The sweeping saga continues as Gabriel Ferro and Dr. Catherine Blake prepare to travel to the alien's planet to learn firsthand how the aliens successfully transformed their society to one that revels in peace harmony and balance. But the question remains... what are the alien's true motives? Is it their intention to transmute mankind forever? Together, Gabriel and Dr. Blake venture beyond Earth, beyond the Milky Way to a world they could not have imagined in an effort to solve the mystery.
Amateur sleuth Trisha Carson is being watched. By a laptop that tracks her online life. By a blue-eyed athlete who guides her through an open water swim. And by Frida, her smart refrigerator. What are they looking for? A determined Trisha hunts down her stalkers and stumbles across a grim plan that will echo throughout the West Coast.
A captivating picture of a climate-changed future viewed from two starkly different cultural perspectives, The Wakeful Wanderer's Guide to New New England & Beyond follows the paths of a runaway aristocrat, a Luddite tyrant, a spy seeking retribution, and a wandering historian unicycling north along the crumbling Boston Post Road. --- "Like Marge Piercy and Margaret Atwood, Jim shows us an exciting and absorbing future world that is neither zombie-land nor un-relatable utopia. I'm a busy person, but I could not put his book down." - Dar Williams, Author & Songwriter"I'm only halfway through this novel, and it's already changing the way I see the world. I have loved Jim Infantino's music for a long time. Now I get to enjoy the interiority of his imagination." - David Wilcox, Songwriter"Jim's debut novel is as funny, thoughtful, surprising and well crafted as the songs I've been enjoying for 18 years. Its focus on community life and social interaction reminded me of the great Kim Stanley Robinson, especially the Three Californias trilogy. The examination of social structures and the tension between dystopian and utopian models brought to mind Iain M Banks' politically charged Culture novels. Particularly impressive is his exploration of the interface between humanity and technology - it is timely, but nonetheless original enough to stand out in a field currently obsessed with the issue, and that's no mean feat." - Scott K. Andrews, Author --- Marto Boxter is an optimistic journalist with a head full of implants. When we meet him, he is planning a ride into the interconnected tribes of the Northeast from his town of Reverside-on-Hudson. He plans to document his ride by posting his thoughts in real-time to his post-human followers. Before he can leave on his tour however, a runaway named Helen arrives with secret information that throws Marto's placid world into turmoil.Meanwhile, Barnabas Yoniver IV, the leader of a Luddite town to the south launches a plot to disrupt the life of all upgraded humans and bring them back to the traditional economy of markets and governments. Aware of Yoniver's plans, rival Luddite families scheme to prevent Barnabas from grabbing too much power for himself.This darkly humorous reflection of our changing world is an exploration of what it means to be human as our relationships with technology become increasingly intimate.
"Based on a true story, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number exposes the happiness, sadness, and the truth of infidelity of a romance between a successful businessman and his young secretary. This story offers a unique perspective of the trials and hardship of a taboo relationship and the cost society can extract for those who break with acceptable relationship norms. This story offers a unique perspective of the trials and hardship of a taboo relationship"--
This is a rare and epic poem on the emotion of love and deep affection. In a world conflicted with heartbreaks, lies, cheating, jilting, and backstabbing, the poem goes a long way in healing unseen wounds and patching up sored invisible heart injuries.Love they say is a beautiful thing, hence the poet with his words wonderfully weaved together has carved a cliche for himself in enhancing savories related to the matters of the heart.This collection of poems serves as the best of its kind in recent times having achieved its purposes in quantum.
After surviving their harrowing first encounter with the Crone, the saga continues. When the Parrettie family moved to a small town to start a new life, their peaceful lives were shattered by an ancient curse. Thrust into a paranormal realm of terror, the family must continue their fight to remove the curse of the Crone. But the fight has already cost them more than they thought possible with the loss of so many dear to them, and leaving Logan and Denie in the hospital to recover from their last encounter with the Crone. Struggling on to remove the curse, they find new allies in the fight, a clairvoyant, Miasara and her chauffeur Joseph, along with a mysterious stranger suddenly appears to offers his help in defeating the Crone. As things escalate, it becomes a race against time. Will any of them survive or will the Crone's curse prove to be too powerful for anyone to stop?
In the dark world of tribulation, Humans and Human Interactive Robots (HIRs) struggle for survival against evil demonic forces seeking complete world dominance. With the imminent battle of Armageddon on the horizon, the first female Green Beret, Asha Hawkins, with her enhanced bio-synthetic implants is the liberator of the oppressed...until she is one of millions who suddenly disappear in what many called "The Rapture." A teenage survivor, Mikayla Simmons and a HIR, C01Y2R10, aka CY, give first person accounts of the last days.
H2LiftShips- Beyond Luna Captain Graciela was master of her own fate, far from her controlling family in a solar sail cargo ship, trading and gambling throughout the heliosphere. Her small crew on the H2LiftShip, the LunaCola, was all the help she needed: Jack, a talking dog with a nose for Earth jerky, Tang, a poker obsessed orangutang, and Octopus, in his watery navigation station.Strong, finely woven nano-spider cloth, filled with hydrogen, haul H2LiftShips to the edge of Earth before being transformed into kilometers-wide solar sails. The same fabric, on return, is a parasail, flying the ship to the aerodrome in the desert. Commerce is the name of the game in this saga and everything has a value. Heat generated from the collection of molecules and garbage surrounding the planet is captured in radiators and sold to the planetary electric grid as a bonus for the crew.The crew was anxious for some 'me' time after being in the void for too long.Tang was ready to double his money in Las Vegas, Octopus planned a coastal shopping trip for live fish, clams, and eggs. Finally, Graciela and Jack were on an epic road trip looking for cargo for the asteroid mines.It wasn't all fun and games for the vast population inhabiting the heliosphere. Asteroids societies were structured on what the sentients knew best, small city-states hanging in the void. Ponos is an injured miner and has to fall back to gig work as he recovers. He was lucky to make enough to cover food and waste handling on the jobs he could find. Find out how he connects with his old pirate captain and makes a break from the daily grind of a workologists on a cold, isolated rock.Lead had more value than gold and was hard to find in the asteroids. Mushrooms, infused with lead, protected all living-chambers, lightly glowing as cosmic rays bounce around the mycelium, changing states for all concerned. Every sentient and most machines use DNA-computers, which store petabytes of data and interface any sensing device. These semi-sentient bioGels suffered in their growth tanks as cosmic rays blasted billions of neural paths into existence, sending a flash of pain throughout the gel. It was no better after leaving their growing chambers and being sold in the wider heliosphere. Every sensor interaction required a fine needle shoved through their one-millimeter-wide edge and suppressed anger was their normal existence.There were no avoiding family issues as Graciela met her mother on some distant rock. Her mother's controlling passive-aggressive nature shown through as she continued playing pranks on her daughterWould Graciela rescue her mother from a kidnapping by pirates and win it all in a rigged card game?Find out in the first volume of the H2LiftShip series - Beyond Luna.
"A collection of poems and watercolor paintings that express the feelings and sentiments of the author during the COVID-19 pandemic"--
Gather information, report back to me, and do nothing illegal. With these instructions received under the cover of darkness and a list of names, Marcus and Alissa launch an investigation into their own classmates. Friendship and investigative skills will be put to the test as these teen detectives take on their most challenging case yet. But when their investigation is suddenly shut down without explanation, the teens have already gathered too many clues to just leave it alone. As powerful forces work against them at every turn they take, will they be able to rise above the challenge? What begins as a quick peek into high school drama, quickly turns dark and dangerous for the pair as they pursue answers to the questions someone doesn't want answered.
A feast of fiction. Flights of fantasy. A smidgen of SciFi. And a dash of dark romance. Stories to titillate any taste.
When PI Tracey Marks receives a distraught phone call from Stephanie Harris, urgently asking to see her, but never shows, Tracey drives to Stephanie''s home in Scarsdale, NY only to discover Stephanie has been killed.Though the police are ruling it a robbery, Tracey has her doubts and decides to do some sleuthing on her own. As Tracey delves into Stephanie''s life, it leads her back to where Stephanie went to high school.As Tracey questions Stephanie''s high school friends, she soon learns they all have secrets and they are not as innocent as they appear. With all the secrets and lies Tracey has to unravel, she seeks the help of her boyfriend Jack, also a private investigator, and her best friend Susie, a lawyer.When she finally realizes who the killer is, Tracey finds her life is in danger and in a situation she may not be able to escape from this time.
When PI Tracey Marks receives a distraught phone call from Stephanie Harris, urgently asking to see her, but never shows, Tracey drives to Stephanie''s home in Scarsdale, NY only to discover Stephanie has been killed.Though the police are ruling it a robbery, Tracey has her doubts and decides to do some sleuthing on her own. As Tracey delves into Stephanie''s life, it leads her back to where Stephanie went to high school.As Tracey questions Stephanie''s high school friends, she soon learns they all have secrets and they are not as innocent as they appear. With all the secrets and lies Tracey has to unravel, she seeks the help of her boyfriend Jack, also a private investigator, and her best friend Susie, a lawyer.When she finally realizes who the killer is, Tracey finds her life is in danger and in a situation she may not be able to escape from this time.
Exonerated for a murder he didn''t commit, Harry DeMarko returned to his home and office on Elizabeth Street to reunite with his partner Toni one week ago. He only wants to enjoy the peace and quiet, but the world has other plans.Local Mob boss and almost-friend Sal D''Amico is dead. His bodyguard hires Harry and Toni to find the killer before the police can. If they do, the killer will die horribly. If they don''t, they take the blame. Toni''s sister turns up with blood on her face and a new husband sporting a bullet wound. She asks Toni sanctuary from the police and everyone else hunting them. Farrokh Dahli, the nephew of a local shopkeeper, has been working undercover with the Narcotics division of the NYPD to bring down a local drug-dealing motorcycle gang. He begs Harry to hide him from the people chasing him, including his NYPD handlers.Once a police officer sworn to protect the law, Harry finds himself in a unique position: the police are his adversaries, his friends on the force can''t be trusted (or implicated), and he and Toni must walk the fine line between doing the right thing and taking the fall for the wrong one.
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