No matter how far you run, your shadow follows...Centuries ago, they fled the doomed Earth. Their damaged flotilla stumbled on a new star system and colonized the worlds they found there. The ragged remnants of mankind fought the elements and each other to survive. Out of terror and darkness, the Nar Exus Triumvirate was created, enforcing a fragile peace between the three largest planets.But on the dwarf planet called Shastre, the people’s simple life along the rivers and ...

Centuries ago, they fled the doomed Earth.The twelve remaining ships of their damaged flotilla stumbled into the star system HD 70642 and colonized the worlds they found there. Humanity’s last vestiges fought the elements and each other to survive. Out of terror and darkness, the Nar Exus Triumvirate was created, enforcing a fragile peace between the three largest planets, Lunen, Cixca, and Werjegna.On the remote dwarf planet called Shastre, the people’s si...

Centuries ago, they fled the doomed Earth. A desperate exodus into the unknown in search of salvation. The twelve remaining ships of their damaged flotilla stumbled into the star system HD 70642 and colonized the worlds they found there. Humanity’s last vestiges fought the elements and each other to survive. Out of terror and darkness, the Nar Exus Triumvirate was created, enforcing a fragile peace between the three largest planets. Lunen, Cixca, and Werjegna. The remnants...

Two thieves.One campfire.And one very ambitious plan.The introductory short story to B.C. Laybolt's fantasy series Tales of Elan.

A walk in the dark invites an inescapable terror.A horror short story in the spirit of Cthulhuian nightmares.

This is the complete omnibus edition of the Exodus Trilogy, which has captivated readers all over the world.When an object threatens human civilization it becomes clear that humanity needs to venture to the stars. With just a few years of warning, this will be a race against time, and only a small number of colonists can be saved.In an America turned authoritarian, a small group of people draws up their plan to change not this world, but the next. The confrontation seems in...

What do you owe the future, and what do you owe the past?With the hated totalitarian System on the verge of collapse and the dreaded alien Omnis observing an unexpected truce, veteran soldier of the Legion Thinker has finally found happiness with his wife Priestess.He raises his children in a cozy home and instructs new Legion recruits in basic training. It is a dream he never thought possible — a haven of peace and comfort.However, it is short-live...

Ozone and burnt plastic. That’s how Nova’s Monday starts.Sure, her grimy reflection says heart-of-steel but sometimes it’d be nice to test that. Sabotaged in the outer reaches of space, Nova is put blaster-to-blaster with the Confederacy. Her plans for early retirement left on the last starliner, and now she’s got to deal with ancient aliens and government overlords.All she wanted was enough money to keep her ship flying, but the Confederacy want her dead and buried.

As a viper, she's no stranger to death. As a sister, she'll do anything to protect her kin.Kate Richmond has seen it all. The former army ranger and ISS operative has engaged in missions of sabotage, cyber theft, espionage, and assassination on her path to become a viper cyborg. After barely surviving a full-scale incursion by the Merkiaari, she doubts life can hold anymore surprises, until a family mystery lands on her doorstep.Her brother has been linked ...

"The Seventh Science Fiction Megapack" presents a terrific mix of science fiction stories, new and old, including a Hugo Award-winning story by Lawrence Watt-Evans, a Hugo Award nominee from Mike Resnick, and classics by Arthur C. Clarke, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and many more. Almost 700 pages of great reading!Included are:ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE, by Mike ResnickA BRIEF DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES, by Michael KurlandGRANDPA?, by Edward M. LernerTO E...

Welcome to the Kitchen of the Gods — a forbidding volcanic cauldron guarded by merciless, invulnerable Omni aliens, and giant primitive ExosegsOn a hostile planet, ConFree Legion trooper Thinker (Beta 3) and his Squad Beta comrades approach the Omni swarm. As they fight their way into the Camp of the O, they find themselves helpless and terrified in the grip of the aliens' awesome psypower.The battlefield soon becomes littered with the pitted, smoking A-sui...

His past is haunting him — and she won't take no for an answerOnce a proud soldier and fearless immortal, Thinker is now a dishwasher trapped on a dismal collective System world without even his own memories to comfort him. Tortured by dreams of people he has never met, he will be returned to the clinic if he fails to adjust to life on the outside — and his adjustment is not going well.Although required to submit, he had just killed a thief trying to rob hi...