Bøger af Dean Wesley Smith

Poker: a high-stakes, deadly serious professional sport. Doc Hill knows all too well the risks involved with the sport. Or so he thinks. But when one of the greatest poker players of all time dies, the stakes rise even higher. Doc must solve an increasingly frightening series of murders-and win the biggest tournament of his career-before he finds himself forced to fold his cards for good. A fast-paced thriller that delves deep into the enticing world of high-stakes poker, Dead Money raises the risk of the political thriller to create an exciting new genre-political poker thriller. "Dean Wesley Smith does for poker what James Patterson does for serial killers." -Sheldon McArthur, former owner of Mysterious Books in Los Angeles "[An] exhilarating political poker thriller." -Midwest Book Review

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to the world of Dust and Kisses with a new novel.Paleontologist Callie Sheridan spent a few days deep in the Oregon Caves on a dig with three students from the University of Oregon. When they emerged, they found almost everyone in the world dead. Survival became her only thought.Mathematician and galactic explorer Vardis Fisher dropped into orbit over a planet where almost all of the human life had been recently killed for no obvious reason. Suddenly, hundreds of other ships, all human, appear in orbit and start working to save the planet's remaining population.Together, Callie and Fisher work to discover the secrets of a galaxy that has been hidden in plain sight, even from the powerful humans who rescued millions. And in the process, they just might change everything.

Exploring the vastness of space: The mission of the massive Starburst ships.Chairmen Cole and Echo of the Starburst ship Star Trail get wrapped up in finding lost ancient cultures.And in the process find far more than they ever could imagine.Starburst takes the vast Seeders Universe and expands it yet again beyond where humans dare go.

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to his fan-favorite Seeders Universe series with a third novel, Morning Song.A massive ship powers toward the Milky Way Galaxy, threatening to destroy entire worlds. The rogue ship, the size of a moon, seems to have no entrance.With little time before millions die, Maria Boone and Roscoe Mundy must somehow take a small team into the massive ship to stop it.A galaxy-spanning tale of adventure and suspense and the humanity that can exist in a vast culture.

The fight with the genetically engineered aliens seems impossible. Benny and Gina, both Seeders, stand on the bridge of their massive mother ship knowing they needed miracles to win.They both know that if they work long enough and hard enough, miracles might happen. Centuries worth of work.A massive-scale Seeders Universe story that started in the novel Star Mist.

A dead alien ship appears close to human space. But in millions of years, no alien race managed to leave its own galaxy.The alien ship originated in a galaxy over two hundred thousand years of travel away. But the Seeders need to know about the alien race, in case they are a threat.Star Mist takes on the vast scale of the Seeders Universe and expands it even more.Galaxy-spanning science fiction at its very best.

From acclaimed Star Trek writer Dean Wesley Smith comes Rescue Two, the latest novel in the Seeders Universe-a space opera series that offers a vision of hope for humanity in dark times.In deep space, bubbles of void space form to keep a balance between matter, space, and time. Inside these bubbles, time barely exists. Five days for a ship trapped in a bubble might be equal to millions of years in real time.For seven million years, Seeders did not know these bubbles existed and ships kept just vanishing until Chairman Evan West discovered the Void Space Bubbles and learned how to free trapped ships.Now Chairman West, his wife Tammy, and the thirty-five-thousand crew of the Rescue Two must find and free the ancient Seeder ships.A galaxy-spanning rescue mission like no other before it.

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to a not-so-distant future in his acclaimed Seeders Universe series.Mattie Silks must team up with the most unlikely of partners to save the sector from a ruthless dictator. But her problem with Red Simms stems from more than just his work with Innocence Incorporated. She can't keep her hands off him.And he can't seem to keep his hands off her either.With or without love, the two of them must save the galaxy.

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to his fan-favorite Seeders Universe series with a fourth novel, The High Edge.Benny Slade lives in New York City. One moment the city around him (and everyone he knows) seems normal. The next moment, everyone dies.Working to survive among the dead (and plan for a future) feels impossible, but Benny doesn't give up easily. Especially when he meets the woman of his dreams, and she offers to help him and others survive.And then she offers him an even a bigger job, a job that could take him out into the stars.

USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith returns to his fan-favorite Seeder's Universe series with a seventh novel, Star Fall.Seeders never do anything in a small way, including their sports. Matt and Carey, the chairmen of the Starburst ship Star Fall started a yearly relay race from the very front of their ship to the tail and back again. An extreme relay of over nine thousand kilometers run by ten-member teams.But before the race could start, a scout ship vanishes inside a shielded galaxy. Who could put a shield around an entire galaxy? And why?A galaxy-spanning tale of adventure, suspense, and the vast possibilities of space.

The tenth anthology of all-original, never-before-published stories written by fans, for fans.

This new anthology for "Star Trek" fans features never-before published stories spanning the 23rd and 24th centuries, from the early days of Captain Archer and his crew, to the time of James T. Kirk and then on to the later generations of Captains Picard, Sisko, and Janeway.

Torn from the universe by an insatiable cosmic vortex, Earth is trapped in the grotesque parody of reality called the Maelstrom -- along with thousands of other planets, millions of species, billions of warring creatures...all swirling toward ultimate destruction.ALIEN HORRORIt materializes off the Oregon coast in a burst of devastation and tsunamis: an island containing an alien city ... and perhaps the way for Earth to escape the Maelstrom. But the Union soldiers and civilian scientists sent to the strange ruins aren't the only ones who want the island's power. For the humans are soon confronted by unearthly monsters -- the walking-dead Pharons and morphing Sand. And these horrors intend to claim victims on their unholy journey through the Maelstrom, even as the entire island itself begins to disappear.