Author: ericmichaelcraig
Nobody can go it alone.Especially living on the other side.After Captain Ethan Walker captures a seat on the Commonwealth’s Council of Captains, he needs allies. He soon discovers what it means to have enemies on both sides of the law. Digging into an ancient alien archive, he and his crew make repairs and upgrades to the Olympus Dawn. Unfortunately, there’s only so much they can do on their own.… much they can do on their own.Walker sets out to recruit a scientist with the extraordinary gifts necessary to access the ancient technology. When he attracts unwanted attention, he ends up…
The enemy of an enemy … tried to kill them. Hoping to uncover information about the destruction of the second Coalition colony, they make a risky deal with Captain Jetaar for use of one of his stealth ships. Unfortunately, when they arrive at the Tamilis system in a pirate cruiser, they must evade two FleetCom Multicruisers and the ominous Tahrat Shan Che to find their answers.Only after they return to Jetaar’s base, does Ethan realize the actual cost of discovering the truth. His arrangement with the Pirate Lord has only has one way out, and Walker and his crew must…
Fifteen hundred light-years from home.What could possibly go wrong.Captain Ethan Walker wants to be back in space, instead he’s trapped in an endless bureaucratic battle to get his two interstellar freighters hauling cargo. Driven by frustration, he jumps at the chance to take on an epic run that will send his ships a thousand light years beyond the edge of Coalition Space. Hired by a mysterious … Coalition Space. Hired by a mysterious corporation and its supernaturally beautiful agent, he soon realizes that no one in his world is remotely as they seem.When a violent terrorist faction targets Walker and…
It was only a four-day safari.On a super-earth, covered with a deadly jungle.Captain Ethan Walker takes what should be an easy run to Watchtower Station in orbit above the inhabited heavy-world of Dawn. A delay in unloading their cargo forces them to layover for several days, and the station’s science director offers them the chance to visit the surface to observe the indigenous culture … the indigenous culture firsthand. When a mistake leaves the human outpost on the surface exposed, a hunting party of superhuman Ut’aran natives capture Walker and his crew, and haul them off into the impenetrable jungle.…
One hundred thousand colonists can’t disappear. No bodies. No evidence of an attack. Just gone. On what should have been a routine cargo run to the far edge of the Coalition, Captain Ethan Walker is carrying a payload of medical technology and two passengers returning home to Starlight Colony. When they arrive, they discover that everyone on the planet is missing. The company he works for wants … company he works for wants him to leave immediately, but he’s obligated to report to FleetCom that the entire population has vanished. Captain MacKenna of the Magellan, tells him stay put until…
Trapped between war and redemption.Six months ago Jephora Cochrane was Commander of an ice prospecting mission, now he’s governor of the newest colony in the solar system. A colony that’s become the front line in a war for the future of the Human Union.Struggling to understand the technology left behind by the ancient Shan Takhu, Cochrane and the residents of Gateway Colony must first defeat the … must first defeat the warships of a merciless cybernetic entity known as Odysseus. It will stop at nothing to control the power of the alien structure they’ve discovered, including destroying it.With no choices…
Marooned on the edge of the Solar System.After crash-landing on the frozen surface of L-4 Prime, Jephora Cochrane and the crew of the Jakob Waltz fight to survive while they unravel an alien secret that will change the path of Humanity’s future. An attempted rescue mission brings civil war in its wake, and catches him between an emerging authoritarian regime and Chancellor Roja‘s resistance … Roja‘s resistance forces. Running out of options, Cochrane must leverage the limited resources he has in a desperate play to keep his crew safe and to protect humankind from certain self-destruction.Thrust into the center of…
Alone beyond the edge of Civilization.A routine exploration mission explodes into chaos 2.8 billion miles from home and throws Commander Jephora Cochrane and the crew of the prospector ship Jakob Waltz into a crisis that will test their experience to the limit. After a puzzling message from Fleet Chancellor Roja adds to the confusion, Cochrane isn’t sure who he can trust. Yet somehow, regardless … somehow, regardless of their hidden secrets, he must push his crew to new levels to save their ship.Together they make a discovery that will alter the course of history. A secret, buried at the edge…
Mankind is out of options, and time is running out.After America’s Hammerthrow fails, President Hutton launches Project Prometheus as a second mitigation effort, while the Chinese continue their relentless march to test and deploy their super-warhead. Even a partial success of either mitigation mission would leave the other unable to defend the earth. Political tension explodes as both sides race … sides race to challenge the relentless wheelwork of the Universe. With its array of advanced technologies, Stormhaven’s lunar colony cannot avoid becoming part of a shooting war between the two superpowers, and its residents will face the ultimate responsibility…
How far will one man go to make sure the truth gets out?Colton Taylor, a wealthy and eccentric industrialist, finds himself locked in a collision course with the President of the United States as he tries to save humanity from destruction.Forcing himself into the arena of international politics, Taylor struggles to maneuver the immense corporate empire of Stormhaven into position to give … position to give civilization a fighting chance against an almost inevitable global catastrophe.Staring down the relentless certainty of the Universe, he will risk everything to give the world one final option.If he cannot succeed, the price of…