Mark Noble Space Adventure Series

We've known that the moon is dead since Apollo. But what if something lay dormant in the dust, waiting to be found? This exciting hard science-fiction series begins on the surface of our own moon in the very near future. In 2028, Mark Noble is conducting a survey of a moon crater. The entity secretly grabs a ride back to Moonbase on Mark's buggy. Once in the habitat, it begins to infect the crew. They find themselves in a frightening, helter-skelter adventure with only two possible outcomes: losing or saving the Earth. Moonscape is the latest hard science fiction story from Tony Harmsworth, a First Contact specialist who writes in the style of the old masters. If you like fast-paced adventure, fraught with the additional dangers found in space, then Tony's Moonscape tale has been written especially for you.  Explore the page-turning world of the Mark Noble Space Adventures today!

Moonstruck is the second of the Mark Noble space adventures. We strongly recommend reading Moonscape first. After the frantic escape from the moon at the end of Moonscape, Mark has only just recovered when he discovers that the United States, together with the Chinese and Russians, are planning an invasion of Moonbase, and they want him to command it.  Penny, an old flame of Mark's, is on the mission and this infuriates wife Linda, who has been grounded. Twenty-six others form the crew. Not only is it the biggest space expedition in history, but it also represents the most people ever to have been on the moon at the same time, and the largest number of manned spacecraft in orbit too. Can Mark control the fourteen strong military contingent? As the story develops, he realises that he does not have as much authority as he believed. If Mark has international cooperation and support, how could anything go wrong? Surely a single offensive should be enough? No! The vicious mid-story plot-twist changes absolutely everything. Once again, Harmsworth has combined hard science fiction together with a fanciful, yet plausible story and totally convincing characters.  Find out what happens in Moonstruck.

TRAPPIST-1 – THE SEQUEL TO MOONSCAPE AND MOONSTRUCK Trappist-1 is Mark Noble Space Adventure 3. [It is suggested, but not essential, that you read Moonscape and Moonstruck first.]   Following the 2030 discovery of quantum spolding (space folding), interstellar exploration becomes a possibility. NASA, together with private space exploration companies, begin work on the complex physics, technology, and hardware to turn it into reality.   After a test flight to Mars, more hazardous than anyone anticipated, the starship Spirit and its two Rimor shuttles set off for the dwarf red star, Trappist-1, almost forty light years from the solar system. Haven, the fifth Trappist planet, has continents and seas, icecaps, glaciers and mountains, but the ubiquitous plant life they find is, at first, dull and uninteresting.   However, it doesn't take long for them to discover that Haven isn't a place on which to find shelter. It does, in fact, have the most terrifying secret. As realisation dawns, Mark and his team end up in an existential struggle.   When they finally appear to have resolved their disastrous visit to the planet's surface, they discover an even bigger surprise awaiting them in orbit. It promises so much. Could it be enough to revitalise the whole mission and turn failure into success?   Harmsworth's Mark Noble Space Adventures, of which Trappist-1 is book three, contain no space battles, or fantasy environments, but follow real science as closely as possible. Having said that, in order to travel between the stars, there must some suspension of belief to allow for the development of quantum spolding, for which Tony requires your forgiveness. Who knows, though, whether it might foretell the future?   In this story, Tony blends hard science fiction with a large dollop of imagination, and a substantial pinch of horror to add flavour.

THE SPOLDING CONUNDRUM is book four in the exciting Mark Noble space adventures series.   Following Moonscape and Moonstruck, Mark's team of entity-enhanced humans set off to Trappist-1 in the search for an Earth-like planet. The newly discovered spolding drive, which exploits the difference between normal space and the dark universe, cuts travel time to fractions of what might otherwise be needed. At the end of Trappist-1, book 3, the depleted crew make the horrific discovery that something has gone terribly wrong. The world is different, satellites have vanished, the space station has gone, and only astrophysicist Mary has the slightest idea why.   After the shocking revelation that the problem was caused by the spolding drive, the crew try to analyse what happened and how they might return to their own Earth. Is backtracking the answer? They decide that they have no alternative other than to try. If it didn't work, they could wander, lost, through the local universe until their supplies eventually ran out.   Back in the Trappist-1 system, they learn that things have changed there too, but the biggest surprise is encountered when they orbit the frozen world of icy planet G. They hear distinct radio signals from the surface.   The discovery makes it even more imperative to return to Earth, and soon. There is far more at stake now than just the lives of the Spirit crew. Hundreds more are threatened with the inevitability of a long drawn out death.   Just when plans are beginning to look promising, another paradox hits the crew. One with incredible repercussions.   Will rescue arrive in the nick of time? Find out in The Spolding Conundrum!

Two books in one volume Cybernetic Tyrant Mark and the team have returned from deep space and discover that NASA seems to be run by robots. They are met by one in Earth orbit which refuses to allow them to communicate with Houston and also has locked the visiting scientists from Herade in the passenger compartment. It assumes the aliens are animals and stops all communication between the two species.   Finally, Mark, Anna, Bill, Chan and Mary are shipped back to Earth, but the reception they receive is totally unexpected and frightening. What has happened to their friends and colleagues while they've been away?   Deep Space Visitor - a second adventure in the same volume. After celebrations to welcome the Heradians, Mark's team are discussing how much help they need to occupy their original world in the Trappist-1 system. Development work on the spolding drive has meant that an expedition is also being planned to the pristine Earth the team had accidentally stumbled upon on the first main Trappist-1 expedition.   Just when they begin discussing the plan, Anna walks into the office and announces more information on a vague signal being received from deep in the solar system between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus.   What is it, and why does it lead to a spolding expedition to Nu Lupi, almost fifty lightyears from Earth?

PRISTINE EARTH SINISTER PLANET Again, two great stories in a single volume. Firstly, Mark and the team return to the Pristine Earth that they discovered at the end of their Trappist-1 adventure, only this time they are fully prepared, with researchers, scientists and a military contingent for emergencies. They are surprised to find no humans on the planet, the closest relatives being chimpanzees and gorillas. As the exploration continues, an entire group of scientists suddenly vanishes. The alarm is raised and Mark, accompanied by the military sets out to investigate. They, too, unexpectedly vanish without trace. Something or someone is kidnapping the people from Earth. Who, or what, is the enemy? This is the shorter of the two stories and it moves on to a surprising conclusion. In the main story, Sinister Planet, another team is 500 lightyears from Earth at Kepler 186F, also known as Pangu. Mark's geology buddy, Roy Williams is leading the expedition. The planet has a massive amount of civilisation infrastructure, but the explorers cannot find any people. Did they die out? Did they leave? The buildings and roads are all deteriorating as if abandoned for decades. When Roy's team decide to return to orbit, the engines refuse to fire. Some unknown force seems to be stopping their escape. It becomes even more sinister when they are joined by astronautic engineers who can get the tank engines to fire, but not when attached to the Rimor (shuttle). Strangely, the whole stack can be fired, but not if there are any astronauts on board. How can this be? The force is strangely targeting the humans. There are now seven astronauts on the surface with no way to return to orbit or to home. The sole remaining crew member of the Orion, Carol Appin, returns to the solar system to bring the news to NASA. Mark's team are tasked with solving the mystery. If they fail, they'll be permanently marooned on Pangu. PRISTINE EARTH SINISTER PLANET includes all the familiar characters, Mark, Anna, Tosh, Mary, Bill, Chi and Roy on their frightening mission. Enjoy this latest example of Tony Harmsworth's brand of science fiction and discover how other planets might have encountered similar problems to our own.

THE FIRST FIVE MARK NOBLE SPACE ADVENTURES IN A SINGLE VOLUME -, NEARLY 1,000 PAGES. This is the third compilation of the Mark Noble Space Adventures and includes the full versions of the first five books (six stories) totalling close to one thousand pages – Moonscape, Moonstruck, Trappist-1, The Spolding Conundrum, Cyberneti Tyrant and Deep Space Visitor. Mark Noble's Space Adventures are, with a little author's licence, hard science fiction set in the near future. Expect most of the science to be realistic and believable. The first book, Moonscape, is set on the moon when what appears to be an intelligent parasitic entity infects the occupants of the first Moonbase. Mark and his partner, Linda, discover that the remainder of the Moonbase crew have been taken over. It begins a frantic life-threatening attempt to escape back to Earth, but hopefully not taking any of the parasites with them. The second book, Moonstruck, sees Mark returning to the moon with a multi-national team to recapture the moon from the original possessed crew. It doesn't turn out at all how they expected and the team have to find a way to outmanoeuvre the military back on Earth. The third book sees Mark and his team head for the dwarf red star, Trappist-1, using a newly invented drive which folds space. What they find is more scary than anything they had previously discovered. When they come to return home, something goes badly wrong and they find themselves lost in the entiroverse created by the spolding drive. Book four is The Spolding Conundrum. Our intrepid explorers discover the problem they encountered with spolding space and the adventure continues as they try to find their way back to the Earth from which they originated. In among these trips, they find more than one space folding paradox and something even more fascinating. In book five - Cybernetic Tyrant and Deep Space Visitor - the team return from a spolding mission to find that robots have taken control over NASA. What has happened and how can they return the Space Center to the rightful administrators. The second part of book five finds a message arriving from deep in the solar system. They discover that the deep space visitor originates from a star fifty light years from Earth. A spolding journey to Nu Lupi results, and the visitor's planet is found to be in a desperate state as their star is expanding. Eventually the deep space visitor is tracked down near Saturn and the encounter becomes a puzzling and frightening adventure.