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This is the ninth book in the Future of Humanity (FOH) series. After a long journey, it's time to set the ship down on the new human home world, which General Amanda Lowrey has named, appropriately, Terra 2. There is Landing Site Eden, where she will attempt to set down a ship that was never meant to land. There are the satellite sites, each 50 miles from Eden, to the north, east, south and west. There are the advance teams, whose only job is to...

In this "they come here" SF novel, the Solgren, intra-galactic colonists from another planet, have their eye, and their man, on Earth. The Solgrens are ethereal beings who have long since forgotten the burden and the pleasures of being confined in a physical body. They are entralled with humans' ability to focus the physical, the mental and the emotional on one project at one time. Earth might just be a perfect new home. Simon Stark has donned a brand...

What happens to the earth when we're attacked by aliens from outer space? Independence Day? But what if they don't come in space ships, ray guns blazing? What if they are much smaller than the millions of mibrobial creatures we breath in every day? And what if they're deadly on contact?

You can't go home again, right? That's a different time in a different place. In fact, everything and everyone is different, and they will remain so for all time. Or maybe not. Past, present, and future-every present-day step leads from a singular past to a limitless number of futures. Step this way, you're in one future. Step the other, you're in a different future. Step through a portal and there's no telling where you might end up.

This is the eighth book in the Future of Humanity (FOH) series. What does it take to shake these people up? How are they not all glued to the view screens? For over a decade the view was populated with nameless stars and galaxies, and now its filled with a brand new solar system. And a brand new planet. Why do they not recognize what's right there before them? Come along and join in the wonder.

On Earth in the not-too-distant future, Will Perkins looks at Luna almost every evening. He dreams of visiting there, living there, someday. Finally, almost through a fluke, he realizes his dream. He and his wife Rose will live in the well-established Arzachel 1 crater colony while he works as part of a crew to build Arzachel 2. But nothing ever goes quite as planned, does it? Even as Will and Rose's lives are changing, so is the face of reality,...

The basis of life as we know it is carbon. Suppose the nucleus of every carbon atom is a sun. Suppose one electron "planet" swirling around that nucleus supports life. And suppose a group of scientists theorize that, like space, time is a maleable factor in the universe. And that even the term "universe" depends strictly on the vantage point. In the future on Earth, with Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle disproven and set aside, the way is clear...

Aliens and alien invasions take many forms. To the hard-working residents of a newly constructed ant hill, when a massive creature places a size 10 shoe atop their home, the invasion is blatant and destructive. Their children, the zygotes still wrapped in a protective shell, are crushed beneath the surface. They weep. They mourn. They cart off their dead. And they rebuild. There are also other kinds of intra-planetary alien invasions. Every day, every...

Friends are out on their bikes, on a run to Sturgis when one, then another race through what seems to be a small fog bank that suddenly appears before them. But it reaches toward the first biker with an appendage. Time slows to a frame freeze as the second biker through watches his friend lay his bike down. Three others avoid the fog - or whatever it is - and witness something unbelievable eerie. How many live to tell the tale?

In a post-apocayptic world, you and a few friends are trying to make a little money cruising the streets, making announcements for the Makers. But a really cute chick catches your attention. You'll never see her again, but you can dream. But what if you do see her again? And what if she turns out to be a great deal more?