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"A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in twenty-four hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space-not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its...
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Orbital Maneuvers takes you for the ride of a lifetime!Damaged and stranded in orbit by a catastrophic asteroid impact on the Earth, the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour has only one chance for survival - get to the International Space Station. But a crew member's homicidal actions to save himself at any cost, threaten everyone on board, and their only chance to return to Earth.
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WHIPPING UP A STORM
Alicia Brennan runs the Orbital Café beneath the Celestial Stays Dome. Every day she tends to exclusive clientele.
She loves her work. Her high standards are legendary. Customer satisfaction is off the charts. But something is missing.
Her grandmother always said the path to love lies through the stomach, but does that old saying really hold true on the Moon?
The Lunar Lovescape series:
Book One ~ Lovers' Crescent
Book Two...
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Winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel: At work aboard a battered space station, a team of blue-collar laborers stumbles upon a surveillance plot of unprecedented scope Popeye Hooker knows that space isn't all it's cracked up to be. A former fisherman who takes a job building low orbital stations to escape a failed relationship, he finds that in space, construction work is still a grind. And when they aren't building the space stations that...
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Orbits change, when Havoc Reigns
The Havoc was worldwide hysteria. Stranger fought stranger, neighbor fought neighbor, friend fought friend, and only the strongest families survived together. Infrastructure and industry prepared and survived, helping their employees. Governments fell, homes burned and people died.
Of the two billion survivors of the Havoc, one and a half million of the best and brightest now work in space developing the science...
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In these pages, you can join—A mission to terraform a lifeless, rocky planet. A private detective uncovering the ultimate crime. A woman called by an ex-boyfriend... who's been dead twenty years. A President breaking his country's highest law. A star athlete discovering the true price of a championship—and enjoy five more tales, in the latest installment of the Complete Science Fiction Stories of Raymund Eich.
13) Orbital Decay
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All he wants is power. And he'll kill for it.
Florian Macalestern has an easy life. With several trillion dollars in the trust fund, an army of servants, and a vindictive personality, he's all but certain to succeed his aunt as CEO of the family mega-corporation.
Then he can crush his opponents, accumulate power, and take over the galaxy, one dollar at a time.
But he wasn't always evil.
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Evolution happens. As the wheel of life turns, experiences shift our consciousness into a whole new way of perceiving the world around us. Most of us can look back and easily see that the person we were 10 years ago is a much different version of who we are now. How does astrology track this? Theoretically, we track it with a progressed chart. For over 350 years there has been one primary method of calculating this chart called Secondary Progressions....
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This book deals with set pattern of karma for a particular individual which is againbased on orbital providence. The effect of space significations and the dynamicplanetary significations of each individual denotes the purpose of life. This OrbitalProvidence is a secret which can be analysed through Naadi system. The author, in this scholarly exposition sets the pattern to delineate karma of individuals fromdifferent walks of life. He also suggests...
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Novice spy Jake is ready to be a hero. His boss wants a delivery driver.
Jake tries hard, but spying is a tough job. When a botched pickup and a drunken indiscretion drop him in jail, he's sent to serve his sentence in the Milita. His new commander wants Jake's next tour to be out an airlock without a suit. At least his fellow conscript is friendly, and has a sexy single sister!
But an accidental shooting and a boarding by his old friend Nadine...
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