Evolution is a collection of short stories that work together to form an episodic science fiction novel. It follows 565 million years of human evolution, from shrewlike mammals 65 million years in the past to the ultimate fate of humanity (and its descendants, both biological and non-biological) 500 million years in the future. The primary protagonist in Evolution is evolution itself (although primates as a group constitute another protagonist). The book follows the hero’s course as it shapes surviving pre-humans into tree dwellers, remoulds a group that drifts from Africa to a (then much closer) New World on a raft formed out of debris, and confronting others with a terrible dead end as ice clamps down on Antarctica. The stream of DNA runs on elsewhere, where ape-like creatures in North Africa are forced out of their diminishing forests to come across grasslands where their distant descendants will later run joyously. At one point, hominids become sapient, and go on to develop technology, including a universal constructor machine that goes to Mars and multiplies, and in an act of global ecophagy consumes Mars by converting the planet into its descendants. Human extinction (or the extinction of human culture) also occurs in the book, as well as the end of planet Earth and the rebirth of life on another planet. (The extinction-level event that causes the human extinction is, indirectly, an eruption of the volcano Rabaul, coupled with various actions of humans themselves, some of which are only vaguely referred to, but implied to be a form of genetic engineering which removed the ability to reproduce with non-engineered humans.) Also to be found in Evolution are ponderous Romans, sapient dinosaurs, the last of the wild Neanderthals, a primate who witnesses the extinction of the dinosaurs, symbiotic primate-tree relationships, mole people, and primates who live on a Mars-like Earth. Views: 52
Tuesday Fitzpatrick designs the first biomechanical heart, giving humankind hope and inadvertently thrusting herself into the spotlight. She wants only to save lives. Instead she is stalked by a fanatical tyrant. The president is pressuring her for reasons she doesn't understand. And she is kidnapped by a strangely familiar, and undeniably attractive, man. Views: 52
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA. Views: 52
Issue #163 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Sam J. Miller and Matt Jones. Views: 52
Won Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1959. Views: 52
From New York Times best-seller and science fiction and fantasy mistress of adventure Mercedes Lackey, Book #3 in a new pulse-pounding saga of modern-day humans with superpowers. The metaheroes deal with supervillain Verdegris, who seeks to destroy them from within, before turning their attention back to the Thulian conspiracy. It’s go time once again for the meta-heroes including fire-bender John Murdock, hacker-witch Vikki Nagy, healer Belladona Blue, super-quick Mercurye–and most of all for their ghostly ally, Seraphym, the spirit of the world Verdegris knows he must trap and destroy her if he is to take down the metas. From New York Times best-seller and science fiction and fantasy mistress of adventure Mercedes Lackey together with a team of topnotch collaborators, the third entry in the blockbuster saga of superpowers–and the very human men and women who must learn to wield them. About *World Divided:"[C]omes together seamlessly. . .an awesome and lightning-paced story: read it on a day when you will not have to put it down."–San Francisco Book Review* About Mercedes Lackey:"With [Mercedes Lackey], suspense never lags..." –Kliatt** Views: 52
Kellen Tavadon, son of the Arch-Mage Lycaelon, thought he knew the way the world worked. His father, leading the wise and benevolent Council of Mages, protected and guided the citizens of the Golden City of the Bells. Young Mages in training-all men, for women were unfit to practice magic-memorized the intricate details of High Magic and aspired to seats on the council. Then he found the forbidden Books of Wild Magic-or did they find him? The three slim volumes woke Kellen to the wide world outside the City's isolating walls. Their Magic was not dead, strangled by rules and regulations. It felt like a living thing, guided by the hearts and minds of those who practiced it and benefited from it. Questioning everything he has known, Kellen discovers too many of the City's dark secrets. Banished, with the Outlaw Hunt on his heels, Kellen invokes Wild Magic-and finds himself running for his life with a unicorn at his side. Kellen's life changes almost faster than he can understand or accept. Rescued by a unicorn, healed by a female Wild Mage who knows more about Kellen than anyone outside the City should, meeting Elven royalty and Elven warriors, and plunged into a world where the magical beings he has learned about as abstract concepts are flesh and blood creatures-Kellen both revels in and fears his new freedom. Especially once he learns about Demons. He'd always thought they were another abstract concept-a stand-in for ultimate evil. But if centaurs and dryads are real, then Demons surely are as well. And the one thing all the Mages of the City agreed on was that practicing Wild Magic corrupted a Mage. Turned him into a Demon. Would that be Kellen's fate? Deep in Obsidian Mountain, the Demons are waiting. Since their defeat in the last great War, they've been biding their time, sowing the seeds of distrust and discontent between their human and Elven enemies. Very soon now, when the Demons rise to make war, there will be no alliance between High and Wild Magic to stand against them. And all the world will belong to the Endarkened. Views: 52
Wim can bend others into tools for her purposes and only an Avatar and a Yaluthu can bring her back into a semblance of sanity.
Wimsah was in a coma before the rising of Resicor, and her mind was wide open when the planet’s consciousness burst out. Her already wild talent grew to absurd proportions and a coma was the only safe place for her.
Benliar, Avatar of Roden, was asked if he would take on responsibility for Wimsah and her open mind. With her power, only the mind of a world could contain it, and he volunteered.
Spot has known that Wimsah needed him since she first landed on his world. He has watched her mental landscape, and she is in definite need of fuzz therapy. He is just the fuzz to oblige. Views: 52
The Last Light 1-3. Read this to get the first three books in Emil's ongoing saga. Views: 52
The Day America Died
The USA has been attacked with nuclear devices detonated several hundred miles inland and a hundred miles above our country. The shit hit the fan, our country has seen the apocalypse and is now trying to survive in this post-apocalyptic world.
Zack Johnson is no hero, but he does have some valuable prepper skills to help him survive. He is a thousand miles from home, the grid and all modern transportation have failed. The country is degenerating into violence and dog eat dog scenarios. People are killing their neighbors for a scrap of moldy bread or a sip of water. The remnants of the US Government are not helpful at best and his enemy at worst. The Department of Homeland Security is forcing people into relocation camps for their own good. Zack has to get back to Kentucky to find his daughter so he can take her to the safety of his farm.
Davi is an Israeli intelligence officer who flees to the USA after delivering the bad news that Iran and North Korea are about to nuke the USA and Israel. She must keep her mom and dad safe while finding a safe hideout.
Zack’s daughter, Callie, is 15 and is a daddy’s girl. She grew up hunting, fishing and back packing. She tries to keep her mom alive until the danger passes.
Zack goes from trying to figure out how to deal with his girlfriends and ex-wife to how to save his and his daughter’s lives while America becomes more dangerous by the minute.
Mike Norman is Zack's best friend and his ex-wife's brother. He is a ladies man who has to step up to the plate and keep Callie safe until her dad gets home. He knows Zack will get home. He just doesn't know what Zack will have to do to get home.
How are all of these people tied together? Are the attacks over and will the USA be invaded by the perpetrators of this heinous disaster? Read The Day America Died and find out.
**From the Author
I've always been a fan of Science Fiction and Mystery novels and wanted to write a novel since I was 10 years old. I try to make my characters become the kind of people that you see in your neighborhood and place them in life changing situations. Only then, can you tell how they will react and their true character. None are role models just like the rest of us in this world. My heroes rise to the occasion and do what it takes to survive and beat the bad guys. My villains are bad and deserve what they get. I'm not into political correctness. God created all people equal. What they do after birth makes them heroes or villains.
The Adventures of John Harris series is a conservative view point about what happens to the USA after rogue US agents and Iran work together to end the USA as a world power. John and his followers survive and begin rebuilding Post Apocalyptic America in spite of the US Government which is bent on placing Americans in work camps and installing a socialist style of government.
After the EMP (The Day America Died.-New Beginnings) is a series about an average American who works hard at surviving after EMP blasts take down the Grid, transportation and all electronics. He tries to be a good man, but has several flaws that he is always trying to over come. He first has to travel home from the west coast to Kentucky to find and protect his teen daughter. After that it is just trying to survive in a world full of danger and chaos.
Grumpy, Sam and Sammy is a series about a young girl who develops from a poor abused child into a strong woman crime fighter who solves murder mysteries with the help of her adopted father and a tiny Shih Tzu. In the first two novels she solves the murders and kidnapping of hundreds of young girls by a wealthy man in Kentucky. These novels portray a family with strong Christian values who struggle to be better in their faith while dealing with an imperfect world.
I was born and raised in a small town in the western part of Kentucky. My Dad taught me how to handle guns very early in life and I spent summers shooting .22 rifles and fishing. I read every book I could get my hands on and fell in love with science fiction. I graduated from Southern Indiana University with a degree in Chemistry and made a career working in manufacturing and logistics, but always fancied myself as an author. I began writing my first book in 1999, but was busy making a living and the book had to wait. I finished it in Dec 2013. I am now retired and devote most of my days to writing. I plan to publish four books a year as long as people enjoy reading them. Conservative politics, Prepping, golf and writing are my passions.
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