A message from space leads to a desperate race against time and across space to our nearest stellar neighbor in a new hard science fiction thriller from Travis S. Taylor and Les Johnson. 2072. At the lunar farside radio observatory, an old-school radio broadcast is detected, similar to those broadcast on Earth in the 1940s, but in an unknown language, coming from an impossible source--Proxima Centauri. While the nations of Earth debate making first contact, they learn that the Proximans are facing an extinction-level disaster, forcing a decision: will Earth send a ship on a multiyear trip to render aid? Interstellar travel is not easy, and by traveling at the speeds required to arrive before disaster strikes at Proxima, humans will learn firsthand the time-dilating effects of Einstein's Special Relativity and be forced to ponder ultimate questions: What does it mean to be human? What will it take to share the stars with another form of life? What if I return younger than my own children? The answers are far from academic, for they may determine the fate of not one, but two, civilizations. About Travis S. Taylor: "[E]xplodes with inventive action."-- Publishers Weekly on Travis S.

Taylor's The Quantum Connection "[ Warp Speed ] reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum . You won't want to put it down."--John Ringo About Stellaris: People of the Stars, coedited by Les Johnson: "[A] thought-provoking look at a selection of real-world challenges and speculative fiction solutions. Readers will enjoy this collection that is as educational as it is entertaining."-- Booklist "This was an enjoyable collection of science fiction dealing with colonizing the stars. In the collection were several gems and the overall quality was high."-- Tangent About Mission to Methone, by Les Johnson: "The spirit of Arthur C. Clarke and his contemporaries is alive and well in Johnson's old-fashioned first-contact novel, set in 2068.

includes plenty of realistic detail and puts fun new spins on familiar alien concepts. There's a great deal here for fans of early hard SF."-- Publishers Weekly "With equal parts science fiction and international intrigue. an exciting, fast-paced read that you will not want to put down."-- Booklist About Rescue Mode, by Ben Bova and Les Johnson: ". a suspenseful and compelling narrative of the first human spaceflight to Mars."-- Booklist.