Galactics should never, ever, display their powers in public. This is the first rule, the one all Galactics follow, and the one that Mano's uncle breaks after having one too many drinks. When his uncle is arrested for violating Galactic law in a bar, Mano Orion, a senior in high school, finally finds out that he is also part of that powerful group: he is also a Galactic. As he learns about his heritage and what being part of the Galactics means, Mano begins hearing about other arrests, too many to be normal. With his friend, Eme, Mano launches an investigation, one that none of the adults want to allow. As they struggle to convince other Galactics to help them launch a rescue mission, Mano and Eme have to learn to harness their own powers as best they can while also coming to terms with how they feel about each other. But nothing can prepare them for the secrets and lies that await them when they find the imprisoned Galactics. With their lives and the entire history of their people unraveling, Mano and Eme will have to trust each other and their powers to be the leaders the Galactics need. Questions & Answers with Everett Peacock Q: "The Galactics," just where did you come up with this title? Everett: A good friend of mine, Shiloh Orion, introduced me to the idea of humans having come to Earth from somewhere in the galaxy, and not just from evolution. The idea slowly grew into a fascination with the religious implications of such a possibility. That along with the holes in our human record, especially the cultural aspects (who built the Pyramids, etc) finally demanded a story be told. Q: Your dedication at the beginning of the book, and I quote: "celebrate the courage of youth, it has saved humanity from the sins of its elders." What does that mean? Everett: I read somewhere that if not for the risk taking aspect of young people, that desire to test the limits, to reject conservative ideas, has contributed more to human evolution, even human survival more than anything else. Older people move into a less risk taking mode as they finally discover their true lack of immortality. Young people don't think like that. They are ready to take it all by the horns and make the world a better place. As for the "sins of its elders" all one has to do is look around at the problems with the Earth, with civilization. Was any of that created by young people? Of course not. We waste this most valuable of all resources, our young people. Who starts the wars, crashes the economy in greed, spies on us, etc, etc? It's the older people, the "elders." Given a chance, young people are our real only hope to fix the things that have been corrupted. Q: Is this a book for pre-teens? Everett: Probably not. There are some serious concepts floated between the characters. There is death, and there is some violence that contributes directly to the story. I'd recommend it for high school on up to "elders" (insert smiley face here). Q: I have to admit that when I got to the end of the book, I was hooked and ready for the next installment. When will that happen? Everett: As you remember then, one of the main characters has evolved into an entirely new persona, intent on correcting the mistakes of some particular people. He'll need a book or two to get that done. 2014 is a very promising year indeed!

TOP AUTHORS, including 8 New York Times best-selling authors, imagine sports in intergalactic, Olympic-like competitions of the future. George R.R. Martin, Larry Correia, Mercedes Lackey, Gene Wolfe, Robert Silverberg, Mike Resnick, Seanan McGuire, David Farland and many more. Eighteen stories, eighteen different sports, many never written about in science fiction before. FUTURE SPORTS! The Olympic Games—pushing skills, minds, brains and bodies to their limits in the ultimate competition on Earth. But once mankind has reached the stars, playing sports will travel with us. Yet galactic sports come with new challenges and possibilities. And new dangers. From downhill figure skating to horse racing with alien life forms; from baseball played with speedboats to basketball on Mars and golf on the Moon; from alien opponents to literally death defying stakes,Galactic Games takes the competition to a whole new level. Includes stories by top selling authors George R.R. Martin, Mercedes Lackey, Larry Correia, Todd McCaffrey, David Farland, and Seanan McGuire as well as legends Robert Silverberg, Randall Garrett, Gene Wolfe, Mike Resnick, Jack C. Haldeman, and more. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Mission: Tomorrow, edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt: “This themed anthology . . . will appeal to a wide range of readers, who will appreciate the diversity of stories . . . a solid introduction to a classic genre.”—Kirkus “Editor Schmidt adds grandmasters to a mix of newer established names and balances the tragic with the humorous.”—Publishers Weekly About Shattered Shields, edited by Jennifer Brozek and Bryan Thomas Schmidt: “In this well-built anthology, seventeen original stories cut to the heart of military fantasy, diving directly into the most exciting moments of dramatic bravery, grand battles, and life-changing heroism. . . . Readers who prefer to cut straight to the action, but want more depth than pure hack-and-slash, will find these offerings appealing.”—Publishers Weekly “An inventive and thought-provoking set of tales that capture the bravery and terrors of battle. Carries the banner of military fantasy proudly.”—John Marco, author of The Bronze Knight Series About The Raygun Chronicles, edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt: “Fans of sf should enjoy this stylistically varied homage to a genre as old as the fiction . . . ”—Library Journal About Beyond the Sun, edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt: “Beyond the Sun mixes courage, redemption, and stark terror in tales of distant worlds. Buckle in.”—Jack McDevitt, author of Firebird

If Thomas Pynchon wrote science fiction, Galactic Rapture might be the result. Earth in the year 2344 is a small player in a galaxy of some highly advanced planets - and some incredibly backward ones. A breathtakingly wealthy and sophisticated people, the Galactics keep 40,000 of their 42,000 planets in permanent quarantine, or 'Enclave', so their primitive inhabitants can serve as sources of entertainment. Now, called 'Terra', Earth has two lucrative exports: a perversely engaging mass entertainment medium known as 'senso' and Earth religions, of which the jaded Galactics can't get enough. Terra's greatest success story, the Universal (Roman) Catholic Church, has left its birth planet to thrive on one of its own, fittingly called Vatican, where priestly sex abuse and imperial corruption take on astonishing new forms. A theology called 'serial incarnation' teaches that God incarnates his son over and over, sending him to planet after planet. The Church has grown rich from this doctrine by charging huge fees to reveal to individual planets who their Messiah is and whether or not their historic religious leaders are genuine. overheard telling the pope that his new formula can predict where God will send his son next - an Enclave planet where most Galactics, even those in power, are forbidden. Attention centres on the rumoured new Christ, named Arn Parek, a con-man who becomes hotly sought by the Galactics. This novel is an iconoclastic, darkly hilarious epic, packed with hypocritical cardinals, scheming Mormons, religious bunco artists, and cynical media manipulators. Called a landmark in the new alternative science fiction, Galactic Rapture is an engaging satire on the power of religion, worship, and 'infotainment' in the future.

It seems to us that some people are getting to know the Galactic Federation of Light. Therefore, we decided writing some books about it. This one is the first. May it serve you. You personally!

Alexander Thorsson is a frustrated ex-football player and a cashiered Air Force officer, now living life out of a suitcase as an airline pilot. He always thought hed amount to something morethe people of the galaxy think so too. The Galactics have watched Humans for thousands of years; Humans are the most physically powerful, most adaptable and most brutally brilliant sentients in the galaxy. However, when Alexander the Great boasted that his conquests would continue, Even to the everlasting and innumerable stars. the Galactics took him at his word. They live in constant fear that someday Alexander will rise again and lead his legions to conquer the stars. Everyone knows this except Humansand Alexander. Still, the exotic and masterful Nazeera of Chem kidnaps Alexander from Terra and sentences him to death on the fantastic prison planet of Pantrixnia. That should have been the end of Alexander but somehow he refuses to die quietly; given one final chance at destiny Alexander forges ahead and becomes the legend everyone was afraid of. Galactic conspiracy revolves around him, splintering the Galactics into factions vying to ally with Alexander, negotiate with him or to destroy the threat of Alexander and Earth for all time. Earth is caught between its own brutal history and the reality of its insignificance; only Alexander can save his planet from destruction and save the Galactics from destroying themselves.

The 4 year journey of Celestine Star, founder of the "Galactic Earth Council" (GEC) and the GEC members. It reveals a major unfoldment for humanity in meeting in the high mountains of northern California where they experienced contact with our Ultraterrestrial ancestors, called the Star Kin. In this epic story, Celestine tells her life story of how she became a Extraterrestrial contactee at an early age, which prepared her to found and lead the GEC "Skywatch" ceremonial circles as a guide and ambassador to the High Spiritual Council and the Galactic Star Federation. The Galactic Earth Council book opens the doorway for all of humanity to know and understand there is a reintegration taking place on earth. The "Reintegration", as the Star Kin call it the process wherein humanity will once again become part of the greater galactic family of beings that exist throughout this solar system, our galaxy, and the cosmos. Come discover how a few staunch citizens of earth became some of the first to make contact with the Ultraterrestrials on a regular basis for 4 years and continue to have positive and enlightening relationships with their galactic Star Kin.

What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination.