A mysterious group prepares to carry out a ruthless terrorist attack...Geoff Miller, a Melbourne loss adjuster, is investigating a Workers Compensation claimant, suspected of rorting the system. He follows him to a remote Victorian country property where he observes the claimant, and others, on an obstacle course. Whilst videoing the claimant from a distance, Miller realises he's stumbled across a private army or terrorist group, but whilst filming is caught in the...

Harry Wallace is asked by the Australian Intelligence Service to collect and deliver a small package during a business trip to Indonesia. This simple task becomes a nightmare when he unwittingly becomes a target of the security police and narrowly avoids arrest.He needs all his wits to deliver the package to the Australian Embassy and does so successfully.Harry returns to Australia, but the Jakarta episode comes back to haunt him when he travels to England. An Indonesian na...

Fiorello Bodoni is a poor junk dealer who lives beneath a sky filled with rockets he can never afford to ride. Each night, their distant thunder awakens something fierce inside him, a longing passed down like inheritance.When a single chance appears, Bodoni must choose between survival and wonder, between practical needs and impossible dreams. His decision sets off a quiet, deeply human journey that asks what the future is truly for, and who deserves to touch it.Ray Bradbur...

When two Americans step into the “shadow world” of the fourth dimension, they expect danger, but they don’t expect what they find: an advanced civilization on the brink of collapse, a stolen life-force called abcilene, and a growing fear of an enemy across the border. Tom Jarvis and Peter Hantzen have one mission — return to Earth with the rare substance they call radiumite, a resource that could stop a global war before it starts. But every world has its own politics, and every mission ha...

The world is ready to celebrate its greatest technological triumph. Crowds gather, vendors shout, and the future seems close enough to touch. But beneath the excitement lies a deeper unease—an uncomfortable question about whether humanity is prepared for the power it so eagerly embraces. Rocket Summer is not a story about machinery or spaceflight. It is a story about timing, responsibility, and the dangerous temptation to outrun our own moral development.As anticipation builds, one...

Solo Morgan has always trusted one rule: traveling alone keeps you alive. On Titan, that rule breaks the moment he crosses paths with a girl who should not exist on an uninhabited moon—and whose world is far more dangerous than any claim marker or mining rival. What begins as a hunt for a rare radioactive fortune becomes a race through alien tunnels, watched by strange allies and hunted by men who will kill for what Morgan carries.As pressure closes in, Titan reveals a brutal logic...

Albert Steinbeck has spent a decade drifting across a dead Mars, hunting a rumored Blue Bottle that no one has ever explained and no one has ever kept. The search gives his life motion, excuses, and just enough purpose to keep him moving from ruin to ruin. When the Bottle finally appears, it brings not triumph but a reckoning—because wanting something for too long can hollow out everything else.Ray Bradbury’s Death-Wish unfolds as a quiet, unsettling pursuit through abando...

Far below the Atlantic convoy lanes, something stirs that does not belong to the living world. Survivors of a sunken ship patrol the depths, guarding sailors who will never know their names, their bodies sustained by purpose alone. Each mission forces them closer to submarines, depth charges, and the constant pull of a life they are no longer allowed to reclaim.Alita swims among them, driven by a single face she still searches for on passing destroyers. Every patrol sharpens the sa...

On a controlled island built for gifted children, language is not just instruction—it is law. Every hour is scheduled, every impulse corrected, and every word carefully defined to keep emotion and imagination in check. For Roby Morrison, the pressure is constant. He is told what things are, what they mean, and what they are allowed to become. Yet something inside him refuses to stay neatly labeled.When an impossible visitor appears, Roby begins to realize that naming something can ...

Ray Bradbury Short Stories brings together fifteen unforgettable tales from one of the most beloved authors in science fiction. With his unmistakable blend of imagination, wonder, suspense, and humanity, Ray Bradbury transformed ordinary moments into extraordinary adventures and inspired generations of readers to look at the future with awe.This collection features The Creatures That Time Forgot, Morgue Ship, Defense Mech, Lazarus Come Forth, Asleep in Arma...

The Morgue Ship had gleaned information from space that would end the three hundred year war, knowledge that would defeat the aggressor Martians…if Brandon could carry it to Earth.

Voices from the Block - Celebrating 25 years of Black literature!In 1996, when the Writer’s Block was founded, Black writers, members of “the block” began contributing to the legacy of written works that stamped our existence, cradled our culture, and fortified our souls.The legacy continues with the 25th anniversary edition of Voices from the Block!In this collection, you will experience poems, short stories, essays, novel starts, and more – all lovingly crafted fr...