Four award-winning hard science fiction novels Slingshot**,** The Daedalus Files**,** The Starchild Compact**, and** The Iapetus Federation in one volume. "In addition to hours of thoughtful entertainment and truly beautiful writing, author Williscroft also uses the narrative to explore questions of faith, religion, ultimately asking 'who are we?'—Dr. Dave Edlund, USA Today Bestselling Author of The Peter Savage Thrillers Slingshot Constructing Slingshot, the first space launch-loop stretching 2,000 km between Baker and Jarvis Islands in the Equatorial Pacific. Slingshot opens space to the ordinary person. Lunar and transcontinental plane trips cost about the same. Slingshot's characters loom larger than life as they work, play, and love from Seattle's world financial district, to the ocean bottom off Baker Jarvis Islands, to the edge of space. Award-winning hard science fiction reminiscent of Arthur C. Clark's Fountains of Paradise and Charles Sheffield's Webb Between the Worlds. The Daedalus Files Tiger Baily, irreverent member of the Navy SEALS Winged Insertion Command, with his team test a new Gryphon-7 hard-shell wingsuit. He makes a harrowing first experimental base jump from the edge of Space, the Fred Noonan Skyport 80,000 meters above Jarvis Island in the Equatorial Pacific. Tiger's target, which he must reach to survive, is Kiritimati Island, a tiny isolated atoll 379 kilometers northeast of Jarvis over ever-threatening and oh-so-deep ocean waters. He drops from Low Earth Orbit, followed by his entire team, and then they make a combat drop to rescue an American presidential candidate front-runner. The Starchild Compact Jon Stock and crew travel to Saturn's moon, Iapetus. While underway they deal with a Jihadist stowaway. They discover Iapetus to be a derelict starship and meet the Founders, descendants of the starship builders. Their revelations impact the entire Solar System with momentous implications going backward and forward in time, paving the way for a joint push to the distant reaches of the Galaxy. The Iapetus Federation The Iapetus Federation expands Solar Systemwide, while the Caliphate sweeps Earth. The Starchild Institute creates wormhole portals, using them to rescue groups not yet overrun by the Caliphate. Earth sinks into medievalism, while human activity shifts to the Iapetus Federation. Humans settle every potentially habitable spot in the Solar System and begin expanding into the rest of the Galaxy.