Cosmonaut Yuri Kapalev has been sent on a secret Vostok voyage that was never announced by the Soviet space program. His mission? Surveillance on America's use of alien technology to jump ahead in the race to create newer, higher-tech space and spy plane equipment to win the battle for the heavens. But while Kapalev is aloft, he is witness to a rogue detonation that sets off the mutually assured destruction of a war no longer Cold. Follow as Kapalev watches the destruction of the planet from his perch hundreds of miles in orbit, and fulfills his mission in ways he never expected when he stepped on to the launch elevator at Baikonur...

An anthology of the best writing from Informative Sports, the sports analysis and news website that ran from October 2008 to July 2010.

Opening with the tragedy of Nomar Kumaritashvili's death in Whistler and concluding with one final gold for the hockey-mad home country, the fortnight of the Vancouver Olympics brought out the range of human emotion -- from gilded joy to funereal gloom. In this volume, Zach Bigalke utilizes both his daily dispatches from February 2010 and the benefit of hindsight to tell the multifaceted stories of those seventeen days...