Frank Carlson Library

Starship-101 successfully landed on Proxima Centauri-b about twenty years ago, marking humanity's first interstellar settlement. But with radio messages taking over four years to traverse the vast darkness of space, this fledgling colony has been isolated from Earth. Enter the Clason twins – Tarvin and Harden – the galaxy's preeminent Superposition Navigators. These brothers can bend the quantum space-time continuum to their will, instantaneously...

Galaxy 101 is the story of the events that take place at the end of the twenty-first century, when an inexperienced Earth is dabbling in interplanetary travel for the first time with a newly discovered thermonuclear power source in a spaceship called Friend. Stumbling upon the truth that some of the other planets were bullies bent on galactic dominance, the unschooled Earthlings befriend their only ally, a young and brazen Martian pilot of half-earthen...

A highly successful engineer and inventor in Unification Era Terra, Dr. Angela Becker has just won a contract at the age of 27. Under the code name Project Icarus, she will be testing her prototypes. But even with her intellect and foresight, things are not always what they seem. No one, including the gifted Dr. Becker, is immune. Her reactions to the unforeseeable events that lay ahead will determine not only who she is but also what the future will...

Author: Tiffany RufoIn a universe filled with enigmas, one question has captivated humanity's imagination since the dawn of civilization: How do the stars fall? This compelling work by renowned astrophysicist Tiffany Rufo guides readers on an awe-inspiring journey through space and time to unravel the mysteries behind this age-old question.While the phenomenon known colloquially as "falling stars" refers to meteors streaking through Earth's atmosphere,...

The year is 2068. The United States already has several colonies on the moon, Mars, and Jupiter's beautiful moon, Europa. A vast saltwater ocean has been discovered below the frozen surface of Europa. The president of the United States has approved a special mission to drill through the frozen surface of Europa and deploy a submarine to explore and search for life in Europa's vast subterranean ocean. A team of highly successful business leaders and...

Grumble. Jennifer died three years ago. Mark Campbell blames himself. Mark is in debt. His brother, Kyle, thinks he is irresponsible. Kyle's wife, Risa, thinks Mark is crazy. Only Bear believes there is another side to Mark, but Bear is an enigma. Three feet tall...white fur...slightly chubby from too many sodas and chocolates...and very few people can see him. Kyle and Risa find Mark in the debtor's prison on Pueblo Station. Mark has a cellmate's...

On Neb-6, only the strong survive.When a band of inhuman assassins comes after Colt and his bounty- hunting femme-fatales, Jenna and Brem, they set in motion events that will shape Colt's destiny for years to come, if he lives long enough, anyway.Forced to leave the warm desert sands of his home, the Crow's Nest, Colt must brave the brutal, arctic conditions of Geleira, Neb-6's southern polar continent. Only there can he learn who the assassins are...

"Water: A History" is a Tor.com Original short story by science fiction and fantasy author KJ Kabza The planet of Quányuán is arid to the point of being uninhabitable. Wetness is a concept left back on Earth. That doesn't stop one elderly woman from stepping outside the safety of the colony whenever she can for the brief opportunity to fully experience the outside world.

En el intento de llevar electricidad a otro planeta, astronautas no se percatan que en su nave llevaban un huésped que cambió la vida de los habitantes del planeta Borealis, convirtiéndose en una rara aventura.

The first installment in the groundbreaking Lensman series, one of the greatest space opera sagas of all time. Nevia, located many light years from the Earth's sun, is running out of iron, the primary source of energy for the planet's dominant amphibious race. Armed with technology that can extract iron atoms from anything it encounters - rock, machinery, man-made structures, even human blood - the Nevians set their sights on a rich lode of the precious...