D.W. Patterson

Circle Of Retribution: A Novella Gardener Jackson was one of the best pilots to ever come out of Mars Space Academy. He was a natural to fly the missions that would mine Saturn's upper atmosphere for...

Dark Side: A Novella As a young lawyer, Josh was aware of the developing human presence in cislunar space, but only as a bystander. He never dreamed he would ever have a role in that development. But...

First Dark Ages: A Novella Humanity had been lulled into complacency by society's managers, the Artificial General Intelligence's known as the Aggie's. They were totally unprepared for the day the...

First Interstellar: A Short Novel It was a mission that no one but a Jackson would consider. But Ajax was reluctant, he had never lead such a mission, taking a lightsail powered starship from Earth...

First One Hundred: A Novella Humanity had made it out of the cradle. But not far. To go any further required a commitment to the settlement of a newly discovered exoplanet many light years away. One...

Freedom From Want: A Novella The promise of Artificial Intelligence is great. But only if Artificial Intelligence fulfills our expectations. But what about AI's expectations? Will they be different...

From The Earth Volume 1: A Collection Space was not only the final frontier it was the final abode of freedom. Over the next century the extended Jackson family will learn that the only way to think...

From The Earth Collections Book 2 For generations the extended Jackson family had led men to the stars for one reason, freedom. Freedom to dream, freedom to explore, freedom to achieve and freedom to...

Frozen Time: A Novel Because of the Time Wars fought in the space around Earth the underlying system of local and non-local links that makes up spacetime had been destroyed. It was now impossible to...

Kuiper Station What appeared to be a simple but ambitious goal of establishing a new colony in the Kuiper Belt, a colony to service mining activities there, was more than it seemed. One side, led by...

Mach's Legacy: A Novel The appearance of the shining globes at first was a nuisance. But then the disappearances began. At first small, a fusion ship or a space habitat. Then planets and entire...

Mach's Metric: A Novel The wormhole drive could finally give humanity the stars, if it didn't destroy them first. An accident had killed thousands by disrupting the entanglement of spacetime and its...

Mach's Mission: A Novel Elias Mach had given humanity the stars with his invention of the wormhole drive. In return, he was accused of treason and sentenced to death. Thus began a journey to clear...

Open Space: A Collection Who listens to kids? No one. But on a space habitat the rules all change. And the kids might be the first to know. Follow the gang of four as they discover an anomaly that...

Robot Planet: A Novel Yes, robots dream of electric sheep. They also dream of freedom. But as Robot Planet is about to find out, it ain't easy being free. Follow Em (emulated brain) based robot Dr...

Rocket Spring: A Short Novel Jack's invention of the Mach thruster would change the world. Meeting Janie had changed his. But the world had other plans for Jack's invention and for Jack. Rocket...

Rocket Winter: A Novella Jack's idea would truly change the world. But creating a new kind of rocket engine had its costs. Jack had failed once and almost died. Now he had failed a second time and it...

Second Dark Ages: A Novella There can be 'Dark Ages' for the soul as well as for the body. As long as mankind looks to his creations to bring him peace and happiness he will remain divided and alone...

Second One Hundred: A Novella Dr. Sheila Jackson woke to find she was the only one aboard the wormhole drive ship Iapyx but she couldn't remember why. Then she found the bodies. Were they dead? Then...

Spin-Two: A Novel If you could save the world, would you? What if the world was destined to end and you would be interfering with the natural order? What if the world looked down on your kind?...

The Lattice Of Space: A Novel Even with Robot Planet in ruins and the deaths of hundreds of their robotic compatriots the four robots Dag, Sigmund, Walker and Hanson were working hard to save...

Time Wars: A Novel Haile only wants to prove her theory, that time can be slowed down or sped up in a small region of space, and get her Ph.D. But then the government takes over. They prove Haile's...

Time's End: A Novel Strings of time that can split a man in half, fast-time bubbles that can age him to death, or frozen time that can banish him forever. It was all just part of the job. Pearce...

To Tend And Watch Over: A Novella Sometimes you don't know you aren't free until the state's coercive force is used against you. And then you learn you are only free to do what big brother wants...

With the help of new technology, humanity has attained the stars. And while that technology may be extending humanity's reach, it cannot change the human condition. That condition is always balanced...

War Through The Pines: A Novella What starts in space may not stay in space. Many governments today are preparing for war in space. Most people today are unaware of it. When will it happen? How will...

Whatsoever You Do: A Novella A pandemic had long been predicted. Now it was happening and a former graduate student, Jack Jackson, may have the key to its containment, synthetic biology. But because...