Jody Lynn Nye

Mike Brotherton

Launch Pad

Spider Star

The SS Cygni probe sent back hours of video, captured by the Biolathe AI, but only a few minutes mattered--the four minutes that showed a creature made of fire, living , moving, dancing in the plasma fire of the double star's accretion disk. A dragon made of star stuff, so alien that only a human expedition to observe and perhaps capture it, could truly understand them. It's a perilous journey into the future, however, for SS Cygni is 245 light- years from Earth, and even though only two years' subjective time will pass on board the Karamojo, the crew will return to an Earth where five hundred years have passed. Captain Lena Fang doesn't care--she has made her life on her ship, where her best friend is the ship's AI. Samuel Fisher, the contract exobiologist,doesn't care, either. He is making the voyage of a lifetime and in the small world of the Karamojo he will have to live with the consequences of his obsessive quest for knowledge. The rest of the small crew--Axel Henderson, the biosystems engineer; Sylvia Devereaux, the beautiful physical sciences expert; and Phil Stearn, the ship's jack-of-all-trades--have their own reasons for saying good-bye to everyone they have ever known. As the Biolathe AI said, uncertain five hundred- year round trips don't attract the most stable personalities, but somehow they'll have to learn to get along with each other, if they're to catch their dragon and come home again. For at the end of the journey is the star dragon--a creature of fire with a nuclear furnace for heart. The crew of the Karamojo--human and AI alike--will risk everything to capture it, and it will take all their technology, all their skill, and more courage than they knew they had, to come home alive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Star Dragon

James O'Brien

Blake Jessop

Jamie Lackey

Mary Lee

Rhea Rose

Andrew Hudson

R. Mathieu

Diane Turnshek

Who is holding the stars hostage? Don't we all have the right to star-filled nights? Do you miss our Milky Way Galaxy arcing overhead? Explore answers in these creative tales of human (and alien) reaction to the yin-yang of darkness and light. Travel the high ways with lovers in a hand-built rocket. Chase meteors across the sky to a windfall of wonder. Ride the star-train to Europa and dive into the salty oceans under ice. Pierce the dark sky with acolytes of the serpent god. and gasp at the lengths people go to see stars one more time. Trance dance under the cold skies of Ceres. Journey with us into darkness, for only there can we see the light. Don't we all have the right? Authors: Blake Jessop > Kate Ruegger > Mary Soon Lee > Maddy Dietz > Manny Frishberg & Edd Vick > Jamie Lackey > J.A. Prentice > Estelle Rodgers > James Edward O'Brien > Josh Rountree > Stephanie Gildart > Rhea Rose > Mike Brotherton > Jennifer Lee Rossman > Salinda Tyson > Andrew Leon Hudson > Alexandra Balasa > Isaac Payne > Liam Hogan > Laura Jane Swanson > R. Jean Mathieu

Dark Skies

Triangulation

Mike Brotherton

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