Rogue Stars
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Rogue Stars
7 Novels of Space Exploration, Alien Races, and Adventure
C. Gockel
Pippa DaCosta
Chris Reher
G. S. Jennsen
Mark Cooper
Patty Jansen
Salvador Mercer
C. Gockel
Contents
About The Books
Archangel Down
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Betrayal
Readers and critics rave about The 1000 Revolution:
Chapter One: #1001
Chapter Two: Caleb
Chapter Three: #1001
Chapter Four: Caleb
Chapter Five: #1001
Chapter Six: Caleb
Chapter Seven: #1001
Chapter Eight: Caleb
Chapter Nine: #1001
Chapter Ten: Caleb
Chapter Eleven: #1001
Chapter Twelve: Caleb
Chapter Thirteen: #1001
Chapter Fourteen: Caleb
Chapter Fifteen: #1001
Chapter Sixteen: Caleb
Chapter Seventeen: #1001
Chapter Eighteen: Caleb
Chapter Nineteen: #1001
Chapter Twenty: Caleb
Chapter Twenty One: #1001
Chapter Twenty Two: Caleb
Chapter Twenty Three: #1001
Chapter Twenty Four: Caleb
Chapter Twenty Five: #1001
Chapter Twenty Six: Caleb
Chapter Twenty Seven: #1001
Chapter Twenty Eight: Caleb
Chapter Twenty Nine: Francisca
Escape (1000 Revolution, #2) - Excerpt
Quantum Tangle
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Epilogue
Starshine
Colonized Milky Way
Prologue
Part I
1. Earth
2. Seneca
3. Erisen
4. Siyane
5. Earth
6. Deucali
7. Seneca
8. Earth
9. Scythia
10. Seneca
11. New Babel
12. Atlantis
13. Siyane
14. Atlantis
15. Space, Northeast Quadrant
16. Atlantis
17. Metis Nebula
Part II
18. Earth
19. Siyane
20. Seneca
21. Siyane
22. Pandora
23. Siyane
24. Deucali
25. Cosenti
26. Siyane
27. Krysk
28. Siyane
29. Erisen
30. Siyane
31. Seneca
32. Palluda
33. New Babel
34. Siyane
Part III
35. Seneca
36. Earth
37. Siyane
38. Arcadia
39. Siyane
40. Seneca
41. Siyane
42. Earth
43. Pandora
44. Siyane
45. Deucali
46. Siyane
47. Metis Nebula
48. Siyane
49. New Babel
50. Earth
51. Earth
52. Space, North-Central Quadrant
53. Earth
54. Earth
55. Pandora
56. Earth
57. Earth
Part IV
58. Romane
59. Seneca
60. Earth
61. Siyane
62. Earth
63. Romane
64. New Babel
65. Space, North-Central Quadrant
66. Seneca
67. Earth
68. Seneca
69. Earth
70. Seneca
71. Erisen
72. Space, Northwest Quadrant
73. Space, North-Central Quadrant
74. Romane
75. Pandora
76. Space, North-Central Quadrant
77. Earth
78. Earth
79. Space, North-Central Quadrant
80. Romane
81. Earth
82. Romane
83. Earth
84. Gaiae
85. Siyane
Hard Duty
1. ~ Discovery
2. ~ Memories
3. ~ Undercover
4. ~ Sanctuary
5. ~ Survey
6. ~ New Life
7. ~ Abducted
8. ~ Decisions
9. ~ Checkmate
10. ~ Visitors
11. ~ Discovered
12. ~ The Next Step
13. ~ Predator and Prey
14. ~ The Chase
15. ~ Gifts
16. ~ Contact
17. ~ Answers
18. ~ Doomsday
19. ~ Desperate Measures
20. ~ Hope
21. ~ Extermination
22. ~ The Wilderness
23. ~ Going Underground
24. ~ The Keep
25. ~ Rescue
26. ~ Blown
27. ~ A Cry for Help
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Lunar Discovery
Prologue
1. Discovery
2. Executive Decisions
3. China, Russia, US
4. Race
5. Planning
6. Opening Moves
7. Nasa
8. First Move
9. Russia
10. Payload
11. Payback
12. Space Station
13. Planning
14. Change of Plans
15. Respites
16. Russian Plans
17. China Strikes First
18. The Russian Strike
19. Regroup
20. Difficult Decisions
21. BlackJack
22. Gambit
23. The Moon
24. Russian Pride
25. Nuclear
26. Microwaves
27. America Returns
28. Lunar Surface
29. Anticipation
30. Contact
31. Atomic Arrival
32. Russian Assist
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34. The Rabbit
Epilogue
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About The Books
Archangel Down - C. Gockel
Commander Noa Sato doesn’t believe in aliens. She’s wrong. In the face of genocide she must hatch a daring plan with a ragtag crew to save the lives of millions—and her own. Every step of the way she is haunted by the final words of a secret transmission: The archangel is down.
Betrayal - Pippa DaCosta
She is programmed to kill. He’ll do anything to survive.
In a world where only one thousand synthetics were built, synthetic #1001 should not exist. She is no ordinary synth and the memories locked inside her code could bring the entire Nine systems, an ex-con Captain Caleb Shepperd, to their knees.
Quantum Tangle - Chris Reher
A deep cover agent fights to keep the enemy as well as his own people from taking control of a strange alien that has invaded his ship, his mind and his life. It's high adventure in deep space where the voices inside your head are all too real.
Starshine - G. S. Jennsen
Space is vast and untamed, and it holds many secrets. Now two individuals from opposite ends of settled space are on a collision course with the darkest of those secrets, even as the world threatens to explode around them.
Hard Duty - Mark E. Cooper
In the far future, nanotechnology will be all that keeps us alive in a brutal war with the Merkiaari. Into this war-torn galaxy a courageous Marine, an alien geneticist, and a broken hero will unite in common cause to oppose the coming onslaught.
Ambassador 1 - Patty Jansen
In Coldi society, you can get killed for looking a superior in the eye. Never mind accusing him of murder.
Lunar Discovery - Salvador Mercer
Alien technology has been discovered on the moon, and NASA scientist, Richard “Rock” Crandon must lead a desperate race to get there before America’s rivals. But it isn’t just the fate of Earth that is at stake in this exciting adventure.
Archangel Down
Archangel Project. Book 1
By
C. Gockel
In the year 2432, humans think they are alone in the universe. They’re wrong.
Commander Noa Sato plans a peaceful leave on her home planet Luddeccea ... but winds up interrogated and imprisoned for her involvement in the Archangel Project. A project she knows nothing about.
Professor James Sinclair wakes in the snow, not remembering the past twenty four hours, or knowing why he is being pursued. The only thing he knows is that he has to find Commander Sato, a woman he’s never met.
A military officer from the colonies and a civilian from Old Earth, they couldn’t have less in common. But they have to work together to save the lives of millions—and their own.
Every step of the way they are haunted by the final words of a secret transmission:
The archangel is down.
To my dad, Jim Evans. Thanks for getting me hooked on sci-fi, fantasy, and comic books. I miss you.
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“We know you are a part of the Archangel Project.”
Commander Noa Sato of the Galactic Fleet glared across the table. Two men wearing the dark green uniforms of planet Luddeccea’s Local Guard glared back at her. Her arms were shackled behind her back to the cold metal chair she sat on. The room was chilly—she could smell the cold of it, along with the odors of various bodily fluids. Her back ached, her mouth was as dry as lizzar skin, and she thought the bright lights of the interrogation room might leave her permanently blind.
“I told you, I don’t know what you’re talking about,” she spat.
“Then why are you here?”
“I’m on leave,” she explained for the hundredth time. “I thought I’d spend my vacation visiting my brother on the planet where I grew up. Is that so difficult to understand?” Agitated, she spun her engagement and wedding rings around on her finger. Closing her eyes, she thought of her brother, Kenji, and inwardly begged his forgiveness. When they’d picked her up, she’d assumed this was all a misunderstanding. She hadn’t meant to pull him into this.
“I’ve had enough!” said one of her inquisitors. A pair of sharp, pointed pliers emerged in his hand, and suddenly he was on Noa’s side of the table. “Do you understand what I can do with these?”
Noa tried to keep from screaming … and woke up in the darkness, her whole body shaking, her breathing so fast and ragged her ribs hurt, cold air stinging her lungs. The darkness smelled like cold and various bodily fluids, an unhappy constant with the nightmare. She rubbed her eyes. But the rest had been just a dream. They hadn’t used those pliers except to scare her during the interrogation. When she hadn’t told them what they wanted to hear, they’d brought her to this camp.
She blinked. Was it unusually bright in the barracks? Stifling a groan, she sat up. Her vision immediately went black. She tried to access the reason why—and for the millionth time remembered her neural interface had been deactivated since she’d arrived here. Sucking in a sharp breath, she clutched her head, fingers drifting to the smooth, cool surface of the neural interface in her left temple. The guards were fond of parroting, “Freedom from information streams is the path to real wisdom,” but it was torture, not freedom.
Noa’s body swayed. Why was she dizzy? It couldn’t be Luddeccea’s gravity—the planet’s gravity was the same as Earth’s and standard starship grav. Was it malnutrition, or something more sinister? She bit her lip to stifle a bitter laugh. She was being slowly starved to death. How much more sinister could it get?
The spell finally passed, and she surveyed the barracks. All around her were rough wooden bunks four platforms tall. The beds were narrower than the single bunks on a starship, but each was shared by up to three women packed chest to back beneath thin blankets and without pillows. She could make out their faces—just barely—but it was definitely lighter in the barracks. Noa looked down at her bedmate, Ashley. Noa’s skin was dark as straight Earth coffee. Ashley’s was what Tim’s people would call “peaches and cream.” It made Ashley’s delicate features easy to see, even in low light. As she slept, clutching her crutch like a pillow, her face looked peaceful and her breathing was gentle. Not wanting to wake her, Noa gently folded her side of the blanket over Ashley’s sleeping form. Slipping down the slats at the end of the bed, she padded to the window.