Willard Bennett – court marshaled, imprisoned, and class status revoked, he is now like most people: limited freedoms, no opportunity to advance, rights and privileges restricted, life-extending health services denied, and worse, the shame of once having it all, and then losing it. Many hard days and fitful nights he had dreamed of retracing his footsteps, finding the woman who did this to him, and ending her.In a desperate act to curb insurrection on Earth, space command's admiral...

Based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, we see our future that shows striking similarities to this age of imperialism, classism, and capitalistic expansion where racism is commonplace, slavery exists, and a minority of people are in absolute power. Instead of Belgium Company's outposts along the Congo River in Africa in 1899 or a US Swift Boat going up the Nung River in Vietnam in 1969, this is the great Third Republic on Earth and colonies on Mars in the year 2126.Cas...

One world's sunset is another's sunrise.First Officer Robert Lee VI sees himself as a man of duty, trapped between a derelict captain, his rightful inheritance and Earth's ruthless command. His orders are absolute: seize his ship, crush the Martian colonies, and terminate the notorious insurrectionist, Cassandra Kurtz.On the red frontier, Willard Bennett has traded his Earthly commissions for the restorative grit of the Martian underground. Meanwhile, the l...

The FBI Uses Dangerous Bait…Eric I. Daniels, better known as "Eagle," is ready to exact his revenge. Once the powerful chairman of the now-gutted and defunct Foreign Intelligence Agency, he is now in hiding, assembling the pieces of a plan to find Alexander Burns, the man he holds responsible for his downfall. Living in plain view in New Hampshire's White Mountains, Burns patiently waits for Daniels to make his move. Burns's plan is simple: bait Daniels, and when Daniels shows hims...

On March 18, 1939 a short story was featured in The New Yorker called the "Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber. It featured a husband's vivid imagination taking flight to escape the day to day demands of his wife and the mundane traps of American middle class. Fanciful, fun and entertaining, it is a story everyone can relate too.Have you ever wondered what it would look like for Walter Mitty today in a world post 9/11, terror attacks at home and abroad, government surveil...

In a story of two bold, dark worlds based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the future shows striking similarities to today's age of imperialism, classism, and capitalistic expansion where racism is commonplace, slavery exists, and a minority holds absolute power. But instead of a Belgium company during the late 1880s on the Congo River in Africa, this is Earth's Great Third Republic and Mars's colonies in the year 2126.It's been over ninety years since the Great Confl...

In keeping with the short, classic science fiction genre of alien worlds, spaceships, exploding planets, and larger-than-life heroes, heroines, and aliens, Intelligent Design II: Apocalypse picks up a few short years after the events laid out in the well-received, award-winning Intelligent Design: Revelations. Former MIT doctoral candidate Andrea Perez is now part of the engineer-warrior caste system in Terran society. Her main purpose is to keep the planetary holographic emitters online t...

After a world pandemic decimates the male population, a soldier experimenting with cryogenic hibernation is forgotten for one hundred thirty years. He is awakened by a group of cybernetic lifeforms, artificial persons (APs) who were driven from their walled mega-state, Nemericana – a militaristic matriarch that also cast out their male youth once they are adolescent. Worse than all this: the APs are getting smart enough to make their own decisions.This is a world where the science w...

An Endangered World Order…Revolution is the first of three novellas in part two of the Future Prometheus series. It begins with Lieutenant Jose Melendez, USMC, establishing a foothold in an ancient military complex along with his cybernetic team of Artificial Persons, or APs. Meanwhile, the mega-state Nemericana is at war. Captain Pearl Veritas, NCSF confronts APs who are no longer docile, subservient cybernetic life forms and workers. Instead, they have become a coordinated, lethal...

Intelligent Design: Revelations is a science fiction novella that looks at the origins of our existence as a species, and our place in the universe. The story begins on the planet Mars during its apex where the balance between technology and nature is achieved. All is well until the Gemini planetoids between Mars and Jupiter fall out of their orbits and are set for a collision course. Master Architect Janus and his peers set forth a plan to not only preserve as much of their culture as pos...

"I'm dead. Yup. Probably dead."Captured, sedated and with his life hanging in the balance, former government agent Alexander J. Burns hovers in a strange place between reality and drug-induced hallucinations where he encounters dead friends and lovers. At the center of the storm is Burns's nemesis, Eric Daniels, who anxiously awaits his arrival to find out why his former agent betrayed him, while veteran Marine officer Diane Welch and her team search for both men in Colorado and FBI...

Finally...two science fiction novellas together in one book...Intelligent Design: Revelations is a science fiction novella published in July 2014 by AIA Publishing that won silver at the Foreword Reviews 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year. Revelations starts sixty five million years ago revealing new worlds, great technologies and the efforts of superior beings trying to save several species of hominids. Come forward to present days, there are only a trusted few humans that know that Ea...