She's a junior pilot, as brash and reckless as they come, and keen to prove herself.While scavenging junk in Earth orbit, Winnie Bravo encounters a stealth probe attacking commercial satellites. The craft escapes, but Winnie never accepts defeat.Being a pilot should really be more fun. The big boss appreciates her, which doesn't stop frustrating assignments. Who knew training on the Moon included bloody noses and chicken poo?Despite her snarky attit...

A stubborn technologist takes her robots to Mars with no guarantee her outpost destination is viable.Emma Winters is keen to win her distant father's respect and claim a place in history. While training to join the first settlement on another planet, she's shocked to learn one of the pioneers has walked out the tiny habitat's airlock to their death. Despite mounting worries over the trials that await her, the determined scientist launches into orbit and departs Ear...

Technology fails… Society collapses… A kidnapped engineer is trapped in the calamity.Lured onto a spaceship commandeered by his family's cult, Fynn awakens from stasis stranded on a deadly frozen moon. With no way back to Earth, dreams for his future are gone forever. To avoid disaster, he reconciles with his family and applies his skills to securing their new home. Failing life support isn't the only crisis. As the colony shatters into factions, Fynn leads a band ...

A collection of poems in rhyme;Inspired all by science;Outward to the edge of time;Or tied to earthly cadence.Light and written all for fun,There is no angst to hide.You're invited now to sampleOne of my poems inside.I favor rhyme to match poetry to the rhythm of my steps, which is inevitable since I frequently compose while walking. I also enjoy the discipline that rhyme imposes. It pleases my analytical mind when the perfect word p...

A collection of nine short stories of science fiction and fantasy.From Gold Rush miners - to alternate universe octopuses - to a lonely mission to a distant star - and more. Nine stories ranging from the meta-verse to ancient history to fit your busy day - or curl up in your favorite nook with the collection.

Across interstellar space, settlers find lethal sickness on an ocean world. And unexpectedly, an alien society tied to deep traditions. Will this planet ever become home?Mired in guilt, pilot Trey Jackson isolates himself from settlers who fear to explore their new world. But a second generation is coming of age, and a teen recruits him to her secret study of the planet's pseudo-whales. She offers Jackson hope… until a ferocious creature leaves them marooned on the...

Abandoned on a hostile planet, colonists struggle to build their lives. But first they have to survive. Read the complete series through generations in this bingeworthy collection.Five full length novels:Glory on Mars - Emma wants to explore in her robotic walkabout suit, but something is terribly wrong as a strange illness threatens the settlement's future.Born on Mars - Jake didn't ask to be born on Mars, into a f...

Jake didn't ask to be born on Mars. His dying colony is abandoned by Earth, and Mars yields none of the minerals they need to survive.He drifts among tasks in his tiny settlement, never finding the purpose he craves. When a spaceship lands half a planet away, newcomers bring technology his sick family desperately needs. But they refuse all attempts at contact.Breaking through is Jake's chance to redeem himself. When he connects with a Chinese ceramicist in ...

When escalating attacks threaten Earth, Winnie Bravo challenges the scoundrel responsible - her boss.She escaped her mundane life and chased a rogue probe through space. Now Winnie returns to Earth with all its complications. She finally knows her enemy, but will he derail her victory?The brash pilot tackles her boss alone because that's what heroes do. Then he stops her dead in her tracks, dangling the prestige she's always craved. If she accepts, she'll b...

Survival is not their destiny.Kin seem safe once their space station is completed, and Fynn escapes endless conflict for a time by prospecting in the Saturn system. Everything changes when power failures strike. Their nuclear reactor degrades long before anyone expected and threatens a cold dark disaster. Lacking technical specifications for a sustainable power plant, Fynn returns to the dismal moon's surface hoping trial and error will yield an answer in time....

When Bliss lands a job inside a lava tube, she leaves her boring life behind. Maybe boredom wasn't so bad.Over 600 people in the colony's largest city. Bliss imagines an exciting life. Her new assignment demands long miserable hours on the cold, airless surface, but when the job's complete, there will be nothing like it anywhere else on Mars.Unfortunately, her boss is crazy, and hazing makes life miserable for a newcomer. At least her handsome teammate beco...

Something weird happens? Zeker swears it's not his fault. An AI may be a psychopath's only friend.Zeker sets out to make a difference in the expanding colony. Gaining a place in the elite Tower Guild proves others recognize his talents, and the AI embedded in his brain helps keep his impulses under control... usually. But when his temper lands him in a lawless burg among desperate outcasts and one special lady, he discovers humanity's survival on the Red Planet is ...