A selection from my last 15 years of personal works. Disclaimer: it is a re-edition of my latest books. If you have already one you'll find in here 75% of what you already saw.
Battle Group One bailed out of the Bartolian Vector with a shaky armistice and a longing for home. They did not, however, receive the welcomed familiarity of planet Earth. What they got instead were the bizarre, rotting galleries of...The Derelict
Abandoned Planet is the first book by pioneering worldwide urban explorer Andre Govia and brings you the definitive document of cinematic abandoned photography. It's an epic journey that has seen him take his camera to over 22 different countries worldwide and explore over 900 individual locations to document this amazing spectacle of urban decay.
The 24th century: humankind has become a spacefaring civilization, colonizing the solar system and beyond. While no alien forms of life have yet been encountered in this expansion into space, colonists suddenly encounter machines of alien origin - huge robots able to reproduce themselves. Called replicators by the colonists, they seem to have but a single goal: to destroy all organic life they come in contact with. Since the colonial governments have no means to fight this menace directly, they instead promise huge rewards to whoever destroys a replicator. As a result, the frontier attracts a new kind of adventurers, the Hunters, who work to find and destroy the replicators. Mike Edwards, a skilled young maintenance technician and robotics expert at a faraway outpost, will not only become one of them - but be the very first one to unlock the secret behind the replicators’ origin and mission. The scientific and technical aspects underlying the plot - in particular space travel, robotics and self-replicating spacecraft - are introduced and discussed by the author in an extensive non-technical appendix.
When a group of archeologists uncover the remains of an interstellar spaceship, they plan a trip to the past for additional information on their find. But their starship goes haywire and the explorers are trapped in a void between the past and present. Not even guide Travis Fox can predict if they'll make it home--or wander through space and time forever.
A beautiful, lyrical exploration of the places where nature is flourishing in our absence "[Flyn] captures the dread, sadness, and wonder of beholding the results of humanity's destructive impulse, and she arrives at a new appreciation of life, 'all the stranger and more valuable for its resilence.'" --The New Yorker Some of the only truly feral cattle in the world wander a long-abandoned island off the northernmost tip of Scotland. A variety of wildlife not seen in many lifetimes has rebounded on the irradiated grounds of Chernobyl. A lush forest supports thousands of species that are extinct or endangered everywhere else on earth in the Korean peninsula's narrow DMZ. Cal Flyn, an investigative journalist, exceptional nature writer, and promising new literary voice visits the eeriest and most desolate places on Earth that due to war, disaster, disease, or economic decay, have been abandoned by humans. What she finds every time is an "island" of teeming new life: nature has rushed in to fill the void faster and more thoroughly than even the most hopeful projections of scientists. Islands of Abandonment is a tour through these new ecosystems, in all their glory, as sites of unexpected environmental significance, where the natural world has reasserted its wild power and promise. And while it doesn't let us off the hook for addressing environmental degradation and climate change, it is a case that hope is far from lost, and it is ultimately a story of redemption: the most polluted spots on Earth can be rehabilitated through ecological processes and, in fact, they already are.
The events depicted in this book have all been adapted and embellished in order to create this science fiction novel (spot the join, if you can). However, most of the content espouses a more-or-less true record of time travels by the author. The scientific theory embodied within the novel should give cosmic scientists a nudge in the right direction. It offers a brand new hypothetical understanding of how the Universe actually operates. John knows that, as normal living and breathing human beings (rather than the Mechanical, Intelligent Memory Units (MIM Units), as described by Zondor), you wont be tempted to believe this story. That is, until it happens to you - the average sane, human reader. Yet recent scientific discoveries offer some credence to the tale. Those new theories, while similar to my experience, depend on the idea of the projection of the Universe as a hologram - and modern scientists owe some sympathy to the idea. They have not had the dubious benefit of my experiences as a guide, however. So the idea of projecting serial electronic pictures across a time-continuum and onto an event horizon has not hit the new-science headlines so far, even though the technology exists for such events! Like all new science, my idea will have its arm-chair critics. The reader of this book is about to become one of those critics. To the sceptic, I would ask the question, 'How long is it since radio and television were invented/discovered? If you wrote a book about radio and television in the 19th Century, would you have ended up in the loony-bin? Most likely. John Greenridge 2009
Drew Williams's The Stars Now Unclaimed, the first volume of The Universe After series, is a fun, adventure-filled space opera set in a far-future galaxy. "The only thing more fun than a bonkers space battle is a whole book packed with bonkers space battles. Come for the exploding spaceships, stay for the intriguing universe."—Becky Chambers, author of A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the dark ages. Hot on her trail is the Pax--a collection of fascist zealots who believe they are the rightful rulers of the galaxy and who remain untouched by the Pulse. Now Jane, a handful of comrades from her past, and a telekinetic girl called Esa must fight their way through a galaxy full of dangerous conflicts, remnants of ancient technology, and other hidden dangers. And that's just the beginning . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Triplanetary - Arisians, the alien race is breeding two genetic lines to become the ultimate weapon in Arisia's cosmic war with their arch-enemies, the Eddorians... First Lensman - The novel chronicles the founding of the Galactic Patrol by Virgil Samms, the first sentient being in our cosmos to wear the "Lens", a unique badge of authority which is actually a form of "pseudo-life" that grants telepathic powers to the defenders of Civilization... Galactic Patrol - Kinnison and Clarissa MacDougall are the penultimates of the human breeding program the Arisians had set up many eons earlier... Second Stage Lensmen - The four superior Lensmen: Kinnison, Worsel, Tregonsee, and Nadreck, are armed with mental powers allowing them to control the minds of others and see, hear, and feel without using their physical senses (the "sense of perception")... The Vortex Blaster or, Masters of the Vortex - Neal "Storm" Cloud is not a Lensman. Instead he is a nuclear engineer with an amazingly mathematical mind. He is a high level genius and a lightning calculator...