As a world renowned virologist Dr. Dawson Curgalff ( one of the winners of the coveted Conway Awards ) finds herself on the fringe of a life overwhelmed. In addition to searching the world for the animal hosts of zoonotic lethal viruses she has steadily collected war orphans and extracted them from combat zones. Unknown to her public admirers she is also a formidable opponent on the battle field. After a lifetime of struggling to rescue war orphans from the clutches of insurgent generals s...

For years the Department of Military Sciences has fought to stop terrorists from using radical bioweapons—designer plagues, weaponized pathogens, genetically modified viruses, and even the zombie plague that first brought Ledger into the DMS. These terrible weapons have been locked away in the world's most secure facility. Until now. Joe Ledger and Echo Team are scrambled when a highly elite team of killers breaks the unbreakable security and steals the world's most dangerous weapons. With...

What do you do when the power goes off?Terrorists have acquired a terrible new weapon that can crash the power grid and plunge America into a new dark age. A coordinated attack is planned to shut out all lights and emergency services to ten major cities. Planes will fall, hospitals will go dark, no help will come.And in that terrible darkness, a dreadful plague will be released. If the lights go off, nothing can stop the bioweapon from killing millions....

A fascinating collection of fiction-turned-reality tales. Long before movies like Minority Report and The Matrix, the world’s writers have been recording the future as it might exist-and as it turns out, they were right. This bizarre anthology collects the most stunning predictions and imagined inventions here for the first time. Visions of Tomorrow includes The Land Iron Clads” by H. G. Wells, who described a military tank in 1903-long before it was ever a poss...

Here is a multidimensional playland of ideas from the world's most eccentric Nobel-Prize winning scientist. Kary Mullis is legendary for his invention of PCR, which redefined the world of DNA, genetics, and forensic science. He is also a surfer, a veteran of Berkeley in the sixties, and perhaps the only Nobel laureate to describe a possible encounter with aliens. A scientist of boundless curiosity, he refuses to accept any proposition based on secondhand or hearsay evidence, and always loo...

2019 Audie Award finalist in the Faith-Based category2019 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal winner in Christian Fiction"Enormously satisfying and exciting … bolstered by excellent scientific background" — Amazon review"A pulse-pounding page-turner … well-plotted, well researched, and well-written" — Amazon reviewWhen rookie astronomer Irina Kirilenko discovers a planet-size comet in the Kuiper Belt on a collision course for Mars, she first faces stonewalling from ...

When NASA detects a strange object on the dark side of Pluto, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate.

* Stage a coup * Swim with sharks * Beat a breathalyzer *The Forbidden Knowledge series has taken readers over the edge before, but never like this. The Most Forbidden Knowledge jam-packs the best and baddest how-tos into one car-stealing, keg-kicking, base-jumping-off-a-skyscraper collection. You'll find everything you ever wanted to learn (though probably never should) in this ultimate self-destruction manual.

Since his debut in Terry Carr’s legendary Ace Specials of the 1980s, Carter Scholz has occupied an enviable, if demanding, position on the cutting edge of modern speculative literature (vulgarly called SF).Proudly debuting in this volume, Gypsy is his first major work since his 2002 nuclear thriller Radiance. An interstellar adventure grounded in the hard science of accurate physics and biology, Gypsy soars far beyond the heliosphere of conventional scien...

Adolescents and will enjoy this short, mildly cerebral science fiction thriller about Tim, a teenage boy obsessed with interstellar space travel. Tim receives a new high-end telescope for his birthday, and after many long nights of searching the skies through the window in his room, he discovers more than he ever bargained for. When during one of his nightly vigils, he finds himself face to face with the spearhead of an invading race of aliens from another galaxy. The aliens are convinced ...

A collection of fifteen original flash fiction stories covering genres from Military to Science Fiction and quite a few odd ones inbetween.

For a long time the subject of Beyond Humans has been one that for the most part has been a stable stance across the world but that's about to change in big ways. Also Canadian sisters in a small town.