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In a near future powered by impossible technology, Lyra Meitner has solved humanity’s greatest problem: unlimited, clean energy. Her invention, the Prometheus Seed, liberates civilization from scarcity and shatters the grip of global energy empires. But fire was never meant to be stolen without consequence.

First contact with hostile aliens, maiden voyages of Earth's first starship, and interstellar adventures await in this hard science fiction collection of the sixth and seventh stories from the Hayden’s World series.

First contact with a mysterious race of aliens reveals an unusual request; a family's pet dog comes to grips with the newly bestowed gift of human-like intelligence; a poet, in danger and alone on a distant world, makes unlikely allies; hundreds of years in the future, a famous hermit lives in the sea above the now-underwater Harvard University; former friends navigate unsteady peace between human refugees and the technologically superior race that saved them; in a future where human life can be infinitely extended through cybertronic rebirth, one woman declines immortality. 

When Earth’s global lattice begins to fail, salvation arrives in the form of the Novum Gift, a flawless quantum patch that restores stability overnight. Power flows cleanly. Cities breathe again. The world celebrates a miracle it never earned. Lyra Meitner isn’t convinced. As she studies the Gift’s behavior, Lyra discovers unsettling patterns buried beneath its perfection.

Earth’s planetary shield still holds, but Hydra is no longer testing its strength. The viral intelligence unleashed by the Novum Gift is hunting the cryptographic keys that govern humanity’s last line of defense, probing, duplicating, and adapting faster than any response can counter. Each failed incursion teaches it more. Each safeguard brings it closer to breach.

The gift that saves humanity may be the one that destroys it. Volume II – The Gift & The Price continues the epic science-fiction saga inspired by Greek mythology, where progress is no longer measured by what humanity can build, but by what it is willing to sacrifice. In Ignition of Doom, a breakthrough meant to secure humanity’s future ignites forces that cannot be contained. The Novum Gift reveals how salvation can arrive disguised as opportunity, as power is welcomed without fully understanding its cost.

Many unanswered questions remain about the terrible Eugenics Wars that raged on Earth during the 1990s, an apocalyptic conflict that brought civilization to the brink of a new dark age. Centuries later, as Capt. James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise are forced to defend a...

They’re here. They’ve arrived. And they’re all eyes. The Voltarian scouting party - illegal aliens extraordinaire - on a top-secret expedition led by one Jettero Heller, Royal Officer of the Fleet. His mission: rescue the planet from pollution - and make it safe for the upcoming invasion. His problem: The planet may not want to be saved - and the invasion may just be a trick.

In 2744 CE, as the Moirai tighten their grip, Pelia and her allies weave a counter-system from cosmic randomness itself, a chorus meant to drown the voices of gods. But the new machine hums with its own logic, and each safeguard carries a cost. When the Moirai push back, the rebels must ask: Is blinding fate freedom, or just another cage?

When an enormous and potent alien ship appears in the colony system of Gliese 370, EarthFleet's Marines must investigate. What they find within will change the course of humanity's future yet again, as they face Desolator. The risks are high and so is the price in blood - and the payoff: new technology far ahead of their own, which may provide the key to fight the alien Meme Empire

Kyle Griffin and his Infinity team made sure of that. After the assault on Aeron’s palace, the galaxy suddenly seems turned upside down. The Splinter revolution is no longer an afterthought. Poised to make their first true push toward overthrowing the established order, Commander Griffin takes the reigns of an eager and burgeoning army, leading them into a new age in the galaxy, one where the Dominion doesn’t appear invincible.

The Unholy Trinity busily plots the downfall of Ron McAllister's fledgling dream as the members of The Project try to return to a life of "business as usual". Volume 2 of The Project series picks up right where the first episode left off. The members of the Federation are fugitives from the law and have taken refuge on the tiny Caribbean Island of Chacachacare, just off the coast of Trinidad. As the US Government continues its behind the scenes investigation, they enter into negotiations with Ron McAllister.

When Katherine makes a startling discovery in the data she stole from Maunhouser, Hunter is forced to face troubling news before ultimately learning what Maunhouser bought at Site B. Once again, he must face the corp he despises, risking it all to stop them from making the greatest discovery since the fall of the Gate Age.

Sierra Mason has landed the career of a lifetime, becoming a special agent for a firm run by the best in the business. She has proven herself more times than she can count and things are finally going her way. But everything isn't always as it seems. When the truth is uncovered about her firm's investors and who they are tied to, the team is thrown into turmoil. Her partner, Calder McKenna, becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that is weaving itself through their lives and finds his own life in danger.

The reckoning has begun, and the universe will not look away. Five years after the fall of Talos, humanity dares to believe it has escaped judgment. It hasn’t. When a forbidden signal echoes through the lattice of reality, the Furies answer the call, ancient adjudicators inspired by Greek myth, arriving not in anger, but to close a ledger long left open.

Cass and Ken fled their wedding when an assassin tried to kill them. They ran from Los Alamos to Las Vegas to Massachusetts and finally to the flooded remains of New Orleans. Now Kendra will try to recruit her employer to help them get to the bottom of this mystery, but everything has a cost. She may have no choice but to pay it, however. Cass has problems of her own when she discovers that a friend is in jeopardy because of her. Can she organize a rescue attempt?