Frank Carlson Library

Is humanity friend or foe? War, industrialization, technological advancement. It is a common transitional period, one that provides ample opportunity for a species to destroy itself. And thus far we have survived. Now, those that observe from afar are ready for us to take the next step. But first they must be certain of our suitability, and it all comes down to one thing. Sometimes those you hate and fear the most are those you need the most. A space...

Amazing Stories is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are eight stories by Dave Dryfoos: "Tree, Spare that Woodman", "Waste Not, Want", "Uniform of a Man", "New Hire", "Bridge Crossing", "Journey Work", "Seller of the Sky" and "Sign Of Life".

This is a great collection of action short stories by Alfred Coppel from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "The Last Two Alive!", "Preview of Peril", and "The Flight of the Eagle".

An ageless menace lurks on the surface of Mars... An unscrupulous industrialist seeks to control it... One woman was bred to destroy it... In the twenty-third century the descendants of the original Mars colonies struggle to retain their independence from the Terran government. The generations-old terraforming project is faltering and on the verge of failure. If that happens, the millions already adapted to the harsh Martian environment will be doomed,...

Amazing Stories is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are eight stories by Michael Shaara: "Wainer", "Man of Distinction", "Conquest Over Time", "Citizen Jell", "The Book", "Orphans of the Void", "Soldier Boy", and "The Vanisher".

April, 1972. Three legendary astronauts embark on man's boldest space voyage yet-a yearlong mission to fly past our nearest planetary neighbor, Venus. Island of Clouds, the first full-length novel in the Altered Space series, is a gripping space epic based on NASA mission proposals from the late 1960s. Touching on literary influences ranging from Borges and Bukowski to the Book of Job, this story of exploration also offers a literary probing of the...

Specialist astronaut Evelyn Slater encounters a small, badly damaged, ancient, alien artefact (British spelling) on the first ever space-junk elimination mission. Where was it from? Who sent it? International governments impose a security clampdown. Evelyn leads a team of hand-picked scientists who make amazing discoveries within the alien device. Secrecy becomes impossible to maintain. When the news is finally released, she becomes embroiled in...

Survival is not enough.The Pine Forest Camp for the Gifted turns privileged children into survivors. Into hunters. Into killers.Teenager Kylie Andersen's abilities are killing her, and only the most drastic measures will keep her worst enemies from exploiting her deepest weaknesses. When she decides to spend the summer away from her grandfather in a camp that promises to teach her survival, she realizes one thing very quickly:Survival is not guaranteed.Meanwhile,...

Corporatism catches up with a ruthless executive when an AI entity replaces him as CEO of a leading tech company. Meanwhile, his radicalized son and a brilliant programmer steal the world's most valuable intellectual property: a top-secret device capable of communicating with the future. When messages arrive from a mysterious prophet, does it signal the beginning of a new world order?

She has everything to die for...When Chan Xiyi Aya's dream of life beyond the galactic frontier lands her in hot water with the Foundation who employs her, she gets her shot at the job she's aching for: chronicling the history of a planet she'd kill to protect, three hundred light years beyond the rim of human space.The catch?Only the dead can go.