Frank Carlson Library

The Making War is the long-awaited final book in the award-winning series that began with The Silver Ship and the Sea. Six genetically engineered children fought to survive in a small town where everyone hated what they were, on a difficult planet full of out-sized predators with long teeth and sharp claws. Because they were stronger than the colonists, they found a way to live, and eventually a way to leave. Alicia wants nothing more than to fly. But...

Each man has a measure of luck given by destiny, but not a drop more. Has the luck of an unusual guide responsible for the passage of visitors into the deep buried bellies of alien ships just run out? His newest client, a young woman named Janita, proves to be a member of the resistance carrying in her body an alien civilization's gift to humanity. Will either of them become the devil's martyr? One story gives life to another, waiting all along......

"In this fast-paced, lively, and enjoyable finale, Wood offers a wide array of intrigues, battles, and retreats." -Kirkus Reviews The long-awaited finale to the epic Clash of the Aliens science fiction saga. When a Hoo-Lii invasion fleet unexpectedly arrives and attacks, they cripple Earth's space defenses. The Space Force retreat to an asteroid based fortress. The human space fleet suffers terrible damage and on the brink of defeat, dissident...

A founding member of the Sin Vegas Union, Hector Contreras was a child when Earth was commandeered by the Lorians. Along with those left, he spent the next fifty years fighting their extraterrestrial adversaries. For his reward, Hector helped create one of the few overpopulated, advanced megacolonies left on the planet. Drained from decades of service to humanity and the loss of his wife, Hector now spends his remaining years with a new companion...

Livy makes a discovery that leads to her being lost and Daig fears she has been kidnapped by someone who wants to see the rebellion fail.

Todd Frost is sent suddenly to spend the summer at his grandparents' farm. When not picked up at the end of summer, he believes his family was put into a relocation program. They must have since they haven't heard from them, but why? His best friend, Jake, sees something unbelievable at a nearby farm that shakes him up pretty bad. They rush over to check out what has happened, only to be taken into custody, after discovering the McKowsters and...

Excited by the prospect of unlimited development and trade, the 22 Inter-Stellar Federations in the Northern Sectors of the Milky Way cannot wait to integrate into THE GREATER TRICLAD... , with Billions keen to swell the ranks of the Tricladian Fleets, about to embark in the conquest of the Galaxy. In VLUVIDIUM however, following some remarkable scientific advancements, there are voices insinuating that NENA is probably an extension of AMONIKAH, prompting...

The next invasion won't be little green men landing their spaceship in the National Mall. It will start somewhere quiet, like a dark road at night...

We are not alone in the universe! Yet one would never believe that first contact with an alien race would actually be with Neanderthals, who walked our planet long ago. Plenteriens, an ancient alien civilization, understood the Neanderthals were headed for sure extinction and went against the laws of the Tri-Galaxy Alliance by sending a fleet of starships with the sole purpose of capturing half the remaining population of Neanderthals to enslave for...

Millennia ago an advanced race seeded Earth with the cultures in their galaxy so they could find out what would happen when those cultures left their home planets and started to mingle. Then they vanished…Dr. Livy Valens couldn't pass up the opportunity to discover a lost language even if it means traveling to another galaxy to do it. Her friends, Jessie Hartner and Kevin Blake, think she's being kidnapped when her escort comes to pick her up and...