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The ultimate voyage of discovery ends with the truth about yourself. The ultimate truth requires you to sacrifice your innocence. The ultimate redemption can only be gained after you confront the past.This omnibus edition contains:Genesis EarthEdenfallThe Stars of Redemption
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Two brothers, one starship. A girl frozen in cryostasis. A galaxy on the verge of war.This omnibus edition contains the complete Sons of the Starfarers series, including:BROTHERS IN EXILEIsaac and Aaron are nothing if not survivors. Their homeworld lost and their people scattered, all they have left is each other. Then, in the Far Outworlds, they find a dead colony with a beautiful young woman frozen in cryostasis. She is also a survivor-and she needs...
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Ten optimistic and forward-looking space stories that show how we journey to the stars!This is the third volume of the collected short stories of Joe Vasicek. It includes:The Scales of the Space WhaleThe most dangerous creatures in the universe will kill you before they know you exist!In the BeginningParadise is not what-or where-it seems.(After Dinner Conversation, August 2020)From the Ice IncarnateThey say that going into cryo is the closest thing...
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Ten brutally honest and politically incorrect stories for times such as these! This is the second volume of the collected short stories of Joe Vasicek. It contains: The Paradox of ChoiceIf post-birth abortions are legal, when does life actually begin? PaydayA near future sci-fi thriller about the perils of a universal basic income. Utahraptors at DawnWhen the meme wars are fought on the digital field of honor, no weapon is too ridiculous to be awesome....
5) Edenfall
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The ultimate truth requires you to sacrifice your innocence.
Sixteen years ago, Estee's parents abandoned their scientific mission to the planet Icaria and made the new world their home. They thought it would be decades before anyone else came to this rugged, edenic paradise. They were wrong.
Young, fearless, and free, the only other people Estee has ever known are her own immediate family. So when a military expedition arrives from Earth, she is...
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From captive slave to star queen.Zlata always yearned to see the stars, but when a raiding party of starfaring nomads carries her off captive, she can't help but wonder if this is more than she bargained for. When their captain, Lord Khasan Valdamar, shows an unusual interest in her, Zlata quickly finds that she can leverage that to her advantage. But the more time she spends among his people, the less she wants to escape. Determined to save herself...
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This is the first volume of the collected short stories by Joe Vasicek. It contains: The Gettysburg ParadoxThe greatest battle of all time, secretly fought by time travelers.(Gallery of Curiosities, June 2018; Bards and Sages Quarterly, July 2019) Utahraptors at DawnA duel to the death with dinosaurs. Killing Mister WilsonEvery time traveler wants to kill Hitler. Only one actually stopped him.(Uprising Review, September 2017; Unrealpolitik, November...
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There ain't no such thing as a free voyage through a trans-dimensional pocket singularity!
Hello, friends. Christopher Columbus Jackson here. After my last adventure, I set out to make my fortune as a treasure hunter. Unfortunately, I crossed paths with some very bad people, and only my trusted starship, the Millennial Falcon, and a friendly warrior monk of the Church of Jesus Christ of Post-Millennial Saints, Orthodox kept me from falling into their...
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A woman needs a man like an authorized cyborg bounty hunter needs an AI familiar.Meet Gini, a petite raven-haired femme who weighs all of 105 pounds galactic in a dripping wet shirt-before her carbon-fiber bone implants, of course. As one of the few authorized cyborgs still alive after the war, she's a bounty hunter now, taking down hardened criminals with the help of her most trusted friend, a class 4 artificial intelligence named Henry.But when...
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The ultimate redemption can only be gained after you confront the past.When the scientists at Heinlein Station punched a wormhole through the stars, they created a temporal paradox with dire ramifications for the future of humanity. Now, Estee and Khalil are trapped in the product of that paradox: an ancient, alien ghost ship that has wandered the stars for millions of years, biding its time for the final day of reckoning.Her family broken and her...
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Ten stories that show why the freedom of truth is worth the price of loneliness.This is the fifth volume of the collected short stories of Joe Vasicek. It includes:Love and Truth at Universe EndWhere have all the aliens gone?Calling Scam LikelyAn auto warranty scam he was sure to never forget!Prison of DreamsA boy, a girl, and a starship gone mad.Blight of EmpireA dying world. A decadent empire. A discovery that can save them both.The Library of FateHe...
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"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - August 2020In The Beginning: A retelling of Adam and Eve's fall from grace, with a cosmic twist.Farewell, Odysseus: A genetically enhanced super-human has to make an important choice about the person he keeps as a pet.Human Contact: A college student heads to a party, gets high and drunk, and ends up having a night that will forever change lives.Hiro's Festival: A little boy who dreams of freedom has his wish...
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Eleven short stories and a poem that show us what comes after the end of all we know.This is the fourth volume of the collected short stories of Joe Vasicek. It includes:The Manchurian ParadoxWe have met our timeline's enemy and he is us.A Fatal RebirthNothing in this world should live forever-not even civilization itself.The Final TurningThis is how the world ends: not with a bang, but with a whimper-thanks to me.The New CovenantTo restore a fallen...
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The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed…The hunter has become the hunted. A slave deal on the edge of civilized space has gone horribly wrong-for the bad guys. Zedekiah Wight has come.To some, he is a madman. To others, an interstellar privateer. To the wealthy and powerful elites, he is a dangerous vigilante. To the weak and the powerless, he is both a savior and an avenging angel. But to the God he serves, he is an instrument of wrath:"For...