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LES'S BOOKS

SCIENCE FICTION



Published October 12, 2021 in trade paperback and e-book



Earth's extrasolar settlements are being attacked. By whom? Why? And from where, or when? (New series!)



Published in hardcover and e-book on August 3, 2021



A message from space leads to a desperate race against time and across space to our nearest stellar neighbor... (The first book in a 3-part series.)



Available in paper, e-book, and audio book formats



The year is 2065 and an accidental encounter in space leads to the discovery that we are not alone in the universe - and that our continued existence as a species may be in jeopardy...



Available now from Baen Books



A mission of exploration to the red planet will we expand our knowledge of the solar

system or will Mars become the explorer's tomb?



Available in paper, e-book, and audiobook formats



After half a century, America is going back to the moon, this time in partnership with private industry. Will the first trip instead become a rescue mission?



Available now from Baen Books



Original stories and essays exploring what humanity might become when we take the leap to becoming an interstellar species.



Available in paper, e-book, and audiobook formats



A new era of space exploration and development, spurred by private companies in a quest to expand humanity's presence into the solar system - but what if something goes wrong?



2nd Edition Coming September 2021 from Baen Books



A collection of original science fiction stories and popular science essays speculating on how we might really travel to the stars.



Popular Science



Non-Fiction: Available now in paperback and e-book



An enthusiastic layperson's view of the new supermaterial and how it will change our world. Reviewed in the Journal Nature, excerpted in American Scientist, and available now!



Non-Fiction: Available from Springer Books



Written for a general audience, everything you need to know about solar sails and how they ight one day take us to the stars.



Non-Fiction: Available from Springer Books



Space science and exploration is not just about going "out there." We can develop space to help solve our energy and environmental problems here on Earth.



Non-Fiction Available from Springer Books



What would happen if we suddenly lost our satellites? Could this happen?



contributing short stories



Avaliable from baen books



A shared world anthology edited by Robert Hampson to which Les contributed his story, "Confession."



Avaliable from baen books



In this anthology tribute to Richard Bolgeo, the founder of the LibertyCon SF convention, Les contributed an essay on the development of nuclear propulsion for space exploration.



Murder in space



In this story set in the Saving Proxima universe, a Russian oligarch is killed before he can invest his fortune to support a mission of mercy to Proxima Centauri to help the recently-discovered alien race there that is jeopardy of becoming extinct. Was it an accident? Or murder? It's up to Charlie Shattles, a private investigator who has seen better days, to find out.





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