Top secret information about the United States first satellite launch in 1958 has been erased from the mind of American scientist Luke Lucas who must cure his own amnesia if he wants any chance to make the space shot successful.

"Something was happening in Bobbi Anderson's idyllic small town of Haven, Maine. Something that gave every man, woman, and child in town powers far beyond ordinary mortals; something that turned the town into a death trap for all outsiders; something that came froma metal object, buried for millennia, that Bobbie accidentally stumbled across. It wasn't that Bobbi and the other good people of Haven had sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most...

Eleven-year-old Max leads veterinarian Frannie O'Neill and VBI agent Kit Harrison on a trail "to uncover one of the most diabolical and inhuman plots of modern science."--Jacket.

A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family. Based on the author's quilt painting of the same name.

A man sent to stop the world's first zero-G birth. A deep space pilot who runs headlong into Einstein's theory of relativity. A synthetic human fighting for survival in a world that sees her as disposable. All these stories and more are in A Lone Star in the Sky, the second anthology from the Future Classics speculative fiction writers group of North Dallas. Featuring eighteen stories from members such as Nebula winner William Ledbetter (The Long...

"Always run, never fight. Preserve the knowledge. Survive at all cost. Take them to the stars. Over 99 identical generations, Mia's family has shaped human history to push them to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices and sacrificing countless lives. Her turn comes at the dawn of the age of rocketry. Her mission: to lure Wernher Von Braun away from the Nazi party and into the American rocket program, and secure the future of the space race....

"In 1984, fifteen-year-old Celestine Tolland and her parents were part of a crew of explorers who set off into space. Months after their departure, a virus ravaged the crew of the Phaeacia, killing nearly everyone aboard. The few survivors finally returned to Earth after nearly two years. However, because they were traveling near the speed of light-causing an effect known as time dilation-more than thirty years have passed on Earth. Celestine, who...

In Mayda, a post-apocalyptic city off the coast of Portugal, a brilliant young engineer and a mysterious recluse race to build a flying machine, unaware that powerful enemies will kill to possess--or destroy--their new technology.

Luke Skywalker takes on a high-stakes espionage operation to rescue a brilliant alien cryptographer sympathetic to the rebel cause, a mission that will push his abilities as a Rebel fighter and would-be Jedi to the limit.