"Military science fiction concentrating on the psychology and politics of societies in conflict."---Analog, on the Confederated Worlds seriesThey gave him a soldier's skills.His war was still hell.Tomas Neumann wants off his backwater planet and away from his suffocating mother. "Taking the shilling"—joining the Confederated Worlds Ground Force—promises escape, purpose, and the father figure he's never had.T...

As a girl, Portia Oakeshott dreamed of caring for the reconstructed dinosaurs roaming the preserve near the south pole of her home planet, New New South Wales. As a new hire at the dino company, Portia’s first call sends her to an isolated farmhouse and across the perimeter into the preserve itself, in pursuit of a rogue carnivore, a female Cryolophosaurus. A cryla. Amid a forest of ferns and cycads, Portia learns a lesson never taught by her professors at veteri...

Decades of interstellar history are a lie.One assassin will risk everything to prove it.Anara has never questioned an order. As a covert operative for the Democracy, she eliminates threats to the interstellar state. Cleanly, quietly, without hesitation. Her latest mission should be no different: encounter a man on his morning walk, poison him, jog away.But her target is a middle-aged college professor. An Incepti, like her—one of a ...

An assassin turned guardian finds a refuge.But in a galaxy hurtling toward war, no refuge is safe.Anara Orden was the Democracy's most reliable killer. Until she uncovered a truth her masters would murder to keep buried. Now she's running, protecting the one man who knows the true perpetrators of the Incepti Cataclysm, the destruction of an entire world.Her desperate flight takes her and her allies through interstellar jump points i...

"[A] thriller-style science fiction tale that's a quick and fun read.... A good start to a promising series." - Sfreader.comOne man can make—or break—Earth's iron grip on its galactic colonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth's top operative.On the newly-rediscovered colony world of Freeland, an Earth operative is murdered. Stone's mission: travel through an artificial wormhole to a distant planet. Find the killers. And terminate them....

Concordia’s mission reflects the best of the human race. Crew and scientists from both of Earth’s rival factions journey for years at relativistic speeds to reach Bravo Charlie, a life-bearing planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B, to expand the frontiers of knowledge for all.Concordia’s mission also reflects humanity at its worst. Corrupt bureaucrats and ambitious political leaders in both factions maintain a status quo backed by weapons of mass destruction. The facti...

From tundra to desert, from prairies to rainforests, the trade routes of Ganelerdos converge at Sparrenfor, Enelarmos, Larpektis, and Torg-ra-Honnet—the Merchant Cities. Fair exchange offers prosperity to the creative and industrious, whether human or elemental, and unearned riches to the ambitious and greedy.Scorned by his father, mocked by his older brother, Woldirek Hansar rides with a caravan into a desolate wasteland. He emerges with a bold plan to make House Hansar the most p...

Smuggle the “reborn” spiritual leader of an oppressed people past their conquerors.What could go wrong?Solitary spacejock Landry Krieger ekes out a living transporting data through the galaxy—and smuggling people past the watchful eyes of governments, in hiding places he builds in his ship.When the priests of Tao Pacem ask for his help, Landry resists. Dow patch’em? Yin-yang symbols? A plan to sneak a young boy, the “reincarnation” ...

Two decades ago, a girl like Mirabella inspired one of the most famous songs of all time. A flowering of Brazilian culture during an era of military dictatorship.Now, the dictatorship has fallen. Revolutionaries have seized control. They promise a new order of liberty and prosperity.But when she encounters two leaders of the revolution, Mirabella discovers their lofty rhetoric masks personal agendas. Agendas born in chance meetings on Ipanema beach those decades ago.

From tomorrow’s Earth to distant suns, journey to worlds of wonder and adventureFive stories named as Honorable Mention or Semi-Finalist by judges of the Writers of the Future contestPASE DE UN DÍAChalo could teleport to the U.S. every day and work for a better life for his family—if he kept his day pass.AFFECTIVE DISORDERTexas PI Albert Jimenez found more than the usual when he inves...

Powercrosse. A zero-gee sport mixing the best of hockey and lacrosse. Skill moves. Big hits. All while managing your team’s limited supply of jet pack air. Jaysen Tkachenko—the best active player to never win a championship—left his long-time te am, the Miners, for the powerhouse Pterodactyls and his last good chance to win it all. But when he faces his old team in the finals, he discovers there are more important thing s than winni...

Do you only read speculative fiction that's predictable? Filtered by sensitivity readers? Rewritten to the critical taste of a creative writing professor? Validated by a New York publisher*? Or that hits every trope, and only every trope, of one particular bookstore subcategory? Then this collection probably isn't for you.On the other hand, you might like speculative fiction where the author follows the muse wherever it leads him. Across time and space. Across genres and subgenres....