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More than two decades have passed since the asteroid mining ship Anaconda crashed into a space-time warp and emerged four centuries in the past. During that short time, two crew members oversaw a successful war of liberation in North America, two others eliminated the African slave trade, and the ship’s general manager created a modern consumer economy stretching across the Mediterranean.

Three centuries after the Orbem Novis colonists told off-Earth financiers who backed their voyage to stay away from their new home on a distant planet or face death, the Farside Corporation receives an unusual request. Two top-drawer agents are hired to locate the last descendants on Earth of the colonists’ leader and bring them to Orbem Novis.

It’s been about a year since the zombie apocalypse swept across the globe. Journalist Michelle Santino takes on the task of finding out how the pandemic originated.

In this sequel to The Anaconda, A New Earth, A War of Myths, and Dystopian Sacrifices, crew members from a 23rd-century asteroid mining ship that mysteriously traveled 400 years into the past continue to pursue their private missions on the new planet. Five years have passed since the fall of New Orleans, and the global war of liberation for slaves and native peoples has spread east of the Big Muddy River and south to the Caribbean.

In this sequel to The Anaconda, A New Earth, and A War of Myths, crew members from an asteroid mining ship that mysteriously traveled 400 years into the past continue to pursue their private missions - a global war of liberation for slaves and native peoples, two 23rd-century capitalists seeking to control the Ottoman Empire, and an effort to protect civilization’s greatest treasures in a museum hidden away on a South Pacific island.

In this sequel to The Anaconda and A New Earth, crew members from an asteroid miner mysteriously transported 400 years into the past compete against each other among the natives and empires of 1802. An army of Plains tribes created by one faction seeks to drive Europeans from North America, while two 23rd-century capitalists employ long-lost Templar Knights to pressure London mercantilists and the Ottoman sultan to establish a global monopoly.

The year is 1801, and some of the future’s best and brightest want to lead an army of aborigines and freed slaves against the European oppressors. Others prefer a more peaceful strategy to stem the inevitable yet catastrophic industrial revolutions. Meanwhile, a team of twin assassins roams the planet in search of targets, and the artificial intelligence they all rely on is contaminated and becoming unreliable.

Twenty-four of the 23rd century’s best and brightest engineers and soldiers find themselves mysteriously transported to 1801 after their mining ship, The Anaconda, crosses a space-time warp in the Asteroid Belt. What will they do when they return to the New Earth - live in isolation on a Pacific Island, or put their God-like powers to work challenging Europe’s great empires on behalf of native peoples and slaves? Some believe history can be changed. Others think nudging civilization will only lead to disaster.

In the sixth book of the Anaconda series, 10 years have passed since the 23rd-century asteroid mining ship Anaconda mysteriously appeared 400 years in the past. Aided by a library containing a detailed history of Earth’s people and natural resources, along with millions of tons of processed ore and advanced 3-D printing factories, the crew has split into factions bent on creating utopian societies on the planet they call New Earth.

More than a decade after the crew of the 23rd century asteroid mining ship Anaconda crashed through a space-time warp to the year 1801, much has changed on the New Earth. A war of liberation on North America and in the Caribbean has driven the colonists back to Europe, leaving the natives and freedmen to build a new Utopian society. Separately, the African slave trade has been brutally shut down by the twin assassins known as the cadets, and the general manager’s modern consumer economy is booming in the Mediterranean using advanced products made with 23rd century technology.