Bøger af Steve Lang

26 more short stories that will amaze you. In Stranger in a Strange Land, Jared Talbert, the Marine commander of a deep space mission, is searching for Celestine, a cargo ship loaded with precious metals that never returned to earth. When he and his crew find the cargo vessel it is derelict and orbiting an uncharted planet, with evidence that it had been attacked before losing communication with home. Jared and his crew are soon attacked by weaponized satellites as their ship the USS Rapier is destroyed and his crew killed. Jared becomes stranded on the planet when his escape craft crash lands. He will have to flee from human eating ice giants, and navigate an abandoned human city to make it to a seven mile high black tower in the city's center. There he will confront the image of his own self as an astronaut from this planet thousands of years in the past, and realize that he was a rescuer of the Atlantis continent inhabitants when it began to sink into the ocean on earth. As maintenance robots battle the ice giants far below him Jared finds a ship in the black tower hangar that can get him home but will he escape certain doom? In Let's Do The Time Warp! A young computer hacker steals a time travel device from a secret underground government facility and uses it to open a bubble in time. He is transported to a planet of undead, where he meets Shannon Dolby-a stranded pilot-and discovers that her sister Lyric has been captured by the undead and he must decide whether to use his time travel device to save Shannon's sister, or leave them there and save himself?

In the year 2345, Anslar, a nation ruled by a government bent on dominating global politics, is violently attacked when four blimps collide with three towers-the Anslar Federated Center-representing the financial center of the country. The impact from each blimp and expertly planted explosives inside the towers cause them to collapse, killing hundreds and igniting the fury of Anslar's people and her government. Joe Stinson, a Cyber Security Engineer for the Anslaran government and a survivor of this tragedy, is recruited by the most powerful man in the world, the Anslaran Chancellor, to become an agent and international hit man for the Central Acumen Bureau (CAB). The Chancellor claims that Joe's missions will avenge the attack on the towers and help the Anslaran economy recover, but Joe unknowingly begins furthering a dark agenda devised by shape-shifting reptilian extraterrestrials to conquer and destroy the people of Earth. With the aid of an alien grey named Telerum and a fellow agent named Stacey, Joe will have his eyes opened to a long-hidden world of betrayal, natural resource theft, and murderous ambition, all perpetrated by his own government. Will Joe find the redemption he seeks for his actions on behalf of the CAB? Is the Anslaran Chancellor all that he pretends to be? How will Joe and Telerum conquer overwhelming odds to save Anslar and the rest of Earth from the evil reptilian threat?

In the year 2060, the biosphere of Earth is crumbling, and humans have limited time to evacuate the planet. By piloting a secret captured ET spacecraft, Colonel Derrick MacDonald must travel with his team to a planet forty light years from home, open an other worldly cosmic portal back to Earth, and pave the the way for humanity's escape to the new world. When Colonel MacDonald reaches the new planet, Eritria, centaurs attack the crew, steal the cosmic portal, and kidnap Stephanie Brandt, the ship's doctor. Rescued by Dante a wolven warrior, the Colonel must ally with the wolven to get Stephanie back, retrieve the cosmic portal, and aid the wolven in their fight against the centaurs. Can Colonel MacDonald accomplish his mission and reunite with his family on the other side of the galaxy? Humanity's last hope lies among the stars.

THE SAGA CONTINUES... Gregor is murdered by Ragnok's trap as he escapes justice with his master Asura at the end of the Centaurian war. Mac, Dante, and Ramos begin to track Ragnok to the Fire Lands where they believe he is hiding. Along the way they meet a wily wolven sea captain who agrees to carry them across the Death Sea in his dilapidated ship the Gracey May. Attacked by a giant sea monster during their journey, rescued by a reptilian prince, and told their magical world is dying, they are set on a path to retrieve an ancient and mysterious artifact, The Tablet of Destinies lost in the underworld of Valuria. Meanwhile, a foul poison, Ick, prevented from spreading by Centaur mages, has been set free as a side effect of their demise, and it is infecting the free people of Eritria, including Mac's daughter Serena. If it is not stopped Serena will die. It will take everything they have to accomplish their goal with the aid of Lilith, an Anunnaki goddess, who challenges everything Mac believed about the creation of his own people on Earth, and she becomes the object of his desire. Can the four of them accomplish their mission to destroy the Ick, and foil a resurgence of Asura and his father Broad Axe in time to prevent all of the races of Eritria from disappearing forever?