An explosion in Tranquility City on the Moon kills 14-year-old Dacia Stark's parents and sends her on a quest to find Julian Walker, the terrorist who admitted to the crime. Now a detective on Tranquility's police force, Dacia has seen more than her share of blood, death, and grief. But that's only stiffened her resolve, not just to track Walker down -- but to kill him.

A CROWD OF STARSA novella by Dave CreekEarth Alliance starship captain Jon Hendrik barely escapes death at the hands of the Star Rebellion, and vows to defeat it!Rachel Adero, a young woman scarred by poverty, joins the Star Rebellion to fight for the destruction of the Alliance!Meanwhile, the ruler known only as the Eminence is pulling the strings on both sides of the conflict!

In the midst of a galactic war, a sneak attack leaves the starship Shen Kuo with half its crew dead and the ship itself crippled and adrift thousands of light-years from home. Now, with Captain Kiernan Taylor facing a return journey that could take decades, he must seek out a "shortcut" home even as he perceives the first glimmerings of a mutiny! "The Unmoving Stars is a gripping tale of humans fighting against time and vast interstellar distances to return home. Fans of Star Trek Voyager and The Lost Fleet will enjoy this series." -- Jason Sanford, two-time Nebula Award finalist.

Janir Semler of the planet Oldavar fights to save his world -- and his family -- after a devastating attack from space. Six hundred years later, human explorer Ethan Sun works to solve the mystery of how Oldavarian civilization died. His closest advisor: his mother. Never mind that she died 24 years earlier. Reviews of Dave Creek's earlier work: "The world building is most impressive...I see too few writers willing to take the trouble to do it these days." -- Stanley Schmidt, former editor of ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION ..".there's more than enough otherness here to satisfy any sf reader." -- Don Sakers, reviewer, ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION

The Great Human War is over, but the planet Demeter is far from peaceful. In this sequel to A CROWD OF STARS, Ambassador Jon Hendrik works to keep dueling political factions from re-igniting that war. When he and his lover Niva Tessler are kidnapped and Niva's family members are placed in danger, the conflict becomes all too personal.

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS has captivated readers ever since H.G. Wells first alerted us that, ". . . intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes . . ."Orson Welles directed and starred in a radio version in 1938 said to have caused a national panic. It was also adapted into celebrated film versions by George Pal (1953) and Steven Spielberg (2005).This volume features an introduction and commentary by science fiction writer Dave Creek, along with his short story sequel, "The Adventure of the Martian Cylinder," in which H.G. Wells meets Sherlock Holmes!

Looking for science fiction stories like they used to write? Far Orbit Apogee takes all of the fun-to-read adventure, ingenuity, and heroism of mid-century pulp fiction and reshapes it into modern space adventures crafted by a new generation of writers. Follow the adventures of heroic scientists, lunar detectives, space dragons, robots, interstellar pirates, gun slingers, and other memorable and diverse characters as they wrestle with adversity beyond the borders of our small blue marble. Featuring stories from Jennifer Campbell-Hicks, Dave Creek, Eric Del Carlo, Dominic Dulley, Nestro Delfino, Milo James Fowler, Julie Frost, Sam S. Kepfield, Kevin R. Pittsinger, Wendy Sparrow, Anna Salonen, James Van Pelt, and Jay Werkheiser

MIKE CHRISTOPHER RETURNS TO EARTH TO BATTLE AN OLD NEMESIS Mike Christopher, an artificial Human spurned and abused by much of Earth society, left Earth to become a Galactic explorer. Now, 25 years later, he returns to battle the Jenregar, an alien enemy he's fought before. But the key to defeating the alien threat also presents a soul-crushing moral dilemma