One last fight for freedom. But what if the price is billions of lives? Humanity has crossed the limits of the solar system for centuries. An expansion that quickly came up against new life forms, not always peaceful. After a time of war, a fragile balance now reigns between the different known species. Conflicts are settled through finance and trade, but anything is fair game... In this harsh world, Mallory Sajean earns her living as an independent pilot. She is also the victim of a blackmailer, who forces her to do illegal jobs. Making things worse, she finds herself working with a shady and trigger-happy man: hauling freight turns into a pitched battle. As the body count climbs, Mallory figures out that she and her crew are being used as weapons to target a powerful alien species. Mallory will have to choose between prison and risking her life for powerful, mysterious beings who spread fear in their wake… Procyon Shattered is the first book in the “Mallory Sajean” science fiction series. If you like space opera, adventure, exotic planets, and colorful characters, you’ll love Mallory! Read Procyon Shattered and embark on a journey that will leave you breathless!

A simple stopover becomes a dogged battle! In search of some rest and relaxation, Mallory Sajean comes alongside a space station. She discovers a battlefield and a hostage taking in progress. Despite the risks, she joins up with a squad of police officers who are going to give it their all... While facing fanatical aliens and cyborgs, Mallory learns that she'll have to defeat a legendary creature: a Sorfal... Sileise Raided takes place between the first and second books in the MALLORY SAJEAN science fiction series. If you like space opera, action, exotic worlds, and colorful characters, you'll love Mallory! Read Sileise Raided and experience a heart-pounding adventure!

A city-planet orbiting a giant star. A perfect place for a bloodbath. In the Aldebaran system, two alien species who have long coexisted are about to go to war. On behalf of the powerful Vohrn, Mallory Sajean is sent there to investigate... As soon as she arrives, things start to escalate. A senseless attack on an ambassador, aliens and humans behaving strangely... Mallory begins to suspect a frightening truth: This looming conflict is really a cover-up for something much bigger. Will Mallory and her allies save Aldebaran from destruction? Aldebaran Divided is the second volume of the new MALLORY SAJEAN Science Fiction series. If you like Space Opera, action, exotic worlds and colorful characters, you'll love this story! Read Aldebaran Divided and experience a breathtaking adventure!

For millennia, the Makers’ Life Probes explored the farthest reaches of space in search of the secret behind faster-than-light speed. In the 22nd century, the people of Earth made a pact with this far-flung civilization—all of the Makers’ intelligence in exchange for help in their mission. Three hundred years later, descendants of the original Procyon expedition have returned to Earth in a starship. They find a world that has forgotten the generations-old contract. No matter. The returning colonists have overcome far greater obstacles in their single-minded drive to redeem a promise made before any of them were born...

Procyon! Procyon! is a life story of a man born in a Communist country, the story of his struggle for his rights, the story of searching for his social, sexual and spiritual identity. It is about any human being challenged by the rigid rules and regulations of society; it is about friendship, betrayal, love, hope

After barely surviving a plot to destroy her school and its menagerie of alien patients, could things get worse for novice exoveterinarian Zenn Scarlett? Yes, they could: her absent father has been kidnapped. Desperate to find him, Zenn stows away aboard the Helen of Troy, a starliner powered by one of the immense, dimension-jumping beasts known as Indra. With her is Liam Tucker, a Martian boy who is either very fond of her, very dangerous to her, or both. On the verge of learning the truth about her missing dad, Zenn’s quest suddenly catapults her and Liam thousands of light years beyond known space, and into the dark heart of a monstrous conspiracy.

"Captain Alicia DeVries, Imperial Cadre, has been many things in her life. An Imperial Marine, dedicated to the protection and preservation of the Terran Empire she loves. An Imperial Cadre drop commando, personal liegewoman of Emperor Seamus II, whom she honors and reveres. Hero of the Terran Empire, one of only three living holders of the Banner of Terra. And now, outcast, rogue, pirate ... and madwoman." "From the time she graduated from high school, Alicia DeVries knew what she wanted to do with her life, and she did it well. On planets like Gyangtse, Chengchou, Fuller, and Louvain - in cities like Zhikotse and Shallingsport - she's put her life on the line in defense of her Empire and Emperor again and again. She's given her blood, and the lives of men and women closer to her than brothers and sisters." "But her dead have been betrayed in the name of political expediency. The justice they deserved has been denied, and a brokenhearted Alicia DeVries has resigned her commission and retired to the colony world of Mathison with her family to begin a new life." "Yet Alicia is still a warrior, and the pirates who attacked Mathison, tortured and murdered her family, and left her for dead, are about to discover just how big a mistake they made." "Imperial Intelligence can't find them. The Imperial Fleet can't catch them. Local defenses can't stop them. But Alicia has stolen an imperial A1 starship from the bleeding edge of technology and set out to teach them what vengeance truly is." "Her fellow veterans think she's gone mad, the Fleet has shoot-on-sight orders, and the "pirates" have allies at the highest levels of the Imperial government. But Alicia DeVries has two allies of her own. Allies no one knows about. Allies as implacable as she is: a self-aware computer, and a creature from the mists of Old Earth's most ancient legends."--BOOK JACKET.

A heart-pumping exploration of the biggest explosions in history, from the Big Bang to mysterious activity on Earth and everything in between The overwhelming majority of celestial space is inactive and will remain forever unruffled. Similarly, more than 90 percent of the universe's 70 billion trillion suns had non-attention-getting births and are burning through their nuclear fuel in steady, predictable fashion. But when cosmic violence does unfold, it changes the very fabric of the universe, with mega-explosions and ripple effects that reach the near limits of human comprehension. From colliding galaxies to solar storms, and gamma ray bursts to space-and-time-warping upheavals, these moments are rare yet powerful, often unseen but consequentially felt. Likewise, here on Earth, existence as we know it is fragile, always vulnerable to hazards both natural and manufactured. As we've learned from textbooks and witnessed in Hollywood blockbusters, existential threats such as biological disasters, asteroid impacts, and climate upheavals have the all-too-real power to instantaneously transform our routine-centered lives into total chaos, or much worse. While we might be helpless to stop these catastrophes-whether they originate on our own planet or in the farthest reaches of space-the science behind such cataclysmic forces is as fascinating as their results can be devastating. In Earth-Shattering, astronomy writer Bob Berman guides us through an epic, all-inclusive investigation into these instances of violence both mammoth and microscopic. From the sudden creation of dazzling "new stars" to the furiously explosive birth of our moon, from the uncomfortable truth about ultra-high-energy cosmic rays bombarding us to the incredible ways in which humanity has harnessed cataclysmic energy for its gain, Berman masterfully synthesizes some of our worst fears into an astonishing portrait of the universe that promises to transform the way we look at the world(s) around us. In the spirit of Neil deGrasse Tyson and Carlo Rovelli, what emerges is a rollicking, profound, and even humbling exploration of all the things that can go bump in the night.