Science Fiction
No mad skillz, no sacred destiny, just a pink tracksuit that will take her places she never wanted to go... In this Gothic science-fiction novel series, a stylish group of twenty-something friends are torn from the Babylonian arms of 2006 West Hollywood and flung nearly thirty years into the past, setting off a chain of events more disturbing than a roller skating conga line. They wake up in an apocalyptic but strangely familiar landscape, complete with a hidden mountain compound and retro survivalists, hinting at hidden and retro secrets they must face if they want to survive.
Wandering Featured
"How would you handle being trapped on a damaged spaceship hurtling through space with your boyfriend?" Josephine Herl and Scott Drummond are about to discover as they escape one battle only to be thrown into a new one. With their AI computer inert and survival as their only priority, they must quickly adapt to their new reality. But as they try to figure out their location and a way back home, they soon realize that things are not as they seem. Time, physics, and even their own biology have all changed in this strange new world. To make matters worse, they encounter multiple alien races ...
Cicada Serenade Featured
At the heart of the story is former White Hat hacker Rithwick Jahi Pringle, (Ritz), guardian of a teenaged boy named Milner Fitzroy Stone, (Fitz), whose mysterious connection to the alien race known as the Asherans sets the stage for an interstellar saga. Cicada Serenade continues the tale begun in Nathan Gregory’s “Undercover Alien.” While passing through rural Texas the hero’s car breaks down, stranding them in the Hill Country farm town of Yanno. As they await repairs, a strangely alluring criminologist draws the pair into her investigation of a series of peculiar murders with a vampiric t ...
The exciting sequel to Shadow: The Moonracer Chronicles
Life in the 24th century still has human trials despite technological advancements. Mankind has always sought to go faster and it takes bold, daring people to reach for those limits. They risk their lives in a perilous sport called Moonracing while those they love watch and pray for their safety. But things do not always go as planned.
A horrifying crash, a broken patient in a hospital bed, a troubled wife, a dying father, and a confrontational brother. We never think it can happen to us…until it does.
All roads ...
Veil of Anarchy Featured
The people of Alpine, Texas are thrown into an apocalyptic world on June 6th. They lose GPS, internet, electricity, and water. A cataclysmic collision of lower orbit satellites has begun, and for the people of Alpine that means their lives just changed—forever.
Admins: Simulation's End Featured
"Riveting sci-fi story… impressive, absorbing character study.”– Kirkus Reviews
"The kind of story I could see being developed into a movie or TV series.” – ReadersFavorite (5 Star Review)
What if you discovered you were simply a player in a computer simulation? What if it was about to be deleted? Where would your moral compass take you?
It was meant to be a fun night out at a party, but on the way home Chris, Sierra, Joey and Lana are caught in a deadly car crash. Desp ...
FOCUS: Birth of a Time Traveler Featured
Evan Wright, like most college freshmen, is on a quest to find her place in the world while wrestling with lingering insecurities from high school. She is ambitious, driven and unwavering in her pursuit of her future as a scientist, even at the expense of friendship and love. However, her entire world is thrown into disarray when she stumbles upon a remarkable ability: the power to travel into the past simply by focusing completely on the details of a historical event. This newfound talent forces Evan to reevaluate everything she thought she knew about her family, friends, and herself, realizi ...
Angel's Seduction Featured
Dark magic is causing a rift in time, and I’m the Angel in charge of finding the source. Turns out, it’s a sultry, seductive witch using dark magic. I could stop her in an instant and heal the rift. But wait… I know her! She’s a fallen Angel, her memories removed. As I am watching her, I can’t help but notice how sensual she is: the way her dress clings to her body like a second skin, and the way she moves her curves in time to her chants. But helping her threatens to upend my perfect lone angel life in Heaven. Key word: lone. Just as I want it. I have to help h ...
DERT Featured
“The new Department of Environmental Reclamation and Trust (or DERT) has been empowered by an authoritarian President to take control of the country in the hopes of staving off climate catastrophe. Banning fossil fuels, outlawing vehicles, and violent re-education camps are at the top of their list. In a society that has started to crumble, Kyle and Sami Harrison find themselves on the run. Dodging government agents, warring militias and deranged neighbors, they search for a safe haven in a world that punishes peace and rewards violence. Will salvation be found in the teachings of DERT’s Littl ...
Sky Pirates Featured
Maybe in a further future, where the old becomes new and the new becomes old...
Children of Alpheios Featured
A 2023 Firebird Book Award Winner & Five-Star Reader's Favorite: A genetically engineered colony on a new world. A baby born different than everyone else. A mother who will do anything to save him. On planet Eamine, twenty-one-year-old Alina must protect her baby when Mandin is born with a remarkable DNA anomaly. The colony’s central corporation wants Mandin for an experimental treatment program. Trained by the Expeditionary Academy, Alina knows how to survive Eamine’s harsh environment and flees to keep Mandin safe. While Alina tries to uncover the truth, she finds herself relyin ...
Rise of the Y Featured
In a world on the brink of revolution, where the iron fist of the Imperium orchestrates every destiny... Seventeen-year-old Lexi refuses to bow to a future with an assigned spouse and a dictated profession. A fiery spirit of defiance burns within her, ready to ignite a revolt. But destiny has other plans. When tragedy unveils a hidden diary—a legacy of secrets and rebellion—Lexi is thrust into the perilous shadows of the elusive rebel group Y. In a whirlpool of danger, deceit, and forbidden alliances, every revelation blurs the lines between friend and foe, making trust the ultimate weapon in ...
Lilith Featured
Lilith, is a zek, a genetically engineered nonhuman in a post-collapse dystopian society of the future. Like the ones bred before her, she believes she must only do what she is told to live. And that is to accomplish her missions. Designed to be beautiful, she struggles with self-criticism and her place in this world. Could this be it for her and society? Is the world really go to end because of greed, war, and inhumanity?
After her disastrous first mission, she feels betrayed and discovers secrets behind the global game of power and how she is just a pawn, ...
Plunged Featured
The Pilgrim’s Progress meets Marvel in Plunged, a spiritual thriller.
When Navy Seal, Jacob Carter is assigned to an experimental
mission, he’ll protect the crew at all costs. But nothing could
have prepared him for the effect of the ship’s cloaking device,
or his disintegration into the spiritual side of our world.
Stripped of the finite, and plunged into a terrifying existence,
can he survive the enemies determined to kill him?
While his body lays unconscious, his nurse, Sage, fights to keep
the dark intentions of the DARPA scientists at bay. Is the strange ...
Cloned Ambition Featured
Set in a future where clones are seen as second-class citizens and Normals are threatened by their own creation, Scarlet and her Mate Dagmar must fight for their own freedom and the survival. Scarlet was created to be the vessel for an aging actress's brain when she reached maturity. But when her creator dies before the transplant can take place, Scarlet is sold to a clone breeding farm, and escapes with the help of a few kind college students. Desperate for a different future, Scarlet joins her mate Dagmar and his band of 'Wild' Clones, who have rebelled against their masters’ and are trying ...
An AI, an investigator, and a geneticist walk into a library...
It’s the year 2101, and half of England is underwater, but the horrors of the Melt are becoming a distant memory thanks to ArkTech, the company that saved the world.
The ArkTech Territory is the only home Charlotte Vance has ever known, so when Ben, the company’s curious AI, starts asking awkward questions about human behaviour, she's only too happy to help.
But as she investigates the mystery of why a geneticist is stealing p ...
Lexa Dean and the Wellspring Featured
A treasure that could change the galaxy and a woman chasing a dangerous dream. Dr. Alexandra "Lexa" Dean is an exoarchaeologist in search of hidden alien treasures. And if the museum paid better, she wouldn't sell the best of her finds to the highest bidder. When her contact delivers a map to the origins of all life, and the key to unlocking it is the artifact she just fenced to a wealthy socialite, she must devise a plan to steal it back. But the aliens she stole it from first are closing in and the socialite is hot on her tail. If she can't shake them, she'll risk losing the fame an ...
Forgive the Beast Featured
Margaret Bloom was a scientist and by joining the US Space Marine Corp. she got to work with a brilliant professor who could help her develop a weapon that would fire with the order from the mind and not a trigger finger. She was shocked when she was pulled off Earth to go to a far away destination in in space to be part of a troop to examine a deserted ship built by aliens. No argument that she presented could convince any superiors that she was not meant for field work. Worse of all, one of the men that was assigned to board the deserted ship was from the planet Veld. Veld and Eart ...
HOLOGRAM Featured
Holographer David Leone has just turned forty, and he's been enjoying spicy memories of his first love, Lucille Muhr, who's now a famous actress. When the ghost image of a young girl shows up in a holographic portrait of a bride and groom, David sets out to invent a device to pre-screen space for holographic traces of the past that reveal what traumatized Lu in her childhood. Although funded by the bride's millionaire father, David's ill-prepared to deal with hazards of working at Lu's old home in Circleville, Ohio--including its mercenary owners, a lapse in his tree-climbing skills, and ...
Looking for Life Featured
An enthralling listening experience. Strap in, turn down the lights, and enter worlds that will stretch your imagination to the full… From a stranded alien comedian to the darkest depths of the human psyche; from a mind-blowing galactic adventure to clandestine extraterrestrial behaviour on Earth. They’re all here in this spell-binding collection of short stories to keep you guessing at every turn. With tales of alien invasion, deep space mystery, time travel, and dystopian future Earths, this is a collection which takes inspiration from the much respected ‘old masters’ of Science Fiction. Her ...
The Bones of the Earth Featured
The Dark Age, eastern Europe: the earth has decided to rid itself of humanity with earthquakes, volcanoes and new plagues. Civilizations, even the mighty Roman Empire, crumble under the pressure of barbarian waves that are fleeing worse terrors. Rejected by his own people, pursued by a dragon, young Javor heads for Constantinople, the centre of civilization, looking for answers to the puzzle of his great-grandfather’s dagger and the murder of his family. On the ancient, crumbling Roman highway across haunted, deserted Dacia, Javor rescues the beautiful Danisa from a human sacrifice. He cann ...
Awry With Dandelions Featured
When do dreams become reality? Orin sells dandelion latex at a no-name market, barely scraping by. Mette is a princess. Maybe. What Orin does know is that for thirty seconds every night, Mette visits Orin in xir dreams. Orin has long since written the fancy ghost woman off as a recurring nightmare, but when Mette insists upon meeting in real life, Orin's inner world turns out to be more substantive than imaginary. Along with best friend Blathnaid, Orin embarks on a journey to discover the truth behind xir otherworldly connection--determined to free xir mind and finally get a good night's sleep ...
Resonance Featured
City Secretary Raja Wells has one mission: to convince the reclusive Tribes on the outskirts of Gaobeyna City to disclose their secret technological power--or to prove that it doesn't exist. But when the negotiations don't go as planned, Raja resorts to extreme measures to preserve his career and reputation. Torbin Salek has been Raja's advisor for ten years. In all that time, he never revealed his secret link to the Tribes. When Raja's ambition puts the two men at odds, that link may be the only thing that can save Gaobeyna from the destruction Raja is about to unleash on it. This is the vill ...
What Used to be Arkansas Featured
Friends and Enemies. Life and Death. Happy to be settled into a community, the last thing Molly wants is to jeopardize her place there. To find peace at her new home, she keeps the abilities forced upon her by a madman a secret. But when dear friends go missing, Molly’s hidden strengths may be necessary to find them. Axel led his band of orphans to safety. With the help of his friend, Wolf, they have taught them how to stay safe and survive. Yet their lives are threatened once more when a shark-like monster shows up in their part of the river. To keep his people alive, Axel must find a way to ...
Nowhere Too Far Featured
Over fifty years ago, Dr. Fred Carlson told the world that the possibility existed the Earth could be impacted by a pair of asteroids sometime in the future which may cause the complete destruction of all life on Earth. His warning was disputed and soon forgotten by all except a small group of people called the Watchers. Now that the time was drawing near, a plan to save humanity was developed. As crazy and impossible as it sounded, there was no other way. World-renowned female archaeologist Andrea Markes finds that she has become the target of a very popular televangelist, Jonah Grimes. Sh ...
The Cassidy Chronicles Featured
"Love and Survival in a Post-Union America: The Cassidy Chronicles" Aiyana Cassidy's wedding day becomes a nightmare as her minister attempts to assassinate her. With Kendra Foster-Briggs by her side, they escape and traverse a chaotic post-Union America, facing treacherous landscapes and enigmatic adversaries. This thrilling adventure unveils a web of conspiracies, betrayals, and unexpected alliances as they seek answers to the sinister plot against them.
Hero's Welcome Featured
Lt. Commander Garcon Dore was the perfect space fleet officer, so why did his friend Mobo Sani kill him? Reporter Wanda Johnson visits Sani in prison to find the answer. Since Sani pled guilty, there hadn’t been a trial or testimony of any kind. He had never said why he did it, but he hadn’t denied it either. Only a few people knew what happened on that distant world called Far Meadow. Now, the spectacular result of Garcon Dore’s fatal mission to Far Meadow has borne fruit in a galactic alliance. Humanity has made friends with an alien race. Even so, the question of what happened on that ...
DeepSpace Secrets Featured
Having served a short term in the military gave Kina the start for her training as a better-than-average pilot of large spaceships. Using that training to give her a jump in her career, she lands a job in one of the best passenger and freight companies in the systems. It doesn't take her long to move up to one of the supreme spots as Captain of the best passenger liners going from the busy civilized worlds. Kina and her crew thought she had it made until a stalker began to show up wherever her ship was docked. Putting her crew and passengers in danger, the company moved her over to a diff ...
On holiday in Israel, Gwyn stumbles across a strange device while exploring the ruins of Masada. Thrown back two thousand years in time to the bloody siege between the Roman invaders and fiercely nationalistic Jewish defenders. Blending in is her only option to stay alive; but can she escape before the siege comes to a head? Meanwhile, Michelle is the Time Space Agent from the year 2623 AD trying to escape her enemies and recover her lost time machine, all while inadvertently stumbling on a dangerous political plot. The clock is ticking as Gwyn and Michelle's timelines hurtle towards each o ...
"Forget where you came from. Forget the life you knew. You are now recruits of Talionis!" America has fallen. Seventeen-year-old Bria Averton grew up in a small town of survivors near the ruins of Portland, Maine. It’s all she’s ever known — until she’s kidnapped along with hundreds of other teens and brought to the city of Talionis. A city no one knew existed. The soldiers tell them the intense trainings are for the good of the survivors, and Bria resists being forced into a new life as a recruited soldier. But she soon finds the dangers in the city are greater than she imagined. Escape is ...
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Bacchus Than wants nothing more than to return home after what felt like a lifetime in space. His plans are de-railed when he crosses paths with an old rival determined to throw a wrench in his plan.With his ship damaged and his body bruised one question remains. Will Bacchus ever make it home? The Dunes of Tyrhee is a 10,000 word Short Story written by Benjamin K. Schmidt.
"Avatar the Last Airbender meets Ender's Game" The planet Ethos is at war with a mysterious enemy known as the Splicers. Their only successful defense is the Prime Initiative. All newborns with the compatible genetic code are taken from their families and injected with the Prime Stimulus. Those that survive the injection, develop extraordinary abilities and are conscripted into the military for training. After turning twelve, Aidan is moved to the upper-class at the Mount Fegorio Prime Training Facility. His special gifts allow him unprecedented success in the virtual training simulations, adv ...
Society has turned on its head. The ‘free’ hide behind fortifications and the ‘imprisoned’ roam the wild, barren land beyond. Finbarl-apcula guards the town of Athenia, an oasis in a parched, sparsely populated world. He keeps the citizens safe, ensures those who break the draconian laws lose their freedom, and protects what he prizes above all else: civilisation. When Finbarl is made to lie to help convict a mother he once rescued from a bully, it delivers the first crack in his unquestionable faith in the system. As further lies and corruption are exposed, Finbarl’s world crumbles, allowi ...
No matter where the watch hands turn, she’d rather remain home. But with every time-traveling trekker’s life at stake, can she stop a deadly clock? Wilda Firestone survives off black coffee and white-hot sarcasm. And despite the colorful slew of characters filing through her time tourism costume shop, the retired First Nations Temporal Agent would prefer a quiet, more linear existence. So she’s less than impressed when a dying explorer crashes into her store, unleashing a plague that sends countless travelers to an early doom… Knowing her own lengthy history of chronological excursions grants ...
The Slythonians are an alien race well know for capturing the best female breeders in the galaxy.
Extinction is a cruel and very real possibility, As the Zuvrakian alien warrior race is running out of time. Lord Asgar and his crew have searched the galaxies far and wide looking for an answer ti their world'a fast decreasing population. After another failed attempt at finding mates, Asgar figures he has nothing to loose when they come upon the auction that the Slythonians are having.
Dark Ages sensibility reigns supreme throughout the decadent halls and chambers of Cardinal's Nest Station, the AOA corporation's ultra-advanced lunar-base, as dystopian-future melds seamlessly with medieval-feudalism and traditional zombie-horror in this riveting first installment of The Despot Chronicles. A ten-year saga is kicked off with a death-match tournament following closely on the heels of an apocalyptic infection. Can the good folk of Cardinal's Nest overcome the rapacious madness of their new authoritarian overlords before humanity is lost forever? Hope and despair battle for prima ...
Once part of the Tokyo elite, Wen Harkwell lost his status when his mother died, and now he’s forced to labor in the depths of the city, far from the easy life of the Heights, struggling to support his thirteen-year-old brother Sammy. By day he toils in a factory and by night he digs for scrap in the infamous Heap under the city. One night Wen is drawn to an old book he finds and risks taking it home—a quick decision with devastating consequences. Soon after, Sammy is kidnapped, and when Wen turns to a friend and coworker for help, the two find themselves embroiled in a secret high-tech operat ...
Terminator meets Divergent In our future, robots known as Tins keep us protected from the floods, fires and diseases of the outside in what are called Compounds. But when the Tins become more our masters than protectors, humans rebel. Lexi019 is turning eighteen, and will then be sent into what Tins call the Electric Gardens. Since no one ever returns from the Electric Gardens, Lexi019 is desperate to escape. With her best friend Kyle53 and his sister, the three of them find an unlikely friendship that helps them escape. But not everything is what it seems in this Robotic Dystopia, and soon Le ...
Trust no one ... not even yourself. When a mysterious monster storm reduces Emily's idyllic family farm to rubble, Emily embarks on a perilous road trip to find her family. Along the way, details unravel about a nefarious shadow organization using government resources to manipulate the weather via electromagnetic waves. Soon the truth about her world and her family threatens to extinguish her innocence. Because in this strange new world, only the brave will survive ... but will Emily? This fast-paced SciFi adventure novella was previously published as a serialized KindleVella novel. "THE FREQU ...
HOW MANY TIMES CAN YOU WATCH YOUR CHILD DIE TO SAVE THEIR LIFE? All her life Dawn has been troubled by lost time. She awakens suddenly in strange places far away from her last conscious memory. Kylie's over her dead-end job. As she drives away from the worst work day ever, she picks up her cell to send a text, a decision that will change her life when Dawn's and her world collide. The ensuing tragic accident takes Dawn's only child, but ten days later, inexplicably, her lost time becomes a gift, when she finds herself back again on the morning of the accident. Now Dawn can save her son and cha ...
Rules were made to be broken. From terraformed outposts to magical realms, journey to worlds where deadly plants, rampant biodiversity, or failed colonies have created irresistible opportunities for those brave enough to seize them. New worlds, found family, mystical secrets, and deadly science weave together in this lesbian-centric anthology focusing on a very different kind of first time—a first encounter with a world, or being, entirely unlike our own. If you like diverse stories with lesbian heroines practicing science, magic, and seduction, buy Distant Gardens today!
Teen superhero, Starrella, and her flying horse combat vicious killers in the skies of Atalanta. The quiet summer before her freshman year turns frighteningly weird after Estelle Wright trespasses onto an Army base. Blown into the air and knocked unconscious, she wakes with a nascent superpower. Not to mention a winged horse with a snarky attitude and a mind of her own. Back home in Atalanta, a serial killer is targeting the students at Goldman University. Before long she must juggle college classes with sneaking out of the house after dark to battle alien monsters. Estelle’s life is in ...
The generational fleet was supposed to land on a new world in eighty years. Eleven planets and four hundred years later, they finally found a home. The only problem is something already lives there, and it's big. Agetha and her husband Daved have lived in zero-G in the fleet their whole short lives. Now they are thrown into turmoil as the fleet lands, surrounded by a vibrant biomass consisting of a single fungal alien organism spanning the entire planet. Together, they must build a new home, brave a dangerous organism, and decide when and if they might raise a family in this new inhospitabl ...
Book 2
John and Lena are hoping for some downtime after their exciting adventure to save the alien disk, named KAD. As they plan their well-deserved holiday, a group of hostile aliens bursts in on the two, imprisoning them and transporting them to a totally different planet. KAD is nowhere to be seen, and they are left to deal with these threatening and seemingly unpredictable captors on their own.
Stuck in this barren and strange place, separated from home and from KAD, who is their only hope for rescue, John and Lena’s fortunes turn when they manage to win the hearts o ...
DOWN LOAD BOOK FOR FREE ON 1/20/2019 THRU 1/24/2019 ON AMAZON FREE BOOK PROMOTION! He wanted to visit the outer world. To explore what was true? Or to make the truth his reality? He didn’t know if he was thinking wrong or right. False or true. It could only be tested after crossing the LABOON and reaching to the other side, but how? “How is it even possible for such a person like me?” He would often think a person who had a mind filled with only strict satanic rules of the Old Nicks to follow and systems to follow. And what about the wall!! Any person who wants to go outside or wants to come ...
Could you survive? ..........in the 22nd Century? ......................after an apocalypse? Youngblood was eighteen when his father placed him in hibernation to await a cure for his disease. But when he woke a century later, he was gasping for breath in a deserted underground bunker. The post-apocalyptic world he found was divided between valley settlers who lived a subsistence existence and mountain dwellers who reaped the benefits of a 22nd Century lifestyle. Seventeen-year-old orphan, Kira, was a kick-ass huntress who knew how to survive in this environment. So, when Youngblood was attacke ...
In 1632, Lord August Godwine, an Austrian nobleman, commissions Swiss clockmaker Frederick Jori to create a miniature city of automatons to amuse himself and impress the aristocracy. When Jori refuses to commit offenses against God, he undergoes brutal, unimaginable torture until the once-pious craftsman surrenders to his fate. But what he hides in the innocuous-appearing automatons ignites a horrific apocalypse—one that will not be realized for 400 years.
In 21st century San Francisco, Ireland Barton is a brilliant, successful young scientist, but there is one draw ...
Max is a young man living on planet Grailliyn. He is embarking on his solo exploration journey, a coming-of-age rite of passage for his people. His journey takes him into frozen, snow-covered terrain, where he drives a sled team of the planet's crab-like creatures. His route takes him in the footsteps of his parents, who mysteriously disappeared on the same journey. Before reaching his destination, Max discovers a strange, anachronistic object underneath the ice. It's a pod, still functioning, containing a young woman who speaks his language, but with a strange accent. The woman has amnesia, s ...
Leoshine's father disappears, then returns with strange ideas. He tells her she is special, but not why. When the invader, Avram comes with his servant Resham, they hold Leoshine captive, dress her up, and parade her as an example of the "good" they bring. Aeons ago, Avram's people established Leoshine's planet and atmosphere. After an intergalactic accident, Leoshine's people threw their progenitors off the planet thinking they could sustain the science by themselves. They couldn't. Avram represents their last hope to reestablish the "Dome" and society that has dwindled to one small town s ...
A mash-up of 40’s style detective fiction and sci-fi, A.I. P.I. examines a racist future where society has turned against a new silver-skinned minority: androids. But for some, they’re a necessity. When you’re in trouble and don’t want the police involved, who are you going to call? An Artificially Intelligent Private Investigator.
How much will one woman risk to save her sister? Earth is running out of water, and mankind has resorted to harvesting ice from Jupiter’s moons and the outer asteroids. On Kyron, one of these asteroids, Caryn Cassidy’s sister disappears. Caryn stakes everything to make the one -way trip to Kyron in a desperate attempt to find her. She comes to the realization that her gamble is far more dangerous than she could ever have imagined. The mystery deepens when she reaches Kyron to discover it is much more than just an asteroid mine. A newly discovered crystal and emerging AI emotions complicate he ...
Once upon a time, on a glamorous space station called Eris, there was a young woman who could spin base metals into gold… At least, that’s what she tells people to separate them from their money. Naia Mills is a con artist, a Human orphan scraping to get by in a galaxy that doesn’t want her, more than a century after her ancestors rendered the Earth uninhabitable. She travels the stars selling fake gold jewelry and elixirs, until the day she unknowingly swindles the son of a space station commander. Now confined to the station and threatened with a slow death in a radioactive penal colony, Nai ...
Prevent a stellar civil war... or die trying. When Captain Kira Elsar comes face-to-face with a military assault mech inside a civilian research lab, it’s abundantly clear that MTech is up to no good. Illegal alien nanotech experimentation. Clandestine political dealings. Disappearances. Connections all trace back to MTech’s newest research lab on Kira’s homeworld. As the Tararian Guard’s sole telepath, Kira goes undercover to get to the bottom of the mystery. Hints point to a brewing stellar civil war, but she needs to gather proof. Except, the mysterious forces behind the conflict already ha ...
While the colony is being built, love will flourishAgetha is busy leading a construction team to build the newest section of the colony. When disaster strikes and the biomass develops strange new features, she is thrust together with a new friend: Beth.
As their relationship develops, she soon learns Beth holds secrets of her own. Why is she stuck in a dead end job, anyway?
But their relationship might be cut short, in the face of a looming disaster from the biomass that could erase years of construction and set the colony back to its beginning.
Find out what ha ...
Chloe and Caleb are two people who have been thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse. Chloe is a former assassin for hire who is trying to reinvent herself as an investigator in the bustling metropolis of Junction City. Her first case proves to be far more complicated than expected, she finds a deceased Samuel Adams with a wicked knife sticking out of his groin - and all fingers point to her. Caleb Jones is an Enforcer for the City States on the Forbidden Colony planet of St. Antoni, hunting a serial killer. When he arrives in Junction City, he meets Chloe, and must decide if she is the kil ...
This isnt my time to die.
It cant be. I havent gotten this far only to meet my maker in the dirty corridor of a wrecked spaceship.
I survived an intergalactic civil war.
I lost my family.
I reinvented my entire life as a salvager on the fringes of the universe.
I looked at dead bodies that were strewn around me.
I stared down the barrel of the gun that was pointed at my chest.
Betrayal was always ugly, but it looked especially awful this time.
I had a terrible taste in my mouth.
I wanted nothing ...
A collection of tantalizing tales with more twists than braided hair:
Mystery, murder and mayhem – plus a moment of romance.
Sympathize with a doomed husband and connect with an altruistic robot. Explore an isolated Scottish isle and touch down on a far-flung asteroid.
From the light-hearted to the darkest depths of the human psyche. They’re all there in this smorgasbord of short stories to keep you guessing at every turn. From the author of Milijun, Amidst Alien Stars and Saving Paludis.
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Set in a future where clones are seen as second-class citizens and Normals are threatened by their own creation, Scarlet and her Mate Dagmar must fight for their own freedom and the survival. Scarlet was created to be the vessel for an aging actress's brain when she reached maturity. But when her creator dies before the transplant can take place, Scarlet is sold to a clone breeding farm, and escapes with the help of a few kind college students. Desperate for a different future, Scarlet joins her mate Dagmar and his band of 'Wild' Clones, who have rebelled against their masters’ and are tryin ...
“It’s so hot, what is going on. Is it even humanly possible to sweat this much?” Oh, but the temperature is just perfect “Who is that? Wait, you can hear my thoughts? Where am I?” As I open my eyes, I realize I’m not on my bed or even in my room where I should be after coming home late last night. “Or did I not make it home? This is definitely not earth” I said to myself as I looked around and took a 360-degree view of what I can’t even describe. “Is this is supposed to be a house? Where am I?" Beautiful isn’t it? This could all be yours if you want, or whatever change you want to make to it, ...
Universes don't build themselves, you know. We have staff for that. We call them gods...
When a young god named Bernie finally gets a job building universes, it starts a series of mishaps that spark numerous revelations. Challenged by his supervisor to prove his worth, Bernie sets out to build a fully stable world but hits roadblocks every step of the way. At first, he thinks there’s some inherent problem in his design but soon learns that his universe is being sabotaged by another.
Competition is tough in the universe building business. Ri ...
A little Old West, some Science Fiction, A bit Victorian Steampunk, a touch of Mystery and Romance, and a whole lot of Fun! When the law comes knocking at her door, sixteen-year-old Francis Dominique answers with a strength and resilience born of tragedy. After her father killed her mother, Francis is left with the responsibility of caring for her two younger sisters in the wild and untamed colony of St. Antoni. To make ends meet, Francis takes a job as the receptionist to the Enforcers, St. Antoni's elite law enforcement bureau, and finds herself unexpectedly drafted into an investigation ...
Wilda Firestone thrives on coffee and snark. Outfitting agents for time travel vacations is her craft, but she thought her days of leaping through epochs were behind her. However, when acts of sabotage point towards moles in the agency, the weight of time rests on her seasoned shoulders. With the gravitas of her profession and a bit of reluctance, Wilda navigates the mystique of medieval Ireland. Following a trail woven with treachery and age-old secrets, she is led from the bustling streets of Toronto to the green hills and ancient hillforts of Ireland, tracing every stitch and thread. Yet ...
When kids awake on an island, they’re told there was an accident. Before they can go home, they will visit Foreverland, an alternate reality that will heal their minds. Reed dreams of a girl that tells him to resist Foreverland. He doesn’t remember her name, but knows he once loved her. He’ll have to endure great suffering and trust his dream. And trust he’s not insane. Danny Boy, the new arrival, meets Reed’s dream girl inside Foreverland. She’s stuck in the fantasy land that no kid can resist. Where every heart’s desire is satisfied. Why should anyone care how Foreverland works?
They brought death and destruction to Earth. Now it’s time to return the favor. The massive Mozari spaceship struck without warning. In an instant major cities were leveled. Millions were wiped from the face of the Earth. The horrifying message to those remaining—your training starts now. Pods scattered across the globe are filled with strange, alien wares and scientists of all backgrounds must come together to harness the advanced technology in a race to discover its secrets before the one-year deadline. And before their experiments with the exo suits kill another soldier. Few possess t ...
The stories told around campfires say the world that existed before 'The Wandering' was a beautiful place. A place with buildings taller than trees and massive cities home to millions. The stories about that world say a person could drink water without walking to the river and eat food without hunting in the forests. They never slept in the rain and they had machina that could do amazing things. But that world died 100 years ago. In the place of the old world, a new one was born. A world referred to by the inhabitants only as "The Waste". It's a world of the barest survival by tribes and indiv ...
Voted one of the Best 50 Indie Books of 2015, Infinite Waters contains ten speculative fiction short stories and flash fiction, written by the award-winning author of Pearseus and Runaway Smile. These ten stories explore our perception of the world around us. Is there more to the world than we can see? How far can we trust our senses? And in a digital society, can any of us tell what's real? A writer seeks her future at a carnival but gets more than she bargained for. A disgruntled twin discovers that blood runs thicker than water, especially when you spill it. A high school student jus ...
On a failed mission to look for a secret weapon, Shom Reuel of the Kestrel saves a man – twice. It seems everyone wants him, but is he a friend or a deadly enemy? And will the shock of his identity cause Reuel to reveal his people’s greatest secret? This is book two in the series, but can be read alone.
If she loses, she dies, but winning will break her heart. The murder of her brother thrusts Gaia, unprepared and unwilling, into the spotlight. Her proposed marriage to Atoli, the power-hungry, arrogant prince of a rival clan, is the last thing Gaia wants. But as heir to the Black Throne, her duty is clear. The balance of power among the Simoi, an ancient race with god-like powers, must be maintained. Atoli’s fascinating half-brother, Bardan, catches her eye, but a love triangle is the last thing Gaia needs. As the attacks on her family escalate, it becomes clear that someone doesn’t approve o ...
Life in the 24th century has expanded to create the Six Worlds, but the personal trials we face are still there. Terry “Tug” Glenman has discovered that balancing a dual career of race driving and car building is more than a little stretch. Between his shop and California home, he’s spent the last decade with the love of his life. But when tragedy strikes, her worst fears come too close for comfort. In the aftermath, Tug is offered the chance of a lifetime. This could be the culmination of his dreams, but he quickly finds that fame and glory come with a very high price. Tug seeks his answers w ...
It's New Year's Eve, the year of 2099, but the distinguished guests aboard the Pearseus won't get to countdown seconds; soon they'll be counting bodies and survivors after the spaceship's crash landing on another planet. The good news? The planet is seemingly hospitable both in resources and in terms of the natives' attitude towards earthlings. The bad news? They might have come on this planet bare of possessions, but what they haven't been able to shed are the shortcomings of their human nature. Will that be the sole threat to a unified future, or is the new land and its first inhabitan ...
Having served a short term in the military gave Kina the start for her training as a better-than-average pilot of large spaceships. Using that training to give her a jump in her career, she lands a job in one of the best passenger and freight companies in the systems. It doesn't take her long to move up to one of the supreme spots as Captain of the best passenger liners going from the busy civilized worlds. Kina and her crew thought she had it made until a stalker began to show up wherever her ship was docked. Putting her crew and passengers in danger, the company moved her over to a different ...
Only one obstacle stands in his way of enjoying a normal life. He remembers—every life he's lived before. Tres is about to be born... with the biggest burden any has ever had to bear. He is beginning again—as an ageless adult trapped in an infant body. He and his teenage mother face life filled with extraordinary challenges as they strive to protect, nurture, and hide how truly different he is. But Tres alone must solve the greatest mystery of all: who is he? The answer is linked to the one question he's too afraid to ask: why am I? In his quest, Tres discovers that all is considerably more in ...
Officially, Grace and her friends are underage aliens on the run from the authorities, revolutionary gangs, and their families. Unofficially, they are screwed.
For an Earth-girl who always has a solution, falling through a portal to an alien mining world leaves Grace without a quick fix. But she’s got this, she can survive anything with her friends at her side—until they disappear.
Trapped and running out of time to find a way home, Grace must navigate the rugged terrain of an underground world that is tipping into environmental destructi ...
In the dusty ruins of the world, three groups exist: the Sovereign, the Fortis, and the Outliers. Within their walled city, exclusive access to the only remaining technology gives the Sovereign an advantage that seems impossible to beat. In exchange for meager scraps and free reign outside the walls, they use the brawn of the Fortis to their advantage while the Outliers struggle to survive. Living on land that has not healed from the poison of the past, and surrounded by dangers too numerous to count, the Outliers have adapted - but to the Sovereign and the Fortis, they are nothing. Indra is a ...
This thrilling science fiction adventure follows a family of innocent botanists as they find themselves in the middle of a dangerous drug war on an alien planet. When Rupert, Aire, and Clan members Sesuna and teenage Selick, along with their companion, the Dactyl Pelcon, come to Trellya to negotiate the purchase of plants, they are unaware of the danger that awaits them. Teenage Selick wants to meet the birth mother who sold her to the Thieves Guild as an infant. Sesuna came to investigate suspicious activity on her family's Trellyan estates, only to find that they have been taken over by rebe ...
Change one note and the universe changes with the Symphony. Rilan’s fledgling skills are pushed to their limits as she investigates a secret that could bring down all six houses of the maji. One apprentice will become a full majus, while the other will wait months for another suitable challenger. Rilan Ayama is skilled in using her song to change the Grand Symphony of the universe, but her opponent Vethis is crafty and not above a little bribery. Though Rilan is counting on the support of her closest friend Origon, he remains absent. She has only a cryptic note saying important matters of ...
After a devastating war forced humans to rely on synths for survival, the two have learned to coexist peacefully. Until now... When detective Dhata Mays is called in to investigate a homicide, what he uncovers threatens the serenity of this futuristic society. The gruesome murder means only one thing: someone is ready to incite another war. Now, it's up to Dhata to ensure that the truth stays hidden--to protect both sides of the battle. But can he be unbiased in a black and white world that forces him to take sides?
They hunted her mother. They abducted her father. If Grace can’t uncover the secret of her family’s alien past, will she be next?
“New favorite series for YA readers!” —San Francisco Book Review
Grace is unique. She tries not to draw attention, but most teens don’t have naturally green hair, live in a van, and change schools every couple of months. When people around her start dying and the federal government turns up asking about national secrets, she knows she is in over her head.
Grace has to find the truth. With her brave new friends rallying behind ...
A comet from the heavens, a global pandemic, and a horrifying decision to save humanity. Together, these events form the basis of “The Breakdown”—a complete erasure of the infrastructure, ethics, and morals that once dominated modern civilization. In its wake is a world gone mad, where the newfound “Global Coalition” must face overwhelming odds. They are beset by the armies of human tyrants, hosts of mutant abominations, and the corrupting influence of malignant gods. And the only choice is war. Major Thomas Beckett of the Coalition Army’s Special Forces was there at the beginning. He ...
Surviving the zombie apocalypse was hard but finding true love might be fatal. Urban farmer Miranda Tucci is lucky to be alive in what's left of California's Silicon Valley, despite a love life that's dead on arrival. Then an old flame turns up and she wonders...does her DOA love life have a pulse? A ruthless governing council controls the cure for the zombie virus. If Miranda joins a plot to steal it, will the vaccine be used for political advantage, or can she survive long enough to usher in a new age of civilization? It's only the fate of humanity suddenly resting on her shoulders. If she c ...
Star Force pilot and hero Wyatt McCoy left his medals and career behind after the Rim Wars, disillusioned and bitter when he learns the truths behind the conflict. He takes his converted gunship, the Nellie B, and heads to the Near Fringe, salvaging derelict ships and abandoned stations and mining colonies. Dr. Beth Parker is a space archeologist, documenting the history of planetary expansion and colonization for Kalok Enterprises and the Interplanetary Mining Guild. A piece of alien technology embeds itself in Beth’s arm, giving her the ability to see the energy impressions of long ago pe ...
When Nina is evacuated off the spacecraft Fortune, she's forced to reckon with drastic changes after being plunged into an unknown world. This updated 2nd edition contains an exclusive prologue with a new map and scenes to the award-winning novel, Children of Alphieos. Enjoy a preview of Children of Alpheios, an unforgettable dystopian story about a young mother who fights a biotech corporation to save her son when he's born with an exceptional DNA anomaly.
Ivy lived a normal life. She knew about the Capes, but she never thought she’d get the chance to join them. Now her Fate Gene is active, and the voices in her head tell her everything will be alright. After all, she’s like them. On the other side of the superheroes lies The Control, a branch of the World Government where Lochlan, an android Agent, is rapidly rising through the ranks. They recruit new heroes and recover defectors. Ivy and Lochlan's worlds collide in the small town of Choudrant, Louisiana—where the residents have more secrets than shopping malls. The lead Cape in Choudrant has d ...
"Like the great Ray Bradbury, Belateche invents a world much like yours and mine but with that one twist that makes it different." -- A. Silver Robert Grayson was becoming invisible. There was no doubt about it. And it made sense if you took a second to think about it. Robert was an average guy with an average job in an average American suburb. Invisibility was bound to happen. So the question wasn't why was he becoming invisible, it was were there other invisible people out there, too? (A short story.)
What if you were trapped in a nightmare? Forever. Norman Adams is a regular guy. Then one day, everything changes. Involved in a serious road accident, he slips into a coma. There, he drifts into a lucid dream state and soon realises he is not alone... Victor James is his loyal friend. Determined to help, he works with a mysterious librarian. Together they discover a way to enter Norman's dream. It's only then that they reveal the scale of the horror that imprisons him. A place where nightmares are born.
Can humans survive the A.I. uprising? Paislee Hobson is born into a world struggling after a war that killed most of the world’s population. Rebuilding has been accomplished through androids developed by and under the control of The Institute. The human population has been divided into strata. Paislee, a legal clerk, is a member of the upper stratum. Her recent boyfriend dumped her. To avoid another heartache, she purchases a human-looking android companion, Pellegrin. No one suspects Pellegrin is not human. He satisfies all her desires and is a polished conversationalist. When strange ...
The conflict between the Shoultain Warlords and the Federation has been going on for millennia but only through a series of skirmishes in the Neutral Zone. The latest such conflict, precipitated by traitors within the Fleet ranks, results in the capture of two young Fleet officers, Chief Medical Officer of the UGS Trevor Meridian, Karin Vexley and the ship’s second rotation navigator, Kitaya DeWynter. Their ship can’t assist them in any way, because that would constitute an outright declaration of war. Their friends and loved ones can only look on from outside the Neutral ...
Sometimes it takes an assassination attempt to discover I may have a crush on the bad guy – and I may be just as dangerous as he is. I work with aliens, my best friends is held hostage, and everyone wants to murder me before the Lord Prince can magically bond to share my power? If I had known an illegal drone race would lead to murder, kidnapping, and lies, then I might have thought better about the giant prize of credits, and the dream of walking again. I never met my best friend in person until a drone race gone wrong had both of us vying for our lives against a secret alien society. To make ...
A Mafia conspiracy. A female undercover cop. A honed and fit suspect - international boxer and billionaire playboy, Freddie La Salle. Interpol cop, Anna Leyton, spirals down into a hopeless vortex of sexual and emotional turmoil as she fights to keep her professional cool in her latest assignment. When the charismatic Freddie turns on his charm and seduces her, passion takes control. The action flies from London to Paris, to California and New York - but just who is deceiving who in this fast moving ride across continents?
A high stakes gambling syndicate is pulling the s ...
The return of the world's first Artificially Intelligent Private Investigator, Raymond 3000. Sentenced with other Andro-Americans to a concentration camp for alleged crimes against the state, Raymond is temporarily freed to help find who is behind a series of terrorist bombings targeting the city.
One young woman challenges the secret rulers of the galaxy and finds an impossible love. Young empath, Violet Hunter, dreams of exploring exotic planets as a Grand Master’s pawn. Breaks in the teleportal network threaten countless lives, and suspicions point to the twelve Grand Masters. Violet must penetrate their curtain of secrecy to identify the culprit. Her challenges escalate when she meets the enigmatic man behind the griffin avatar. She plunges into a world of deadly intrigues and risks a perilous love. Armed with only her erratic powers and a mishmash of allies, she must battle the m ...
On her world, they call her star struck, but why do the stars beckon her so … On a mining outpost in the Inner Worlds, a young woman dreams of the stars. When she falls in with a motley crew of bounty hunters seeking to avenge an injustice, Novi believes her dreams have come true. But her journey has just begun. Led by the only man to bring the mightiest army in the sector to its knees, the crew is engaged in a wily cat and mouse game with the powerful Guild Coalition. With her new shipmates, Novi dodges space outlaws and greedy corporations, mingles with Synths and settlers, jumps the Star Po ...
In a world teetering on the edge of destruction, one princess warrior must rise to the challenge and save both her home world and planet Earth in Centaurius - Into the Fracas. Nella, a fierce Centaurian princess warrior with unmatched powers, must find the Earth warrior destined to stand by her side in a battle against evil forces threatening all life. As Nella's strength grows, so does the threat against her, with alien powers manipulating world leaders and wreaking havoc on Earth. Can Nella overcome the odds, unite with her Earth counterpart, and fulfill her destiny in time to prevent the ...
An unusual set of powers. A trip to a bygone era. If she can’t alter people’s minds, tomorrow will never dawn. Ang City, 2093. Tesh is half-numb with grief. Leaning on the Earth’s guardian AI for comfort after her parents’ brutal murder, the powerful orphan bides her time while she lays a vengeful trap. And though the sought-after prodigy hates using her mind-bending skills, she accepts her despised new master’s high-risk mission to time-travel into the past to prevent an apocalypse. Cut off from everything she’s ever known, Tesh awakens deep underground and uncertain of her task’s viability. ...
Drake Sinclair is a freak. There’s no other explanation for his superhuman speed, strength, and fighting prowess that makes him feared by his peers. But going to college in North Carolina promises a fresh start; a new place with new people, and maybe, just maybe, a chance to discover the origin of his abilities... Until the psychopath arrives. The notorious serial killer, Lucius Sykes, is physically enhanced like Drake: stronger, faster, smarter than any human. He is the original survivor of the illegal tests done to both of them by Project Midnight; a project that will stop at nothing t ...
You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family… Quirk and Moth have avoided killing each other long enough to solve another case. They decide on a local job next, and take up the search for a missing scientist. How could Quirk know this new mystery put them on a headlong collision course with his troubled past, a plethora of personal issues, and a hoard of genetic hybrid creatures with an appetite for anything that moves? When their client dies in mysterious circumstances, law enforcement pursues the dysfunctional duo all the way to a research lab in frozen Yellowknife. Ca ...
ACTION PACKED space battles against a corrupt government and a malevolent alien presence. Jamie Hawkins was living on an obscure planet in the twenty third-century when on one fateful night--his life changed forever. His heroic effort to save the lives of women and children, caught in the cross-fire of war, placed him squarely in the cross-hairs of avenging soldiers. Hawkins was stunned when his rescue effort was seen as treachery. Unfairly convicted of treason by a corrupt judge, he was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor on an infamous penal colony. Once in prison, his courage and p ...
A collection of science fiction short stories from the award-winning author of Pearseus and Runaway Smile. The law of unintended consequences meets Murphy's law during a man's unexpected time travel. A grizzled veteran meets his god. And a loner discovers just how far he'd go to alleviate his loneliness. These stories explore our perception of the world around us. Is there more to the world than we can see? How far can we trust our senses? And in a digital society, can any of us tell what's real?
