In a smart city that monitors your every move, finding the killer of a young girl should have been easy.Detective Sergeant Louisa Bennett is assigned to investigate the murder. Following an attack on London's network, private data on every city resident is leaked. In the ensuing chaos, when Louisa uncovers a connection between her own case and the data breach, she becomes a target herself.To save her own life Louisa must uncover the truth behind the...

The year is 2250. Earth faces apocalypse, and the future of mankind rests in the Bertram Ramsay Space Station. Home to 9 million souls, but not all of them are friendly.The Acolytes of Gaia are a formidable foe to the men and women charged with Earth's evacuation. Their murderess intent; to see Earth is destroyed, and mankind with it.Jaxon Leith enters Compression, a three-month internment camp where he will learn to live and work in space. Within...

The shiners think they've eliminated every conceivable threat. Then the Risk Management Commission banishes Letitia Wilson and Alexander Romanov from city society. Letitia and Alexander build new lives in the wilderness outside the env-domes. They also try to piece together the story behind the env-domes, and the history of the villagers who live in the wilderness.The villagers think the city-folk are dangerous monsters, who they call "shiners". City-folk...

Jason Velez lives a mundane existence installing EmuX virtual reality machines-scraping together just enough money to pay for his increasingly unsustainable science fiction collection-when he begins having strange dreams. He knows he has to make some personal changes if he hopes to get his life in order. Except change is exactly what's happening to those around him. His roommate's personality suddenly shifts. Jill, his closest single friend, retroactively...

A representative of space faring ETs recruits a 60-ish retired gentleman farmer to start up an agriculture enterprise. This group of ETs love food. Food has become their art and reason to be. They forage the stars of heaven to find delectable morsels.While entertaining his very tall ET visitor, the retired gentleman farmer (Jonus) prepares a simple snack which uses lots of garlic, sesame and chick pea paste. The ET (T'Lanette Traos) goes nuts over...

An ordinary man draws to the end of an extraordinary life.In this his final journey to the place of his birth, he has time to reflect on his past - a past of fears and promises, a past of forgotten wonders and hidden secrets, a past that holds the answers to questions as old as civilisation.It is also a time to contemplate his present and the mystery of his own being - of who he is, where he is, and why he is.And in his final hours he must decide...

Susan didn't invite the space aliens to use her quilt shop as a staging ground for their invasion of Earth, but they came anyway. Now she needs to find a way to save the planet without making too much of a mess.The aliens' biggest mistake is disguising themselves as bolts of beige quilting fabric. Susan and her friends know cotton, and this isn't it. With a little luck and a lot of chutzpah, they discover the aliens' weaknesses: lavender attracts...

When Dr. Marcus Tao created CAAN to reverse aging and store both a person's genetic code and unique neuronal pattern, he knew his invention would relegate death to a choice for every human being to make in his own time, and that he would one day have to make that choice for himself.In Our Own Image, a novella, is a glimpse into the lives of nine characters--the scholar, the father, the daughter, the lovers, the faithful, the sociopath, and the savior--as...

As Earth's biome crumbles, humanity fails to develop the technologies necessary to stop an impending climate disaster. Faced with widespread starvation and environmental ruin, a radical faction seeks to preserve a segment of humankind by unleashing a deadly virus, targeting the vast heterosexual majority in a drastic attempt to reduce the population and save the planet. However, this extreme measure falls short of halting the escalating environmental...

When an Wronlori exile asks the A'Zedi government for exoarchaeological help, Intelligence Services decides to send Marrakesh and Captain Boru. They'll be operating beyond the edge of any maps. There will be no help if something goes wrong. Will it be cryptids like Surfers on the Solar Wind, space vampires, or just old lost technology hidden on a forgotten world? Nobody knows. And nothing can prepare them for what happens when a Traisan warship shows...