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Product: Daedalus: Eye of the Sahara (Book Four)
Description: The Eye of the Sahara is the fourth installment in the Daedalus series. The story follows the members of the squad as they establish Daedalus. Initially it was a way to share costs for their workshop but it is evolving into something much more.

The cadets begin to struggle with the politics of the world and repercussions of being successful

Is the forwarned Alien invasion a conspiracy theory? A hoax or something else entirely?

Daedalus the series

Daedo and his companions who are born into a world obsessed with Mechs for military defence, corporate power and entertainment purposes.

The Squad will evolve as they age and they have the potential to be the best mech engineers and pilots the world has ever seen. But will they be ready to defend planet earth?
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Product: The Daedalus Job (Outlaws of Aquilia Book 1)
Description: Jax Bremen is an outlaw… sort of...

Within the L, a tri-star system located inside the Aquilian Nebula, Jax makes a living trading and smuggling whatever goods pay the best. So far, he’s avoided being caught with anything too damning in his ship’s holds, but when he takes a job for Korinth, an infamous arms dealer, all that changes.

The haul is worth ten times his ship, and when the contents gets him embroiled in a tug of war between the major political factions of the L, Jax has to keep the criminals he works for from discovering that he’s playing both sides. Hell, he just might have to play all the sides to navigate the tangled web he’s in.

Every move he makes to get free of the quagmire draws him in deeper until Jax finds himself on the hook to run the hardest job he’s ever undertaken: rob the Daedalus, a military cruiser escorting a convoy through the Maelstrom.

Sure. Cakewalk, right?

Grab the explosive first book in a new Space Opera thrill ride from NYT Bestselling Author M.D. Cooper. It's perfect for fans of Elizabeth Moon, Ken Lozito, and Craig Alanson.
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Product: Daedalus: Growth (Book Three)
Description: Growth is the third installment in the Daedalus series. The story follows the members of the squad zero as they excel academically yet struggle against Fortescue and its internal political machinations. The talented cadets are at loggerheads with the establishment who think they are an obstacle at least - or more likely - dangerous.

As the group discovers truths about themselves and the world, they are faced with difficult choices.
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Product: Daedalus: Squad Zero (Book Two)
Description: Squad Zero is the second installment in the Daedalus series. The story follows the members of the squad as they establish Daedalus the corporate entity. Initially it was a way to share costs for their workshop but it evolves into something much more.

The cadets and the world in general are being lied to. In book two the mystery of the spiral and what is behind it begins to unfold.

Is the forwarned Alien invasion a conspiracy theory? A hoax or something else entirely?

Daedalus the series

Daedo and his companions who are born into a world obsessed with Mechs for military defence, corporate power and entertainment purposes.

The Squad will evolve as they age and progress through year levels at the Academy, they have the potential to be the best mech engineers and pilots the world has ever seen but will they be ready to defend planet earth by the time they graduate?

Book 3 is scheduled for late June
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Product: Daedalus: Military Academy (Book One)
Description: Daedalus encompasses Etana Daedo's early years and his first steps within the Fortescue Military Academy where he forges friendships and alliances which will last a lifetime. The story takes place within a futuristic, dystopian earth in the year 2142 and explores concepts such as the rise and impact of robot labour and artificial intelligence.

The story follows him, his friends and enemies while they attend Fortescue Military Academy where they learn to build and fight with exos at the first year cadet level. The young cadets are primarily concerned with their academic and competition success within the academy.

Each squadmate is special in some way, it's up to Cadet Daedo to unlock their potential in order to facilitate the success of their squad.

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Science Fiction, Mechs, Empire Building, Mystery, Slice of Life and Strong Protagonist.

Daedalus Series
The Daedalus series is a sci-fi story which follows the life of Etana Daedo and his companions who are born into a world obsessed with Mechs for military defence, corporate power and entertainment purposes.

The Squad will evolve as they age and progress through year levels at the Academy, they have the potential to be the best mech engineers and pilots the world has ever seen but will they be ready to defend planet earth by the time they graduate?

Book 2 first draft has been completed, scheduled for release May 2019 - when the exact date is known a pre-order will be created. The first draft for the first four books has been completed; it is Skully's goal to pump them out - this year.
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Product: Selfie, Suicide: or Cairey Turnbull's Blue Skiddoo
Description: A disintegrating romantic anatomy in five acts.
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Product: Interstellar Cargo Trilogy: ICARUS, DAEDALUS, and LAZARUS (ASTERIUS - Short Story)
Description: The Interstellar Cargo Trilogy **With Bonus Short Story**

ICARUS
Cole Musgrave’s dream of interstellar travel is about to become a nightmare. When a high-profile delivery is compromised aboard a state-of-the-art cargo vessel, the newly appointed captain finds himself embroiled in an assignment far above his pay grade.

Blackmail, terrorists, a malfunctioning prototype A.I. pilot, and a sinister terraforming corporation with deep criminal ties await him. Who knew delivering cargo to the deep recesses of space could be so dangerous?

Armed only with his cunning and past military experience, Cole is one against many. But this unorthodox interstellar cargo pilot won’t go down without a fight—even after he is faced with a choice that will alter the course of his life forever.

DAEDALUS
Leading the life of the System’s most wanted space pirate is not as satisfying as Cole Musgrave had hoped. Despite having been given a second chance at life by his gangster brother, each mission he undertakes threatens to be his last.

When Cole’s luck finally runs out, the crew of the Icarusfind themselves in a predicament unlike any they’ve ever encountered. One reckless decision leaves them abandoned and on the run from the entire universe.

A desperate, last-ditch effort to avoid annihilation leads them to a place no man has gone before. Or so they think. Here the sins of Cole’s past will return to haunt him and cast an even darker shadow on a future that is headed toward a full-scale war.

LAZARUS
The System’s most infamous cargo pilot is finally in custody and serving more years than he cares to count. Away from the chaos of his short-lived pirating career, Cole Musgrave wants only to spend the rest of his days in a quiet cell where no more trouble can find him.

But find him, it does. When a familiar figure enters Cole’s life, he again falls prey to the questionable whims of his secretive government. Forced into a new mission more dangerous than any he has faced before, he must return to the scene of his last “crime” and venture into Terracom’s darkest secret.

Navigating through political red tape, dodging the crosshairs of the entire criminal underground, and questioning the motives of his lover—Cole must juggle it all or die trying. If he fails, the fate of mankind will be sealed.

ASTERIUS
Asterius takes place around fifteen years before the events of Icarus. It can be read at any point in the series, though it is recommended to be read after book one.

Captain Tessa Adrace of Starforce is about to be assigned a mission she will never forget. With strict orders given her directly from the colonel, she must lead her squadron up against an adversary feared throughout the galaxy: Black Dwarf. The odds are impossibly stacked against her, but she will stop at nothing until her mission is complete. Even if it means her end.

Asterius is a short story, consisting of 6750 words, or roughly twenty-four pages.
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Product: The Daedalus Incident (The Daedalus Series Book 1)
Description: Mars is supposed to be dead…
a fact Lt. Shaila Jain of the Joint Space Command is beginning to doubt in a bad way.

Freak quakes are rumbling over the long-dormant tectonic plates of the planet, disrupting its trillion-dollar mining operations and driving scientists past the edges of theory and reason. However, when rocks shake off their ancient dust and begin to roll—seemingly of their own volition—carving canals as they converge to form a towering structure amid the ruddy terrain, Lt. Jain and her JSC team realize that their realize that their routine geological survey of a Martian cave system is anything but. The only clues they have stem from the emissions of a mysterious blue radiation, and a 300-year-old journal that is writing itself.

Lt. Thomas Weatherby of His Majesty’s Royal Navy is an honest 18th-century man of modest beginnings, doing his part for King and Country aboard the HMS Daedalus, a frigate sailing the high seas between continents…and the immense Void between the Known Worlds. Across the Solar System and among its colonies—rife with plunder and alien slave trade—through dire battles fraught with strange alchemy, nothing much can shake his resolve. But events are transpiring to change all that.

With the aid of his fierce captain, a drug-addled alchemist, and a servant girl with a remarkable past, Weatherby must track a great and powerful mystic, who has embarked upon a sinister quest to upset the balance of the planets—the consequences of which may reach far beyond the Solar System, threatening the very fabric of space itself.

Set sail among the stars with this uncanny tale, where adventure awaits, and dimensions collide!
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Product: Daedalus (Interstellar Cargo Book 2)
Description: The adventure aboard the ICARUS continues!

Leading the life of the System’s most wanted space pirate is not as satisfying as Cole Musgrave had hoped. Despite having been given a second chance at life by his gangster brother, each mission he undertakes threatens to be his last.

When Cole’s luck finally runs out, the crew of the Icarus find themselves in a predicament unlike any they’ve ever encountered. One reckless decision leaves them abandoned and on the run from the entire universe.

A desperate, last-ditch effort to avoid annihilation leads them to a place no man has gone before. Or so they think. Here the sins of Cole’s past will return to haunt him and cast an even darker shadow on a future that is headed toward a full-scale war.

Praise for the Interstellar Cargo series:

"He had me from the very first line...Perfect."
(Nick Webb - USA Today Bestselling Author of the Legacy Fleet trilogy)

"I love the way the character's opinions get across. I'm hooked!"
(Annie Bellet - USA Today Bestselling Author of the Twenty-Sided Sorceress series)
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Product: Daedalus 139:2 (Spring 2010) - On the Future of News
Description: Dædalus was founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It draws on the enormous intellectual capacity of the American Academy, whose members are among the nation's most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, and humanities. The theme for the Spring 2010 issue is "On the Future of News."
Contents:
Introduction: the future of news
Loren Ghiglione
News & the news media in the digital age: implications for democracy
Herbert J. Gans
Are there lessons for the future of news from the 2008 presidential campaign?
Kathleen Hall Jamieson & Jeffrey A. Gottfried
New economic models for U.S. journalism
Robert H. Giles
Sustaining quality journalism
Jill Abramson
The future of investigative journalism
Brant Houston
The future of science news
Donald Kennedy
International reporting in the age of participatory media
Ethan Zuckerman
The case for wisdom journalism—and for journalists surrendering the pursuit of news
Mitchell Stephens
Journalism ethics amid structural change
Jane B. Singer
Political observatories, databases & news in the emerging ecology of public information
Michael Schudson
What is happening to news?
Jack Fuller
The Internet & the future of news
Paul Sagan & Tom Leighton
The Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education
Susan King
Does science fiction—yes, science fiction—suggest futures for news?
Loren Ghiglione
In a Diner Above the Lamoille River
Poem by Greg Delanty
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Product: Daedalus 140:3 (Summer 2011) - The Modern American Military
Description: The Modern American Military
Table of Contents:
Foreword by William J. Perry
Introduction by David M. Kennedy
The Counterrevolution in Strategic Affairs by Lawrence Freedman
The U.S. Armed Forces' View of War by Brian McAllister Linn
Weapons: The Growth & Spread of the Precision-Strike Regime by Thomas G. Mahnken
American Military Culture from Colony to Empire by Robert L. Goldich
Manning & Financing the Twenty-First-Century All-Volunteer Force by Lawrence J. Korb and David R. Segal
Military Contractors & the American Way of War by Deborah D. Avant and Renée de Nevers
Filming War by Jay M. Winter
The Future of Conscription: Some Comparative Reflections by James J. Sheehan
Whose Army? by Andrew J. Bacevich
The Military-Industrial Complex by Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.
Defending America in Mixed Company: Gender in the U.S. Armed Forces by Martha E. McSally
Military Law by Eugene R. Fidell
Casualties by Jonathan Shay
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Product: The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Description: An exceptional father-son story from the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us.
Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free love, an autodidact who launched a publishing company in his basement dedicated to telling the true history of African civilization. Most of all, he was a wily tactician whose mission was to carry his sons across the shoals of inner-city adolescence—and through the collapsing civilization of Baltimore in the Age of Crack—and into the safe arms of Howard University, where he worked so his children could attend for free.
Among his brood of seven, his main challenges were Ta-Nehisi, spacey and sensitive and almost comically miscalibrated for his environment, and Big Bill, charismatic and all-too-ready for the challenges of the streets. The Beautiful Struggle follows their divergent paths through this turbulent period, and their father’s steadfast efforts—assisted by mothers, teachers, and a body of myths, histories, and rituals conjured from the past to meet the needs of a troubled present—to keep them whole in a world that seemed bent on their destruction.
With a remarkable ability to reimagine both the lost world of his father’s generation and the terrors and wonders of his own youth, Coates offers readers a small and beautiful epic about boys trying to become men in black America and beyond.
Praise for The Beautiful Struggle
“I grew up in a Maryland that lay years, miles and worlds away from the one whose summers and sorrows Ta-Nehisi Coates evokes in this memoir with such tenderness and science; and the greatest proof of the power of this work is the way that, reading it, I felt that time, distance and barriers of race and class meant nothing. That in telling his story he was telling my own story, for me.”—Michael Chabon, bestselling author of The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
“Ta-Nehisi Coates is the young James Joyce of the hip hop generation.”—Walter Mosley
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Product: The Sirens of Titan: A Novel
Description: “[Kurt Vonnegut’s] best book . . . He dares not only ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it.”—Esquire
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course there’ s a catch to the invitation–and a prophetic vision about the purpose of human life that only Vonnegut has the courage to tell.
“Reading Vonnegut is addictive!”—Commonweal
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Product: Star Trek: Enterprise: Daedalus's Children
Description: An original novel set in the universe of Star Trek: Enterprise!
Crippled by a freak accident, Enterprise has crossed over into an alternate universe—and into the middle of a civil war set off by a brutal warlord who has used technology stolen from the Daedalus to enslave his people.

Forcibly removed from their ship, imprisoned and brutalized by their captors, Captain Archer and crew soon find themselves confronting an even more immediate challenge than escape—subtle biochemical differences in this universe that make their continued survival an impossibility. Every hour they spend in this parallel continuum brings them closer to death.

Yet Archer discovers that in order to recapture Enterprise, he may have to cripple his ship once again. And even if he manages to find a solution to that dilemma, one last survivor of the doomed flight of the Daedalus stands between Enterprise and her safe return home...
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Product: Star Trek: Enterprise: Daedalus
Description: An original novel set in the universe of Star Trek: Enterprise!
October 5, 2140. After a half-dozen years of research and testing, Starfleet prepares to launch its first warp 5 vessel—Daedalus. Propelled by a radical new engine designed by Earth's most brilliant warp field theorist, Victor Brodesser, the new ship will at last put the stars within mankind's reach.

But on the eve of her maiden voyage, a maintenance engineer, Ensign Charles Tucker III—"Trip" to his friends—discovers a flaw in Daedalus's design. When he confronts Brodesser, the scientist—as charismatic as he is brilliant—eases Trip's concerns. The ship launches on schedule, and as Trip watches in horror, it explodes in a catastrophic ion cascade reaction, killing all aboard.

Thirteen years pass. Still haunted by memories of that disaster, Trip now serves as chief engineer aboard Enterprise. When a freak explosion cripples his vessel, leaving her helpless before a surprise attack, Trip is forced to abandon his ship—and his shipmates. As he is on the verge of mounting a desperate rescue attempt, however, a shocking turn of events forces him to confront the ghosts of Daedalus one final time.
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Product: The Daedalus Quartet
Description: In The Daedalus Quartet, Richard Townshend Bickers’ four bestselling Roger Hallowes thrillers are collected together for the first time.

TRAIL BY FIRE

August 1939

Of the nine Blenheims that had taken off from the hangars, three had been shot down and one crashed on landing.

RAF sergeant pilot Roger Hallowes doesn’t fancy his chances of surviving another half-dozen operations.

Follow Roger and his two cousins, James and Christopher Fenton, through the dramatic first year of war, the fall of Frances and the triumph of the Battle of Britain.

A TIME FOR HASTE

With war waging across Europe, sergeant pilot Roger Hallowes struggles to keep his crew intact as an uncomfortable number of planes end up in the sea.

Meanwhile Roger’s cousin James Fenton is taking on ever-increasing responsibility as his unit loses Commanding Officers, whilst Christopher Fenton must face consequences for his reckless behaviour.

Reeling from losses at the Battle of Britain, and with no end to the fighting in sight, can the three cousins survive the war?

TOO LATE FOR MORROW

In the summer of 1941, three young RAF pilots fight their own battles alongside the war.

James Fenton has flown through the ranks and finds himself directing operations from the ground, while longing to be back in the air.

After being court martialled, his brother Christopher is eager to get back to the action, but can he prove himself to his C.O?

In contrast, Roger is desperate not to return to battle. Ashamed and terrified, can he prove to his crew he isn’t cracking under pressure?

THE SURE RECOMPENSE

Spring 1943

Things look bleak for the three heroes, who have been utterly ravaged by the war.

When James disappears from contact and Roger is hit in battle, they are separated and begin to fear each other dead.

Meanwhile their comrade Laurent is forced to rescue his own children, leaving behind his wife Viviane with Roger.

The three men must face a road of true peril and can only hope they make it to the other side…

Praise for Richard Townshend Bickers

'A thrilling page turner.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of Trade Off

Richard Townsend Bickers volunteered for the RAF on the outbreak of the Second World War and served, with a Permanent Commission, for eighteen years. He wrote a range of military fiction and non-fiction books, including Torpedo Attack, My Enemy Came Nigh and Summer of No Surrender.
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