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The Bit Dance

by Tilmer Wright Jr

What happens when millions of tiny minds find a way to work together? At what point do they become one? At what point are they no longer merely machinery, but actually alive? Kayla Henry is a genius. She has a grasp of technology that far surpasses that of people three times her tender age of fourteen. She has mastered every skill she has attempted to acquire – except the ability to impress her father and appease his overbearing perfectionism. The eBot is the newest offering from her father’s em... more

Motes

by Tilmer Wright Jr

A speck of dust floats in the air, illuminated by a sunbeam. To a daydreamer like Thom Finch, that speck is an imaginary commander leading his army against an equally imaginary foe. The reality is something even Thom’s fertile imagination cannot fathom. He must somehow convince himself, his family and his best friend that his sanity is intact and that what he is seeing is real. The Mu’ahi are tiny in comparison to humans – each one as small as a dust mote. Their planet is isolated in a bubble of... more

The Outsider's Mind

by Sean Aeon

The Outsider’s Mind is a stirring concoction of philosophical fiction and sci-fi/fantasy. What can be found inside are the multifaceted musings and philosophies of immortals contemplating loss, interdimensional travelers, bee’s struggling to figure out humans, zombies assessing the meaning of humanity, revolutionary spiders, and much more. Comprised of 88 pages of thought-provoking quotes and 165 pages of unpredictable prose, this is the weirdest, deepest, and most oddly-perceptive fictional ... more

The Art of Dying

by Kyle McKeon

March 26th, 2023 – Cullver City, Pa. A day that went down in infamy. A day where GEHM heroes and villains set aside their differences in order to save and protect their kind. General George McCaffrey marched into the city, backed by his own personal army and the Mankind Restoration Act in hand, he singled out the GEHM population. Concentration camps, inhumane experimentations, kidnappings, it was practically a citywide genocide. All for what exactly? To protect the human race from an ill-conceiv... more

Alien A La Carte

by LizaRose Alderson

“The dough rose beautifully; unfortunately, it rose beautifully to the ceiling and was now stuck. Normally this would not be a problem; gravity would have its way …. This was far from normal…” Bae’s career as a xeno-nutritionist is over before it’s begun when he fails his medical for the Space Colonization Corps. He takes the only job in space that he can get when offered a position as chef on the low Earth orbit station Theta. But Theta hides more than one secret, giving Bae’s original ca... more

Thirst for Revenge

by Damian Westly

Stripped of his captaincy and pilot’s licence due to a charge of negligence by a court after three crew members are killed on his first mission, he claims he is innocent. But he has no idea who his adversary is or why he wants to kill him. Events beyond his control then turn into an avalanche, which once started has to run its course before justice prevails. Friends’ lives are put in danger as they help him in finding the enemy. Altair, an alien creature, has taken his likeness and tries to dete... more

Shield Lord Marayshan

by Joanna Zorina Ray

In this book, the humans meet their first aliens, the friendly reptilian Ringulian people. Next come the Kalesians, willing to share their space technology with the humans. The Ringulians live on Jupiter’s ice moon ‘Europa’. The Kalesians live on the planetoid, rocky world of ‘Pluto’. The humans then hear from the Gloshans. They are sinister, brutal space pirates, who decide to wage a space war against the Earth people, the Ringulians and Kalesians. The humans are terrified, knowing that they d... more

Darker Matter - Book I: Dakor's Darkness

by Jim Lowther

The first book in the Darker Matter Trilogy takes us on an enthralling journey of strength and self discovery in a book full of battles, love, magic and betrayal.

Echoes from a Time Passage

by Susannah MacDonald

Markas, son of an inter-plane diplomat, is obsessed with two things: dance and the image of a girl from Earth. When his sister vanishes and his father fails to return from one of his forays to Earth, Markas decides to traverse the dangerous Time Passage to find them. ‘I have been afraid before in my life, but this, I decided, was like that which, in the books of Ezsk, seemed to be like the descent into the Afterlife for the wicked. I seemed to be pulled from the main passage down a narrower trib... more

Working Burlap

by ANTHONY MURREY

A collection of humorous short stories by the man "whose writing is to literature what Gary Larson's 'The Far Side' is to cartoons. Here is an eclectic collection of cerebral slapstick; a book that's not afraid to ask the question: do real men read kitsch?

The Other Inside

by J.M. White

Stranger Son

by Jim Nelson

The Bridge Daughter Cycle continues with STRANGER SON. Now a grown woman, Ruby Driscoll lives by her wits on the street while her mother languishes in prison. A tip from a familiar name sends Ruby digging through her family's deepest secrets while seeking out her long-lost younger brother. Her journey leads to the heart of Jefferson, America's newest and fifty-first state. Ruby must reunite her family while avoiding authorities, hiding her true nature—and staying alive.

Love they Galactic Enemy

by Edward Hoornaert

When Minta is abandoned on an enemy space station, she struggles to survive by nursing an enemy commando, not realizing she is opening her heart to love. When Finn Shanwing falls ill, he doesn’t intend to hide that he’s a cyborg warrior. Nor does he intend to fall in love with the secretive nurse who saves him. But to know this enemy is to love her, and by then it’s too late to escape the wrath of Watcher -- a spy who is half-human, half-machine, and both halves obsessed with her.

Tionsphere

by J.C. Gemmell

For a million years, the human population was less than 26,000 people. By the year 2062, ten billion individuals crowded the planet.

As humanity faced its greatest challenge, two global corporations merge to deliver a radical solution: the construction of concentric spheres encircling the planet. For almost a thousand years the new world was astonishingly empty, but as the tionsphere approaches capacity, its universal processing service starts to fail, threatening the lives of the obses... more

Nemecene: The Versal Arts

by Kaz Lefave

Anchored in the earthly slice of coexistent realities from their secret off-grid location, twins Keeto and Elize must transcend the lies that govern world order. But will they escape the entities that hunt them?

Even their Gadlin hosts, whose innovations and virtues had saved humanity from three mass extinctions, are vulnerable to treason from within. Only mastery of an ancient art form can hone the skills the twins need to escape.

In this fifth episode of the Nemecene™ seri... more

SURVIVOR

by Diane Mayer Christiansen

The end of the world comes in a ball of fire. Wren is so not ready, who would be? As she races to the shelter of the cryobanks she has only one thought on her mind, survival. It’s a different story once she awakes fifty years later. In the aftermath of the solar flare that has hit the earth in all of its raging fury, Wren must join her squad to find her way back to civilization. She has lost everything and, as she grieves the death of her mother and the boy who loved her better than she deserved... more

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