hard science fiction

The Terra Debacle: Prisoners at Area 51 by Marcha Fox

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May 30, 1978 was a normal night at Hill AFB in Ogden, Utah until a UFO requests permission to land. A human girl in her teens and a robot exit the craft, a strange botanical lifeform found onboard. The UFO, robot, and suspicious plant are sent to Area 51, where NASA astrobiologist, Gabe Greenley, PhD, is studying this new lifeform. His attempt to take a leaf sample is met with a vehement telepathic objection, indicating the specimen is not only intelligent, but potentially dangerous. He eventually gets his sample and makes an amazing discovery he can never publish due to his security oaths, further compounded by an ethical dilemma that forces a potentially deadly decision.

Targeted Age Group: 14-18
Genre: YA – Science Fiction

A Dark of Endless Days by Marcha Fox

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On hostile planets like Cyraria terralogists are in high demand and Laren Brightstar is one of the best. Regional governors compete for positions at the territorial level based on their economic achievements, allowing those with terraforming skills to demand a high price. Refusing to work for those with devious intent, however, has an even higher price. Thus the Brightstar family discovers when plunged into a web of political intrigue, leaving Dirck to accomplish the impossible on a planet cursed with lethal weather where survival is never assured. Will their missing daughter return with help or will she remain trapped forever on an alien world?

Targeted Age Group: 12-16
Genre: YA – Science Fiction

Beyond the Hidden Sky by Marcha Fox

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When the Brightstars leave Mira III for Cyraria they have no idea their comfortable lifestyle is about to end. Before the starcruiser arrives events occur that comprise a parent’s worst nightmare. Their 14- year-old daughter is missing and her father’s ruthless and power-hungry nemesis is exploiting the situation to promote his selfish ambitions. Formidable challenges await as suspicious circumstances scatter them across the galaxy. Will they survive long enough to be together again?

Targeted Age Group: 12-16
Genre: Science Fiction

A Stand-in for Dying by Rick Moskovitz

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In a near future world on the brink of environmental catastrophe, a mysterious woman brokers an anonymous pact between two men for the older man Ray to inhabit the younger man Marcus’s body when he dies in exchange for a fortune and access to vast knowledge. The consequences for both men evolve over the ensuing years. When Ray finds a way to exchange identities while still alive, both men struggle to navigate their new lives and relationships while under attack by Ganymede, the architect of the consciousness swapping technology, and the Tribe of 23, a human supremacist organization that has targeted Marcus because of his and his wife’s advocacy for AIs to have equal rights with carbon based humans.

Their moral and emotional development is informed by the resourceful women who love them, one an accomplished journalist, the other a teacher who guides AIs to perceive and feel human emotions.

Targeted Age Group: Adult audiences
Genre: Science Fiction

Brink of Life by Rick Moskovitz

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A woman plunges into consciousness in the midst of what seems like someone else’s life, sending her on a quest to discover who she is and to craft an identity that makes sense of her new reality. As she digs into the mystery of her life, she uncovers a top secret government organization plotting world domination and a clandestine vigilante organization dedicated to destroying it and is caught between these warring factions. Nobody in her new world is exactly who they appear to be, including herself. Identity, she learns, is complicated and inseparable from the body in which it resides.

Targeted Age Group: Adult audiences
Genre: Science Fiction

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