The Evolved Series

In space, when accidents happen, they go exponential fast.   Faster than eyes and ears can keep up. Stick as many bells, whistles, and readouts into a suit as you like. You'll still die with your mind trying to play catch-up. Riggers, those EVA workers who build and maintain the space stations, call it "death by task saturation."   But suppose you could practice echo-location with the direct perception of a dolphin? Or smell chemical changes keenly as a dog, perceive magnetic fields like a shark, and detect heat changes with the infrared vision of a pit viper? Your chances of survival mount a hyperbolic curve. Now the scientists at L5 have developed brain implants from various animals to connect from the suit sensors directly to the human brain.   But back on Earth, an increasingly powerful evangelical movement insists that when God created man in His image, He sure didn't throw in any snakes or fish. They accuse the colony of trying to create a Godless "super-race."   Now war looms as Earth threatens to come up and remove the implants by force.   The Big Empty begins a journey of exploration into the question: what truly defines human? A thoughtful yet action-filled science fiction saga that weaves between Inner and Outer Space, near and far future, the series invites you to truly new frontiers.

An O'Neill Cylinder jury-rigged into a generation ship creaks, groans, and stutters through deep space searching for some haven it can't possibly reach.   For the scientifically oriented Riggers, the habitat's only hope lies in discovering some technological miracle. Accordingly they push their programs of brain enhancement toward ever more speculative — and dangerous — frontiers.   For the colony of evangelical Christians trapped here by circumstance,  the ship approaches a "point of no return" beyond which their souls will pass beyond God's reach. They demand the ship turn around — or they will destroy the habitat before their souls face damnation.   Amid this turmoil two young people, a Christian bee-keeper and a budding physicist, fall in love. But can hearts bridge this star-crossed gap as faith and science build momentum on a collision course?   Haunting and highly-charged, Point of No Return features a poignant examination of science, faith, love, and conscience. Though second in the epic science fiction saga The Evolved, this tale also functions as a stand-alone that will enthrall both your heart and mind.

An alien ship adrift in space, storm-wracked and abandoned. Harmless?   So it appears, though the sleepers suspended in cryo inspire alarm. Definitely humanoid, but mutated toward a skeletal, almost insectoid look. And why those over-sized jaws and teeth?   After installing fail-safes on the cryo chamber, the crew begin to explore the ship. Though badly damaged, the alien ship reveals a technology vastly different from their own, and much more organically based. Repeated sweeps show no signs of life.   So what starts killing the crew?   In The Outcasts, horror lurks behind every tangle of wires, every thicket of pipes, and every computer readout.   Though easily read as a stand-alone, The Outcasts forms the third volume of the epic science fiction series The Evolved. Chilling and highly atmospheric, The Outcasts will sweep you along on a pulse-pounding tale of terror in space.

Two centuries ago, Earth forced a rebellious party of space colonists to flee the solar system in a jury-rigged habitat never meant for interstellar travel.   Now they've come roaring back. Existing as a Group Consciousness, the race calling itself "the Evolved" quickly sends the navies of Earth and her colonies reeling.   Fast Cruiser Captain Arvada Sattar, of the Peregrine colony, fights an isolated guerilla war against the conquerors. But she faces condemnation from her own government, which sees surrender as the only option. Meanwhile her brilliant tactical officer, Sahan Kotori, finds himself increasingly drawn to explore an artifact of the Group Mind — a bizarre and hostile landscape where a single misstep will leave behind nothing but an eternal scream.   The fourth book of an epic science fiction series, The Evolved carries space war into a future where the mind becomes the greatest weapon, yet can never unshackle itself from the heart. Experience this gripping and unique saga on the far frontiers of human experience.

As the Evolved continue to hammer away at Earth's colonies, Peregrine Captain Arvada Sattar now leads a fleet of ships in rebellion against their own government's demand to surrender. Driven to desperate tactics, she plunges her ships into solar atmospheres right to the edge of their survival margin. Then beyond.   Continuing his explorations into the Evolved Group Mind, Sahan encounters "the Terror Barrier." He believes it may provide the key to victory. The catch? Like a Black Hole, whatever enters the Terror Barrier can never escape.   Then the voice of a long-dead Peregrine emerges amid the chaos, offering to lead him. To victory? Or to share her all-too-evident madness?   The fifth book in the epic science fiction series The Evolved, Holobrain brings the saga into new dimensions of both space and mind.  

They took his body. They took his mind.   The Evolved even took his love, and transformed it into hate.   In return, they gave Sahan Kotori an artificial body. In this form he leads the Grinder troops in a death-hunt for Arvada Sattar, leader of the Peregrine revolt and Sahan's former lover.   As Arvada hunts him in turn. Through battle after battle, with the future of humanity depending on the outcome.   Mercy is not an option. Nor is love.   The God Machine expands the vast sweep of the Evolved series to new heights of courage, sacrifice, and wonder. Do not miss the mind-bending conclusion of this epic science fiction series.

He remembers … dying.   Remembers the ship blown open around him. Remembers calling out ARVADA even as the sun burned out his eyes. Then death.   But now a fragment of awareness creeps into … something. Something with no feeling. No body. No hands or legs. No eyes, no ears. No mouth.  No breath.   Only a great black void.   Then the cry: ARVADA!   And with it, hate.   Through many battles Arvada Sattar's guerilla war against the Evolved brought only victory. Now her fabled luck begins to run thin. During her last few forays the enemy seems to guess her every move beforehand. Then she realizes.   Sahan. Not dead after all, but somehow revived and in some form made a weapon — against her.   One of them must die. Or maybe both.   A saga of battles in both Inner and Outer space, Grinder brings this seven-volume science fiction epic to new heights of tension. Come along on a deeply realized, multi-faceted voyage into the future.