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Time. Immutable. Untouchable. A river always streaming past us. Something we cant ever turn back or fix. Or can we? John Gillian, renowned physicist, and Rebecca Harleson, renaissance thinker and mathematician, and their team, have created the first machine capable of sending messages through infinite time and space. Their invention causes shock waves throughout the world, and become the target of protestors and unscrupulous politicians. The possibilities...
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In the early 2000s in a top-secret facility located deep beneath Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, years of research on time travel technology by the United States military finally comes together. But the initial excitement soon wanes when a startling reality surfaces and captures a moral dilemma. Suddenly, everyone is speculating what will happen if they start changing history. As the team, led by United States Army Colonel Barton Stauffer, begins...
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Calvin Jones is back again in this long-overdue sequel to Zero Calvin. Once again he has been revived by the gang at Bobcorp3, and once again he must continue to adapt to his strange new life in the future. Unfortunately, nothing is ever so straightforward in Calvin's life and he soon finds himself involved in a complicated love square with Tarpa and two newly-revived cryogenic patients. To add to the complications, these two patients are part of...
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It has been five years since the A. R. EX. projects first genetics experiment to create a new breed of super-efficient reptilian soldiers. Rivers, a newly created being, feels out of place in the human world, burdened by his creation, physical appearance, and the reality of his nonexistent identity and past life as Erikson Meyers. As he tries to enjoy his life living as Alex Rivers in New York City, he has no idea that someone out there hates him...
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Five humans and one AI are on an extraordinary mission to unlock the secrets of the cosmos. It takes the one among them least able to experience it, to help them understand. In what might be their final chance to unlock the collective knowledge of an alternate reality, they choose compassion for a friend. Five people searching science for the answer; but all of them were finding it within themselves.
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A story whose characters you'll fall in love with. Grab hold of your seat and, before you start reading, get ready to stay put a while. Go with this zany cast while they set out to right the wrongs of This World and rescue She from the Tyrant of Lakeland's evil clutches. Experience laughter, shock, and quirky twists while the human race learns to start over with nothing more than the remnants of a previous civilization.
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When beings from another world invade Los Angeles, Steven, his wife, and a few others, escape and head up into the high mountains. But
when he and his new found friends go off in search of a safe place, what they come to discover will change their lives forever. Unfortunately, the group falls into the hands of an elite group of government scientists, and a new kind of nightmare begins to unfold.
As they get deeper, Steven soon discovers a complex...
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Aliens to zombies amid a spirited romance populated the pages of The First Second Coming as it explored why people search the skies for messiahs and UFOs. The Search for Truth takes on the science vs. religion debate. Marlene Martindale and Chris Larson are now married, have an infant daughter, live in a small town, and are prospering from Chris expanding business that serves the neopagan community. Marlenes desire for spirituality has taken her from...
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Saint Francis in the Garden, the third book of the Michael Forester series, brings full circle the Flat Creek boys gift that has in the past provided both insight and despair. Religious intolerance and corporate greed in the heartland provide the catalyst. His possession of the sight influences his protection of a virtually unknown couple in need, while his kindly nature and also his rather brutal tendencies serve them well. His waking dreams of future...
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Growing up in Chicago, Kyle Adams could never quite fit in with the other kids, and after being mysteriously transferred to a new foster home in northern Michigan for his senior year of high school, it seems that things are going to be the same. Then he meets Lily Goodshepherd. Like Kyle, Lily is different, but unlike Kyle, she knows exactly what the difference is. Magic, few are gifted with it, and fewer still ever learn to master its secret power....
12) Hello Norman
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Norman Riley is unhappy with his planetary mission to characterize mundane rock formations on the desolate Hossa. But this is not the first disagreement between Norman and his employer, the young and brash Jason Alcott of Alcott Enterprises. As Norman concludes that his assignment is a convenient way for the Alcott family to put both him and his spaceship out to pasture, he is propelled into a new territory without any idea of what lies in store for...
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The captain asked, Why are there eight spacecraft approaching my castle with apparently evil intentions? How to sum up my crazy life in a few sentences? Okay, here goes: Those are probably Mobster spacecraft looking to both kill me, since I have a list of their names and crimes on my contact lens, and to retrieve the time-travel arm bands that I just dumped in your trash scow. Sorry about dropping this mess in your lap, but theyve already killed my...
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In the world of dreams, some would say that it's nothing more than a collection of images or memories from their waking life. But, what if they weren't and somehow you entered another time or dimension in a parallel world? What would you do?
Enter a world where the unreal is possible as you follow a dreamer through the various paths of fantasy, or terror. You will find yourself facing the strangest of encounters and challenging obstacles. You will...
15) Dominion
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When a timid and distraught woman in her early twenties first comes to visit psychiatrist Clarence Evans, he notices a profound sadness in her eyes. But after Jasmine Kinkade claims to have been abducted by extraterrestrials and reveals she is in contact with an extra-dimensional intelligence she calls Ashtar, Dr. Evans attempts to persuade her otherwise. Convinced beyond a doubt that Ashtar is an alternate personality, Dr. Evans is about to receive...
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In 2037, the world has devolved into chaos, paranoia, and tyranny. People now live under the chilling consequences of governmental intervention that has strangled human emotion. The resulting behavior of a suppressed population is distrust and chaos, widespread disorder, and rebellion and revolution. Never-ending conflict and human exploitation are the new norm, the consequences of a political system that robs citizens of their freedom and liberty....
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1951 Jennifer Stone inherits the home and fortune of Elizabeth Windom White, a famous writer she has met only once. In the house she finds an unknown book called A Place in Time written in 1912 and dedicated to her greatly adding to the mystery since Jennifer wasn't born till 1915. The book is about the future and is written with a suspicious degree of accuracy as if Mrs. White has actually been there. The Question of Time tells the story of how a...
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The year is 2027. A supercomputer under the supervision of Father Conrad is accidentally programmed to find the last day of Earth. He doesn't take this too seriously at first, he knows that the Earth's demise will be proceeded by clear and specific signs: Abnormal and unusual events in outer space, strong and frequent natural disasters on Earth, and certain individuals having insights, religious revelations or dreams..
Having secret information, Father...
19) Evolution
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Kelly McGrail finds herself torn between wanting to stay sober and living a meaningful life or taking up the bottle to drown out the pain of feeling left behind by God. Her semi-normal four years of sobriety takes a down turn and her emotions fall into a devastating depression. Before she can do anything to stupid, a strange man comes to her (man or Angel?) and takes her on a journey that changes the course of her life and the lives of all beings...
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The Swarm is on the move. They seek revenge for the death of their agent and have sent a special task force to locate the perpetrator(s). The secret organization known as DEDEP must now use their collective mental abilities to meet the threat, and they must do so without revealing their own presence -- even to their new ally, the Coalition. DEDEP hopes to use their Dangerous Weapon in the upcoming battle, but that object is not what it seems. Only...
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