Our first review on HELLHOLE!  From Booklist: (starred review)  Hellhole is a militaristic sf story of galactic proportions. The underdog, General Tiber Adolphus, had taken on the corrupted Constellation and lost as a direct result of choosing a moral high ground. The ruler of the Constellation, Diadem Michella Duchenet, does not have him executed but, rather, exiled permanently to a planet in the Deep Zone. The Diadem is the powerful ruler of a system not unlike that of Louis XVI of France, a feudal system of nobility that tramples the common people for the benefit of the few scheming nobles at...
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When designing our "Life Lessons from the Desert" 2011 Calendar, Tim compiled the book covers of all my releases and reprints for 2010.  Another busy year! My upcoming titles in 2011 include: •  Hellhole (with Brian Herbert) •  Star Challengers #2: Space Station Crisis (with Rebecca Moesta) •  Star Challengers #3: Asteroid Crisis (with Rebecca Moesta) •  Terra Incognita #3: The Key to Creation •  Blood Lite 3 •  Ill Wind (with Doug Beason, reprint) •  Captain Nemo (reprint) And probably a few others. I hope you all have a prosperous and productive 2011, with plenty of time to read!
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The Challenger Centers for Space Science Education have created a detailed Teacher's Guide to accompany the first novel in the Star Challengers series, Moonbase Crisis.  This Guide is an educational companion to help extend the learning as students enjoy the novel. The book includes a series of Language Arts lessons based on science and technical vocabulary development, figurative and idiomatic language, expository writing, and others.  The section on Science and Math lessons includes Moon math problems, biology lessons on growing food on the Moon, a project to build your own moonbase model in a shoebox, experiments showing the parts of...
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