Bøger af Bill Parker

I am Captain Jack Falco. I am Recon flesh and Recon bone. In the fog of war, my Talon fighter was blown deep into Kryonean space. All that Jessica and I wanted to do was to work our way home as best we could. Jessica is my artificial copilot, but you would never know that looking at her. Slowly we worked our way through uncharted enemy space, stopping only for fuel and to chart the area around us. By our own estimates, it would take us a year to get home.Then by chance, in the middle of a lonely night, a faint message played out on Jessica's screen. It was only by the hand of Fate that we found Layla, a Kryonean Princess. Her people were my sworn enemy, but not Layla. She changed everything. As it turned out, it was not the Kryonean people that we both hated, it was the Kryonean Empire. The Kryonean Empire had swept across the outworlds to crush her people long ago under their oppressive thumb. They killed and abused who they pleased and taxed the outworlds to pay for it.When I joined Union Fleet, I swore an oath to protect and defend the people, but now my new understanding was that 'the people' included the Kryoneans too. The way I saw it, I could help save her people from the Empire and maybe end this horrible war at the same time. All we had to do was to reignite her outworld revolution.I give Union Fleet a lot of credit. They actually agreed with me. Starting a Kryonean revolution should be a far better strategy to end this horrible war than the needless loss of men and ships in endless battles far from home. So it was that they sent the Black Pearl and made me her captain. The Black Pearl was like no other ship. She was Union Fleet's first pocket battleship. With the Black Pearl, we actually stood a chance.One more time, though, the road to hell was paved with good intentions. By the hand of Fate, we discovered the Empress's plan to annihilate all of the outworld noble Kryonean families. Most of the noble Princesses had already been rounded up. The Empress and her henchmen were determined to commit this genocide while the rest of her people's eyes were on the war. In the beginning, it was only Layla and I that stood against the Empress and the might of The Kryonean Empire, but we gathered a storm around us.But the Empress had a hurricane waiting for us, the likes of which were immense, and she was determined to wipe us all out to the last.

Dragon Eyes began this bold science fiction adventure, but Sibyl's Orb drags you inexorably into the beating heart of this mystical walk on the wild side of science fiction...The road to hell is surely paved with good intentions. Just ask Chon ko Gonin, Captain of the Green Jinn. He would definitely agree with that. With the best of intentions, the Green Jinn ventured into unexplored territory in search of a wanted interplanetary criminal, David Zharn.Right from the start, the Green Jinn found itself dragged into a battle to save an ancient people from the Merc invaders hiding in the unexplored territory since the Corporate War more than 40 years ago. Right from the start, ancient forces of good and evil fought for control of Sibyl's Orb and dragged Chon ko Gonin into the middle of it.Sibyl's Orb was the key that would unlock the mysteries that lay before him, but finding it and saving it would test his strength, and cunning to its limits. However, Sibyl's Orb would not be his only challenge on this mission. Beyond the orb was an ancient evil.A thousand years ago, I was a very gifted seer. I was Evil's worst nightmare. So Evil set a plan in motion to kill me. His minions did not know Evil's whole plan. They only knew their own parts in it. He used that fact to trap me. But in the end, I saw my own demise, and there was no way out. I was doomed. So, I recorded my own moon and hid it away, where Evil would never find it.My love, Arowin, felt in his heart the second of my end. To the end of his days did he search for me. Our loving son picked up the task that had outlived his father. My beloved son, Iisax, followed the clues that his father had left for him, but Iisax's days were also numbered. It was Shirazad, Iisax's daughter, who found the moon that I had hidden away nearly a thousand years before her. It was Shirazad that handed my moon over to the Council of the Crescent Moon. It was the Council that set my moon free.And so now, here I am. I am Destiny. I would find Ojunta and finish this once and for all. But this unexplored territory was full of more secrets as I was to find out. And this ancient evil had taken yet another unexpected turn.But this unexplored territory was about to give up yet another secret from the past, an old foe of unequaled skill and cunning -- the man who gave the orders to kill Admiral Dallas Blake's whole family.

In the beginning, evil humans conspired to destroy the Five Moons and kill its crew to hide the evil they had done, but I refused to give up. I would fight them to the end! In our darkest hour, indeed at the very gates of Hell, did my father find a single leaf in the wind, Dallas Blake. My father found Dallas Blake, but I chose him to save my ship.Dallas Blake set foot upon the decks of the Five Moons and changed everything. He not only saved my ship, but he found the crew that evil men thought was lost and gone forever. He made all the difference. He set me free. All that seems so long ago now.My own people, Anoza not humans, came in the night to kill me. They came to kill my unborn child. They came to finish an ancient evil that filled their hearts. Only Dallas Blake, wounded and bleeding, stood against them, but he did. It was all that we could do just to fight for our very lives, but that would not be the end of it. Our time-space ring made us vulnerable, and now they know where to find us.My people are almost a million years older than humans. We Anoza had put evil behind us long ago... or so we thought. For one Anoza to raise a hand in anger against another Anoza is unthinkable, so none of this made any sense at all. Then we discovered that the evil ones had kidnaped my father! How much worse could this get?It was about to get a lot worse. To rescue my father, the Five Moons would be pitted against unknown forces with quantum technology a million years more advanced. But unknown forces would not be the Five Moons' only problem. There was a Merc rebellion brewing out beyond the Seven Pillars. It was led by Dallas' arch nemesis, Sarsen Tabbot. A whole civil war was out there boiling over right where the Five Moons needed to go. Even worse, to rescue my father we would have to cross the Great Rift into Anoza space.But the Five Moons is more than just a starship. It is the Nexus of Fates, and it seems to have a mind of its own. As I think about it now, the Five Moons chose me for my indomitable spirit. The Five Moons chose Dallas Blake for his warrior's spirit. The Five Moons had chosen each member of the crew for a reason, and it was not done yet. There is one more left to choose. The Five Moons last choice could blow this whole thing wide open.

"We come in peace," they told us when we first encountered humans. In peace, indeed, they came, but evil followed after them in their jump wakes like a foul stench. It all started out with the best of intentions, but in the end, I had the blood of four innocents on my hands. Across the vastness of space, that vile Clay of Earth did drag five nameless moons to destroy them. They flew an unmarked ship into Union Fleet space docks and marked the ship for destruction to hide the evil they had done.At the very gates of hell, in that vast sea of despair embroiled in the wake of chaos did I find hope - a single Leaf in the Wind - Dallas Blake. In our darkest hour, did Dallas Blake first step foot upon the decks of the Five Moons and change everything. He didn't know that the ship was never meant for sale. He only knew that this ship was nothing he expected but everything he needed, so he bought it. He knew nothing of the evil that was done. Even so, he found the crew that evil men thought were lost and gone forever. And save the Five Moons? To use his own words: Damned straight he did.Dallas Blake and the crew of the Five Moons went where they were needed because making a difference started with them. They fought pirates and battled Mercs in deep space. Each life they saved added to the Nexus of Fates that the Five Moons had become. When people had nowhere else to turn, they knew where to find Dallas Blake and the crew of the Five Moons - at the Pig and Whistle on Panara-5.But the Five Moons had become more than just the Nexus of Fates. It had become Evil's worst nightmare. So Evil set in motion his grand plan. It was more than just a plan; it was a masterpiece of evil. Dallas Blake may have been a warrior without equal, and the Five Moons a ship like no other, but this time dark forces hunted them. They were seriously in over their heads. Despite their best efforts, like the gears of a clockwork angel of death, Evil's plan moved relentlessly toward its inevitable conclusion.Leaf in the Wind found beauty in the light of four moons and set them free, but he didn't find me. Only my Leaf in the Wind can do what it takes to set me free. Unless he does, none of us will survive. I am the fifth moon.

Dragon Eyes began this bold science fiction adventure. Then Sibyls' Orb dragged you inexorably into the beating heart of this mystical walk on the wild side of science fiction. But now, this twisted tale of mystical intrigue will weave your mind forever into The Ojunta Stone.It all began forty years ago, during the Anoza Rebellion, when the rebels abandoned an anoza science officer and his team on the human world, Galatea. To their horror, they discovered the unspeakable evil that had been done there by their own people, anoza. But evil begets evil. Before the day was done, the rebels had killed one of their own and left the rest to die. So it was, in his despair, that the Ojunta Stone found him. So it was, that the science officer, a good man, became ensnared in the ancient evil... consumed by it.Forty years later, on a distant anoza world, a meeting was held of Council of the Crescent Moon in the Temple of Shem Kazat. Seven times they circled the sacred fire. Incense rose unto the heavens. When the power of them was full, within the Sibyl's Orb, only a brief vision was seen to give Toron, the smallest of clues, to hunt down this ancient evil. But the vision was of a time and place forty years in the past. How could that possibly help him now?Toron had survived the Anoza Rebellion's best attempt to kill him, but this time he found himself wound full-up into the same intrigues with a new face. This time, he faced an even more cunning opponent who had cheated death and hid amongst his people for the past forty years.But Captain Chon Ko Gonin and the crew of the Green Jinn had already unknowingly joined this quest. They thought they were hunting down a pair of criminals guilty of the most unspeakable war crimes, but quickly found themselves embroiled by the same ancient evil of the Ojunta Stone.This time, only the Dragon Warrior could save them, but to do that, he must first find the Alchemist of the Cozmos to discover the secret of the stone. Then, he must find a golden butterfly and a silver dragonfly. But Ojunta was not about to be so easily defeated.No matter what the outcome, you will be left to ask yourself; Is this magic or is this science? After all, quantum physics is not exactly what any sane person would call 'logical' now; right? So, you had better be prepared as The Ojunta Stone pushes that thought to its limits and severely tests the boundaries of belief. After all, this is science fiction, not fantasy... or is it?

Dragon Eyes began this bold science fiction adventure. Then Sibyls' Orb dragged you inexorably into the beating heart of this mystical walk on the wild side of science fiction. But now, this twisted tale of mystical intrigue weaves your mind forever into Aeon Event.I am Chon ko Gonin, Captain of the Green Jinn. They call me the Dragon Warrior for a reason - I am Evil's worst nightmare. I am Recon, the tip of the spear. Fate sends me where angels fear to tread. I am no damned angel. Then the desperate plea came in from Kianori on a distant world beyond the farthest reaches of the Union frontier. Even worse, she couldn't tell us where she was, but that was just the beginning of our woes.My name is Phoebe. With the help of the Council of the Crescent Moon and my time-space orb, we reached across the vastness of space to find Kianori. Even so, we would have failed but for the quantum power of our Dragon Warriors.Kianori's people had come under attack by the Jatarians, evil reptilian creatures from the Gates of Hell. Red, green, yellow and blue, these evil reptiles looked like gargoyles from your worst nightmare. Screeching and howling, they killed their way forward. Even worse, they killed the people only to eat them. To the evil Jatarians, humanoid creatures were nothing more than food. There was no reasoning with the Jatarians. They only take prisoners to eat them later. It was my duty to stop them. I swore an oath to protect and defend the people and that is damned well what I will do. I am Recon flesh and Recon bone.Akila is my name. I am a Dragon Warrior, but not like Chon. I was marked with a silver dragonfly. Even so, I wonder how I ever got dragged into all of this but dragged in I am. Between the quantum portals and the Anoza Mysticism my head is spinning. But science or not, one more time, I was dragged into the whirling vortex of a battle with the worst evil creatures I have ever seen.Then, in a dream, Fate called me one more time. He sent all of the Dragon Warriors down into the heat of battle with the evil screaming Jatarians to save one little pair of eyes staring out from behind her hide. He may have sent us all, but this time, Fate called me. He sent me to save little Leah. He sent me to pick her up and carry her back to the Green Jinn. From that moment one, I loved her as my own and she loved me. For me, saving Leah changed everything.

I am not crazy. I told you that Elm Cove really did exist in this time stream, and I was right. When I was just a young boy, I was caught up in an alien insurrection happening right here on Earth, but I was the only human that saw anything. No one believed me. I was just a kid, they said. It was all a bad dream, but it wasn't... it wasn't. Even so, my life went on, but I was never the same. It all caught up with me like a crossfire hurricane when my Kasha returned to Earth twenty years later to find me. She was the one who brought me back to Elm Cove. She and Lilly brought me back into that interplanetary alien intrigue. It was as if reality had been restored to me for the first time in my life. This intrigue took me back in like a lost child, and I have once more become an integral part of it. The Kiiahni had started out on Earth millennia ago with nothing but good intentions. They used their own DNA to create modern humans from the early hominids they found here. But the road to hell is surely paved with good intentions. In their decline over the millennia, the Kiiahni lost their freedom to High Command as well as all of those good intentions. In that same time, mankind had become their worst nightmare. So, Kiiahni High Command set out to correct that. They set in motion a plan to wipe out all life on Earth. To them, it was as if humans were nothing but an experiment gone bad. At the last second, I sent their damned extinction device back through their own quantum wormhole. I killed almost a million souls that day and wiped out High Command. I thought that ended it once and for all. I thought my life would just go on from there. I was wrong. Matthew Lockhart was the next human sucked into the whirling vortex of this intrigue. They killed his wife and put him on the run. But Kiiahni Plan-B had crossed the wrong man. Matt was pissed at what they had done to him and bent on vengeance. With every bit of technical skill that he could bring to bear, he was determined to take an eye for an eye. Matthew Lockhart did what Dr. Michael Phillips could not. He took the fight to Plan-B. Unfortunately, Laura Malone was sucked into that whirling cauldron of conflict. She would have been dead three times over but for Matt. Everyone thought that she was just the Girl Friday... they were wrong.Earth is my homeworld, but is it really?

We were told that only the finest of mankind ventured forth from Earth. But if you ask any of the other intelligent species, they will tell you fast and quick that mankind was cast into the outer darkness because of the evil in his heart. Four millennia later, Earth had become a distant memory. Mankind had surely been cast into the outer darkness for a reason. So, once more, mankind was tested in the crucible of time to separate the iron from the slag.As if life in the outworlds wasn't already dangerous enough, the Corporate War ended in total chaos. By then, even Union Fleet Command itself had been infiltrated by the Syndicate. All that John Araans wanted to do was to start his life over after the war. He only wanted to be a peaceful outworld trader and work on his starships, but Fate had other plans for him.It all began with silence.Silence is not something that occurs naturally in a modern starship. Silence is more defined by the sudden absence of someone. It is even more strongly defined by the sudden absence of someone who you depend on for everything, someone who runs the whole ship, someone who does the navigating, someone who has been your copilot, at your side in the worst of times. It took John a few seconds to notice the silence. That was the beginning of his woes.Rosie, his girlfriend on Aurora had other plans for John. She had already done her best to sabotage Eve, his artificial companion, just to keep him coming back to her. And then there was Karl, his partner. It was a total surprise when Karl tried to kill him, but it didn't end there. Karl was only the tip of that spear. Evil forces sent out their assassins to finish the job that Karl did not and steal his ships. The same evil forces used their corrupt power at every turn to do John in, one way or another.Even the Zenobians had other plans for John and Eve, but John was determined to live the life of an outworld trader. Every day was an adventure, but with Eve watching his back, he surprised them all.It seemed as though everyone had other plans for John, but it was Fate that set him on the path. It was Fate that set him on the path to find Lilly. It was Fate that set him on the path to save Koryn. Then Fate set him on the path to find Kolahn. In the end, Fate sent John on an impossible mission against impossible odds. But, as John would say, "Who am I to question Fate?

The highly acclaimed saga of the Five Moons continues as Dragon Eyes carries this action-packed adventure into the future. Dragon Eyes is a mystical walk on the wild side of science fiction. The real heart of this story actually began long ago...A thousand years ago, I was a very gifted seer. I was Evil's worst nightmare. But Evil knew that I only see glimpses of the future. And so he set a plan in motion to kill me. His minions did not know Evil's whole plan. They only knew their own parts in it. He used that fact to trap me. But in the end, I saw my own demise. There was no way out. I was doomed. So, I recorded my own moon and hid it away, where Evil would never find it.My love, Arowin, felt in his heart the second of my end. To the end of his days did he search for me. Our loving son picked up the task that had outlived his father. My beloved son, Iisax, followed the clues that his father had left for him, but Iisax's days were also numbered. It was Shirazad, Iisax's daughter, who found the moon that I had hidden away nearly a thousand years before her. It was Shirazad that handed my moon over to the Council of the Crescent Moon. It was the Council that set my moon free.I started over, determined to do to Evil what I had failed to do before, but where could I be the one who stood against evil and made a difference? Then it came to pass that the Council of the Crescent Moon saw a vision of the Green Jinn. So, I tested the heart of the man who was to become its captain. As I recall, it all started with a mystical dream. I awoke from that dream only to find that we had a mission the Five Moons could not handle. Can you even believe that? The Five Moons. So it was that my father brought me over the quantum portal to a secret - a whole new ship -- the Green Jinn. Everything about the Green Jinn was an illusion, and nobody even knew that she existed. Admiral Dallas Blake made me captain of the Green Jinn. I am Chon ko Gonin.That was how the Green Jinn began its first mission - to hunt down the worst interplanetary crime boss that ever existed, David Zharn. He was so far beyond evil that even Admiral Johnson herself could not nail this scum, but we would not let Admiral Johnson down. It all started out with the best of intentions. That is when everything went sideways.

The epic tale of the Five Moons continues as the story drops you right into the middle of the action with a gang of interplanetary mobsters hunting down a Special Forces agent in the streets of Habston determined to kill him. It quickly becomes a running gun battle as Dallas Blake and the crew of the Five Moons tries to save him.So, Special Forces formed a plan to hire the Five Moons to secretly deliver their agents to Daggan-7. Their plan would end this business with the interplanetary gangsters once and for all. The journey began with good intentions, but the alien mysteries of the Five Moons were once more to threaten the crew and strand the ship in dense space. The only clue as to how they would survive was a cryptic error message... but where did it come from or who? The Five Moons did survive to deliver their Special Forces agents secretly to Daggan -7. The crew of the Five Moons were officially noncombatants in this strike that was to decapitate the interplanetary gang, but there are no noncombatants in a war zone. Dallas Blake soon found himself with no other choice but to rescue his Special Forces agents himself. Even worse, Dallas found his ship caught up in an even larger scheme to take over Daggan-7 by an old nemesis of Special Forces. It would be touch and go right down the end to get the Five Moons off of Daggan-7 to safety. However, even that did not work out as planned either. The Five Moons had escaped from the hands of one villain only to encounter one even worse when Dallas Blake runs face-to-face into the woman responsible for the death of his entire family during the war. The plot of this tale twists and turns as it weaves its way through your mind. Five Moons: Convolute will keep you turning pages right down to the last and leave you questioning your own sanity as you wonder what comes next, but you will find no spoilers here as the plot takes one more turn.

Kryonean Chronicles: Pandemic is Book 2 of the Kryonean Chronicles Series.The Black Pearl was more than just the most advanced quantum technology starship in Union Fleet. Captain Jack Falco has made it the Kryonean Empire's worst nightmare. Captain Jack is Recon flesh and Recon bone. He is determined to the very core of him to save Layla's people and end this terrible war. Princess Layla is equally determined to free her people from the Empire's evil grip once and for all.One by one the Black Pearl and Union Fleet were taking the worlds of the kryonean Outworld Zone from the Empire's evil grip. Layla's Outworld Zone rebellion was going only too well, or so they thought until they rescued a kryonean mystic named Kyanne.In a horrible dream, Kyanne saw dragon-bats in the mind of the Imperial Admiral Jinashu. They came like a plague in the night. Only suffering and certain death followed in their wake. Imperial Admiral Jinashu had secretly set a plan in motion. His stealth scout ships had already been sent to Clandora to fill their holds with dragon-bats. Their mission was to unleash a plague of epic proportions onto the people of Astranar.Only the crew of the Black Pearl stood between them and certain death. The hunt was on to stop the Empire's evil plan, but how would the Black Pearl ever find seven stealth scout ships in deep space? Even worse, how would Union Fleet ever get the twenty million people of Astranar vaccinated in time? This would be a pandemic if Doctor Terry failed.In the middle of all this, Kyanne has yet another vision. Time is of the essence as the forces of evil close in on the ancient Keeper of the Stones of the Law. Even so, Tarok must first decode Kyanne's cryptic vision to find out where he was hidden. Imperial battlegroups surround them as the Recon Rangers accompany Kyanne to rescue the Keeper.And then there was Charlotte. She would be the future of her people, but only if Jack could save her from the invading Imperial forces.If you enjoy a good science fiction with the full flavor and robust action of a guns blazing western, then you will love the Kryonean Chronicles.

Before the time of man, according to the ancient legends, the gods walked the earth, The Egyptians had a name for this time, They called it 'Zep Tepi' -- the First Time, That time is where this story all began in a place called Gobekli Tepe, But something went horribly wrong along the way, It took a Great Flood to cleanse the Earth of that terrible wrong, Mankind was very nearly annihilated, but the story didn't end there, Zep Tepi picks up the story ten thousand years later, on a distant outworld known only as Soloreon-3... In the beginning was the ship, And the ship was a light unto mankind, And the light shines into the darkness, But the darkness does not comprehend the light, And so the ship took a name unto itself -- the Five Moons.It all started with an emergency call from a world at the farthest edges of explored space."You are our only hope," they told Dallas Blake and the crew of the Five Moons, A deadly virus would kill them all if the Five Moons didn't get the vaccine to them right away, But, like every other mission the Five Moons has taken on, this was but the tip of the proverbial iceberg, To save these people, Emma would have to pull a quantum rabbit out of her hat, and Dallas would be in for the fight of his life.One thing was certain - someone very evil tried to kill these people, all of them, but why? Hunting down a mass murderer was a job for Special Forces, but they could use all of the help they could get, None of the clues made any sense, Every step they took was one step closer to killing all living things on Soloreon-3, but how were they to know that when they started?Except the mysteries didn't end there, Like, where had these people come from, and, with no modern technology, how did they get here? The answers to those questions would test the Five Moons and its crew to its very limits, It would bring dark forces out of hiding, It would bring the planet to the brink of war.But the Five Moons was the Nexus of Fates, It had chosen each member of the crew for a reason, It chose Iyo and Dallas to save the ship, It chose Mariah, Jessica, Jane, and Henry, It chose them all to save Emma and Sophie, It chose them all to be a light unto mankind, but the light was not yet complete, Then it chose Star, but it wasn't done with them yet, Its next choice would become a light, shining into the darkness.

Five Moons: Entangled has the full flavor and robust action of a guns blazing western, but the core of the story revolves around the alien mysteries of this ship and the Codex that the Anoza hid deep within its core. Evil men, human, conspired to have a starship destroyed to hide the evil they had done. They intended for its crew to disappear forever. In all of that chaos at the end of the war, the Anoza somehow found me. They chose me to save the Five Moons. I didn't know any of that when I bought a ship that was never meant for sale. I didn't know any of that when I first stepped foot upon its decks and changed everything... but I know it now. And save the Five Moons? Damned straight, I will. I am Dallas Blake, outworlder to the nines. By the end of the war, I had lost everything. I went to the Union Fleet space docks to buy a war surplus scout-class ship, to start my whole life over. The Five Moons was nothing I expected but everything I needed. And you know that crew they thought was lost and gone forever? Well, think again. Now the crew and I go wherever we are needed. Making a difference starts with us.Just because I am paranoid does not mean that people are not out to get me. Sarsen Tabbot sent her most fearsome killer ship, a Dark Star, to kill me and destroy my ships. That only makes my point. Mankind was cast into the outer darkness because of the evil in our hearts. So, as you can see, I have my work cut out for me.Through all of this, I was inexorably drawn into the Codex that the Anoza had hidden deep within the Five Moons. The Codex is Anoza quantum technology a million years more advanced than human, but where is it taking me? And why me?

The idea for What is Salvation? came as a result of a real concern over the ignorance of so many people today who claim to be saved but who do not understand the truths and realities of salvation as set forth in the Bible. Pastor Parker began this as a series of messages preached at Thirteenth Street Baptist Church, where he currently pastors, and it developed into a comprehensive study and overview of this great and glorious subject as revealed in God's Holy Word. It is written in simple and precise language so that any serious Bible student can glean from its pages without getting bogged down in lofty theological platitudes. It will be helpful as a guide for those who desire to go further and deeper in their study of God's Word, and also as an aid to ministers, students, and study groups, all who seriously desire to study and find answers from God's Word.

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