A new short story set in the Chared Space universe of Traveller!
Ethin is a man on the run, driven from his homeworld by a censorious religious dictatorship and into the unlikely company of a mercenary Aslan trader, an inscrutable Marzian mechanic, and a medic who is surely too young for the life of a pirate. In this story, he inadvertently impunes the honour of an Aslan, with fier
John Fortune is a street kid made good. Thanks to a genius for maths and physics, he carves out a successful career in interstellar engineering. But there's something not quite right about John. Something not quite human. His one true friend, Frank Patterson, is sure he knows the secret. Frank can't afford to be wrong. Mankind's survival depends on it. This 10,000 word short SF story/novella is... [click here for more]
There is suffering for one’s art, and then there is this…
Ethin is a man on the run, driven by a censorious religious dictatorship from his homeworld and into the unlikely company of a mercenary Aslan trader, an inscrutable Marzian mechanic, and a medic who is surely too young for the life of a pirate.
With their aging free trader coming apart around them, Ethin and his fellow Travellers are... [click here for more]
A new collection of 17 science fiction and horror stories by a well-known SF novelist, including four published for the first time.
New York Times bestselling author Steve Perry notes in his introduction:
"He tends to grab you with the first line and not let go until the last line, and it's an interesting ride all the way through. ...Glass has a winner here."
Note:... [click here for more]
This is exactly what it says on the tin: a list of 108 solutions to the Fermi Paradox. Never again will you wonder where your setting's aliens are, or why Earth apparently has been contacted yet.
Inside, your interstellar explorers will find that...
...there is no one out there, because the evolution of sapient life cannot occur without the presence of "diversification pumps" like regular meteor... [click here for more]
Moon is a collection of fifteen stories that take place on and below the moon, from new authors and award-winners alike: tales of alienation, punishment, or transformation. ... [click here for more]