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The visions aren’t stopping, and neither is the danger in this third “dramatic, quick-paced thriller (Kirkus Reviews)” in a series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Wake trilogy.After narrowly surviving two harrowing tragedies, Jules now fully understands the importance of the visions that she and people around her are experiencing. She’s convinced that if the visions passed from her to Sawyer after she saved him, then they must now have passed from Sawyer to one of the people he saved. That means it’s up to Jules to figure out which of the school shooting survivors is now suffering from visions of another crisis. And once she realizes who it is, she has to convince that survivor that this isn’t all crazy—that the images are of something real. Something imminent. As the danger escalates more than ever before in the conclusion to the Visions series, Jules wonders if she’ll finally find out why and how this is happening—before it’s too late to prevent disaster.

***** Amazon Bestseller ***** Pierced through the heart by an assassin's dagger, Nostradamus experiences his final visions of the future. The 16th Century alchemist and prophet sees that all his prophecies, his preparations, his coded quatrains, training the 3rd Holy Warrior - all of it - would prove fruitless. History is malleable. What was done may now be undone. In his youth, Secret Service Agent Max Medici had been unwittingly set upon a path by Nostradamus to face Adolf Hitler, the 2nd Antichrist. Knowing that prophecies from the bible and Nostradamus predict the 3rd Antichrist would be even more dangerous than Hitler, Max struggles to break the Presidential Curse while searching for the 3rd Holy Warrior - the chosen one to battle the last Antichrist - foreseen to save or end the world as we know it. Max must help decipher cryptic clues from the 16th Century in time to save the 21st Century world.

***** Amazon Bestseller ***** In 1945 America, 15-year-old Max Medici is the youngest of a select group of teenagers being trained to identify and destroy the German atomic weapons program. The young spies are only meant to be a contingency, but are thrust into action long before they complete their training. With Germany in ruins and the Russian Red Army only 300 yards from his bunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler bites into a cyanide capsule and then shoots himself in the head. His SS guards soak his body in petrol and set it aflame. But, what if fate and history suddenly became malleable? Max and the chosen one, Trey Tyson, battle the First Order in the present day, when the Oracle discovers how to revise history, allowing the 1945 Nazis to build the world's first atomic bomb and change the outcome of World War II. Past and present collide as Max hunts for Hitler!

These stories, by seventeen talented international authors, illustrate widely diverse visions of the life and death conditions humans will face while living and traveling far from humankind's home world. Many things will change, in the far-off future, but human nature, most likely, will remain the same. The same joy and sorrow, resolution and conflict, reward and greed, comfort and fear will motivate the distant descendants of present day Earth and drive humans forever forward in the race to immortality. From the Sun to the borders of the Solar System, Visions III: Inside the Kuiper Belt looks at the ways humankind will explore. After the Inner and Outer Planets become part of the known and inhabited systems, humans will venture outward, to the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud, laying claim to everything within the System's boundaries. Beyond Neptune, at the edge of the Solar System lies the doughnut-shaped ring of objects known as the Kuiper Belt. Each one smaller than Earth's Moon, the Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) include chunks of ice, asteroids, planetoids, and the dwarf planet Pluto. According to scientific theory, outside the Kuiper Belt, the Oort Cloud surrounds the Solar System like a giant, invisible snow globe, so vast that even traveling at nearly a million miles a day, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft will take 300 years to reach the Oort Cloud and 30,000 years to exit the other side.

Ice mining in space, aliens within our solar system, colonization of extraterrestrial moons, war between interplanetary corporations, and time travelers bent on destruction... NASA's Cassini Missions have captured stunning images of Saturn, its mesmerizing Rings of ice and rock, and its 53 officially named moons. These twelve authors present their visions of the Saturn System's promise, as rich and diverse as the reality of Saturn, its Rings, and moons. - In the depths of an ice mine on Dione, embattled troopers combat alien amoeba in the frigid tunnels. - Wry humor combines with eccentricity in a tale of time traveling disaster. - Enemies team up to complete a mission, in an intense tale of revenge. - Security teams from opposing corporations, battle for possession of lunar mining operations. The Visions Series tells of our urge to venture outward and to explore the Universe. Visions: Leaving Earth, describes our first faltering steps to rise from Earth's surface. Visions II: Moons of Saturn confirms that we have left the Earth and are at home in our solar system. Visions III: Inside the Kuiper Belt proclaims humankind's domination from the Sun to the outermost reaches of the Kuiper Belt. Beyond these volumes, we will explore outside our solar system: Deep Space and the Near Stars, Colonizing the Milky Way, and Understanding the Universe. Our vision is limitless.

Imagine the deepest regions of space between the stars. Cold, empty, silent, and vast. In the quest to achieve immortality for our species, someday, humankind will reach those realms. Television and movies depict spaceships spending weeks and months, sometimes years, traveling from one star to another and even to distant galaxies. Using current technology, it would take many generations to reach the nearest star. When science overcomes the limitations, humankind will encounter endless opportunities for strange and exciting adventures between the stars. Possibly, cold sleep will be used. Generations ships could carry whole populations to a new home. Black holes, space warps, faster than light travel, or something never thought of before, will transport future voyagers through the dark distances. What will they see, and what dangers will they overcome, in the dark recesses of deepest space? Fifteen talented, award winning science fiction authors share their visions of how our descendants will live, and possibly die, in deep space. "Ship of Shadows" by Sidney Blaylock, Jr. Tana must face her fears when she and others of her crew board a mining ship that has gone dark. "Impact Warning" by Sarah Buhrman Crafters serve humanity with their Craft. Almira, a telepath and telekinetic, lives a life of servitude, this time on a ship far from home. Tensions build, threatening to explode. Would anyone survive the impact?" The Great Empty" by Preston Dennett Chased by Empire Patrol, Spacehound Sammy finds himself in a strange place-the Great Empty. "One Last Talk with His God" by Jeremy M. Gottwig For Exarch Aka, conduit between worlds, God lives deep within Dark Matter. As Aka prepares for death, he must struggle with fresh doubts about his beliefs, even as he rushes to teach his successor what he must know to guide his people home. "Cloud" by J. Richard Jacobs 430 generations have come and gone since Hanno the Navigator was sent on its way. As the latest generation celebrates entering the target system, they will discover that the list of possibilities is long indeed. "If Truth Be Told" by Margaret Karmazin Should past knowledge always be preserved? Even if that knowledge is dangerous to what remains of the human race? The last leader of the Noah's Ark starship must decide. "Companions" by S. M. Kraftchak When an influenza decimates everyone else aboard the colony ship, SS New Hope, Evalynn Santori discovers unexpected companions. "Curator of Providence" by Jeremy Lichtman What happens when a society tries to curate the future, as if to place it in a museum? Past and potential futures clash, in this satirical story about politics. "Sari Sari" by Mary Madigan A murderer is stalking Pirate's Cove, our paradise at the outer edge of the heliosphere. Some believe my ink gives me special senses that will find the killer. Some think I'm the killer. I don't know who is right. "Paradise Saved" by John Moralee A trainee astronaut doubts she has the "right stuff." When one mistake can kill, she must learn the truth about a tragic event. "Joining" by Tom Olbert Humanity joins with alien life-forms in defending the Worldship, a gigantic, ancient spaceship drifting for eons between the stars. "Perchance to Dream" by Timothy Paul For space vessel Township's mission to succeed, 300 people must find suitable partners and procreate. "Whisper" by Jonathan Shipley Vampires in outer space. What could happen to the polymorphous vampiric body away from sunlight and gravity? A traditional, planet-bound vampire confronts his deep space brethren and discovers the answer. "The Central Systems" by Mark P. Steele A world ship arrives at the galaxy's center. An alien ship emerges from a nearby white hole and launches a probe. How can a painter and his mathematician wife decipher the aliens' plans and what could they be? "Oldtime Station" by Emma Tonkin On a routine visit to a deep space listening post, a pilot discovers that the mundane is a matter of perspec

Visions V stories take place somewhere-anywhere-in the Milky Way Galaxy. Planets, stars, and aliens, with no limitations, form the subject and action taking place outside our Solar System and within the Milky Way. Humankind has forded the immense stream of space between stars and reached our nearest solar neighbors. What will we discover on hospitable planets circling those new stars? Will we find almost familiar moons, asteroids, planetary rings? Or, could there be never before seen astronomical formations? The sky is no longer the limit for our soaring imaginations, because somewhere out there is a potential haven for the remnants of our beleaguered civilization. Global catastrophe is a constant threat for our war-torn and dysfunctional human race. No one can foresee the future, but we have lived on the brink of extinction since the invention of the atomic bomb and, more recently, germ warfare and genetic manipulation. Astrophysicist Professor Stephen Hawking has said, "I believe that the long term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for our future survival, as it could prevent the disappearance of humanity by colonizing other planets." The vast Milky Way Galaxy may allow the seeds of our future to be widely distributed, past the danger of a final extinction. Visions V: Milky Way brings together a collection of fascinating and entertaining stories by award-winning science fiction authors. Edited by Carrol Fix, the fifth anthology of the Visions Series features: Steve Bates, Sam Bellotto Jr., Tara Campbell, D. A. Couturier, Bruce C. Davis, W. A. Fix, Teresa Howard, Margaret Karmazin, Leigh Kimmel, S. M. Kraftchak, Marie Michaels, John Moralee, Fredrick Obermeyer, Thomas Olbert, Timothy Paul, Jonathan Shipley, E. J. Shumak, Doug C. Souza, Jay Werkheiser, and Richard Zwicker.