Forming BERGMANN'S TEAM continues Guy and Nita's effort to build a human team to assist Striver and Banderat engineers divert the comets threatening Earth with a cometary winter that might end life on their planet. Humans should assist the extraterre...
A hard SF novel of an entrepreneur's first steps into orbit, diverting comets to save Earth from a world-wide winter and the terraforming of Mars for a future expedition that may lead to a Martian Colony. Nita and Guy Bergmann lead the effort to get ...
A hard SF novel with a romantic cast; interspecies first contact, non-human communication and morality as the Human Team joins the interplanetary Concordat. Redirection of comets allows the terraforming of Mars and the planning for an orbitat at L5, ...
Bergmann's Team continues Guy and Nita's effort to acquire a Human Team to assist Banderat and Striver engineers in diverting the comets threatening Earth. The core of their team: Guy, Nita and the Twins, demonstrate they can go EVA and p...
Bergmann's Comet, Bk 3, builds on the two previous books: Batwing - Bergmann's Commitment, Bk 1, and Bergmann's Team, Bk 2, continuing the story of a trio of comets hurled out of the Oort Cloud threatening Earth's civilizations. Bergmann's small grou...
Bergmann's Equestrian Venture is the 4th book in the nine-book series. Earth was spared the brunt of a comet-induced planet-wide winter by the Striver-led, Banderat-implemented, redirection of three comets. Bergmann's Team played an important part in...
A hard SF adventure story involving several alien races working with humans to establish and expand a Martian colony. Terraformed Mars allows six different races to thrive. The Martian Nautili teach and learn a pictorial language to talk to Kim Bergm...
This hard SF novel continues Bergmann's team's establishment of an interspecies colony at Candor Cliffs above the new sea in Valles Marineris in the Martian Highlands on a terraformed Mars. They are stunned by finding an indigenous nautili race and a...
An alien race, the Rasi, reconnoiter on Canth, alarming not only the Canth but humans as well. Once the new threat is partially understood, House Blackman proceeds to build Schrodinger Base on the Lunar far side. The Canth offer to see if they can jo...
Gil Morrison was the First Scout to jump down from space onto Raptor's World while a doctoral candidate at University of Mars, Candor Cliffs. He'd married fellow student Cari Landry, the Second Scout down on Raptor's World. They prospected for metals...
Gil Morrison studied geology, mineralogy, ethology and general survival techniques including obtaining potable water and rapid fire-making in his new doctoral course of 'Extraterrestrial Planetology' before he rode out to a new planet orbiting Cassin...
Bergmann's L5 Orbitat describes how the H-Team builds an orbital habitat at the L5 Lagrange Point behind the Moon using a new technique. Bergmann's Orbitat will be spun up to furnish a 0.5 G loading so that humans will not be debilitated by low-G. BV...
"Planet Scout - Brandywine" continues the "Planet Scout" series bringing a neophyte scout from Mars to Brandywine to look for metals with his fellow "Third Scouts." Glenn Porter is an experienced machinist, but has only been on Mars for his Master's ...
This hard science fiction novel follows Gray Mannor as he completes his classwork at University of Mars at Candor Cliffs and goes out with 5 fellow student scouts to an unexplored planet named Polychrome. He and the young woman he bonds with meet and...
Captain Greg Mordant, US Army Signal Corps, figured out how to shield Predators and Reapers from Soviet bloc high frequency jamming. Someone, probably Soviet Bloc, tried to kill him and the people he was training to do the shielding. He helped put do...
Awaking from an explosion-induced coma, Greg Mordant struggles to remember what happened to him. An Army Captain, he'd learned how to shield Predator and Reaper RPVs from Russian jamming transmitters. The Russians try to kill him to prevent him teach...
Gabe and Ali Milland were planet scouts reporting to Gil Morrison, Governor of Timoron; they'd made two previous trips to the planet Pacifica. They'd hosted a Canth team that wanted to experience building and sailing a boat on that planet-wide ocean....
Major Greg Mordant conceived a new weapon system, Sniperbird, an RPV that allowed a soldier/pilot to fly an e-VTOL drone out away from a base, performing 'C4ISR' procedures: command, control, communication, computation, intelligence, surveillance, ta...
Two new adults meet on the out-planet Timoron where House Blackmon has founded a tribute-cultural colony: humans, Brio and Leeden. Gav Mentor's first job is to teach youngsters how to slump glass to make plates and bowls. His second job is as an appr...
This sequel to ALONE follows Glenn Torenson from Southern California to the exoplanet Timoron where he fled his memories of Nikki, his wife of 38 years, who'd died before he had. Could he make it out here, alone?...
Tryg and Ali met as they both started new careers in Southern California. She was a new FBI agent; he was an apprentice jeweler transitioning to manufacturing technician. They had enough in common to begin new lives as a couple. They got more than th...
Bk6 details the expansion of Bergmann's Orbitat in preparation to explore the Lunar surface near Cabeus Crater and establish a permanent presence on Luna. They would finish the design and assemble a marship to move on toward Mars! 'Barsoomian' would ...
Geoff Blackmon stumbled into a first encounter with a family of XT Canth beings when their lander made a forced landing in northeast Arizona. He takes them in out of harsh weather, feeds and warms them. With their assistance he forms a small team to ...
Bermann's team returns to Sunrise to offer the Avians limited contact with the Concordat peoples. Two of the team are threatened by a new race; Guy intervenes, killing a Varendrie Lord: Lord Anoth. Guy inherits the Lord's lands, fortress, starshi...
The extraterrestrial planet Timoron was selected for a class expedition for Dr. Panter's planetary exploration class at the University of Mars, Candor Cliffs. The Brio, under Counselor Ligili changed that when she requested Gil and Cari Morrison join...
How would you pick a planet to explore for mineral wealth, exotic fauna or maybe build a settlement? Lea Morrison was convinced her University of Mars professor, Dr. Roald Panter, was too immersed in human culture to prepare his students to actually ...
Gren Pannor had his BS Metallurgical Engineering; he had three job offers: one from the small firm only twenty minutes from home where he'd interned. It was a known place; they'd offered him less, thinking he might not want to relocate. The second wa...
Jere Morgan completed his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue a little early by paying to take a comprehensive test in some subjects, rather than sitting through a semester. He disliked paying for 'seat time' instead of learning!...
There were always a few humans, female and male, that hankered to see what was just over the next ridge. Some acted on the longing to venture well beyond their own community, finding new and strange people and critters! The number of these 'frontier'...
Driving Bergmann's Comet builds on the two previous books in the series, detailing how Bergmann's human team comes together to assist Banderat space grunts in diverting the last comet threatening Earth with a world-wide 'winter-in-summer'. One ...