| WATTPAD EDITOR'S CHOICE | Major Aula Reed is a Canadian fighter pilot, veteran astronaut, and closeted bisexual. She's stationed on the second International Lunar Base or ILUB-2 with seven other crewmates. To be separated from Earth means facing radiation, meteorites, and equipment failure while under constant public scrutiny. For Aula, it also means struggling with memories of ILUB-1: the worst disaster in space exploration since the shuttle era. While she tries not to let her first mission overshadow her second, the Moon is an unforgiving place. It only takes one mistake, no matter how small, for history to repeat itself. This is a story of the near future informed by the lives of today's astronauts, whose triumphs and tragedies are immortalized in the public eye.

Specialist astronaut Evelyn Slater encounters a small, badly damaged, ancient alien artefact on the first ever space-junk elimination mission. Where was it from? Who'd sent it? International governments impose a security clampdown. Evelyn leads a team of hand-picked scientists who make amazing discoveries within the alien device. Secrecy is impossible to maintain. When the news is finally released, she becomes embroiled in international politics, worldwide xenophobic hatred and violence. This is book one of Tony Harmsworth's First Contact series of novels. If you like realistic near-future stories which compel you to imagine yourself as the protagonist, The Visitor is the book for you. The Visitor - hard science fiction with a wicked twist. Read it today. (C) 2017 Tony Harmsworth - All Rights Reserved. For the avoidance of doubt, anyone using this storyline, characters or copying prose or dialogue without written permission, will be prosecuted under international intellectual property laws. If you wish to write fan fiction based on the characters or invented worlds in my work, please seek written permission.

Nine hundred years in the future, the solar system has been colonised, hosting over one hundred billion souls. Without the technology to travel to the stars, humanity squabbles over resources and land, even across the vast expanse of space. Among these billions of lives, Jack Bishop prepares to leave Earth as an apprentice crewman, dreaming of exploring the system. Unfortunately, space can be a dangerous place. Political machinations, power struggles, and hard vacuum will force Jack and his friends into a struggle for survival as tensions between the various nations of the solar system begin to boil over. One part Hornblower, one part The Expanse, this sci-fi epic from astronomer and physics teacher Chris Bagnall will take you on a grand tour of the solar system as seen from the perspective of an aspiring ship's officer. This will be part one of an ongoing series.