Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Young Adult (YA), New Adult
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 12-15, 18+

Commander Irene Slade, renowned "Moonchild" from Earth's lunar colony, Venus expedition veteran, and Mars colony commander, is a woman shaped by profound personal loss. She has nothing tying her to Sol any more, so accepts the command of a new venture exploiting the newly developed, soliton-based, FTL technology: a two-year mission to AC4. This Earth-like planet in the Alpha Centauri cluster, with its nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere, vast oceans, and apparent forests, promises the first signs of life outside our solar system. But hope quickly turns to peril. Don Lindsay, starship navigator and pilot of the shuttle Encounter, meets two indigenous forms of animal life: the rahpa savagely territorial, the yolti showing startling intelligence – and revealing their name for their world to be Klandor. Don's unsanctioned first contact program plunges the mission into tragedy, threatening humanity's entire prospect of colonization. The colonization committee keeps some of the details secret, and suppresses...

Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Womens Fiction, Young Adult (YA), New Adult
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 12-15, 18+

Irene is not ashamed of being born and brought up on the moon. It's not as if it's a secret! So one night after a bad dream she lets it slip to her university roommate. Then the discrimination starts, with rumors of strange abilities and disabilities, as she learns that 'moonchild' is a pejorative. As she interviews for jobs, it seems that the place of her birth is an automatic disqualification, forcing her to go to extra lengths to prove her worth. But the world conspires against her on a grander scale: she's set up as the patsy for a crime, inveigled in a conspiracy that denies her marriage, and deliberately set up to fail as she troubleshoots biomedical and xenobiology problems around the solar system. This volume presents the full Moonchild sequence of five novellas, but Irene's story continues is Klandor Rising. "Recommended for afficionados of Isaac Asmiov, Ray...

Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Young Adult (YA), New Adult
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback, Large print

What a 21st!Eva's big birthday 'present' was a tired old spaceship lost in space and time, a motley crew of amnesiac patients, 500 colonists in cryo, and a mission that would take a lifetime - assuming she could keep everyone alive till they made planetfall. SS Moraturi is a Lunar Earth Transfer Orbiter - a kind of spider robot designed to construct space stations and ships in and around the Earth-Moon Lagrange points 1 and 2. Now Moraturi is taking two cryoholds full of colonists to New Eden, an earth-like planet in the Paradisi system, 2.5 million light years from Earth in the Andromeda galaxy. Eva's problem is that the trip that was to take one year is now going to take decades - their emergency supplies were based on 200% of expected needs for just 16 crew members with the 500 passengers in cryo, and the cryotechnology can't keep...

Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Young Adult (YA), New Adult
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback, Large print

20-year-old Veterinary Nurse/Trainee Medical Officer Eva Hughes is junior officer on SS Moraturi, transporting 500 colonists to New Eden. Eva’s responsibility is the domestic and farm animals they are bringing, but she is working towards qualifying as both a veterinary and a medical doctor. After a gamma burst in the wormhole, Eva finds herself looking after colonists whose cryobeds failed, and who now show memory loss for specific things. When another wave of radiation hits, the ship slips out of the wormhole, somewhere, sometime… and Eva finds herself in charge of an impossible mission. The quick trip through the wormhole has turned into an epic journey of biblical proportions. The saga begins... As the truth of their predicament becomes clear, Eva realizes that their survival is going to be in the hands of three teenagers.

Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback, Large print

Captain Sideris is a loner and knows LETO ships like nobody else, having risen to command the Lunar-Earth construction fleet, as they build ships to mine asteroids and colonize Mars. Suddenly he finds the colonization effort is for another planet, in another galaxy, and he's the sole human guinea pig being gated through a wormhole with an AI playing Noah to LETO SS Casindra's ark. Everything goes well as he starts to survey four planets they plan to exploit, as he gets to know emergent AI 'Al', as he discovers he's building a special relationship with empathic cat 'Simba'. Problem is message drones gated home are not being returned per protocol, with little explanation, no supplies, and some cryptic and disturbing messages. This full length novel reminiscent of Clarke and Asimov is set in the multi-author multi-genre Paradisi universe. Casindra Lost opens the Lost Mission Series which explains what happened...

Genres: Adventure, Children's fiction, Crime, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Literary Fiction, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Speculative Fiction, Young Adult (YA)
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 8-11, 12-15, 18+

The building of the hadron collider was once big news, but now it is just part of the scenery for most of the community, until Airlie and other children start showing unusual gifts. Airlie uses her psi abilities to solve a number of mysteries and crimes at her school and in her neighborhood - and comes to the attention of Inspector Jonathan Humble of Minor Crimes. Towards the end of the school year, Airlie gets two intriguing invitations: an offer of a scholarship to a new middle school with 'opportunity classes' in exotic subjects like Quantum Psychology, and a free place at a summer camp run by Inspector Humble. The two invitations and her emergent psionic talents are clearly connected, and Airlie can't resist the opportunity to learn more about her gifts and to meet others with psyq powers at the camp. But Airlie ends up in a desperate race...

Genres: Academic
Formats: E-Book, Paperback

In the 1960s Chomsky decided that language couldn't be learned due to 'Poverty of the Stimulus' based on certain empirical and theoretical evidence, pushing major questions around the origins and nature of language back to biology and evolutionary theory – and then ignoring them. In the 1970s we met because we both share the same views of language, that it had to be learned, –and that Chomsky had too small a view of language. Language is a living organism, produced by neural mechanisms relating in large numbers as a society, as we learn about our language, world and culture in the context of human society. Language exists between minds, as a way of communicating between them, not as an autonomous process; between our senses and experiences, linking past, present and future – not as a stagnant artefact. The logical 'rules' seem to us an epiphe­nomena of the neural mechanism, rather...