The Door Series
A visionary U.S. President launches an audacious mission to open the solar system to humanity. At the same time, three brilliant young graduates, Joe, Lydia, and Darian, receive devastating diagnoses: “six months or less to live.” Their only hope becomes taking part in a radical experiment in matter transmission led by a distinguished
Tom and Linda’s invention of the Door opens the solar system, but the universe remains out of reach until they, and super intellect H cubed, create the first Hole through the fabric of space. Joe, Lydia, and Darian, once cured of terminal cancers by Door
Joe transforms Doorship Two into the Cosmos Voyager, reinforcing it, arming it, and drilling his team until they can “handle the Voyager with their eyes closed.”Their first journey through the
Air Force general and a brilliant husband‑and‑wife scientific team, Tom and Linda on the brink of a breakthrough. After “nine hundred and ninety-nine mice die” and the thousandth survives due to a serendipitous polarity reversal by Tom, the Door technology is born. But global rivals, political sabotage, and assassination attempts threaten the program at every turn. When the first human transports succeed, the Joe , Lydia and Darian are kidnapped by foreign powers desperate to steal the technology. A catastrophic rocket attack nearly ends the mission, but the team’s courage keeps the dream alive. As Doors are deployed to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, humanity takes its first true step into the solar system and the pioneers, who expected to die, discover their future will be spent as explores of the Universe.
transport, rise to new heights of leadership as the Cosmic Fleet forms around them. During development, a rogue Army colonel attempts to assassinate Joe, Lydia, and the President. Joe’s heroism earns him promotion to Admiral. Soon after, the team uncovers “the most extensive and hideously cruel life‑threatening sabotage of the Door program.” Their first journey through the Hole ends in an unexpected attack, forcing Joe to navigate a volatile conflict between two warring planets. Lydia discovers that they are perceived by those on the planet as hostile “Aliens.” Returning to Earth, he helps expose a conspiracy tied to Mathew Pinkerton III, a political enemy orchestrating revenge from a maximum‑security prison. With the threat neutralized, Joe prepares the USS Cosmos Voyager for a new leap into the unknown.
Hole ends in disaster: a massive alien assault nearly destroys the ship, ripping away an entire section of its rotating wheel. Forced to retreat to Earth, Joe rebuilds the Voyager into the most formidable vessel ever launched. Returning to confront the attackers, he discovers survivors of a destroyed fifth planet. Victims of a distant civilization whose war machines soon arrive at one‑third the speed of light. A colossal battle follows. Joe uses the Hole cannon to disable the enemy flagship, only to learn it is a Trojan horse rigged to explode. The resulting chain of events leads to the destruction of an entire planet. Haunted by the loss of intelligent life, Joe must guide his team through guilt, healing, and the resolve to explore again.
The destruction of the USS Cosmos Odessey shocks the fleet, though every crew member survives.In a moment both humorous and heartfelt, Captain Yara and her crew salute Joe “in their birthday suits,” the way they had made it off their ship to arrive at his, to
thank him for saving their lives. Determined to understand the unprovoked attack by a deadly sentinel ship, Joe returns with three vessels: Odessey Two, the Voyager, and the Endeavor. The planet they investigate warns them of a terrifying threat. A neighboring species that attacks in overwhelming numbers. At close to the speed of light, thousands of ships arrive and immediately attack. But Joe’s fleet survives through superior tactics and salvaged shield technology. Pursuing the attackers through the Hole, the Cosmos team confronts the Naxlians,hornet‑like warriors who have enslaved eight planets. After a decisive battle, the enslaved populations rise up and reclaim their worlds. Joe turns governance over to the United Intergalactic Worlds Organization. He and Lydia return to their ranch on Madorite for a well‑earned moment of peace.
A startling discovery shakes Joe Bender’s understanding of humanity’s origins.
His team discover a distant planet populated by beings who are
“duplicates of humans.”Combined with the wildly divergent evolution of other
intelligent species, the mystery deepens. A deeper study of the Pyramids of Giza reveals a hidden message. A map pointing to eight human‑seeded planets across the universe and the location of the seeding planet. Joe and his team follow the clues, traveling through the Hole into increasingly hostile galaxies where ever‑stronger civilizations attempt to destroy them. Through relentless training, hacking alien systems, and integrating captured technologies, the Cosmos team becomes the sharpest spear in the void. They locate all eight seeded worlds and finally reach the ninth. It is the original seeding planet. They find civilization suffering from dementia, unable to remember the ancient mission of a massive relic spaceship circling their planet. Joe and his team discover the secret and the purpose of humanity’s spread across the stars. Before they can attend to that ancient threat and the ultimate reason for the seeding, the team must use the relic space ship to rescue a doomed world. The deeper question — Why were humans seeded? — awaits the next journey.
Five‑Star Admiral Joe Bender continues his quest to understand why humanity was seeded across the universe. The pyramids’ geometry had revealed the locations of eight seeded planets and the ninth world that launched them. But he
had not yet learned the reason behind the act. As Joe investigates, he confronts a horrifying truth: a distant civilization launched a star‑destroying missile to annihilate the ninth planet. His pursuit of why leads him across galaxies, even as he balances his three great loves — Lydia, their ranch on Madorite, and the exploration of the cosmos. The trail reveals a terrifying enemy: a planet controlled by computer intelligence determined to eradicate all biological life. Joe’s team survives only because “the decentralized and random actions of the human warriors” outmaneuver the machine’s rigid logic. The question shifts from Why? to How? How did the machines identify biological worlds? The answer lies in a supercomputer that had shut itself down to prevent the further targeting of biological worlds. Reawakened, this entity identifying himself as, Gentle Eye, joins the Cosmos team eager to be “just one of the guys.” On its very first mission through the Hole, Gentle Eye saves the entire crew from annihilation, proving its loyalty and marking the beginning of a new era for the fleet.
The complete saga of humanity’s leap into the cosmos — from the first Door to the farthest galaxy.
What starts as a last‑chance experiment for three dying graduates becomes the most transformative breakthrough in human history.
The Door opens the solar system.
The Hole opens the universe.
And Admiral Joe Bender’s Cosmos Fleet becomes the sharpest spear ever launched into the unknown.
Across six novels, the team faces
political sabotage,
alien wars,
enslaving swarms,
seeded civilizations,
and a machine intelligence built to erase biological life.
Each mission pushes them farther from Earth and closer to the truth behind humanity’s origins.
This is a story of
explorers who refuse to quit,
technologies that reshape destiny,
and mysteries older than recorded time.
The Door Collection is your gateway to a universe of wonder, danger, and revelation.