What is an Amish couple doing riding away from a spaceship in a horse-drawn buggy? In this clash-of-cultures science fiction story we follow Aaron and Martha Stoltzfoos (an Amish couple from Lancaster, PA) as they take leave of the spacecraft that carried them light years to the planet of Murna. The purpose of their expedition is to homestead Amish style and set an example of exceptional farming to the local inhabitants and encourage an era of agricultural advancement. What will the Murnan...

What is an Amish couple doing riding away from a spaceship in a horse-drawn buggy? In this clash-of-cultures science fiction story we follow Aaron and Martha Stoltzfoos (an Amish couple from Lancaster, PA) as they take leave of the spacecraft that carried them light years to the planet of Murna. The purpose of their expedition is to homestead Amish style and set an example of exceptional farming to the local inhabitants and encourage an era of agricultural advancement. What will the Murnan...

Widget has a big idea: build the coziest blanket fort ever!With Aunt Beep's help, a pile of blankets, pillows, and ordinary household items begins to transform into a warm and wonderful hideaway. As they plan, carry, fasten, and create, Widget discovers that the best projects take patience, imagination, teamwork, and a willingness to keep trying.When the final blanket is in place and the lights begin to glow, an ordinary room becomes something extr...

A BOOK CAN TAKE YOU ANYWHERE-EVEN ACROSS THE SOLAR SYSTEM!Widget loves discovering new things, but he never expects an ordinary visit to the library to send him soaring into space. When a book becomes the beginning of an incredible cosmic journey, Widget and Aunt Beep suit up and blast off to explore the wonders of the solar system.Their adventure takes them past the blazing Sun and onward to Mercury, Venus, Earth, the Moon, and Mars. They navigate the aste...

Every man, in the true Greek sense of the term, is an idiosyncrasy. He is a syncrasis, because he derives all his attributes, physical or mental, from two parents, or four grandparents, or eight great-grandparents, and so forth. But at the same time he is an idio-syncrasis, because that particular mixture is eminently unlikely ever to have occurred before, or ever to occur again, even in his own brothers or sisters. That he is and can be at birth nothing more than such a crasis, that he ca...

The Axenite warrior is a germ-free—axenic, gnotobiotic—human being. He is superior in most ways to ordinary men. But he cannot live in a normal, contaminated world. To him a drop of rain may reek with pestilence, the scent of evening may be a lethal gas. On the planet Kansannamura, the Axenites lived in a sanitized barracks and fraternization with Indigenous Hominids was an offense punishable by General Court-Martial.Piancelli left the security of the barracks on a vague mission. W...

Stepping into the bank to apply for a job as a confidential secretary, government girl-spy, Orisonis on the road to discovery that could make her the Empress of the universe. Cinderella Story is a science fiction retelling of a favorite fairy tale. The title immediately connects to the collective memory to set our expectations of the story. We know we will meet a beautiful, unknown woman who is moved through a series of inconceivable events toward the most unlikely match with a “pri...

The Axenite warrior is a germ-free—axenic, gnotobiotic—human being. He is superior in most ways to ordinary men. But he cannot live in a normal, contaminated world. To him a drop of rain may reek with pestilence, the scent of evening may be a lethal gas. On the planet Kansannamura, the Axenites lived in a sanitized barracks and fraternization with Indigenous Hominids was an offense punishable by General Court-Martial.Piancelli left the security of the barracks on a vague mission. W...

Stepping into the bank to apply for a job as a confidential secretary, government girl-spy, Orisonis on the road to discovery that could make her the Empress of the universe. Cinderella Story is a science fiction retelling of a favorite fairy tale. The title immediately connects to the collective memory to set our expectations of the story. We know we will meet a beautiful, unknown woman who is moved through a series of inconceivable events toward the most unlikely match with a “pri...