The New Foundation Project
When Past and Future Collide
A Character-Driven Science-Fantasy Series
A blend of historical-fantasy and speculative fiction, set in a new world
Past and future collide in the New Foundation Project series. Humanity’s hope for a fresh start on a new planet hits a snag when a group of would-be settlers arrive at their destination and discover not the technologically advanced colony they expected, but a feudal, pre-industrial society that seems straight out of Earth’s past.
The Beginning of the Adventure
In Book One, Piers Haldon is the last, best hope for Redemption, an interplanetary ark ship arriving nearly a thousand years later than planned. As the most powerful Empath the ship can spare, he is sent to the planet below to find a way to save the settlers before the ship—and everyone on it—is lost.
The mind can do more than science imagines…
Off the coast of Washington, a dark-sky sanctuary becomes ground zero for an experiment that could rewrite humanity’s future. Visionary scientist Peter Caladen has gathered a team of brilliant minds to revive long-buried time travel technology—hoping to give humanity a second chance. But there are still too many unanswered questions, and the entire project hinges on one final riddle. When a visiting researcher vanishes during a disastrous encounter with the prototype, it could be the end of the dream—or the key to unlocking powers no one expected.
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