"Move over, Kirk and Spock—Quintos and Pristy are my new favorite space heroes!" —Melissa Patterson, ARC reader Captain Galvin Quintos commands humanity's most advanced battle group in a desperate mission to the galaxy's edge, where the Techno-Mycoids have returned with unprecedented force. This fungal-mechanical species, previously encountered in smaller numbers, now fields massive fleets systematically consuming the peaceful Zephyrian civilization. With thirty-six billion souls already assimilated into their grotesque bio-mechanical war machine, time is running out for both the Zephyrians and potentially all organic life in the galaxy.Armed with cutting-edge omninought-class warships and thousands of DreadBots equipped with experimental sesquiterpene weapons, the fleet faces impossible mathematical odds. The enemy's hive-mind intelligence seems to anticipate every tactical move, suggesting they possess foreknowledge that shouldn't be possible.Captain Gail Pristy commands the battle group's oldest and most vulnerable vessel while navigating her complicated romantic history with Quintos. Their personal relationship becomes secondary to survival when a catastrophic malfunction in the ship's recreational systems unleashes a deadly pathogen that transforms artificial beings into ravenous killing machines.Sonya Winters, Quintos's brilliant eighteen-year-old niece and MIT student, finds herself at the center of the crisis. Her deep understanding of the ship's biological systems—and her complicated friendship with the Pleidian officer responsible for the outbreak—forces her to make devastating choices that could either doom or save humanity.As infected creatures spread chaos throughout the fleet, temporal anomalies caused by the enigmatic time-traveler General Resnick create critical blind spots in the enemy's perfect coordination. In a final confrontation spanning multiple realities, an accidental biological weapon becomes humanity's unexpected salvation against seemingly invincible foes, proving that sometimes victory emerges from the most catastrophic failures. -USS Battlestrike is military science fiction at its finest. Mark Wayne McGinnis delivers an action-packed space opera that keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. If you love space fleet battles and galactic empire intrigue, this is a must-read.-KP-Mark Wayne McGinnis has crafted another winner with USS Battlestrike. This installment takes the military science fiction genre to new heights with its intricate space fleet maneuvers and the ever-present threat of alien invasion. The galactic empire building is exceptional, and McGinnis knows how to balance intense combat sequences with character development. Fans of space opera, Craig Alanson, and BV Larson will find everything they're looking for here.- MBVisionary space opera! McGinnis nails the military science fiction genre with epic space fleet action and a compelling alien invasion storyline.-LF-If you're a fan of military science fiction and space opera, USS Battlestrike needs to be on your reading list. Mark Wayne McGinnis has a visionary talent for world-building, creating a galactic empire that feels vast and authentic. The space fleet battles are spectacular, and the alien invasion threat provides constant momentum. What impressed me most was the metaphysical undercurrent running through the narrative—it adds layers to what could have been just another action story. McGinnis proves once again why he's a master of the genre.-KCUSS Battlestrike falls into the following Metaphysical and Visionary, Galactic Empire, Alien Invasion, First Contact, Fun Space Adventure, Humorous SciFi, Space Exploration, Space Opera, Military Scien

When a cluster of blazingly fast meteorites strikes Earth’s upper stratosphere in the year 2129, they release three destabilizing elements into the atmosphere—Strongzine, Stradamine, and Starlox—which encircle the Earth’s surface in a thick, partially solidified layer of cloud and begin to spew a constant stream of acid rain onto the surface below. Organic life forms are all but obliterated, and the human race is reduced to a tiny fraction of its population. This event is known as the Ruin. But five centuries later, humanity still survives. Cloudwalkers tells the story of Conn Brataich, a young man who lives a privileged life above the cloudbank, relying on his noble heritage—and the abilities it provides—to guide him through his beautiful but treacherous realm in the New York skylands, and Misty Casper, a Grounder who lives an arduous and somber life hundreds of feet below in the former subway tunnels of crumbling midtown Manhattan. Their two cultures live in uneasy, segregated codependence, rarely interacting until late one fall evening when, mysteriously, an experienced Cloudwalker of noble blood falls five hundred feet to his death. Conn is sent to recover the body in secret, but he doesn’t expect to encounter Misty on the dangerous streets of the dying city. Their chance encounter triggers a domino effect that throws them both headlong into a struggle for their very survival. Conn and Misty soon discover that only by working together can they succeed, but first they’ll have to put aside their preconceived notions about one another. Dark forces, long thought to have been expunged, have returned and are threatening to destroy both their ways of life. Through love, loss, and the looming threat of war, Misty and Conn will be forced to face their greatest fears for the sake of their very world and each other.

“Another great one – McGinnis’ books are always a fun read”“A paranormal, espionage-thriller. I loved it.”“Excellent story, great characters—stayed up all night reading it.”“Been waiting for the full-length Tapped In story. Thank you Mark! Rob Chandler, regaining consciousness, realizes he’s somehow been involved in a horrendous car accident. In pain and unable to move, he has no memory of his identity, or how the hell he'd gotten on that deserted desert road in the middle of nowhere. He has little time to contemplate his situation when he sees an 18-wheeler barreling down on him. The truck swerves, crashes, and plows into Chandler’s already decimated car. Then, as if his luck couldn’t get any worse, he watches a 30,000 volt high-power line drop from a telephone pole into his mangled car, hanging suspended mere inches from his head. Still alive, something at a molecular level changes Chandler.  Past enemies converge in a small desert town in Arizona, with one singular objective in mind … to kill Rob Chandler. What they didn’t expect was coming up against Rob’s new, strange, mad powers. From small town America to high-society of Baden-Baden, Germany, join Rob Chandler in this high-tension, paranormal thriller that doesn’t let up until the very last page. Mad Powers is a full-length, 70,000 word novel. Originally a short novella called Tapped In, this newly integrated, three-part story kicks off what’s sure to evolve into another best-selling series.

A wicked snowstorm had blown in from the north and the roads were a mess. Recently split from his one-time girlfriend, there was now nothing holding Cameron Decker here in the little backwater mountain town of Larksburg Stand. Time to get back to college, back to Stanford. Seeing a guy knee-deep in slush at the side of the road, he pulled to the curb and waived him over. The stranger smacked his head getting in—knocked his watch cap askew. Only then did Cameron notice—notice that the stranger couldn’t possibly be human. He decided to help his stranded passenger—a decision he’d soon come to regret. Along with his rust-bucket of a pickup truck, he was soon heading deep into space aboard an interstellar spacecraft. When the vessel is crash landing onto an alien world, he’ll have to contend with a murderous droid and a slew of strange alien life forms. But it is the forty-five-foot tall beast—a Minal Loth—that will impact is life the most. Marooned, Cameron must keep his wits to survive long enough to find a way to return home—back to that little mountain town, and the girl, who he should never have left in the first place.

The Great Space They knew the day would come—the day when Earth itself would come under direct attack by the Craing. After destroying much of Jhardon and the Mau planet of Carz-Mau, an elite Vanguard fleet of seven Craing dreadnaughts, planet killers, enters Earth’s orbit. Captain Jason Reynolds and the crew aboard his Caldurian ship, The Lilly, are once again pulled into action to fend off what just might be their most ruthless and powerful adversary yet. In an unanticipated turn of events, thousands of molt weevils are unleashed on Earth, swarming insectoid aliens with one intent … kill every man, woman, and child on the surface of the planet. Nan and Mollie must utilize their own cunning and resourcefulness to stay alive long enough to be rescued.

There are some traps even a telepathic spy can't see coming… Rob Chandler can read minds. A car crash and a 30,000-volt shock gave him incredible abilities, and it put him on the path to working for the covert SIFTR Agency. When Chandler's fellow agent and girlfriend Pippa leaves him, the result of one too many peeks into her mind, she's kidnapped by evil forces that want the telepath for themselves, or dead. Chandler has no choice but to take the bait. He infiltrates the Order, a powerful organization seeking worldwide domination. Drawn into a life-sized recreation of the Old West town of Tombstone, Chandler will need more than his mental powers to save Pippa. He'll need to draw his Colt .45 Peacemaker faster than a man going by the name of Billy the Kid. Deadly Powers is the second installment in the Tapped In saga, a series of paranormal thrillers. If you like mind-blowing action, electrifying suspense, and surprises you won't see coming, then you'll love Mark Wayne McGinnis' paranormal spy adventure. Buy Deadly Powers to start the twisty thriller today!

Craing Dominion, Book 5 of the best-selling Scrapyard Ship series. Truly dark times have come to the Allied forces, the crew of The Lilly, and Earth — we knew they were coming but nothing will have prepared you for this … With the introduction of Craing commander Ot-Mul, there’s a new standard for evil that will not only shape the rest of this series, but Science Fiction literature as a whole. Join Captain Jason Reynolds as he ventures into the proverbial lion’s den in a last ditch effort to even the playing field with the Craing — an empire that has embarked on a pursuit that will guarantee their de facto dominance for millennia to come.

"Could not put this book down!" "A great new SciFi series by Mark Wayne McGinnis ... can't wait for the next one." From author, Mark Wayne McGinnis, who brought you the hit series, Scrapyard Ship and Tapped In, comes a new and exciting new science fiction saga and the rise of the most unlikely new hero. Seventeen-year-old Collin Frost, the kicker for the Lone Stars high school football team, was not enjoying the bus ride back to the school after a game that hadn’t gone so well. The ride was made worse for him when Bubba, the team’s defensive tackle, decided Collin should sit in the aisle instead of the seat next to him. That’s why when the bus pulled to a stop at a railway crossing in a small town in Middleton Texas, Collin didn’t actually see what the bus driver, the cheerleaders, and his teammates saw … a hovering, goliath-sized space ship. And here the journey of the Lone Star Renegades begins. Abducted into the belly of a sim rover collector ship, sent from a distant galaxy, the Lone Stars must find a way to survive long enough to escape their deathly confines. When that escape finally does come, the teenagers find themselves twenty-three light years from Earth and smack dap in the middle of an interstellar war. Young and irreverent, the Lone Stars must bargain with the Brotherhood forces for passage back to Earth—a bargain that would require them to complete a military basic training program and inevitably have them fight against Brotherhood's enemies for the duration of one year.

"I LOVED this book!" "Great Book!" "Get Another Fix! "Fun and Great Series!" "The crazy ride continues... and never lets up!" Captain Jason Reynolds is back! In the third installment of the Scrapyard Ship sci-fi adventure series, Space Vengeance, Jason, his family, and The Lilly's crew face the impending destruction of their internal nano-devices. What's worse, what remains of the Craing fleet, some 1500 warships, is back and headed straight toward the already decimated planets within Allied space. In what looks to be a one-way suicide mission, Jason must leave Nan and Mollie behind on Earth and out of harm’s way. While war rages on sixty light years from Earth, maniacal space raider Captain Stalls and hundreds of his pirated warships close in on Earth. Stalls knows exactly what he wants: to find and kill Captain Reynolds and take the beautiful Nan Reynolds for his own. Note from the author: If you've made it to this third installment, you already realize this is an ongoing series. With that said, more often than not these books have cliff-hanger endings! ** ### About the Author Mark grew up in Westchester County, NY, and later in Westlake Village, CA. Currently Mark and his wife, Kim, live near Boulder with their two dogs, Rika and Zoey. Mark’s had more professions than you can shake a stick at from technical writer for a Fortune 500 conglomerate, an entrepreneur manufacturing outdoor firefly lights, to award-winning filmmaker—just to name a few. Mark is currently a full-time writer whose work includes the #1 best selling Scrapyard Ship series and Tapped In series books.