A collection of science fiction classics edited and introduced by the winner of fifteen Hugo awards for best editor, Gardner Dozois. Here is life on another world, in another place, another time. Here is what it is like to wear an alien skin. Here are new concepts, new vistas, magic. . . "Why read s
Other Worlds: A Science Fiction Mega Anthology
β Scribed by L.D.P. Samways; Luis Samways
- Book ID
- 110641103
- Publisher
- Ink Stained Books
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 391 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ASIN
- B0768KBTGJ
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Join a crew of mercenary misfits as they are banished from Earth and sold to vicious alien slavers. Will they help the aliens in destroying the people they once called friends, or do they have something else up their sleeves?
Experience the mystery of a secret colony of humans in deep outer-space while they try and contact home. Unbeknownst to them, they end up unleashing a force that could destroy humanity as a whole. Can mankind survive the so-called blackness? Or will it consume them until nothing is left?
See first-hand what itβs like for a rookie space Marine as he lands on a hostile planet teeming with enemies. Will he bring the pain to the alien scum, or is he destined to die without a patch on his arm?...
β¦Find out in this galaxy shattering anthology where humankind and alien technology go head-to-headβ¦ leaving nothing but dust in their wake!
Genre: Fiction; Sci-fi/Fantasy
Included in this anthology:
Dropship One (Space Recruits Book 1)
Fighting for their lives on an alien planet, the Earth Space Marine Core are both efficient and ruthless, but when their mission on the Tribeca planet goes to pot, new recruit Jensen finds it hard to keep his head level.
Being thrown into the thick of it becomes too much for the young recruit. Death seems to be lurking around every corner. Men seem to be dying at an unimaginable rateβ¦. And then they lose contact with command.
Suddenly the routine defence mission becomes an all out battle for survival. And with their new mission comes the realisation that there could be much more to the mysterious Tribeca Planet than they had thought before.
What deadly secrets will they uncover? What price will they pay on the battlefield? And what will become of the recruit, Jensen? Will he morph into the killing machine that they need him to be, or has death got its sights on some fresh meat?
Second Earth (Second Earth Serial Book 1-3)
Somewhere deep in the Andromeda Galaxy lies a planet with a secret β a secret that will impact Earth and its inhabitants right to their very cores.
A colony of humans have made a life for themselves on the mysterious planet. A life which they are quite content with, until an Earth-sanctioned ship crash-lands on their homeland and turns their lives upside down.
But back on Earth, the new-found planet isnβt the only thing that the so-called Company (an elite group of men that run the political landscape) have to deal with. A precious resource is being transported near the planet that they are now calling Second Earth, but the resource is volatile and starts to infect whatever it touches.
Can the people of Second Earth be saved from the infectious resource and how far are the Company willing to go to cover up their secret? Will the people of Earth come to know of the mysterious planet or will they continue to be fed lies?
Stasis (Alpha Ship One Book 1)
They say that in space, no one can hear you scream, but the question is; can they see you coming?
The Alpha Ship One crew are famous for two things; making Earth heaps of money and doing it under the cover of deep space. The mercenary ship is commissioned to run missions on dangerous planets. To reap great rewards from unsuspecting alien races. To take minerals, precious metals and invaluable resources for Earths galactic expansion.
They do the work that no other ship in Earths fleet would dare consider. Why? Because if they get found out, then Earth abandons them. Leaves them to rot in the middle of the universe, unaided and unheard of until the very end of time itself.
For Captain Flynn, he never imagined that day would come. He and his crew were more than happy with the way things were going. Thatβs until one day they wake up from stasis not knowing how they got there. One minute theyβre back on earth, relaxing after another hair-raising, highly illegal mission, and the next, theyβre waking up from a six-year slumber, in the middle of a galaxy they donβt recognise.
But not all is as it seems. They are not alone. Aliens are aboard their ship. And unfortunately for Captain Flynn and his rag-tag group, they donβt come in peace. Earth has sold them down the river. Banished them from the blue planet with no return ticket home. Now the aliens have them. And they plan on using them against their enemies.
They take them prisoner on their home planet. Shackled and bound, the crew fear that their fates are sealed. But unfortunately, it is just the beginning for them. The aliens that hold them captive have far greater plans for them than death. Plans that will undoubtedly shake earth to its molten core.
Prepare yourself for a journey that leaps from star system, to star system, in a space opera filled to the brim with nail biting suspense throughout.
Destroyer of Worlds (Alpha Ship One Book 2)
For every action, there's a reaction....
And for the crew of the Alpha Ship One, their actions will come with consequences. Consequences that stretch from the far ends of the universe.... consequences that could destroy life as the people on Earth know it.
The Ursines are dead, but a new threat stands in their way. A threat that's close to home. Too close in fact.
That threat comes in the form of the Letoral Fleet. A band of maverick rebels that vow to take Earth to task on their illicit dealings with the mercenary crew of the Alpha Ship One.
But these aren't no tree hugging hippie space nerds. These are a collective group of hardened criminals. Criminals that want to reign in the new galactic empire that planet Earth have built for themselves.
A war of words soon turns into an all out war that the Milky Way Galaxy will never forget. But two questions remain; will the crew of the Alpha Ship One be able to fight their way through the danger that lies in their way, and what side will they choose?
The side that fed them to the Ursines and marooned them off their very own planet? Or the new young blood space cowboys ready to propel humanity into a new space age?
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