A debut collection of short fiction by the award-winning author of Radiant features fourteen tales of speculative fiction that explore topics ranging from the unknown mystery of everyday experience to the secrets of the cosmos, from peanut butter sandwiches to space drives. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Gravity Wells: Speculative Fiction Stories

Literature & Fiction

Gardner,James Alan

United States

Admiral Festina Ramos and the Expendables, an expertly trained scout group from the elite Explorer Corps, battle a highly advanced alien intelligence during a mission that leads them to the secret origins of the Explorer Corps and Festina's own destiny. By the author of Trapped and Commitment Hour.

Radiant

NEW ADVENTURES BASED ON THE WORLD’S BESTSELLING VIDEO GAME After completing a near-fatal mission in the mysterious cloud forests of Peru, Lara Croft flies to Warsaw to tackle her next assignment–and finds herself in the middle of an epic battle for the ultimate power. Reuben Baptiste needs Lara Croft’s help transporting precious cargo. But before Reuben can reveal any details, he is murdered–and Lara signs on with Reuben’s employer, the mysterious Order of the Bronze, to avenge his death. The Order shares with Lara its greatest treasure: a bronze android, thousands of years old, with uncanny abilities. But the android is crippled, missing a leg, and whoever finds that leg will gain astonishing powers. Hot on the trail is Lara’s nemesis, Lancaster Urdmann, now working for an unknown employer with strange abilities. As Lara jets from Siberia to Australia to Rio de Janiero, she is drawn into an age-old conflict of secret societies, intrigue, and death. . . .

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Man of Bronze

Del Rey

Dubbed "the Expendables," Festina and her elite military company, whose job is to land on hostile planets and make contact with alien cultures, are ordered to take part in an "exploratory mission" on the surface of a planet from which no one has ever returned. Original.

Expendable (League of Peoples, Bk. 1)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Commitment Hour

A twenty-year-old musician living on a serene patch of Earth in the twenty-fifth century, when most of the planet's population has departed for other more technologically advanced worlds, Fullin must make the most important decision in life--what sex to b

A member of the Vigil, monitors of government corruption, Faye Smallwood suddenly becomes the target of a sinister and lethal conspiracy threatening to unleash a deadly plague on the planet and joins forces with outcast explorer Festina Ramos to unravel the mystery. Original.

Vigilant (League of Peoples)

Contemporary

For the children of Admiral Alexader York, perfection wasn't just expected, it was guaranteed -- written into their DNA before they were born.But while Samantha grew into the physical and mental marvel their father had bought and paid for, her twin brother Edward proved a disappointment. Genetic tinkering had raised Sam above the common herd, but Edward's faultless body housed a faulty brain.
It took all the Admiral's influence to get Edward commissioned in the Outward Fleet Explorer Corps -- a fiercely independent band of misfits who referred to themselves proudly as Expendables. Accompanying Sam on a mission to the troubled planet of Troyen, home to the alien Mandasar, Edward found himself in the midst of a civil war. There, in an instant of horrifying insanity, Sam was killed, along with the alien hive-queen.
For the next twenty years, Edward was exiled to a lonely outpost on one of Troyen's moons, blamed by the Admiral for Sam's death -- and blaming himself as well. But when escalating violence forces the evacuation of the system, Edwar d embarks on a perilous journey home that will lead hin into a forgotten past -- and, with the assistance of another ex-Expendable, the greatest Explorere of them all, the legendary Admiral Festina Ramos, into a future thick with conspiracy and betrayal. For there lurks a dark secret powerful enough to bury the hopes of human and Mandasar alike...or give them a new and brighter beginning.

Hunted (League of Peoples, Bk. 4)

Voyager

Admiral Festina Ramos and the Expendables, an expertly trained scout group from the elite Explorer Corps, battle a highly advanced alien intelligence during a mission that leads them to the secret origins of the Explorer Corps and Festina's own destiny. By the author of Trapped and Commitment Hour. Reprint.

Two species lived in peaceful coexistence on the planet Demoth until a deadly plague wiped out millions of the winged Ooloms while leaving humans untouched, helpless to do more than ease the suffering of their alien friends and neighbors. Faye Smallwood saw the horror firsthand, caring for the plague victims in her father's hospital. She was there when he discovered the cure that made him famous. She was also there when a freak accident killed him. 
Desperate to escape her past, Faye joins the Vigil, a band of fiercely independent monitors charged with rooting out government corruption. To help in this struggle, her mind is linked to the powerful datasphere that regulates the planet...and suddenly, she receives a cryptic vision promising peace and healing. Instead, Faye becomes the target of unknown assassins in a sinister conspiracy that threatens to unleash a new and more deadly outbreak. 
For humans and Ooloms were not the first species to inhabit Demoth. Somewhere in the ruins of long-abandoned settlements, something was left behind: an alien technology of unimaginable potential to build—or destroy. Enemy agents will stop at nothing to find it. Some of Faye's own people will kill to uncover its secret. With no one else to trust, she turns to the one person who can help unravel the mystery: Festina Ramos—explorer, outcast, ever-vigilant champion of those whom society deems expendable.

Vigilant

Avon/Books

The last of a virtually indestructible race of genetically altered humans faced with the coming of the catatonic torpor that has claimed the others of her kind, Oar must search for the powerful unknown enemies seeking her destruction and must come to the aid of a fiendish intergalactic conspiracy before it is too late.

Ascending

AVON.

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Gravity Wells: Speculative Fiction Stories

Radiant

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Man of Bronze

Expendable (League of Peoples, Bk. 1)

Commitment Hour

Vigilant (League of Peoples)

Hunted (League of Peoples, Bk. 4)

Radiant

Vigilant

Ascending