Tales of the Antares Rangers Series

Book One of the award-winning Tales of the Antares Rangers Series ... Life is a challenge when you are one of only five children living on a secret research and development base in a star system filled with asteroids. Each day begins when an engineer turns on the overhead lights; it ends when the lights go out. There are no forests or parks to wander within; no mountains or hills to climb. The warmth of the white-hot sun called Vega can't even be felt on your face. The highlight of each day is attending class with four friends chosen for you by circumstance, but even the pleasures of school are reduced to the impersonal lesson plans received from a programmed computer. This is the life of Peter Rising Sun Campbell and his four classmates, stuck within a web of tunnels inside a sterile asteroid orbiting among millions, simply because an alien race is trying to exterminate your species. How could life get any more difficult? Peter, Stiles, Henrietta, Ali, and Jimmy are about to find out.

Book Three of the award-winning Tales of the Antares Rangers Series ... The crew of the living starship, Sampson K. Perry, accept the disgraced D'war'en heir, Alffinnr, as a new crew member. While still on the D'war'en home planet, they discover clues about a mysterious weapon that might help in their war against the Wasatti. But to find the Orb, they must travel to another star and search an entire planet. Alffinnr is accepted on the ship only after he promises to help the crew find the Orb. But he is not even sure what it looks like, let alone what it does or where it might be. When they arrive at the Jabbah System, the crew finds an advanced civilization protecting their entire planet, keeping all visitors away for the past 50,000 years. Convincing the Al’Va to let them be the first outsiders to visit their world won’t be an easy task. Meanwhile, Stiles remains on the ship at the Al’Va Space Station and runs into a new race of fun-loving aliens. The Sargassians seem helpful; maybe they will be willing to help the humans in their quest.

Book Four of the award-winning Tales of the Antares Rangers Series... Peter Campbell and his crew of four schoolmates escaped from a losing battle against the Wasatti 680 years ago. In that time, they've traveled over 1,050 light-years in the living starship, the Sampson K. Perry. They repaired the dying ship while in the tight embrace of the supergiant star, Antares; they found new friends in the heir of the D'war'en people and the controlling Al'Va race; they lost one of their own and in so doing they found new enemies in the Sargassian race; and they uncovered an inconceivably powerful weapon that could help them in their losing war--a weapon they don't even understand yet how to use--called the Orb of Jabbah. Learning that their war has already been lost, they take the Orb to the very heart of the Wasatti itself in a last-ditch attempt to destroy the Wasatti Empire in one massive blow. They find another willing ally living in the Wasatti star cluster, but can they really be trusted? And what will Peter and his crew be willing to sacrifice to see their mission succeed?

Book Two of the award-winning Tales of the Antares Rangers Series ... In what felt like a lifetime ago, young Peter Campbell and his school-age friends survived a surprise attack by the evil Wasatti Empire, barely escaping on the developing living starship, the Sampson K. Perry. Lost hundreds of light years from the Human Colonies, they need to find their way back, but their forty-day supply of food will barely get them started on their 500-year journey home. Beating the odds against them, they discover an uncharted planet harboring life. Not only do they find a planet filled with food, but they also encounter a feudal civilization ruled by stern and suspicious Signar, the D'war'en Lord. To get the supplies the crew needs to survive, they will need to convince the leader's son to begin trade with a race of beings the natives never presumed could exist, in a world the D'war'en previously thought of as their own. At every turn, the D'war'en reveal strange mysteries, but could it be that their planet holds the strangest puzzle of all?

The year is 2142. The Global War on Terror has changed the entire world, transforming the face of Mother Earth into four remaining mega-nations based on religion and ideology: Free India, the Western Protectorate, the Sino-European Union, and the Caliphate. Battle lines have been drawn throughout Luna and Mars, and now threaten mining interests in the asteroid belt and the methane base on Saturn’s moon, Titan. Mistrust has become the norm, with no likely end in sight. Concentrating their efforts on mere survival, leaders worldwide have neglected most other issues, only finding time to protect their citizens from perceived threats. Within this fragile setting stands the launch of humanity’s first interstellar colony ship, preparing to carry over two thousand colonists and the genetic materials for four thousand others on a six-year voyage to another solar system. But a growing environmental movement would like nothing more than to stop the colonial plans, growing weary and frustrated as they watch Mother Earth’s precious resources whittle away. Added to their desperate scheming is a plot by a Caliphate agent to steal materials for a nuclear bomb. Where the plutonium is, and where it will be used, is an issue only the combined efforts of the WP and S-EU intelligence agencies can solve. But the intrigue is lost to average citizens living their everyday lives. One such citizen is unassuming Dr. Mark Taylor who will also be a colonist. He is busy scouring the solar system for the best candidates to head the massive colonial project, interviewing volunteers to find the most qualified and most politically sound colonists. His responsibilities rest heavily upon his shoulders, but little does he realize that it may be up to him to save the colony ship and their new colony from a potential adversary even greater than the ones left behind. Prequel to the award-winning Tales of the Antares Rangers Series. Contains mature situations and language.

Book Five of the award-winning Tales of the Antares Rangers Series... The crew of the Sampson K. Perry return to the Ten Colonial Worlds and find humanity enslaved by General Sar ap Kel and his Wasatti war fleets. The Second Human War will keep you on the edge of your seat as the valiant crew and their new-found allies attempt to save humanity from the Wasatti Overlords, fighting against incredible odds. Can one lone ship fight through four mighty battle fleets? And who--exactly--are the Al'Va and D'war'en who have helped them along the way, and what are their secret plans? Book Five delivers non-stop action to the very last page, where all your questions will be answered.

Sequel One of the award-winning Tales of the Antares Rangers Series... The ferocious Wasatti race has been exterminated after a thousand years of bitter interstellar war. It is now twenty years later. Peace and harmony has spread throughout the local stellar systems, signaling a new age of prosperity to the citizens of three alien domains. Peter Rising Sun Campbell—the proclaimed “Savior of the Galaxy”—has decided to shed his unsolicited notoriety. He is finally looking forward to something he has never experienced before: a “normal” life of relaxation and contentment away from the troubles of the universe and an admiring public eye. But a mysterious transaction committed by Sargassian smugglers has recently been uncovered near the shared boarder of three star empires that has stirred the meddlesome Al’Va into unprecedented activity. Once again, Peter Campbell is called upon to investigate what is going on, stop whatever he may discover, and soothe the concerns of the powerful Al’Va race. And what is at stake is not only the private peace of Peter Campbell, but the peace of the entire galactic spur. The 2015 Global Ebook Bronze Award winner for Science Fiction, The Second Human War, continues with The Pirates of Sargassia.

If not for the assistance of the D’war’en people long ago, Peter Campbell and his young crew would have run out of supplies and never would have made it back to the Colonies from uncharted space. Now that the people of the local Orion Spur have found peace after thousands of years of interstellar war, it is time for Peter to return to the repopulated D’war’en planet and provide the technology they need to survive a harsh famine that will last for many generations. If not, the D’war’en people will be driven back to the stone age like they have many times before. With the assistance of the Sargassians, Peter and his crew assemble a humanitarian relief fleet to bring the D’war’en out from under their severe climatic cyclic conditions. But mysterious things begin to occur when they enter D’war’en space. What is happening, and just who is interfering with the fate of the galaxy? And could the challenges that Peter needs to face lead to the destruction of everything? The 2015 Global Ebook Bronze Award winner for Science Fiction, The Second Human War, comes to its universe-shattering conclusion with The D’war’en Space Lords.