Science Fiction

The line between Savior and Destroyer becomes blurred as Mikial fights to free the world of Me'Auk from human occupation. On guard against a treacherous alliance with Earth, Mikial is blind to the danger from those she trusts most. They see the monster rising inside her, and will stop at nothing to prevent the return to a darker age when Throne Empresses ruled with an iron hand. As Mikial realizes the inherent danger, she must face off with the deadliest foe she has ever met--the tyrant within.

James Aquila is now in the merchant adventurer business. The space travel device that James used in Adventurer -- Simulation Problem is now powered on at least once a day, for testing. One day, something comes out of the space travel device when it's powered on. The something is a job assignment for James Aquila, from the Keegor. The job involves a planet where an advanced people, the Pannar, have conquered the most advance civilization on the planet. The Pannar are holding any number of peop... more info>>

THOSE GENTLE VOICES A Promethean Romance of the Spaceways "Because it's there..." That was why Earth men climbed Mt. Everest and why, in 2017, they set out for the distant star, Wolf 359. In 1988, they had learned that intelligent inhabitants from a planet orbiting Wolf 359 had been signaling Earth. That fact was reason enough to dispatch a manned probe to explore and investigate. But perhaps there was another reason for the journey. A reason too incredible for Earth people ever to imagine. A r... more info>>

Like all human colonists born into the crushing gravity of Jupiter, Jarls Anders commands tremendous physical strength and survival ability. And, like his fellow Jovians, Jarls has grown up innocent, easy to exploit. Shipped between Jupiter, Venus, and Earth in indentured servitude, Jarls finds his life in constant danger--not just from the harsh landscapes of distant planets, but also from the treacherous politics of human aristocracy. Navigating the solar system proves much easier than navig... more info>>

One-hundred and fifty years since the Robot Revolution and mankind is restricted to the last remaining habitable continent, Antarctica, under the stewardship of the robots. Phil Lectern, the robot leader, is on a mission to space to present Earth's credentials to AI Central, an artificial habitat in the New Beetlejuice system. Meanwhile on Earth a young boy by the name of Hodge is growing up in Rayner Village. Hodge becomes suspicious of the ceremony surrounding the village wishing well and in... more info>>

Brilliant military commander Geneva Greyson finds herself forced to choose between the excitement and adventure of her career and the aristocratic life she once left behind. In addition to a strained relationship with her parents, her decision is made more difficult by the attentions of two very different men who each have the ability to warm her heart and bring her great pleasure. As she struggles to find her place in the universe, she can't help but wonder if there's a way to make everyone aro... more info>>

In a future world of deadly solar flares and cloned dinosaurs, an investigative journalist sets out to uncover the truth about an urban myth: the Laundress of Silver Lake. As he wanders the banks of the lake he discovers some mysteries are better left unsolved. A short story from our Orbits sci-fi/fantasy line.

After enduring the tribulations of the journey to the Alpha-Centauri star system, Astronaut Saul Blackwell must reluctantly flee the sanctuary of New Athens base. As he wanders alone through the hostile forests of the planet Pholus, he encounters a primitive tribe of native people who face extinction at the hands of a vastly more powerful enemy. Witnessing Saul's physical as well as technological superiority, the cave dwellers believe this "Child of Sol" to be their salvation. Now Saul Blackwell... more info>>

Book 2, Maelstrom, serves as a bridge between books 1 and 3 of the trilogy. It is short, barely a novella, and may be read as a stand-alone. This book provides filler information so that you, the reader, may understand what occurred to bring about the cultural and technological changes you will find in the third instalment, Book 3: Tapper Tom, Mooch, and the Traveler. The first book is solid science fiction based in fact and real possibility. The third book is an adventure, still science fiction... more info>>

In a far distant future, human females are colonizing the galaxy, as long ago, society had unceremoniously selected human males for extinction. But there's a problem surfacing that threatens to not only jeopardize the galactic expansion, but also humanity's very existence.

The day after Halloween, the world population awakes to a planet with no electricity. Raphael Edmonds, known to his friends as Bear, explores his neighborhood to find that not only is there no electricity, but the atmosphere itself seems to have changed. When he hears the sound of gunfire within his usually peaceful area of the city, he knows the safest place for him and his girlfriend is a small town in the Texas Hill Country named Rollingblock.

When Liz Franklin received an unexpected job offer from the Treehouse, a trans-lunar space station, she had no idea that her new coworkers had sent a deadly retrovirus back to the year 1809. Now people are dying in an outbreak of flu, and Elizabeth must work with physicist Daniel Oakbridge to reverse the effects of a time-travel experiment gone terribly wrong? Time-travel science fiction by E. J. Lake; originally published by Belgrave House

Beth considers herself a geek, one of the invisible and awkward in her school, too smart for her own good, part of the Gifted and Talented program. During a summer internship at a government weather station, she notices strange weather patterns. The storms remind her of the ones when she was brought to Earth by the Hounds of Hamin. Remembering that she is a member of the Hunt, Beth sets out to remake herself, to be ready when the gathering of the Hunt occurs. When she returns to school in the... more info>>

In 2033 Captain Jack Commer drops the planet-wrecking Xon bomb to end the Final War. The remnants of Earth's population are hastily evacuated to Mars, where previously unknown native Martians rise in rebellion, led by their new human emperor, the traitor Sam Hergs. Amid family squabbles rising from the presence of four Commer brothers aboard his ship, Jack finds himself battling Martian insurgents armed with shatterguns and telekinetic Amplified Thought. Then Jack compromises the entire mission ... more info>>

At 19, Nick tries to do a good deed and instead ends up with a demon's soul. He has powers and other demons are out to hunt him down. As he struggles to master his new abilities, Nick gets closer to Jenny Morgado, the girl he's long loved. Only now that he sees the world of angels and demons does he realize Jenny is a lot more than the girl he thought he knew.

A generation ago, a small group of humans fled Earth to make a new home. Because of a freak laboratory accident, they possess a gene that slows aging, and the rest of Earth would have turned them into lab rats in order to control the inheritable factor. The stars were already occupied, and the settlers from the spaceship Orion fought the aliens to create their own home in the stars--New Earth. Old Earth, under Chinese leadership, is expanding. They attacked the aliens and continue their expandin... more info>>

IN A WORLD OF ONE SEX, ANOTHER MEANS DISASTER! Aubretia was a solid citizen of five thousand years from now. She looked upon herself as happy, normal, with the proper emotional interests, and well-adjusted to her work--which was the control and broadcasting of news. Then came the day when she was called in to look at a strange body found in the arctic ice. That was the first time she had ever seen a man. At that instant, she realized several shocking truths... that she wasn't really happy, she w... more info>>

This is a modern day romance where sexual abstinence is not an option. Aspen groves on mountain slopes and dark timber stands provide sanctuary between sexual encounters at a Safe Ranch. This is the story of a less than simple pair of military specialists designated as Recon Team Cobra. These two hardy souls devastate every terrorist cell within rifle range along their route of travel. Their designated mission is to; "Locate and eradicate terrorist cells wherever they exist in your area of opera... more info>>

Mercury: a planet of two faces - one side cloaked in eternal darkness, the other blistered by eternal sunshine. And balanced between the two is the World River, encircling the globe. Professor Nathanial Stone and his ward, Annabelle Somerset visit Mercury for what they imagine will be a pleasant trip to visit Annabelle's uncle. But tragic death precedes them - a death that provokes a chain of mysterious and terrifying events that challenge Nathanial and Annabelle's long-held beliefs. Before lo... more info>>

All Lindsay wants is a normal life. What she's got is anything but. Betrothed to the Devil by her greedy father, Lindsay was blissfully unaware there was anything unusual about her life until her twenty-first birthday, when the groom appeared before her and presented her with a black diamond wedding band. Displaying uncharacteristic patience and soft heartedness toward his young wife, Big Red (as Lindsay calls him) endures all her attempts to annul their union and forge an independent life a... more info>>

Tony has been an actor all his life, but now he has a problem. The world has turned to Telesensory, and he's leery of this so-called "acting" with a transmitting link in his head. Reluctantly, he agrees to work in this new craze -- and watches his fears turn into a real-life nightmare. A short story from our Orbits sci-fi line.

Awakened after being cryogenically frozen for forty years, a death row inmate is cleared of a murder by The Innocence Machine, an infallible piece of machinery that has replaced juries and judges. Set free into a landscape ravaged by disease, he searches for his son, the only witness to the murder. There is only one problem--what if The Innocence Machine was wrong?

Some things are worth war

Ames wasn't sure if he was a hired thief or a hired assassin. For this job, he supposed he would be both. He wasn't happy about the arrangements: he was far from home, freezing cold, and teamed with people he neither liked nor trusted. And, this morning, he had found an anonymous note in his coat pocket suggesting that he might soon be the hunted rather than the hunter. But it was too late to back out. It was time, and-pleased or not-here he was, armed and ready and sitting in the dark at the k... more info>>

In the year 2053, Dallas bounty hunter Mina Maxwell's goal is to reach Global status, and she is only three catches away from the needed 25. During one of her hunts, she lets criminal Roberto Franco go in order to capture his higher-ranking boss. It is a mistake that will come back to haunt her. As she continues on toward her goal, she battles with the demons of her past, among them being Damon Wolfe, her Global bounty hunter lover who left her without explanation. Attempting to heal the d... more info>>