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Un-Para_Llel

by E. Robert Dunn

For millions of years, Earth was fertile and rich. Then pollution and waste began to take their toll. Civilization fled to the stars for sanctuary. First, as prospectors seeking riches, then as explorers, and finally as settlers. Planets in the Glaser 667 were among many colonized and used to re-build what had been destroyed. On the planet Un, a widowed matriarch and her sons are stranded with strangers out, of all places, in the desert. Making it difficult to survive the heat, no water, and ... more

Unity

by Anttimatti Pennanen

Go to Comic Con [check] Find alien technology [check] See the galaxy and make new friends [check] Defeat the ancient evil and save the galaxy [check] But who will save Jon and Gus? After the blind jump, the crew of Unity find themselves lost in space with a broken Black Table, no map, and no allies. And if that’s not enough, they are being hunted by something lurking in the shadows. With the Light as their guide and science fiction on their side, can Jon and Gus give us a fighting chan... more

Trailer Trash Havana

by Junio Carols

Most people dream of escaping the rat race, their everyday humdrum lives on the treadmill. Time is their invisible enemy. What could be more exciting than relocating abroad to your very own trailer by the sea: mortgage free, cheap living, surrounded by sun, sea, and sangria? Ah, paradise! Or is it?

Instinct or Learned?

by E. Glenn Tickner

A patient of a psychiatrist suffers recurring nightmares concerning the Oklahoma City bombing. The psychiatrist suspects that the patient is experiencing nightmares caused by another personality in his head, and this personality X is attempting to take control of the patient. The psychiatrist uses hypnosis to access X, which he does. The patient is losing his ability to fight off this personality on a daily basis. In order to eliminate X, the doctor must know more about him if possible, so the d... more

Pale Beasts

by John Thrasher

Every culture tells tales of mystical white animals. Buffalo, elephant, owl, tiger, dragon, all are symbols whose coming means change. Good, bad, never indifferent, always complete, change. In Central Park on the second longest day of the year, one of them shimmered into being with a message. You are my chosen avatar. "I . . . can't," Rambo Jefferson replied from guilt, and he knew the creature understood him. "I mustn't!" He felt certain that thoughts sent and received are complete. "You are... more

OldEarth Aram Encounter

by A. K. Frailey

Aram must lead his clan to safety, protect an innocent man, forgive his wayward wife, and challenge a curse that haunts his soul. As Aram encounters both good and evil, an alien world watches and waits for their part to play in humanity’s future hope or despair.

Nexus Point

by Krista Pimpinella

Late in the twenty-third century, teams of Time Rangers boomerang through a nexus point into historical time periods to capture “time runners,” renegade time travelers who would endanger the future by changing the past. KAI SAWYER, son of one of the founders of the Time Rangers, is a Spawn, a genetically enhanced soldier, who has never known his rear admiral father’s love...only his ambition. And as Kai rises through the ranks to become the Time Rangers’ youngest commander ever, he must constant... more

Pretty Deadly

by Kelsey Josund

Cinna would quite literally kill for the throne. She’s spent years forced to serve her wealthy cousins rather than attend society events alongside them, waiting for the chance to prove herself and exact revenge. When a ball is announced at the castle, promising to bring many powerful people to town, she seizes the opportunity to strike. She bets her best friend, a small-time thief and con-man, that she can land a greater score the night of the ball than he can. They embark on parallel heis... more

Eternal

by Michael D. Apperley

Belief in good compels belief in evil, and evil is not just the absence of good. Evil is manifest. Created by God, evil has forged its own identity and is invested in a destiny of its own making. Unwittingly, evil is a lesson for mankind, our harshest teacher through the ages of our evolution. This is a small part of that long story. A good man is targeted for destruction. He survives and is viciously inducted into the hidden reality of shadow existence. Here he finds unexpected allies. Never k... more

Smar

by David T. Bennett

Something strange has again landed on Topside of the Planet Smar. The Great Council has hurriedly put a small team of “volunteers” together to seek out what it is and discover what it’s doing. Sergeant Ha’an, the reluctant leader and soul survivor of a previous expedition to encounter an object from the sky, leads his equally reluctant band of misfits on their perilous journey across Topside. On the way, they meet up with Nerak, a fearless explorer and scientist, and she joins them on their ques... more

A Sinister Gift

by Jacinthe Dessureault

When police social worker Elenora Bello becomes pregnant, her life takes a sharp turn for the bizarre when she starts having premonitions about a case assigned to her detective husband.

Retrieval

by Barry M. Goldsmith

It's 2038. Earth's climate can no longer sustain life and millions have already perished. Humanity's future lies in its past. A grotesque, militaristic, two-headed alien race with superhuman strength – the Janus – have partnered with humans to expand time travel technology. The result is Retrieval Base – an isolated fortress built on an icy, volcanic plug deep within Antarctica. Its purpose – send what's left of humanity back through time aboard giant temporal arks after erasing their memories a... more

Open Season

by Domino Finn

The only thing worse than an assassin is a zombie assassin. That's what I find myself up against when a celebrity hypnotist turns up dead on Christmas. Except this killer is no ordinary zombie, and I should know. The name's Cisco Suarez, and besides being the Miami Police Department's resident supernatural consultant, I'm a practicing necromancer. With a series of murders threatening to reveal the existence of magic, anti-animist militias capture the public heart. The streets are rife with... more

HALF A LION

by Palle E.K. Oswald

It takes a village to raise a child.

In a land of brutal conquests, twisted histories and forbidden magic, the Lion tribe is in crisis. The chief has three heirs. The warrior, the worker, and the accursed. For one to ascend the lionchair, the others must be broken.

It takes the demons to make a man.

Sakhan fights captivity, shamans, and shapeshifters – all while caring for an ailing mother and vowing to... more

Amaranth

by David M. Snow

For fans of Hugh Howey's Silo, and the TV series The Last of Us

An underwater ark.

An incurable disease.

Two passengers to save them all.

The Flood swept across the world over a century ago, sinking entire cities and the triumph of modern civilization. Aboard underwater arks, the survivors have been preparing to return to the Surface, under the benevolent eye of their Creator. But the ship's commander seems to ... more

The Compassionate Killers

by Justin Case

In this thought-provoking and fascinating futuristic dystopian novel, Enoch Walker awakens from a cryogenic coma five hundred years into the future. His last memories of his former life were of a fledgling country that he helped build after America's second civil war. He is happy to see this new nation still exists. But to his growing dismay, he realizes the country has morphed into something he cannot reconcile himself with. The people are now superhuman, thanks to a dark secret that Enoch thou... more

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