Saving Proxima: Volume 1

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A message from space leads to a desperate race against time and across space to our nearest stellar neighbor in a new hard science fiction thriller from Travis S. Taylor and Les Johnson.

2072. At the lunar farside radio observatory, an old-school radio broadcast is detected, similar to those broadcast on Earth in the 1940s, but in an unknown language, coming from an impossible sourceProxima Centauri. While the nations of Earth debate making first contact, they learn that the Proximans are facing an extinction-level disaster, forcing a decision: will Earth send a ship on a multiyear trip to render aid

Interstellar travel is not easy, and by traveling at the speeds required to arrive before disaster strikes at Proxima, humans will learn firsthand the time-dilating effects of Einsteins Special Relativity and be forced to ponder ultimate questions: What does it mean to be human What will it take to share the stars with another form of life What if I return younger than my own children The answers are far from academic, for they may determine the fate of not one, but two, civilizations.

About Travis S. Taylor:
[E]xplodes with inventive action.Publishers Weeklyon Travis S. TaylorsThe Quantum Connection

[Warp Speed] reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum . . . You wont want to put it down.John Ringo

AboutStellaris: People of the Stars, coedited by Les Johnson:
[A] thought-provoking look at a selection of real-world challenges and speculative fiction solutions. . . . Readers will enjoy this collection that is as educational as it is entertaining.Booklist

This was an enjoyable collection of science fiction dealing with colonizing the stars. In the collection were several gems and the overall quality was high.Tangent

AboutMission to Methone,by Les Johnson:
The spirit of Arthur C. Clarke and his contemporaries is alive and well in Johnsons old-fashioned first-contact novel, set in 2068. . . .includes plenty of realistic detail and puts fun new spins on familiar alien concepts. . . . Theres a great deal here for fans of early hard SF.Publishers Weekly

With equal parts science fiction and international intrigue. . . . an exciting, fast-paced read that you will not want to put down.Booklist

AboutRescue Mode,by Ben Bova and Les Johnson:
. . . a suspenseful and compelling narrative of the first human spaceflight to Mars.Booklist

Author Bio

Dr. Travis S. Taylorheads up the cast ofThe Secret of Skinwalker Ranchand can be seen onThe Machines that Built Americaon the History Channel. Hehas worked on various programs for the Department of Defense and NASA for the past twenty years. His expertise includes advanced propulsion concepts, very large space telescopes, space-based beamed-energy systems, future combat technologies, and next-generation space launch concepts. Taylor is also the author of pulse-pounding, cutting-edge science fiction novels,including the highly popularOne Day on Mars, Tau Ceti Agenda,and the groundbreakingWarp Speedseries. He isa regular on theHistory ChannelsLife After PeopleandThe Universeseries.

Les Johnson is a futurist, author, and NASA technologist. Publishers Weekly noted that The spirit of Arthur C. Clarke and his contemporaries is alive and well . . . when describing his novel, Mission to Methone. His most recent novels, The Spacetime War and Saving Proxima (with coauthorTravis S. Taylor), were published in 2021.In his day job at NASA, Les is the Chief Technologist at the Marshall Space Flight Center where he leads the centers development of next-generation space technologiesincluding solar sails, which he believes will eventually take us to the stars.