Sean Brandywine: 8 books

Someone tried to destroy the Earth. They nearly succeeded, just missing and shattering our Moon. Huge fragments hit the Earth. Millions died. Four surviving starships were converted from exploration to military use, and sent out on a journey taking them farther into the galaxy than any humans had ever gone before. The goal: find the race that tried to destroy them. The mission: revenge.

The Borrileans are paranoid. Convinced that every threat to their civilization must be removed, they set about a program of destroying every intelligent species in the Galaxy that might one day develop the technology for interstellar travel.When one courageous individual tries to put an end...

In the not-too-distant future, a planet ripped from another star system is approaching our sun. It should not come closer than the orbit of Pluto, not close enough to be a danger, to disrupt Earth or the other planets, but it will be close enough for the chance of sending probes to investigate it...

It was much like a 1950s science fiction movie; flying saucers landing on the White House lawn and aliens saying “take me to your leader.” But it was not a movie, and the twelve mile in diameter mother ship hanging over the United States could easily be seen by everyone. There were two kinds of...

It came as a flash of inspiration. All that “junk DNA” that seems to serve no purpose: suppose it were activated? And suddenly, a research scientist Dr Maya Robbins knew how to do it. What would happen? Was there a purpose behind it that evolution has lost in the mists of time or, perhaps, not...

On the way to Alpha Centauri using tachyon technology to travel faster than the speed of light, the impossible happened. They were pulled across the lightspeed barrier to halt in deep space, and then an alien ship destroyed their vessel. A few survivors managed to board the strange craft, but there was no sign of any aliens…

An abandoned asylum for the criminally insane was, perhaps, the ideal place for a television documentary about ghosts – particularly if the former asylum already had a reputation for being haunted. But the television series, Spook Spies, like many such shows, was a fake. The “ghosts”...

If you were going to create a perfect copy of someone from the past, someone you could talk to, interview, interrogate… who would you choose? What events would you want to uncover, those most shrouded in the mystery, twisted and distorted over the years by men with their own agenda. If only you...