Böcker av Eric Martell

Pirate space: beware! All Adam wanted was his advanced degree and a girlfriend. What he got was betrayal, kicked out of University, and exiled to the Asteroid Belt.The Asteroid Miners have just about had their fill of the oppressive Federal bureaucracy, and some of them are ready to take steps towards freedom. Adam arrives just in time to find himself involved with a budding revolution. Unfortunately, he had been working on a physics degree, and it wasn't as if there was a course of study on Practical Pirating offered at the University.How does one become a pirate? Adam is about to figure it out.This story is set against the background of the asteroid belt and filled with a mixture of existing technology and new inventions. It is a near future, wild and woolly journey around the solar system that provides what every reader wants: entertainment, adventure, humor, tragedy, and a little romance.

The origin of the confederacy of the three races.After aliens attack the Earth, the surviving humans exist in a post-apocalyptic world and are divided into groups that contest power. One group has allied with two alien races. The disparate races have united in using technology captured from the original alien invaders. Seemingly impossible tasks face this fledgling confederation: They must destroy the threat still posed by the original invaders while being involved in a conflict with barbaric remnants of the Federal government for control of the remaining population of the US. To complicate matters, they must simultaneously find a way to strengthen their working relationship, develop trade protocols and a mechanism for mutual defense in the face of potential incursions of unknown hostiles from outside their sphere of occupied planets.This is the third story in the Gaea Ascendant Trilogy

CAN THEY SURVIVE IN A WORLD RUINED BY INTERSTELLAR DUST?The Earth has moved into the path of an interstellar dust cloud. Particles containing biologically active molecules similar to mRNA have covered the world.Many humans have died from the dust's effects. Others have mutated into animal-like creatures that hunger for flesh. A very few seem to be immune to the genetic changes.Society had changed before the dust cloud's arrival, creating a new elite class. After the dust began to fall, superficial differences between unchanged humans have little meaning.What happens when a lower-caste boy meets a high-caste girl in the middle of a dustfall, and there is an immediate attraction between them?Will they survive? Even prosper? Or, will they find that they too have been changed by the dust?The alien mRNA frees the hidden monsters in Earth's life. Many are dangerous, but the deadliest creature remains to be determined.

All Adam wanted was his advanced degree and a girlfriend. What he got was betrayal, kicked out of University, and exiled to the Asteroid Belt. Through a series of mishaps, he became a successful pirate.When the oppressive North American Dictatorship retaliates, Adam is thrust into a leadership role in the Belter’s struggle for independence.He must reach deep to find the strength to meet the immense challenge.His physics background and natural inventiveness play a large part in equalizing the disparity in force strength. He adapts discovered alien technology in weaponry and space drives, providing the Belters with a minimal advantage. He is a quick learner and becomes surprisingly adept in space warfare.His girlfriend, Nile, plays an increasingly important part in his plans and in his heart. She mysteriously disappears with a Marine team member, and Adam is left wondering if she’s taken up with the man, particularly since she admitted to having had a relationship with him.What happens next is told in the story of the Belter’s Revolutionary War for Independence. The story chronicles a wild conflict around the solar system, providing entertainment, adventure, humor, tragedy, and romance set against the broad background of the asteroid belt and interplanetary space.