As a hunter, Val is an elite in her field. The cities need to expand. The wilderness and animals are hostile to human life. Val's job is to go in and eliminate the dangerous beasts. Technological selection is coming. There is only so much land left. Where there were once vast open spaces, there are now never-ending streets. Where there was once plant life, there are now factories and rows of buildings. Progress knows no mercy. Val is aware of...

Mak is a pod pilot on the DreadNought Exeter, a star ship in the Earth allied Unity. The DreadNought's mission is simple. Destroy the enemy, the Kyrzal. A ho-hum war that should have been quick and easy. But not all enemies are obvious. Hidden agendas and betrayals, complicate a mission that is not what it seems at first. Mak's expertise as a pilot in the fighting machines known as Pods will be tested as he is thrust unwillingly into a role he feels...

Can you be in love with someone you've never met? On the mining colony, Perseus Station, Navigational Computer Operators like Lennina are supposed to be cool and collected, guiding their Diggers through the difficult and dangerous task of mining in Krono

First published in 1924, now public domain in the US and Canada. The story moves between the 1920s and the 1770s, following two heroines: 20th century Jan Challard, a London girl, and 18th century Juliana Clare, the youngest daughter of an aristocratic Berkshire family. Jan is independent and spirited, but leads a humdrum life, working in an office, and walks out with a very suitable young man. Juliana, at 17 years of age, is getting the upbringing...

A satirical joyride in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams, First Contact introduces us to the hyper-intelligent Rigelians, who admire Woody Allen movies and Bundt cake, and who urge the people of Earth to mend their ways to avoid destruction of their planet. But the president of the United States, a God-fearing, science-doubting fitness fanatic, is skeptical of the evidence presented to him and sets in motion a chain of events that will...

Hermes was a god, one of the line of genetically manipulated super beings. He was a mix of human and alien, and they had just been freed from Origin, the company that had created and enslaved them. Sent on a mission, he was captured by a rogue agent of Origin who was intent on auctioning him off to the highest bidder. He hides Hermes at his father's estate where Cherish, the agent's sister, sees him and becomes infatuated. She makes sure he's fed...

When a raid gone wrong gets her father and best friend captured, can she seduce an alien to save her family? Our world is different from anything we've ever known. Years ago, aliens came to live among us. They claim to be the good guys, and yet every day, humans go missing-never to be heard from again. Sian and her family resist the leadership of the new regime, along with dozens of other factions across the world. However, without electricity, they're...

Paradise ICON is an annual writing workshop occurring every year during ICON, Iowa's Oldest Science Fiction Convention. This volume of nine new stories from past participants of the workshop range between Greek, Norse, and Christian myth imaginings, time travel, space travel to both the Moon and Venus, a story of Hell, the Devil, and fairy futures, and these stories range from fantasy to science fiction to horror. The wild locations, compelling characters,...

Much has changed between now and the year 2195, but along lines we might find familiar. Humanity has spread its tendrils to every corner of the solar system much in the way it's ever claimed anything left unguarded: voraciously and without compunction. A solar system wide information network known as the Grid permeates the vacuum of space, while implants permeate the bodies of humans like vines climbing through flesh. It could be said reality has...

Time travel is impossible. Right?Not according to Sam Madison. From his confession, Lia Mae Quan was pronounced dead at 11:41 pm, December 24th, 2006.Sam also admitted that everyone is in an alternate timeline, and Lia must go back.Is physical time travel possible? No.But! According to Sam, the transfer of one's consciousness from one plane of existence to another, is. Sam went back and prevented Lia from venturing out on the snowmobile that would...