Books tagged: space colonies

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Stewards of the Flame    by Sylvia Engdahl
Price: Free! 164560 words. Published by Ad Stellae Books  on March 15, 2010. .

When starship captain Jesse Sanders is detained by a dictatorial medical regime on the colony planet Undine, he is plunged into a life involving ordeals and joys unlike anything he has ever imagined. This controversial novel deals with the so-called paranormal powers of the human mind and appeals to a wide range of readers who question the dominant medical philosophy of today's society.
Promise of the Flame    by Sylvia Engdahl
Price: $2.99 USD. 168100 words. Published by Ad Stellae Books  on March 15, 2010. .

Three hundred people, isolated on a raw new planet in the hope that their psi powers will become the foundation of a culture that can someday shape the future of humankind. If they don’t starve first or lose heart in the face of hardships beyond any they imagined--and if their kids can be raised to believe in the dream. Though a sequel to Stewards of the Flame, this novel is complete in itself.
Blindfold    by Kevin J Anderson
Price: $4.99 USD. 135620 words. Published by WordFire Press  on June 24, 2010. .

Falsely accused of murder on the colony world of Atlas, Troy Boren trusts the young Truthsayer Kalliana . . . until, impossibly, she convicts him. Kalliana doesn't realize her power is fading, but soon the evidence becomes impossible to ignore. The Truthsayer drug Veritas has been diluted and someone in the colony is selling smuggled telepathy. Justice isn't blind — it's been blinded!
Climbing Olympus    by Kevin J Anderson
Price: $4.99 USD. 96320 words. Published by WordFire Press  on June 24, 2010. .

They were prisoners, exiles, pawns of a corrupt government. They became Dr. Rachel Dycek’s adin, surgically transformed to survive on the surface of Mars. Still exiles & pawns, they exist to terraform Mars for human colonists, not themselves. Adin leader Boris Tiban tries to sabotage the transformation. His people will die unless Rachel Dycek can save the Mars Project and the race she created.
Future Wasn't    by Ryan M. Williams
Price: $0.99 USD. 5070 words. Published by Glittering Throng Press  on September 9, 2010. .

Rodney dreamed of a future with intelligent robots, flying cars and space colonies. What happened to that future? What if he could find a way to change the past in order to change the future?
The Time Of Leaving    by Kevin Marshall
Price: $1.99 USD. 6810 words. Published on September 27, 2010. .

This is a Science Fiction story, sad and grim and lonely, but in its way beautiful, and with a moral laced deep in the kernel
Symphony    by Douglas Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 8810 words. Published on April 3, 2011. .

Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. The colony ship, The Last Chance, has reached the planet Aurora. Earth is dying, and this alien world is humanity’s last refuge. The planet seems like a dream come true, until the colonists realize that they aren't alone after all. Something else lives on Aurora. And it doesn't want to share its home.
The Weitzmann Saga - Journey    by Solon ben Earl
Price: $0.99 USD. 3480 words. Published on May 10, 2011. .

It's the 22'nd century and most of Earth's population has moved into orbiting habitats in the Trojan points, in order to escape pollution, wars and global warming. This is the story of the beginning of the new Diaspora - how the Jewish people responded to their latest challenge.
Crossroads of the Galaxy    by Stephen Goldin
Price: $4.99 USD. 41370 words. Published by Parsina Press on June 1, 2011. .

Young Alex Bredakoff always wanted to be a star trader. But it wasn't until his family moved to the Nexus space colony and he met Kasinda Venderling--daughter of a trader, and someone who's been plying the star lanes her entire life--that he realized how truly exciting--and dangerous--his life could become.
Reclamation    by Eli Robertson
Price: $2.99 USD. 108360 words. Published on June 2, 2011. .

It's been eighty-seven years since their world had been abandoned. Its inhabitants left to die from disease and starvation. Those who survived, learned to tame their world and prosper. Then the first ships arrived bringing their advanced technology with them. Those who desired power and domination would use this new technology for conquest, setting off a brutal civil war.