Kirjahaku

We as individuals grow from childhood to adulthood to old age and to death. And so it goes for the evolution of humankind. On the planet with the old twin Suns, Samarium, whose inhabitants have long forgotten their planetary origins, and who remain cut off from other colonized planets, humankind faces its twilight years, with genetic mutation impeding evolution, rather than refreshing it. One boy, Anchie Rantree, carries a rare genetic code that has the potential to rejuvenate the gene pool, and pull it back from the brink of viral suffocation. But he does not care to save the human race, or himself, not until he meets the deeply flawed, famously successful, and painfully beautiful literary celebrity, Krisiana, who has herself succumbed to deathly viral infection. ""A five star novel that should be in your library A good science fiction that grips you and entertains you throughout. Really enjoyed it. A thrillingly scary novel."" Rabia Tanveer for Readers' Favorite.

Max Dreyssig, human skeleton, sits in the South Australian Museum in its Biodiversity Unit, a bluebird perched on his hand. Max Dreyssig, the man, was born in 1850 in Germany and moved to Australia in 1874. He died in the North Adelaide Private Hospital in 1913, two weeks following surgery at the hand of one of the age's great medical professors, Doctor Archibald Watson. Pulling together what little we know about Max's life, this story examines his relationship with the inimitable Professor Watson and the reasons for him leaving his home in Germany following the Franco-Prussian War, in which he had fought. His was a time when the old world, Germany, became a newly confederated European powerhouse and the new Australian city, Adelaide, led the world in political reform and medical experimentation. Giving pony rides to children along Adelaide foreshores during his final years, Max lived alone but was never lonely. Max Dreyssig, Human Skeleton, the story, finally gives 'ole' Max Dreyssig' a voice - and a heart.

Teah Berg waded naked as the day she was born into the moonlit lake until she was waist deep in water. Then she threw herself to the bottom . *** Apocalypse Brown, lowdown land-lawyer, can t explain to his only client, Peter Piper, why the medical examiner has his brother Paulie s brain in a jar of clear liquid. Then things get real crazy when his former secretary, Tanya Berg, twin sister of the recently departed super singing-sensation Teah Berg, arrives at his doorstep for help. Between two-headed dogs and spoiled movie stars and an unyielding City Hall, Pock Brown unravels a grisly trade in human desperation and vanity. A head-spinning future of transplant technology reveals itself to him in the most ghoulish of ways. Join him and his impromptu assistant, Tanya, on a bawdy, irreverent, and macabre adventure as they discover what happened to Teah Berg and as they try to keep their heads where they belong, on their shoulders.

As global oil reserves finally dry up and rising ocean levels flood coastal areas, oil companies continue to deny evidence of global warming and set their sights on off-world sources of carbon fuels. Their target? Jupiter's water-rich moon, Europa. Only one thing stands between Big Oil and Europa's rich energy reserves: the moon may contain life, and the presence of even microorganisms would ban resource harvesting under international space law. A manned mission plans to scout the moon for life and, if none exists, claim it for the United States. But powerful interests have embedded operatives in the crew, with orders to ensure that life on Europa-if it exists-doesn't stand in the way of energy extraction. A glimpse of the upcoming energy crisis and the steps humanity must take to survive its addiction to carbon fuels. ""IndieReader Approved. Plenty of high-stakes scenes are included.... ."" .".".suspense and intrigue on almost every page."" Paul Johnson for Readers' Favorite

Single mom Blondie Bing works for Naskie World. She reads the execution sentence, and AJ, her partner, pulls the trigger. The world is minus one more killer who thought he could beat justice. At Naskie World, everything follows a strict protocol, except on one night when AJ leads Blondie deep into the underbelly of Carrington City and kills three people and misses the fourth, the Right Honorable Payne, City Prefect. AJ acts without orders, without execution sentences, without apparent reason. Blondie wakes to a changed world. The lawless violence she tried to escape her entire life returns in the shape of Trailey, a convicted killer, now free, now working for the broken system that is swallowing her whole. Masks, guns, and law - they don't work anymore. Blondie needs to save her son. She needs to stay alive.

Human Gods, Dark Matter, Galactic Love. Everything is possible...when people become God. Chris Mathews puts his life on hold in the eighth millennium and leaves behind his wife Leanne to join Professor Andrew Reichstein and Hailey Missentra on a ride to a slipstream at the edge of a black hole. They plan exiting the stream a few seconds into the future to prove that time ""emergence"" is possible. However, they emerge into a time beyond their reckoning and find their worlds changed forever. Chris, in particular, must decide whether to travel even farther into the future, into an infinite future, when humanity becomes God, and seek the missing information that will bring his wife Leanne back to him. And what will this mean to his friends and their survival? ""5 stars I can honestly say J.J.'s vision of the future is unique. The science and ideas are very big but he pulls it all together to create a great story."" Ray Simmons for Readers' Favorite

Going back where you came from is harder if it's where you already are... Migrants arrive in the Lucky Country from lands their forebears knew for a thousand years. They know where they are and why they're here and what they face. Then there are their children...born in a country that can't spell their names, and of a heritage that doesn't know they were born. Reminded every day that he doesn't quite belong, and reminding himself where others forget or couldn't care less, second generation Ed Kaspar sets out on a journey to not only be an Australian but to be his country, to "be Australia," with nineteenth century bush-balladist Henry Lawson as his guide. Determined to "romance the swag," Ed abandons his career for outback sheep stations. He works his way to an iconic identity while at a crossroads in his life, while his nation is at a crossroads of its own. The chronicle explores the changing face of Australia, and a name among many that it went by, Ed Kaspar. With its small town focus, A Country Of Our Clay nonetheless brings a universality to a narrative with the power to awaken and share wherever anyone needs a place to call home. Published by Light River Books The World's A Better Place Because We Read Books...