In 2154, where independent nations have given way to splintered corporate entities responsible for the housing, health, security and education of their employees and shareholders, government everywhere has been scaled down to the point of collapse, leaving those outside of private territories to fend for themselves. Over the shoulder of five inhabitants, carve out slices of a world that . . .
An alien probe visits the Earth. How best to validate its understanding of the dominate life form than by creating one that would pass as human to its peers? Its mission would have been a bit easier had it not chosen as its subject the dead mother of a dying boy and deceased wife of a crippled mercenary hunted by . . .
In 1944, Willy Horvitz was a brilliant young physicist. Fervently anti-Nazi, he was coerced into leading a research and development effort to design and build a revolutionary new aircraft to turn the tide of the war. Adopted as an orphaned American boy by a wealthy German industrialist, Willy was haunted throughout his life by the tragic loss of his mother. . . .
The Zatvian Cooperative has conquered all of known space, destroying the world of Harvest in the process. For Neva Whitestone, a native of Harvest who was injured in the final battle, those years have been spent in a hospital, recovering from her wounds. Now Neva has received a mysterious summons from the captain of a ship called the Exile. Neva’s . . .
On August 15, 2110 at 0927 ZULU, the asteroid body Volstock 22-AAE collided with the Earth fifty-one kilometers north of the Los Angeles metropolis in what was then the province of the same name. The asteroid wasn’t particularly large, only a little over one hundred and twenty meters at its widest, and even though the asteroid in and of . . .
In a near-future, totalitarian America, a TV “news” reporter begins to uncover how the regime uses propaganda and psychological operations to control the minds of the public. Note: Only the first five chapters are available on the website. The complete novel is available as a PDF. . . .
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Sometime in the future the human population of Earth is scattered throughout space. Planets are colonised and aspects of the settlers’ original culture survives. The peoples of Harvest appear to have descended from the Celts, and those of Waga Chun from Native Americans.
For the ambitious Zatvians, one planet was never [more . . .]
I started reading Exile’s Burn a couple days ago and have found myself staying up until one and two thirty in the morning just so I can find out what happens next. I do disagree with the review that indicated that the characters were hard to connect with—I found them very sympathetic and compelling very early on.