Fifty years ago, Mira, humanity’s last hope to find new resources, exited the solar system bound for Proxima Centauri b. Seven years into her mission, all transmissions ceased without warning. Mira and her crew were presumed lost. Humanity, unified during her construction, splintered into insurgency and rebellion.Now, an outpost orbiting Pluto has detected a distress call from an unpowered object entering Sol space: Mira has returned. When all attempts at communications fail, S&R Bl...

Their mission was to recover an ancient derelict from the farthest edge of the Sol system. What they’ve found could spell the end of humanity.Trapped on the Mira, Corporal Kalimura must lead her squad of injured marines to safety. But, aboard the derelict, every shadow is a possible threat, and around every corner lurks another hazard. Without life support or gravity, and only their suit lights to see by, they must explore the ancient wreck to find a way to communicate with their s...

Under 30,000 feet of water, the experimental exploration rig Leaguer has discovered an oil field larger than Saudi Arabia, with oil so sweet and pure, nations would go to war for the rights to it.But as the team starts drilling exploration well after exploration well in their race to claim the sweet crude, a deep rumbling beneath the ocean floor shakes them all to their core. Something has been living in the oil, and it's about to give birth to the greatest threat humanity has ever...

The Sol Federation Marine Corps vessel S&R Black was sent to recover an ancient derelict from the farthest edge of the Sol system. What they found could spell the end of humanity.Trapped aboard Mira, Corporal Kalimura and her squad face hostile alien creatures while desperately searching for a way to escape. The crew of S&R Black, meanwhile, discover the alien-infested Mira has brought back something else from outside the solar system, and it may mean the end for them all.D...

When Shin-Sho has a problem, EETs are the answer.Zilfaquir is having a bad day. Shin-Sho Corporation dispatched his Emergency Engineering Team (EET) to the remote ice planet Xiao 2 to investigate a communications blackout. The Xiao 2 facility, composed of three subsurface ocean stations, awaits his team below hundreds of meters of ice and kilometers underwater.Upon arrival, he discovers the Xiao 2 facility has experienced an epidemic leaving most of the station’s personnel ...

The crew of the deep-sea exploration rig Leaguer discovers oil sweeter, purer, and easier to refine than the fields in Saudi Arabia. To confirm their own analysis of their trillion-dollar find, a test barrel is flown from the drill site off the coast of Papua/New Guinea to Houston Analytical Laboratories (HAL).As the unsuspecting scientists at HAL await the arrival of the oil, they ready their lab for what they know is an important job. They've seen the test results from Leaguer; t...

Engineer Jordan and the crew of the mining vessel Kirkland traveled a year to reach the MacReady system.Following a lead from a prospecting satellite, the Kirkland deploys its mining operations on one of the system's three planets.From the moment they begin drilling through MacReady's rocky surface and into the veins of precious metals, everything changes. Miners disappear, a disaster threatens the Kirkland, and Jordan finds himself fighting to sa...

Armored little people riding armored dinosaurs in a full-contact bloodsport? Welcome to Dinolition, the biggest show in the galaxy. Star rider Poughkeepsie Pete and his T-Rex mount “Old Bess” are fixtures of a league struggling to reach profitability and gain intergalactic recognition, to be thought of as something other than circus-freak sideshows.But to get that credibility (and the massive payday that comes with it) Pete has to manage a league commissioner with a God complex, de...

They came in peace……or so they said. Here are 18 examples of how they lied. This is an exciting collection of First Contact science fiction stories, all completely different! Take a risk – venture into the unknown with us. Who is out there? What will they want from us? Come join us in our adventure to find out how 1st Contact pans out. It will be a great adventure!"Every story in this book has something to appeal to fans of the science fiction genre, especi...

The mid-1800s were years of unrest, foment, and violent ethnic and racial prejudice. Outwardly peaceful Connecticut towns were no exception.Irish immigrants were castigated as a lowly race. They faced hateful venom with courage and laughter, becoming significant contributors to American culture.The authors vividly describe this little known facet of our countrys history, which included torture and murder.

They came in peace …… or so they said. Here are eighteen examples of how they lied. This is an exciting collection of first contact science fiction stories, all completely different! Take a risk—venture into the unknown with us. Who is out there? What will they want from us? Come join us in our adventure to find out how first contact pans out. It will be a great adventure!

The Sol Federation Marine Corps vessel S&R Black was sent to recover an ancient derelict from the farthest edge of the Sol system. What they found could spell the end of humanity.Days after escaping the derelict ship Mira and Pluto’s destruction, Black Company is pulled from stasis hours from Trident Station only to discover the solar system has gone silent.Nearly empty on both ammunition and fuel reserves, taking refuge at the silent, apparently ...