A message from space leads to a desperate race against time and across
space to our nearest stellar neighbor in a new hard science fiction
thriller from Travis S. Taylor and Les Johnson.
2072. At the lunar farside radio observatory, an old-school radio
broadcast is detected, similar to those broadcast on Earth in the 1940s,
but in an unknown language, coming from an impossible source--Proxima
Centauri. While the nations of Earth debate making first contact, they
learn that the Proximans are facing an extinction-level disaster,
forcing a decision: will Earth send a ship on a multiyear trip to render
aid?
Interstellar travel is not easy, and by traveling at the speeds required
to arrive before disaster strikes at Proxima, humans will learn
firsthand the time-dilating effects of Einstein's Special Relativity and
be forced to ponder ultimate questions: What does it mean to be human?
What will it take to share the stars with another form of life? What if
I return younger than my own children? The answers are far from
academic, for they may determine the fate of not one, but two,
civilizations.
About Travis S. Taylor:
"[E]xplodes with inventive action."--Publishers Weekly on Travis S.
Taylor's The Quantum Connection
"[Warp Speed] reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum . . . You
won't want to put it down."--John Ringo
About Stellaris: People of the Stars, coedited by Les Johnson:
"[A] thought-provoking look at a selection of real-world challenges
and speculative fiction solutions. . . . Readers will enjoy this
collection that is as educational as it is entertaining."--Booklist
"This was an enjoyable collection of science fiction dealing with
colonizing the stars. In the collection were several gems and the
overall quality was high."--Tangent
About Mission to Methone, by Les Johnson:
"The spirit of Arthur C. Clarke and his contemporaries is alive and well
in Johnson's old-fashioned first-contact novel, set in 2068. . . .
includes plenty of realistic detail and puts fun new spins on familiar
alien concepts. . . . There's a great deal here for fans of early hard
SF."--Publishers Weekly
"With equal parts science fiction and international intrigue. . . . an
exciting, fast-paced read that you will not want to put
down."--Booklist
About Rescue Mode, by Ben Bova and Les Johnson:
". . . a suspenseful and compelling narrative of the first human
spaceflight to Mars."--Booklist
