Centaurus (1953) – A story about a time traveling Roman centurian, space aliens (the Centaureans), flying saucers, the FBI, loose women, and booze. Lots of booze. Through space and time came the Flying Saucers in the most exciting manhunt ever known! There Were Prizes for Everybody, Including a Special Type of Dreamboat for the Women! Centaurus is a fifteen chapter novel with 5 illustrations. It was published in Startling Stories in the March, 1953 issue.
RED DWARF STAR SYSTEMS; BINARIES; ALIEN WORLDS WITH ALIEN KINGS AND QUEENS; EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL WARFARE; HI-TECH SPACE TRAVEL; LOVE, ACTION AND ROMANCE AMONG THE NEARBY STARS-ALL THIS AND POP MUSIC TOO! RETURN TO CENTAURUS OFFERS ITS READERS A GLIMPSE OF THE NEAR FUTURE AND CREDIBLE SPACE TRAVEL TO THE NEAREST STARS! WHO COULD RESIST THIS COOL TRIP TO STRANGE WORLDS WITH STRANGE CREATURES AND THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL 4.25 LIGHT-YEARS FROM PLANET EARTH?
"Tom Bielawski is a bright light in today's dark sea of new writers. His writing gives me hope for the next generation of dreamers. I highly recommend both him and his works." -NYT Bestselling author, Tracy Hickman. 22nd Century lawman, Marshal Heck Thomas, suddenly finds himself on the wrong side of the law when a criminal mafia mastermind with connections to the government links him to a series of heinous crimes. With the Bureau of Investigation and the Commonwealth Fleet in pursuit, Marshal Thomas must find a way to avoid capture by corrupt officials, clear his name, and prevent the dangerous Centaurus technology from tipping the balance of power forever. Follow the further adventures of Heck Thomas in The Orion Deception, available now.
"Quest to Centaurus" by George O. Smith. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Come along as one of the last surviving humans details the near extinction of the race of man. Colonel Robert MacKesson was a Field Agent for the shadowy Special Services in the Unification Wars that ended with Earth united under the Six Nations. Most of Earth was bankrupt with the exception of the defense Mega-Corp IP Industries, that without profitable wars to fight, set about to find new markets among the stars. Soon, Colonel MacKesson is one of the millions paying the price for IP's greed. Follow the destruction from Saturn to Jupiter to Mars to Earth as a powerful alien race erases humanity from the galaxy.
Massive computer malfunctions are plaguing the Enterprise™ when Kirk suddenly receives a shocking message from Star Fleet Command: Centaurus has been bombed and annihilated; thousands are dead. Give whatever help you can. Centaurus is a beautiful, peaceful planet, home to many humans -- including McCoy's daughter Joanna. The crew risks beaming down to investigate. But Kirk is thrown into a deadly struggle between violent enemy terrorists and vengeful Centaurians. Now Lt. Uhura, left alone in command, must jeopardize the cripple Enterprise™ to save Centaurus, Kirk -- and Joanna McCoy!
In this book, the reader is transported to many locations in Papua New Guinea while savoring the author’s true stories and identifying with his experiences. From West Sepik to Madang, from the mountain heights of the Highlands to the Bismarck Sea-washed shores, the reader has the opportunity to resonate with the cultural context of the Asia-Pacific region. These people groups, nearly forgotten by the western world, live in the characteristic “endless cycle” style of the past. In their animistic worldview, the people of this area hold the belief that nothing changes. According to indigenous culture, the human spirit continuously transforms into other forms of life after it ceases to exist as a human. So, ancestors still exist and will always exist in the form of spirits in the universe that surrounds us. For that reason, time does not exist, so history is not worth recording: what is now was also in the past, and what will come tomorrow is a rebirth of the past and of those from the past in another form. How then does a young country (established in 1975) reconcile the modern age with indigenous traditions? How does an animistic society embrace new Christian teachings in the midst of naturalistic-evolutionistic times? Centaurus and the Southern Cross attempts to bring to the forefront a rediscovery of the reasons why there is value in using every available technology to advance the Good News here at the ends of the earth. Although this book’s stories are not arranged chronologically, they share a common theme of indigenous customs, and the way they impact societal behaviors in this region. This is what gives the book its continuity. I would not have been able to present certain aspects of the way the Word of God works in a people rooted and still tied to animistic practices if I had not chosen to examine these issues first. I found that the best way to transport the reader into this world of 839 tribes was by describing particular revealing events first. This book introduces the goals which make it worth investing in these people through any means possible and with every talent God has given us.
When Colin Grier is ordered by a covert office in the World Health Organization to investigate a bizarre disease outbreak in New Guinea, he is introduced to a fantastic world of possibilities that he never dreamed existed. While in New Guinea, he meets a beautiful, paralyzed woman called Margo, who is travelling with her father aboard a privately funded research ship in search of an ancient Khmer temple. While onboard, Margo and Colin become fast friends, and Margo eventually discloses that she has psychic abilities. Her visions eventually lead Colin to some twelfth-century Khmer temple ruins, where they discover part of an ancient telescope. Although the find is a major victory for anthropology, the group also discovers the source of the disease outbreak within the temple, and Colin is forced to choose between stopping the disease at its source and curing Margos paralysis. But with an impending attack from the World Health Organizations SWAT team, Colin must decide: will he save the woman he loves or choose to stop the spreading disease-and possibly change the course of history.
