Science Fiction

Tired of war and killing, Earth's Global Director Alexa Lange has developed a method of creating world peace by altering the population's brainwave activity. Assisted by her hyper-intelligent and quirky helper Jonas, Alexa is excited that her plan is becoming a reality. That is, until something goes terribly wrong. A sci-fi novella.

Donovan Vicar is a "feeler"-a man who feels the vibrations of people around him. One October evening on his way home, he bumps into a man that he senses to be particularly evil. The man is heading to Dallas, Texas. Donovan embarks on a late bus ride to seek him out. As the empty bus leaves the station in foggy Bitternest, Louisiana, Donovan falls asleep. When he wakes up, he is disoriented by what he sees-he is still in Bitternest, only his surroundings seem more primitive and unfamiliar. He is ... more info>>

As a small child, Charlotte Galen believed in her beloved grandmother's tales that vampires lived. Charlotte's mother discovers Grandmother Smith telling the small Charlotte about vampires and becomes enraged. There is no such thing as vampires. Charlotte is sent to the Bad Room, a room with no windows, a room where a murder was committed. Years later Charlotte no longer believes in vampires until she meets Tassmand as both contemplate a lonely future.

John Waterville was an explorer, part of the Leader Group for the new Colony. Every member of the party--Officers, Colonists, Reconditioneds--had been carefully selected and trained for survival on the Island. But the State had overlooked one fact: The Island was already inhabited. Deep in the forests lived a primitive race who worshiped savage gods--and who would not surrender their land. In the fierce conflict that developed, Waterville saw two things: that the Islanders were a free people fig... more info>>

Caught in the crossfire between paramilitaries, drug dealers, rebel guerrillas, and the Colombian Army, US Army Private Jeff Thompson and Silver, his K9 companion, are forced to make their way through the jungles of southwestern Colombia to rescue a drug lord's daughter held captive by rebel guerrillas. Silver, the product of a decades-old breeding project overseen by the American military, possesses supernatural abilities that are barely under her control. When Jeff is surprised by a payoff fro... more info>>

The Guardian of Decay and the Guardian of Earth are at war. Only when the Guardian of Earth forges a powerful sword, the Luzblad, is there a weapon strong enough to restore order to the Earth, but as the gods clash, the spirit of one of the Guardians becomes trapped within the godly blood used to forge the sword. Darkness falls, and the secret of the Luzblad becomes lost in time. Centuries later, the wayward son of a SangreLin prince must trace his past within the malevolent SangreLin Empire. W... more info>>

The second book in the trilogy, The Master Key spins a tale of mystery and intrigue as Josie's life is now thrown back into her past. All is not idyllic as Josie begins her new life in the future as wife to the world president, John Lancaster. A dangerous man from her past returns -- Michael Ho -- to wreck more havoc and destruction. With him, Ho brings a hostage, Margeaux, who turns out to be Josie's great-niece. He demands a trade off -- a keycode for the life of her niece. As revelations of... more info>>

After Alex Wales crash lands on a planet that doesn't even show up on her navigational map and her ship is damaged, all she wants to do is get help and leave the planet as soon as she can. She's got something to deliver and time is running out. Instead, she stumbles onto a very alluring man who takes her to his village--a seemingly utopian society led by a Priestess. Stuck on this planet with no way of getting off, Alex finds herself drawn to the alluring Damon. But when locals start turning up ... more info>>

A fantastic adventure in time? His name was Hugh Macklin. He had a good life in our time with a beautiful wife and a promising career. Then, without warning, in a fraction of a second, he was shot 80 years into the future. He was out ahead of everything he knew, excavating for uranium on the moon in another man's body! Here is a provocative story of tomorrow and of one man forced to fight through future eras to return to his own world and his own identity.

"Chiefly among his tenets is the proclamation that the universe, and to a smaller extent, the Earth itself, is the same as a living animal. And at the end of their lives, in the midst of their death throes, such animals will writhe and convulse, wildly, savagely, with the hopes of staving off death for just a bit longer. And, like an injured animal, this convulsing will lead to unpredictable behaviors. Time will begin to overlap with itself. Individuals and objects might exist as simultaneous du... more info>>

In the near future, Smartphones will be obsolete. Instead, technological innovations provide virtual computer screens for texting, surfing the Internet, or reading an ebook on lenses worn directly over the eye. With the upcoming conversion to 7G Network allowing instantaneous optical and audio recording, limitless military and civilian applications abound. Yet an unexpected programming glitch proves fatal, spelling disaster for the nation. In the aftermath of 7G, the fates of college sophomore E... more info>>

A group of Hippies, assisted by The Alien Alliance of Andromeda thwart the bilderberg bankers, politicians, military, and the religious 'God Deluded', by stealing all of the worlds gold deposit. The action moves rapidly from Namibia, to the space island of the approaching race of Mong. Then on to the underground lairs of Reptilian Atlantean Warlocks who lurk under The Vatican, Jerusalem and Washington, where Jovian Moth Probes are used as deadly weapons. Allies from Hollow Middle Earth are found... more info>>

"You must learn to communicate with him, to understand him," the Mother Superior of the Daughters of Mercy says of the thing that dwells inside India Terrano, the thing India regards as a demon. It is a Viseg, a creature that feeds on energy and can spit that energy out with tremendous destructive force. It has endangered India's family and blasted her fiance's mind, leaving him a living corpse. It has made her a fugitive, hunted both by the Solarian Patrol, which intends to put her to death, an... more info>>

Breaking his promise to Andi, Sinbad sh'en Singh has once more taken up smuggling, including the entire planet in the venture. Then the Federation has to spoil his fun by declaring his effort a legitimate enterprise and not outside the law. Suddenly, the most wanted smuggler in the Galaxy is turned into a Felidan businessman, more concerned with board meetings and inventories than with piloting his ship and running blockades. When an old rival threatens to steal Sin's newly-acquired territories,... more info>>

Available for the first time as an ebook pairing, these two short stories serve as a wonderful glimpse into the mind of multiple Hugo and Nebula Award nominee George Alec Effinger, a singular talent in the world of SF. In THE ALIENS WHO KNEW, I MEAN, EVERYTHING, benevolent aliens have arrived on Earth, sharing the their knowledge but also their annoying, overbearing opinions about every little thing. TARGET: BERLIN! offers an absurdist ride through an alternate version of WWII, in which Effing... more info>>

Riggs, a retired Intel officer, is forced on a mission to help a government he despises expand their control into new regions of space. He discovers the truth about his wife, what's happening on Adora Prime, and humanity's ultimate destiny.

Four hundred light years from Earth, Kregen is a marvelous world, peopled by wonderful beings, filled with light and clamor and furor of life lived to the hilt. But Kregen has its darker side, where horror and terror batten on innocent people, where sorceries rend reason, where injustice denies light. Called to be the Emperor of Vallia, Dray Prescot, with his comrades, has vanquished poor old mad Thyllis, Empress of Hamal, and now seeks to create a fresh and lasting unity among all the nations o... more info>>

In this the fifth and final book of the series all the characters are post-organic beings, minds become machines, calling themselves Synths or Eternals. Some Synths - led by the Shining Knight - decide that all Synths, including Sexthetes and Puzzlers, are Abominations, themselves included, and they set out to destroy them all. The survivors are those who hid. As initially did the Shining Knight.

Smash witchcraft and steampunk technology together and you get the world of Magnellum, where Witches are nobility and the populace depends on Magic to keep the Wild at bay. Witch-Born is a Fantasy with steampunk tendencies revolving around the lives of Elsie Delgora and Saldorian Feverrette. Fate literally thrusts these two together when Saldorian stumbles over the seditious plot Elsie has been conducting for 23 years. As the two struggle to find an accord the House Lands of Delgora begin to cru... more info>>

Jamie Race is on the run. Not surprising for the world's first shapeshifter. All that stands between Jaime and a lifetime of incarceration are his wits, his unique ability and two girls, Amy and Celeste. A clandestine government organisation, the Company, killed his mother and is pursuing him relentlessly. Things couldn't get much worse. Wrong. To complicate matters, Jamie suddenly develops the ability to change into females. How does a nineteen year old boy of limited sexual experience cope wh... more info>>

Jasper Gray has a rare gift. He's a dowser, capable of seeking out-and finding-precious metals and gemstones and wresting them from unremarkable rock. He's a man with a mission whose life is going nowhere. Jasper's future is threatened, haunted by the ghosts of his past. There's one whose destiny lies along a similar path, whose efforts spawn treachery. If Jasper's not cautious, the day will come, soon, when the two of them are at each other's throats. In the end only one can win, and Jasper's g... more info>>

The bloodthirsty General returns to unite with his Earthly forces, ready to strike. Humanity must choose its allegiances as it stands at the brink of chaos. Rebellious leaders lurk in the shadows and threaten their survival. The Falsifier realizes the hidden truths and takes charge. And the Elemental King rises up to his call. Anaxagoras's forces close in on the human fronts. On Earth, every vampire stands at the border of change in preparation for their monarch. As Alex struggles to gain... more info>>

Dr. Lane likes old fossils. He even buys them. Saliors who have sailed to far off places bring him odd "finds" because they know the doc is likely to buy them. One day the Captain shows up with a find that truly intrigues Lane. Dr. Lane has money so he makes a deal with the Captain: show me where you found this specimen and he'll finance the search for oil in the region of the find. Edith, the doc's daughter, tags along. It turns out she learns to fly the only airplane that they will have on th... more info>>

Princess Elkava of the family Ominar is third in line for the enormous Euphratorian Empire, but she wished for adventure beyond the empire's scope. When a new star system is discovered she wants to go 'solo' and explore but her emperor father refuses to let her travel without a detail of warships as escorts. Little does she know that the adventure could be more than learning about a new planet. Kandon of the family Vaker is concerned for his dwindling family, refugees from a distant solar syste... more info>>

Aria Wilson is an eight-year-old eleventh-grader at the Amaran asteroid factory station. As if her exceptional intelligence wasn't unusual enough, she exposes herself as a natural field user when she saves another kid's life at a birthday party. Shocked and alarmed school and station officials immediately ship her to Earth, where Lori and Ed have to foil the federal government's attempt to take seize possession of Aria with a phony Child Services warrant. Ed, Lori, Aria, and her mother manage to... more info>>