Showing results for "David" in First Contact

Strange signals from the edge of the solar system draw the carrier ECS Vanguard into the darkness beyond the planets. There, humanity faces a new alien threat—the Blight. They have come to exterminate what they believe is their ancient enemy's latest puppet civilization. Earth struggles to control the skies with fighters and throws its Lizard shock troops into bloody ground battles. While the war rages, Flex must uncover the truth about the hyperspace rivers connecting the stars, the mysterious Cure that terrorized Venus, and why the Blight believes humanity is already enslaved.

The planet of Hope Nation has always loomed large in Nicholas Seafort's life. It was there that he built a name for himself, saving the planet from civil war and from the insatiable, fishlike aliens. But not everyone in that colony appreciated Seafort's efforts. Randy Carr, son of Seafort's old friend, Derek Carr, blames him for his father's death and wants Seafort to pay for this bitter loss. Trouble brews for Seafort on Earth and on Hope Nation.

Childhood therapy cured Stephen Fisher of disturbing visions and the delusion of having come from another world. But when his daughter obsesses over a star in the night sky, he fears that his genetic legacy may have burdened her with the same illness. His sanity is then shattered when he loses his child and the military abducts him claiming that she recorded a song broadcast from another world.

Colonel Muzik and Master Sergeant Repeth fight a life-and-death battle to return civilization to the nuked and plague-ridden nation's capital. With a homicidal alien spacecraft inbound at high speed, Skull and Raphaela fly to meet it in a desperate bid to buy time for the Earth. In the meantime, Brigadier Spooky Nguyen presses to build the world's first space battleship.

Sergeant Davis had been in the US Marines for seven years when he stumbled into a knife fight outside the local bar. He ended up killing the wrong alien. Now, as a human who interfered with a galactic plot and killed a Confederation enforcer, his actions sentenced Earth to die. His only choice: desert the Corps and take the punishment on himself. It seems like the Roswell aliens have been helping us all along. While the conspiracy theorists were right, there are alien lizards wearing people suits.

If you had the chance to construct a spacecraft using alien technology, would you embark on the project yourself or turn it over to the government? Reckless Faith is a story about three friends who choose to pursue this seemingly impossible task, no matter what the cost. When an alien device appears in the woods of northern New Hampshire, John, Ray, and Arianna are the first ones to find it, and soon realize it is offering them a unique opportunity.

Three Plague Wars/Stellar Conquest novelettes in one volume. Steel's First Temper: Jill "Reaper" Repeth must complete a tough rescue mission on a Meme asteroid base while beginning to train a new protégé, Joseph "Bull" ben Tauros. Also published in the military science-fiction anthology Riding the Red Horse 2....

The Outland was pulled apart millennia ago, six disparate landscapes sent to six isolated realms of the universe…. The Outland is whole once again, brought back together with the Six Temples, some abandoned, some in ruin, others populated by those sent away so long ago… including the Ancient Monks.

In a world of dwindling natural resources and looming mega corporations. Orson Blake, a miner, a single payroll number amongst billions wins the relocation lottery. A one way ticket to the simulated off world paradise that is the Jupiter Eclipse. The lottery holds a dark secret and our miner soon finds himself not fighting for his spot on the Eclipse, but fighting for his very life...

Corrag and Ben, the brave-yet-doomed lovers of The Victor’s Heritage, are reunited. But now, humanity faces a crisis - the last of the free-brained, creative folk have risen against the enslaved people of the Augment and their elite Republican Homeland overlords. It is 2072, and falling creative information flows in the Augment system mean there is little time to reach full power status and launch the planetary cover before the incoming Oort Cloud asteroids destroy civilization.

The year is 2038. Earth's biosphere is on the brink of destruction from the effects of global warming and pollution. The World Energy Council has awarded a lucrative contract to a major US corporation to mine a precious ore discovered by the first manned mission to land on Mars. When two people die in a mining accident on Mars, the World Energy Council sends Commander Logan Marchant and a crack team of astronaut specialists to investigate.

Parallel universes sometimes collide and overlap to share a tiny sliver of space called a mixing zone. Anyone or anything caught in a mixing zone has about a 50-50 chance of remaining in their original location when the universes pull apart. Most beings throughout the universes are aware of this occasional phenomenon, but people on Earth - not so much. Certainly not Mark and Blackie. Mark and Blackie are brothers, and Wayne is Mark's best friend and the bass player in their band....

She watched a strip of flesh on the table curl up suddenly at the ends as if dropped onto something hot. She looked closely at the severed head and prayed it couldn't be so. Then, she saw the slack lips twitch and the remaining eye in that ruined head, blink slowly. Run. Hide. Pray. If they find you, pray for death. An unthinkable science - and captives held prisoner by an alien race grown from the morally desolate branches of evolution's tree.

Join Estan Harvey as she leads her friends back to the suffocating, dying world they call home. Armed with the truth of the Eclipse, they mean to overthrow Unity and bring down the regime. Little do they know that a terror chases that could spell the end of the human race. With the Buyer’s return, Estan and her people find themselves asking the hardest question of all: Do they reveal the truth of the Eclipse, and in turn bring down Unity, the only power strong enough on Earth to stand up to the Buyer’s threat? Or, is it sometimes better the devil you know?

After destroying the supercomputer overloads that were enslaving humans and turning them into mind-controlled zombies, a worse enemy appeared. While seeking out allies in their battle of man versus machine, they caused the ancient enemy of the computer race to return to the Orion arm of the galaxy and claim Earth. After learning of the alien ability to destroy planets and teleport warriors on command, the elected leadership forsakes the legion and orders them to disband.

This is the third book that follows The Myth of the Anal Probe and Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear. In The Fat Lady Sings, the people of the planet Hale return to Earth and offer an ultimatum: Stop all forms of aggression and violence, or they will return in one year and obliterate Earth. Earthlings realize that at the end of that one year whoever is in control will rule the entire world forever. All countries start to jockey for position, and push each other out of the way.

Hope Park’s early years are somewhat of a mystery. Now, as a teenager isolated to one bedroom in her hosts' apartment, she is trying to make sense of the little information she has about her family and her past. She had never been shown or experienced love and affection. With the help of a mysterious visitor from afar and some other outcast friends, Hope learns much about what she really is, about what fuels her, and about her mission. She will have to choose between performing some disturbing dark deeds or risk banishment, or worse. Will she act as commanded by her kind?

America's worst fears are realized when a hospital is the target of a suspected terrorist bombing. As our first responders descend on the area, a discovery is made that will change the course of human history. Three aliens emerge from the wreckage, and three humans are chosen as Earth's champions. Will the bond they share be enough to save us all from destruction?