The Texan and the Egyptian
A Sky Fire Chronicles Short Story (Prequel)
The Texan and other the Confederate soldiers’ job was simple. Buy weapons for the war effort and transport them home—but nothing is ever that easy.
On a ship in the middle of the Atlantic, the people around the Texan start vanishing. Why? And is the mysterious Egyptian woman involved? Will the Texan be her next victim? Views: 61
Eden has burned. Every island in the archipelago has gone up in flames, and thousands are dead. Also dead? The dreams of eternal life for hopefuls around the globe. And one man is the target of their ire. After finding his brother, Ephraim Todd got more than he bargained for. Now he's fighting for his freedom, along with his sanity—desperate to prove his innocence and show everyone he isn't crazy. But when no one will back up his story—and the evidence that will prove his innocence has disappeared—Ephraim is forced to take matters into his own hands and find the one thing that can prove his innocence, despite the insurmountable odds against him. Can he find the answers before his mind finally cracks and crumbles to nothing? Views: 61
A Terran Times Tale
Cora became a guard for the Alliance because it suited her temperament. She became an Avatar’s companion because she had no choice.
Cora Rhodes was riding escort for six bratty sacrifices to a desert world. Her talent is simple, enhanced senses, but she had no idea that it wasn’t her talent but her bloodline that would let her see what no one else could when she first set foot on Lero.
Able to see what none of her companions could confuses her at first, but when she wakes the sleeping Avatar, hallucinating a fruit tree is the least of her problems.
Relak has slept for seven hundred years, waiting for the woman who can see through the illusion that guards his home. Her species is familiar, her spirit is refreshing and her body sends his senses spinning in the direction of his bed, with her in it.
A man, a woman and a planet come together to restart a world and invigorate a population. Will they be able to hold off the stupid and greedy, or will a world asleep for centuries fall to those who would take its core? Views: 61
THREE CLASSIC SCI FI NOVELLAS IN ONE VOLUME—from a Nebula and Hugo award-winning author In Terra Incognita, Connie Willis explores themes of love and mortality while brilliantly illuminating the human condition through biting satire. Uncharted Territory Findriddy and Carson are explorers, dispatched to a distant planet to survey its canyons, ridges, and scrub-covered hills. Teamed with a profit-hungry indigenous guide of indeterminate gender and an enthusiastic newcomer whose specialty is mating customs, the group battles hostile terrain as they set out for unexplored regions. Along the way, they face dangers, discover treasures, and soon find themselves in an alien territory of another kind: exploring the paths and precipices of sex and love. Remake In the Hollywood of the future, live-action movies are a thing of the past. Old films are computerized and ruthlessly dissected, actors digitally ripped from one... Views: 61
Determined in his quest to bring peace between Normal and Mutah
compounds, Yulen D'Jacques accepts an invitation for him and Atty to
attend a summit conference in the distant westerly province of Corado.
If the long trip isn't dangerous enough, they face an onslaught of
illness and disease, as well as creatures they've never before
encountered. Worse, once they arrive at Rocky Gorge compound, they
discover a plot that will shatter their lives and their love.
What follows is a harrowing experience of deceit and revenge served
cold. And it soon becomes clear to Yulen and Atty that they will not
survive this treachery. Views: 61
Issue #121 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Alex Dally MacFarlane and Jeff Iscaksen. Views: 60
Two generations after the Great Relocation, internal tensions threaten to tear the Azdhag Empire apart. The Great Lords want the Free-towns forced into submission, even as the colony worlds argue for more independence within the Empire. When a new imperial governor sets Pokara against the Empire, the crown-prince and a Free-towner lord struggle to hold things together. Back on Drakon IV, the king-emperor grows impatient with recalcitrant nobles even as a possible interstellar invasion force approaches the edges of imperial space. Views: 60
