Kirjahaku

Space Adventure.In the far future, humanity has populated the galaxy. While prospecting in the outer reaches of a solar system, three friends find something they didn't expect in the cold dark. Something smashed flat in an asteroid cluster, waiting there for three-billion years. The universe started in a Big Bang and may now end in a Big Poof. The trio has their own itches to scratch using the money from selling their find. Who cares? After all, they're not heroes.Heat and Light is Science Fiction story with plausible future science and technology as a backdrop. Artificial intelligence, aliens, other dimensions, and a one-time bit of time travel.EXCERPT: "I would sit in the open airlock. Just sit on the deck, my legs hanging over the edge, gathering it all in-wanting to drink it, breathe it, float in it. Be alone with it. It was a longing to belong. Belong to the biggest thing that ever was, or ever will be. Be a part of the cold dark." SandyFROM THE BACK COVERThere was a fly in the thermodynamic soup we call the universe. A small problem that would end everything; you, me, stars, galaxies, time. While working the problem, I became ruler of the universe, king of the hill, a prisoner of my own power, a result of my actions, cause and effect. No good deed goes unpunished. I really just want to be ten years old again. No worries. No authority. No responsibilities. Recycle my life. They tell me they can make that happen, but they don't recommend it. HornblowerBook Club ReviewThere is nothing I dislike about this book. The amazing story line that ended well and uniquely. I appreciate this more, knowing that it is the product of a man's strong and creative imagination. The plot, the characters, the technology, the vocabulary, and the concept are all on point. Heat and Light is an 'advanced-tech' book, as the level of technology used in this book is beyond this present world. Consequently, advanced-space-technology terminologies are well used. Hence, I recommend this book to readers who like 'tech' books, adventure books, alien' books, and sci-fi books. Lovers of Star Wars and The Guardian of the Galaxy will surely love this too.

SPACE ADVENTURE: Sequel to Paradox Twins.SPOILER ALERT - but not much of one - Gorlack eats a tasty Federal Agent.What would you do with a lifespan of more than ten thousand years? In this sequel to Paradox Twins, Riley's life continues from the near to the very far future, from the sub-arctic Yukon where she tries to lead a solitary and rustic life, wanting to forget, to a place that may not be in space or time.She refuses to be a hero, responding to disasters and being at the beck and call of others, but with the help of her AI friend, sometimes she steps in, traveling to Mars and other galaxies as the first human to leave Earth's solar system. She would prefer time and mother nature to take their own course. After all, they have been doing that quite well for over thirteen billion years.

A young woman claims she came home to find she had already arrived, facing an exact copy of herself. Same memories, same life. She describes her search for answers as moving through time, space, and other dimensions, with a few murders along the way. New York, Tibet, Mexico, Russia, and beyond. Either she's both nuts or this really happened. CHAPTER 1 19 May 2165 Patient file: Riley Patterson Reporting: Scott Freelin, Ph.D. I saw a very unusual young woman in my office today. She is a resident here at the Henderson Foundation. While she is not legally required to stay here, she has made no request or attempts to leave. Her physicians and psychiatrist tell me she has no harmful psychosis and is not a danger to herself or to others. The patient reported her name as Riley Patterson. She appears to be in her late twenties, intelligent, educated, and well-spoken. When she's impatient or irritated, her dialog becomes a bit rough at the edges. She has some interesting anachronistic patterns in her speech and word selection. There was a woman, with the name Riley Patterson, associated with the Foundation back in 2019. Those records simply indicate she was employed. Of course, she isn't the same woman. Before she is discharged, I have been asked to conduct and record a thorough interview. "Okay, doctor. Get your machine running, and I'll tell you the story as it happened. you'll get a first-hand account of the events leading up to the Great Shift of '28. That's 2028 to you. Yeah, I know it was a hundred and twenty-seven years ago. I was thirty-four at the time, but it all started when I was twenty-five, I mean when we were twenty-five, but I skipped a few years coming here."

SPACE & TIME ADVENTURE: Book 2 of the Riley TrilogySpoiler alert - but not much of one - Gorlack eats a tasty Federal Agent.What would you do with a lifespan of more than ten thousand years?In this sequel, Riley's life continues, from the near to very far future, from the sub-arctic Yukon where she wants to lead a solitary and rustic life to forget, to a place that may not be in space or time.CHAPTER 1 - Earth Year 2252Humans are getting closer. It won't be long before they send out more than a few unmanned probes beyond the heliosphere. It's time to move the station.Michael? Have you figured out how to move that heap a bit further out?Sorry, Riley. I can't find a workaround for the hard-code locks. I've tried everything.So, are we going to let the station sit there until it's discovered and boarded, or are we going to have to turn it into dust? You know what would happen if they found it.There is one solution. We've talked about it before.I know. But leaving the galaxy is not what I would call a walk in the park. It scares me a bit to go so far away from home.When was the last time you were aboard Freedom, other than to climb into the Auto-doc?You know very well that it's been five years since I took him out. It was my last trip out there.Well, you might not want to go into the cold dark, but I'm going to have to move soon, and I can't do that without a ride. You're going to have to come get me.Eighty years ago - it doesn't feel that long ago - I lost everything that mattered to me during the brief tit-for-tat nuclear exchange. In 2171 the Chinese launched a limited strike to warn off anyone who might choose to interfere with their invasion of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. When the strike killed my family and friends, I'd been aboard my ship Freedom to retrieve a data-cube from the space platform. The only thing that kept me from returning to Earth as an avenging angel was Michael, my AI friend. He put Freedom in lockdown in the flight bay, preventing me from laying waste to the Chinese. I didn't want my pound of flesh as retribution; I wanted tons of it.My new home is near Dawson City in the Yukon Territory, about a twelve-hour drive across the border from Anchorage Alaska. The wild isolation was my solace. I thought relocating to the subarctic from a tropical island would provide some psychological distance, relocation and a river of alcohol. Other than Michael being in my head via Q-com, my wolf-husky hybrids, Jasper and Jinks have been my only live-in companions for almost eighty years-my only long-term friends. Normal humans die too quickly.I'm going to retrieve Michael, but I haven't told him yet. I need another two weeks to finish my caribou hunt and to pack in supplies for winter, even though it's only early September, I don't know how long I'll be gone. I've got an ice air-boat that can navigate the river after it's frozen over solid in mid-December when the ferry stops running, but grocery shopping is not my favorite chore during the frozen months. Hunting is out of the question then too, unless you want to eat arctic fox.It doesn't officially become winter for a while, but my cold weather pack is in the back of my ATV, along with some meaty snacks for my hunting party. Sometimes we chew on the same dried, salted strips. I always take mine first to remind them who's boss. A well-defined pack order is essential for dogs, every dog needs a job. It's in their nature to think that way; a dog without a job becomes depressed and despondent. Our destination is twenty kilometers away, but still on my property. We'll set up camp and trek out to the overlook in the morning.

A stand-alone novelWhere have all the stars gone?Living ten billion years in the future, twelve-year-old Darby has plans to follow in the footsteps of her explorer uncle Max and her lost father, to see the universe, or what's left of it. She uses her unique talents to clear her path. Spaceships, AIs, and a once human friend are her tools. Twenty years later, her final destiny is not what she or anyone else could have expected.CHAPTER 1Uncle Max says, even at twice the speed of light you can't outrun your past or your future. Mom says not to listen to him. We're the last, but everyone says the final thing is a long way off. Max isn't so sure. He told me he's looking into it.On my last birthday, I was twelve; the universe was fourteen or thirty-two billion, depending on who you listen to. If it's thirty-two, it's lasted about two billion more than it should have, after the discovery, give or take a few hundred million years, I guess. While it will probably go on forever, nothing living or moving will last; the big stretch will see to that. Physicists say that the apparent time extension is because everything has slowed down or sped up, or there's more energy or less than they thought, long ago. In other words, they don't know spit about it. Mom doesn't like it when I spit. She says it's unladylike.Anyway, it really doesn't matter to me today. We're going on a field trip to the only star we can see from our system. They say it's the only other one in our universe. I don't believe them. We haven't looked far enough, yet. This trip is a rite of passage; it lets the youngsters see, firsthand, that there's more in the out-there than we can see from home. When you get older, that becomes important for some reason. None of us care. For most, this is their first trip off-planet, out of our planetary system. I've been to all three of our moons, but that doesn't count. We do have other things hanging in the sky, like our three moons and other planets. I've forgotten some of their names. We learned those last year, but after the test, my brain didn't see fit to keep that information organized for easy retrieval. If someone started listing them, I think I could spot it if they added one or two wrong names or left one or two out. There's eleven.When we get to the only other star, Horizon, we'll be able to look back at ours. I've seen pictures from there; our sun is just a tiny point of light in the big black. Two points of light rotating around a common center. Horizon has only one planet, which is strange. At least it's not all hot and gushy like our planetary neighbor, Johnna, or a huge gassy one like Veeder. We'll land and be able to walk around. I wonder who named those planets; what were they thinking? I could look it up, but I don't care that much. Not only does Horizon have only one planet, but there's no asteroid belt or comets or any other hunks of rock or ice-volatiles zipping around it. That's been a complete mystery since we got here, around twelve thousand years ago.Our last home was set to be engulfed in its enlarging sun, so we left. Well, not right away, it took a few thousand years to locate this system. They weren't even sure if any others still existed-at least any we could get to. If they hadn't found this one, I wouldn't have been born.