В далёком будущем, в эпоху переселенцев, когда Земля становится непригодной для жизни, всё больше людей покидают её пределы, обживаясь на других планетах. Одной из них становится Перфундере – планета-парадокс, крошечный, покрытый лазурными болотами, оазис жизни в далёкой галактике. Сванвейг повезло – именно здесь она родилась и выросла, посреди утопии, которая не может быть вечной. Спокойное течение времени нарушают новые переселенцы и те идеи, ...
Witches are being murdered in Austin, but how do you put the monster back in the vault? The three witches of Pressler Street are the city's only hope, but they are running out of time. A deadly creature has been locked away for millennia in plain sight. But big sister Laura accidentally set the creature free, and no one remembers how to put it back. They need to find the witch-killer and stop its path of destruction on Austin. But what s ...
What happens when science tampers with nature? A riveting, cautionary tale with disastrous results reveals the chilling answer.Hoping to create a new growth agent for food with beneficial uses to mankind, two scientists find that the spread of the material is uncontrollable. Giant chickens, rats, and insects run amok, and children given the food stuffs experience incredible growth–and serious illnesses. Over the years, people who have eaten thes ...
The time is 2183. Fifty-six-year-old Saunders Maxwell is a stubborn old space-farer who has spent his entire life in space. He has captained the Moon-Mars shuttle and led exploration missions beyond Mars. When he came to Mars in his forties he helped discover the water source that made the first American Mars colony possible.<br><br>Later he turned to asteroid mining, captaining a small ship and crew of about a half dozen on repeated ...
Two Centuries. Two Santas. The Belgian and the Cowboy. Internal dilemmas and external strife aplenty. It is during this era that Mistletoe Green flexes his grip over the North Pole and through the manipulation of the Santas ultimately succeeds in the sealing of the Library. The Elders, banished to the Village must escalate their resistance plans against the FCD and all their evils. Dire times tend to forge the people the future most depends on. ...
Few people think for themselves anymore. Bombarded 24/7 by radio, television, internet, cellular microwaves, satellite signals and low frequency electromagnetic radiation, society is inundated with electronic visual, auditory and subliminal messaging. What effect does this have on our mental well being? Is there a deliberate sinister conspiracy at work to take over our thoughts and control our decisions?<br><br>'The Hum&# ...
Book II in the Elanclose series, Aqueous Passage continues the adventures of the four clans.<br><br>On board the Genoa Fern has developed a friendship with Oak's antagonist, Elm. Alongside the Lakellers they follow the airship that flies ahead of them as they travel through the Aqueous Passage.<br><br>On the airship Avila Rose Denver is preparing for what may lay ahead. His alliance with Oak has become stronger. H ...
The Cataclysm which destroyed Earth catches up with the fleeing survivors aboard Interstellar Ship One, and a young Colonial Corps Governor struggles against a harsh planetary environment and political opposition to establish a new colony. Additionally, the first generation of humans born away from Earth starts looking for trouble, and a desperate woman fights against Ice-Ship law for her right to be a mother. ...
