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In a race against time, 

Captain Thomas Jackson leads the crew of the Science Ship Linus Pauling into deep space. Their mission: find life with a unique DNA structure. It’s 2160, and after two years of searching, an accident in the engine room tears the ship apart.

Escape pods land them on a backwards planet that will kill them with inedible food and vicious predators if they can’t adapt quickly.

Jackson’s shipwrecked crew struggle with survival. Out of rations, and morale waning, he reaches out to a thriving humanoid population that gives them means to survive, but also a new set of problems to contend with,  from superstition to xenophobia. Lifelong bachelor Jackson falls hard, and deeply in love, for Rianya, a curious, sympathetic, and smart alien woman.

Very unexpectedly,

and against all odds, inevitably, a baby arrives. Rianya’s civilization erupts with xenophobia, forcing the humans to retreat and abandon their friendships and cooperative arrangements with the natives. A flood, followed by an eclipse, only serve to increase suspicion that the baby is to blame.

The child, however, is discovered to possess the unique DNA they originally sought that can stop a genetic disaster, but first they have to get her to Earth. Even then, her very life would be in danger if the wrong people discover that she’s worth her weight in gold.

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A Time Traveler

Three alien species and a Terran bacterium conspire to prevent Captain Thomas Jackson from completing his mission to stop an extinction caused by antibacterial resistance to Yersinia pestis, more commonly known as The Black Plague.

With Quixote as his chief engineer, a new, faster ship, the Science Ship Maria Mitchell, takes them first to the dry, extinct, Martian world of Eta Cass Cuatro. There they pick up an unusual archaeological treasure, a partly human mummy. From there they travel to Eta Cass Cinco where a population of pacifists is dwindling before their eyes. In between, Jackson runs into an old foe from Iota Pegasi. He’s profiting off the entire, triangular fiasco.

And then…

    After handling the mummy, Jackson’s alien wife, Rianya, suffers from an acute onslaught of the deadly disease. Their precocious child, Zalara, is forbidden to cure her with an act of empathy. It’s then that they realize the mummy is a time traveler. As the crew and doctors unravel the mystery, it becomes increasingly clear that it has everything to do with the problem on Cinco. It also holds a secret that will threaten Jackson’s legacy. He faces every captain’s worst nightmare, and must endure a daily reminder of the consequences of his choice.
Novel, about 110,000 words.

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An Asteroid, the Zlōgers, and the Pegasi return

It’s disaster coming from three different threats on the way to pick up a science team on Beta Hydri IV. A routine journey of a few light years becomes urgent when an asteroid is suddenly discovered on Rianya’s home planet, and it’s up to Jackson and the Maria Mitchell crew to stop the killer rock.

However, a new, amphibious species of mercenaries is on a mission of their own to pirate some equipment from the ship. When Jackson is trapped on the aliens’ ship, the Zlōgers begin their takeover. If that’s not enough, the Pegasi profiteer Dukvita wants revenge and compensation since Jackson killed his antibiotic trade. About 110,000 words.

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And then came the challenge to Jackson’s humanity.

All he wants is to get back to Earth, but Space Corp has other plans for Jackson and The Maria Mitchell. With no astronomer available, Admiral Wallace assigns an android to the ship, against Jackson’s wishes. As a new unit, it will imprint as it learns. But, its model is not an astronomer. It’s Captain Jackson, who is a great model for a leader, not so much for an AI!

As fiascoes become disasters, Cerebrus Astronomite commits the highest crime of all, stranding Jackson, putting the crew in peril, and forcing his unorthodox opinions against himself. The question is, can Jackson outsmart his equal before he takes over the ship?

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The mission is still not complete.

Jackson is thrilled to be home on Earth, but the circumstances are far from idyllic. He has brought three youngsters home with him, and faces a court martial for his role in the disaster that was his last assignment. He’s anxious to lead the team to reverse engineer the time ship he brought back from Eta Cassiopeia. And before he realized what happened, he found himself in a wilderness under a strangely familiar sky.

It’s 1348, and he’s in Gaul, outside of Paris, during the 100 Years War, and the midst of The Black Death, the bubonic plague that killed a third of Europe’s people in just a few short years. He wanders into a primitive camp, can’t speak the language, but makes an impression on a young man who befriends him. His attempt to return to 2168 is fraught with troubles, and the biggest thing in his way is a troop of green ogres that look awfully familiar.

Months go by for Jackson, but in his own time, his wife and daughters are widowed and orphaned on the alien Earth, never knowing what happened to him, except for a letter, delivered in person, by a bizarre woman, years after he vanished.

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