Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure
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Some Monster
by Toby Cox
“A small eternity I did spend in near solitude, with naught but a mad-man as company. In consequence, I find it did leave me ill-prepared to approach some circumstances.” –Sam (773 AF). Lieutenant Thomas Walker’s mission was successful, but he...
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Blood of the Gods
by April Harding
“You, yourself, are the most powerful of omens… There is nothing more powerful than the power of the unknown and the emotion that it stirs.” An eventful year has passed since Jaci crashed onto the wild world of Acedia. Now, she’s been taken...
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Echo's Light
by Bryan Jorgensen
The sheaths are a race of alien beings made of pure energy. Possessing the rare power to awaken the dead and foresee the doom of worlds, they find themselves enslaved by another alien race known as the solids. The solids exploit the sheaths’...
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The Advent's Arrival
Part 1 by Tyrus Cole Tisdale
After humans unexplainably left Earth, ancient fish and cephalopods evolved to walk on land and, thousands of years later, rebuilt what the humans had left behind. Flash, a humanoid teenage octopus from the snowy town of Shiverbourn, hasn’t had...
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The Seven Stones
by A. Mussbacher
In the aftermath of a brutal war spanning two decades, the Empire of Lamora finds itself on the brink of surrender. With a fragile ceasefire in place, the Lamoran empress ventures into enemy territory, guided by the renowned military hero,...
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The Unconquerable Star
by Noelle C. McCorriston
The plot of the Black-fires—violent, flame-producing beings—to abduct Dust, an individual unique for his powerful sonar, failed. The small force of would-be kidnappers, led by Maggie Mushu, now flee, certain they will be tortured and killed if...
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Ayra
by CJ Beuhler
When Ayra, a nearly perfect android, is released into the world after total isolation in a lab, she must quickly adapt to life among humans in order to survive. Venturing into the desert in the southern USA, she soon learns about human nature—the...
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Into the Known Universe
A Cosmic Love Story, Kinda by James R.D. Hilton
Junior Reclamation Agent Stuart Bode is offered the promotion of his dreams (with a private office to boot) in exchange for a seemingly simple task: tracking down a stolen corporate freighter and recovering its cargo. “If the cargo ain’t...
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In the Garden of Good and Evil
by Donald L. Lang
Order, elegance, beauty. Each of these tenets is represented by a fictional character—Martians referred to as “the three graces”—in this dystopian novella. In the Garden of Good and Evil brings together six scientists struggling to unearth the...
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United Sentry
by Mitchell Peebles
Following a nuclear war that drove the survivors to seek refuge underground for 100 years, humanity is finally making a comeback—or so it appears. As people work together to rebuild their communities, both big and small, little do they realize...
