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The Last Flight to Mars –Available now on Amazon in Kindle, softback, and hardback forms

When the President sells NASA and the lunar platinum mines to China, moonbase citizens build a ship and set out to join the marooned, Martian explorers.

The Last Flight to Mars, my 113,500 word, science fiction novel has the intrigue of RED MARS with a revolutionary bent.

The U.S. President sells NASA’s assets, the moonbase, the lunar platinum mines, and the U.S. space station to the Chinese to relieve a devastated economy. USMC Colonel Jackie Miller longs for General’s stars. The president offers the promotion if she can return the unwilling engineers and settlers to Earth before the Chinese arrive to move in.

Matt Newcomb is Captain of Team Alpha, the first US explorers on Mars. Team Beta, the replacement crew, just arrived. Though Matt would like to reconnect with an Alpha engineer, Iris, his college sweetheart, she still can’t trust him from before. He also wants to stay and establish a colony, but he must return his team to Earth next week. Then, someone sabotages both expeditions’ flyers, marooning everyone. The president promises an unreliable, drone supply ship that might fail, so both teams plan for a long-term survival. They launch expeditions to find water and methane for fuel, and they attempt to grow crops. Meanwhile, Iris secretly carries Matt’s child.

Matt receives a message from the moonbase. The Chinese are coming to forcibly transport engineers and settlers to Earth, so now Richard Nickelose, a space station engineer is bringing four-hundred men, women, and children to Mars in a ramshackle ship with the Marines chasing right behind them. Then, Matt learns Iris is pregnant.

Last Flight of the Sirens – Available now on Amazon in Kindle, softback, and hardback forms

A man is abducted to help save an alien species from war, slavers, and genocide.

The Last Flight to Medimos, my 109,000 word, is a story of discovery and new purpose that should appeal to the same readers that appreciated the uniqueness of Eon and The Mote in God’s Eye.

In 3585, after a childhood of sexual abuse, Phi, a young, telekinetic, humanoid alien escapes her Vardiaan owner. She returns home to Myrth where time travelers foretell that a man on Beta Hydri IV will save her pacifist, Ramasese people from genocide, slavery, and war.

Phi travels to Beta. She seduces and abducts Michael Singh, a recently widowed journalist and immigrant from Earth. He awakens from years in stasis to a war-torn world where Phi’s people, exiled from their city, hide in trees and caves.

After meter-tall insectoid Scimenon conquer worlds, humanoid Vardiaans move in, selectively enslave the populations, and establish slavery as the primary commerce. The Ramasese’s psychokinetic, sexual skills make them priceless slaves. While Scimenon murder them on sight, Vardiaans kill the adults to take their children.

Despite his abduction, when Michael sees the horror facing Phi’s people, he reluctantly agrees to fight with Phi against the monsters they face. Now, this wave of war and slavery threatens to move to the distant human colonies. The key to Michael and Phi’s success is an abandoned Dyson Sphere stocked with ancient, high-tech weaponry and ships. They race against time to save the Ramasese people.

The Last Flight to America –Available now on Amazon in Kindle, softback, and hardback forms

Man kills mother in self-defense and flees envirodome to uninhabitable badlands of Tennessee because the police will never believe him.

The Last Flight to America, my 83000-word dystopian science fiction novel, is a story of betrayal and undaunted belief that the world will recover. .

In 2256, a century since the great thaw and decades after the blessed refreeze, Mathew Jansing, a reserved, environmental biologist and childhood amnesiac, believes humanity will again leave the envirodomes.

During an altercation with his celebrity mother, Matt accidently kills her in self-defense, but the borough will never believe his innocence. He flees the envirodome in an aerobus for the poisonous badlands of Tennessee.

He encounters unreported rejuvenation and breathable air. Why would scientists keep this secret? Matt discovers a fugitive woman, Ellen Fitzgerald, hiding in the Smokies. She shares food, and when police storm the forest, they hold up in an underground bunker.

Matt doesn’t know it, but he’s been found guilty in absentia, and both the police and his mother’s revolutionary group, led by Norbert Buckson, want him dead. Norbert intends to overthrow the North American envirodomes with military robots and has sent Ellen to bring Matt back.

Borough police capture and imprison Matt and Ellen. In the face of his execution, if only he can stay alive, he intends to; learn why his mother tried to kill him, clear his name, and share the secret of Tennessee rejuvenation, but the revolution is coming, and he might be too late.

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