthology from Amphibian Press."The Stalk" - Ariele SielingJack is a Digger, dumping dirt into the massive, mysterious Hole day after day. When she is summoned to the Stalk, a looming space elevator, however, she fears the worst. After all, every Digger summoned to the Stalk leaps to their deaths.This short story is a chilling science fiction retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk."How...

When a gigantic damaged spaceship suddenly appears over Ottawa requesting assistance the world is thrown into confusion. Why are they really here? If they are having problems, what caused the damage?Then there is the Thorncroft family:Paul is feeling depressed and gets sucked up into a spaceship.Lucile and her ex-military girlfriends are bored and looking for a fight, romance, or something to break up the monotony.Their mother, Martha, is trying to...

Paxton and the neighbor's kid are inseparable-sweethearts, even, and Paxton barely six. He doesn't mind her antennae and clicking mandibles at all.

On her maiden voyage, HMS Warspite discovered Vesy, a world populated by primitive aliens, aliens whose culture had already been twisted and warped by human refugees from the First Interstellar War. Now, Captain John Naiser and his crew spearhead a diplomat mission to the alien homeworld, hoping to ease them into the galactic mainstream. But with hundreds of others hoping to influence and shape the developing alien culture, and all hell threatening...

Maggie Gray has hunted enemies of the Federation for years. But, when she uncovers the files of her dead lover, Maggie learns her life is not what it seems. She is the one being hunted. Maggie has been betrayed by her government and her own father in a genetic experiment using her DNA. She must escape the Federation in order to learn the truth. Her truth.

The stars aligned and I've promised myself to Ace forever. Now we can move on with the next steps of our lives, together. But life has a way of getting in the way of keeping things simple My new roommate has a dangerous link to my past. One I can't even tell her about. And the one person who I thought was my biggest confidante is now pulling away. I thought my life was coming together. Now I have to figure out if I can keep everything from falling...

What happens to the earth when we're attacked by aliens from outer space? Independence Day? But what if they don't come in space ships, ray guns blazing? What if they are much smaller than the millions of mibrobial creatures we breath in every day? And what if they're deadly on contact?