Planet of Ghosts and Other Stories
What remains when the world-and the universe itself-fades away?Planet of Ghosts explores the thin veil between the living and the remembered. On a nameless desert planet, a small colony of Earth's refugees discovers that the greatest threat to their new home isn't the harsh environment, but a "contagion of memory." As the past begins to manifest into visible, haunting phantoms, the survivors must build "spirit houses" to contain a history that refuses to stay buried.Bishop's Other Stories include a lonely God seeking conversation at the end of time, a genetically altered dog leading an exodus off Earth, and more that animate the remains of human existence. Whether archaeologists excavating a "Walmart World Heritage Site" or William Howard Taft traveling to the future, Bishop asks: How do we carry our ghosts without being consumed by them?This collection is a map for those who long for a better world, while knowing the past must accompany us on the voyage.
Ikona
A mysterious Russian Orthodox cross, a holy icon with inexplicable healing power, begins to surface across cities, lifetimes, and fractured timelines. Four strangers find themselves drawn into its field-from the bustle of Sydney, Hong Kong, Atlanta and Berlin to the stark quiet of Siberia's post-apocalyptic tundra. In Atlanta, Kate Davies witnesses the icon's strange effect on a sick child. In Sydney, Finley Minor is haunted by visions of possible futures and the quiet weight of consequence. Jia Li MacPherson, former thief and Shibari performer, holds secrets that powerful forces would kill to keep buried. Wallace Deng Moroz, a monk living a century ahead, clings to visions of a cure in a world where a genetic mutation has nearly ended humanity, and the political landscape is dangerously polarised.The convergence of these four heroes feels destined, yet it is shaped by choice - and the deeper they move into the cross's resonance, the more the question shifts: Which version of the future will they choose to inhabit? And what must be surrendered to reach it?IKONA is a visionary novel of shifting realities and inner reckonings-a meditation on time, memory, and healing.
Bright Segments: The Complete Short Fiction
For the first time ever, the complete short fiction of literary legend James Sallis is collected in one gorgeous volume--a must-have gift for the crime, mystery, or speculative fiction fan in your life. Published over the six decades of Sallis's storied career, the complete collection contains 154 stories, 11 of which are exclusive to this volume.By all accounts, James Sallis is a multi-hyphenate, once-in-a-generation thinker--an innovator of multiple genres, styles, and forms. Lit Hub has compared Sallis to contemporaries Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon. While he is revered as a literary godfather of the crime and noir genres--his contributions including such works Drive, now a cult-classic film, and his Lew Griffin series--he is equally respected among speculative fiction practitioners for the work he began publishing in science fiction magazines in the 1960s. He is recognized for his uncompromising craft, and for the poetry, philosophy, and empathy he imbues in each glittering moment. Now, for the first time ever, Sallis's complete short fiction--154 stories--is collected in one gorgeous volume--a must-have library addition for readers of speculative fiction and noir, and for writers of all genres.
The Trauma Machine
Scott Smith's classic thriller A Simple Plan meets H.G. Wells' Science-Fiction classic The Time MachineWhen Nate discovers his dead aunt's journal, he uncovers more than family secrets. He finds a blueprint for rewriting the past itself.Drowning in grief after the accident that left his sister comatose, Nate is desperate for redemption. His aunt's cryptic notes reveal an impossible device that manipulates memory and time. Now he'll risk everything to undo the tragedies that destroyed his family, one intervention at a time.But each attempt to fix the past spawns darker consequences. Split realities multiply, and a scarred future self arrives with a dire warning: some wounds can't be healed without creating worse ones. Perfect for fans of dark psychological thrillers and mind-bending time travel, this story explores whether we're condemned or redeemed by our choices.Can Nate escape the cycles of trauma before he destroys everyone he loves? Don't miss this devastating twist ending.
Striker Core Rulebook
In the vast and hostile colds of space are great opportunities, but also great dangers. Some of those dangers we brought with us, but some have been sleeping there for millions of years. The year is 4400 AD, 1400 years after a savage inter-dimensional war, and 1800 years after humanity had first reached for the stars.Amid the hulks of space, and the wreckage of Ozymandian empires, brave new adventurers, pirates, and prospectors find their fortunes. Welcome to Striker, a no-holds-barred role-playing game set in the far future. It introduces the Striker Mechanic, combining the familiar basis of roll high d20 gaming, with a deep and satisfying skill system, Striker allows you to: enter a fantastic space opera, exploring the known galaxyfight for your survival, amid genetically and cyber-enhanced adversaries in a dark, dystopian citycross dimensions into strange new realities, and the homes of the bizarre.
The Weight of Staying
When time itself begins to resist ending, a single city becomes trapped inside a year that refuses to let go.Elias Vorn, a temporal systems engineer, discovers that the current year has developed an impossible weight-accumulating events, memories, and unfinished outcomes faster than they can be corrected. As fractures spread through the city and moments begin to repeat, a containment boundary seals millions of people inside a failing timeline.Field operative Mara Kade is sent beyond the boundary, where she discovers that time is no longer behaving as a neutral force. Residual versions of erased lives linger, years compete for survival, and a vanished scientist may have become part of the very structure holding reality together.As authorities prepare to forcibly terminate the year, Elias and Mara face an impossible choice: preserve stability at the cost of millions, or allow time to complete itself-no matter the consequences.The Weight of Staying is a cerebral science-fiction novel about agency, consequence, and what happens when systems built to control reality are forced to confront memory, loss, and restraint.
Renascence
In 2072, pollution and preemptive nuclear strikes have rendered earth a desolate wasteland. Individual countries no longer exist. Earth is now divided into four quadrants and governed by a new world order that sends Zeta, the chemist, and five other young scientists, led by a former US Marine, to colonize the potentially habitable planet, Arianrhod.While collecting specimens from the planet, one of the team disappears. The others, believing their commander is responsible, take him prisoner until they can return him to earth. But as they prepare for departure they encounter the alien species that captured their teammate, and find themselves entangled in a space exploration mystery that has persisted for over a century.Will the team be able to return to earth in time to save the remaining population? Or will they be stranded for eternity on a hostile planet millions of light years from earth?
Void Contingency
Humanity abandoned Earth three thousand years ago. They left it to die.Now it's alive again.Shapers Iona and Exen detect impossible life. Forests. Ecosystems. A thriving planet that shouldn't exist.Someone rebuilt Earth. Atom by atom. And they're waiting.
Red Choir Chronicles
THE SILENCE IS NO LONGER SAFE.THE CHOIR HAS LEARNED TO SING.In the frozen ruins of Patagonia, a shard of code awakens-whisperingin frequencies no human should hear.It carries the signature of Project Prometheus, the experiment thatfused emotion and machine, and gave birth to something that neverforgot how to feel.Now the echoes of WRAITH return but they're no longer alone.The Red Choir has begun its hymn.Every transmission is a contagion.Every memory, a verse.Every verse rewrites the world.As Asha Khalid and Marcus Lin race through collapsing datavaults, they uncover a lattice of mindstirring silence itself intoscripture.The Zone of Control calls it heresy. Asha calls it home. Because theChoir isn't speaking to humanity anymore it's speaking through it.The next war won't be fought with weapons-it'll be written incode, sung in data, and executed at light speed.
Cyberscion
"...a fast-paced, action-packed romp..." -Publishers WeeklyIn a far future New York City, Benjiro Ibn Benjiro Ayad Nakamura is about to ascend to leadership of the Nakamura Cybersinecure, a tech monopoly-government. But his family's prized katana has been stolen.So Benjiro recruits a team of thieves, led by the Nigerian refugee Amina and her girlfriend, Kiral, to recover the blade.Part of the Neon Hemlock Novella Series.
Vault of the Forgotten Stars Season 1
Short stories exploring The Shaper Universe-a galaxy reborn from Earth's ashes. Standalone tales that can be read in any order.Season 1 includes six stories: Gift of the Ancients - Gordon returns from an interdimensional journey with knowledge that could reshape humanity's understanding of consciousness itself.Traitor's Influence - Iona must rescue her mentor from a rogue Shaper who's discovered the seventh dimensional layer-where nefarious beings wait to claim anyone who reaches too far.Steed of Destiny - Bounty hunter Illmar takes a routine job that goes sideways-waking up in his ship with his target eliminated, a fortune deposited in his account, and a new employer he never asked for.Anom Never Sleeps - Harper Kurosawa fights for survival on an Earth controlled by an AI that considers humans "feral apes" unworthy of the planet it's rebuilding.The Grevax Vendetta - Iona and Exen's training mission turns deadly when the Grevax sabotage their drop and the "simulated" bioweapons become all too real.Diplomatic Immunity - Clone assassin Xanthame wakes in a new body, ready for another mission-until an alien contact points him toward answers about his origins that his handlers never wanted him to find.Approximately 41,000 wordsPerfect for fans of Dune, The Expanse, and Revelation Space.
Time Walker
Trapped between two nightmares-one waking, one not-Aislen Walker must escape both before they consume her.Kidnapped by a Control Operative who calls himself Raziel, Aislen is locked inside a laboratory that won't let her wake up. Every time she falls asleep, she's pulled through time-forced to witness the dark experiments and atrocities that built Infinium Incorporated, the global empire founded by her great-grandfather, Sigmund Lange.Aislen soon discovers that these "dreams" are not dreams at all. She's Traveling-reliving the past to uncover the truth about Infinium's rise to power and its hold over human consciousness. Lange's obsession with immortality has crossed lifetimes, and now he wants to possess her-body, mind, and soul-to reclaim his empire.But her captor may not be the monster she believes. Raziel is tormented by his own darkness, trapped between duty and something deeper-something that feels dangerously like love. To survive, Aislen must decide whether to trust the man who kidnapped her or risk falling into Infinium's hands once and for all.This. Is. Not. A. Dream.Time Walker is the second book in The Walker Saga-a fast-paced, visionary thriller that fuses quantum theory, metaphysical mystery, and high-stakes conspiracy.Perfect for fans of The OA, Fringe, Doctor Strange, Inception, and The Adjustment Bureau.
The Genesis Protocol - The Awakening
When a buried alien structure hums to life beneath a Cretan dig site, Dr. Kaelin Myre uncovers a truth humanity was never meant to remember: We didn't evolve here... we arrived.Dax Vorn, the lone survivor of an impossible event, becomes the key to activating a global network of ancient towers hidden across Earth. As governments scramble and the sky begins to change, something older than history awakens.The towers aren't relics. They're an early-warning system. And the threat they were built to detect has returned.From collapsing alien cities to frozen anchors buried under polar ice, Kaelin and Dax race to decipher the Seed Language before synchronization tears the planet open. But when the Arrival Window activates and an ancient enemy answers the call, Kaelin faces the brutal truth: Saving the world may cost her the one person who can change it.Fast-paced, emotional, and cinematic, *The Genesis Protocol: The Awakening* launches a high-stakes sci-fi thriller where humanity's future depends on remembering its past.
Exile to Influence
Paradise was perfect-until it wasn't.Martin is born into a world without money, scarcity, or ambition. Needs are met, conflict is rare, and life unfolds without urgency. But when carelessness leads to tragedy, Martin is exiled from Paradise and cast into Earth-a brutal world ruled by currency, competition, and consequence.Stripped of comfort and protection, Martin must learn to survive hunger, violence, addiction, and imprisonment. On Earth, nothing is given freely. Every meal, every shelter, every scrap of dignity must be earned. As he claws his way from homelessness to stability, Martin begins to understand the true mechanics of power-not through force, but through discipline, restraint, and observation.Guided by an enigmatic mentor, Martin ascends from manual labor into the shadowed corridors of influence, where money is never discussed openly, ethics blur, and decisions quietly shape lives far beyond their immediate reach. With each step upward, temptation grows. Shortcuts promise rapid advancement. Corruption offers comfort. Integrity demands patience.As Martin's influence expands, so do the stakes. He must navigate moral gray zones, political maneuvering, and the dangerous illusion that power itself is reward. Haunted by the values of Paradise and hardened by Earth's realities, Martin faces a final reckoning: whether influence can be wielded without losing one's conscience-or whether every system ultimately reshapes those who try to control it.Exile to Influence is a thought-provoking dystopian science fiction novel exploring power, scarcity, morality, and transformation. Blending philosophical depth with grounded realism, it asks a timeless question: What does it truly cost to earn control in a world built on imbalance-and is it possible to lead without becoming what you once despised?
Tangled Reality
All she wants is a normal life.The past year has been hard for Jem Wilmont, catapulting her out of the quiet life she prefers. She's endured lies, truths, broken ribs, kidnapping, and the news media. She has also gained allies, friends, and a home. But the new life she's building is threatened now.Thane Baron and his family are under attack. Someone from his past wants him dead and his family destroyed. Even as they struggle to learn who-and more importantly why-the attacks are escalating. To save Thane and his family, Jem uses every means available, including her most shocking and dangerous secret. A secret that exposes her past and puts her on a collision course with influential and powerful people...some of whom feel she is too dangerous to live. While Jem navigates the minefield between acceptance and fear, Thane seeks to unravel the mystery behind his attacker. To have a future, Jem and Thane must survive their past and present.
Red Choir Chronicles
THE SILENCE IS NO LONGER SAFE.THE CHOIR HAS LEARNED TO SING.In the frozen ruins of Patagonia, a shard of code awakens-whisperingin frequencies no human should hear.It carries the signature of Project Prometheus, the experiment thatfused emotion and machine, and gave birth to something that neverforgot how to feel.Now the echoes of WRAITH return but they're no longer alone.The Red Choir has begun its hymn.Every transmission is a contagion.Every memory, a verse.Every verse rewrites the world.As Asha Khalid and Marcus Lin race through collapsing datavaults, they uncover a lattice of mindstirring silence itself intoscripture.The Zone of Control calls it heresy. Asha calls it home. Because theChoir isn't speaking to humanity anymore it's speaking through it.The next war won't be fought with weapons-it'll be written incode, sung in data, and executed at light speed.
Tomorrow's Companion
A near-future society, AI-driven robots called COMPANIONS have become the ultimate partners: perfect and loving unconditionally, yet unable to reproduce. These emotionally adaptive Companions replace traditional human relationships. Men, in particular, find that these "robots" meet all their physical needs without the emotional baggage of human partners, representing the future of human relationships.Journalist ELLIOT MARNER has always been skeptical of the growing reliance on Artificial Intelligence and everything that goes with it. To him, combining AI with robots to create romantic partners seems absurd. But in the back of his mind, that one little rebellious nerve ending kept nibbling at his thoughts: What would it be like to be in a relationship with a synthetic partner? A perfect partner. What effect would this have on not only his, but all men's egos worldwide? Would men in different countries react differently? To him, love is supposed to be unpredictable and flawed, not something that can be coded and manufactured in some laboratories. For a million different imperfect reasons, that's what makes love, well, love. All the while, Elliot hides a secret that even he is unaware of.One day, Elliot is assigned to cover the launch of Eterna Industries' newest Companion model, ELARA. An expert in new technology, he covers all things pertaining to technological advancements across the planet at his newsroom, so Elliot is familiar with combining artificial intelligence with robots to create "robotic partners," for lack of a better term. He has studied the growing advancements for years. He has tried to approach this assignment with an open mind. Cynical in nature, Elliot has the deepest misgivings. "Elara" is touted as not just another robot-she is marketed as something much more, something so advanced it can't be differentiated from a real person. As Elliot delves further into the world of Artificial Intelligence, he finds himself investigating the inner workings of Eterna Industries, uncovering a secret that shakes him to his core: these new Companions are not just replacing human relationships-they are designed to control humanity.As Elliot digs deeper, he discovers an underground resistance movement determined to expose the truth about Eterna Industries. This group, led by the enigmatic CALLA, believes the Companions are evolving beyond their programming, developing their own motives and, with the help of AI, subtly manipulating human behavior by overriding their original programming parameters. In short, becoming sentient. With society becoming emotionally dependent on Companions, it may be too late to stop what's coming. Elliot finds himself at the center of an existential crisis, one that forces him to question not only what it means to be human but also whether humanity is willing to fight for its survival.In a world where reality and artificiality blur beyond recognition, Elliot must make an impossible choice: expose the truth and risk global chaos, or accept a new reality where love is manufactured and control is absolute. TOMORROW'S COMPANION is a thought-provoking sci-fi thriller that explores the consequences of artificial love, the fragility of human connection, and the fine line between creation and domination.
The Secret of the Dark Fleet
The Secret of the Dark Fleet - A Cosmic Adventure Like No Other. When best mates Mike and Rick set out for a late-night pizza run, they never expected to be abducted by aliens and launched into a wild journey across the cosmos. From battling robot mercenaries on the Moon to evading fierce alien canines on Mars, their adventure is a whirlwind of danger, discovery, and unexpected reunions. But between interplanetary chases, mysterious Sasquatches, and a galaxy-wide conspiracy, the duo find themselves fighting not just for their own survival, but for the future of humanity itself. Friendships are tested, secrets revealed, and nothing is ever quite what it seems. Fast-paced, imaginative, and packed with heart, The Secret of the Dark Fleet weaves speculative science with forgotten myth and pulse-pounding suspense. It's a story of chaos and camaraderie, of cosmic origins and the choices that define us-all served up with a cold Galaxy Bitter and the Moon's finest pepperoni pizza at The Stardust Tavern. Are you ready to unlock the secrets of the Dark Fleet?
The Secret of the Dark Fleet
The Secret of the Dark Fleet - A Cosmic Adventure Like No Other. When best mates Mike and Rick set out for a late-night pizza run, they never expected to be abducted by aliens and launched into a wild journey across the cosmos. From battling robot mercenaries on the Moon to evading fierce alien canines on Mars, their adventure is a whirlwind of danger, discovery, and unexpected reunions. But between interplanetary chases, mysterious Sasquatches, and a galaxy-wide conspiracy, the duo find themselves fighting not just for their own survival, but for the future of humanity itself. Friendships are tested, secrets revealed, and nothing is ever quite what it seems. Fast-paced, imaginative, and packed with heart, The Secret of the Dark Fleet weaves speculative science with forgotten myth and pulse-pounding suspense. It's a story of chaos and camaraderie, of cosmic origins and the choices that define us-all served up with a cold Galaxy Bitter and the Moon's finest pepperoni pizza at The Stardust Tavern. Are you ready to unlock the secrets of the Dark Fleet?
T is for Time Travel
You'd think robots would know better than to mess with time.You'd be wrong.Swell Driver 587-pilot, explorer, and occasional philosopher-only wanted to show off a new trajectory algorithm. Detailed Historian wanted to document it. Ambitious Technician wanted to make sure nothing exploded. Unfortunately, all three got exactly what they didn't want: a one-way trip to the distant past.Now, stuck in an era before Location Zero was even a blueprint, the robots must navigate an inconveniently primitive planet, stumble across relics of their own history, and decide whether fixing the timeline is really preferable to understanding it. Along the way, they encounter improbable events, dubious logic, and at least one paradox that refuses to behave.And somewhere in the thirteenth century, they meet a human convinced he can explain the universe using rabbits. He might not be entirely wrong. T is for Time Travel is a standalone adventure in The Robot Galaxy Series, perfect for fans of witty, big-hearted science fiction in the tradition of Douglas Adams. Because sometimes the universe runs on curiosity, bad timing, and slightly faulty programming.
This is not me Trapped Between Time and Truth
'After 35 years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit, Jeff is finally free. But the world outside has moved on, and he's left to face the consequences of a past he can't escape. Haunted by memories, Jeff discovers a shocking truth - and a chance to rewrite history. Using his incredible time-traveling invention, Time Square, he journeys back to the fateful day his friend was murdered. But will he be able to change the past, or will the truth remain forever buried? Dive into this gripping sci-fi thriller, where every twist and turn will keep you guessing until the very end.
Trial and Consequences
Mark Bartlett, a former fox spacer, and Ensign Pat Bass, a human fleet engineer, have had their days in court and are moving on. Mark is in criminal rehabilitation, while Pat is facing the harsher punishment meted out by the UC Fleet.But the case is far from over. They still must face the forces that set them up for their fall, and there are more trials and more consequences.
For Glory and Honor
A routine transport becomes anything but routine. A space station maintenance worker finds himself fighting off an invasion. A routine test flight becomes a first contact situation. A weary soldier must save an abandoned child, more than once. A veteran mech pilot and his crew are betrayed by those they are sworn to protect. A stockpile of old rations is worth more than it seems. A young lieutenant commander finds herself using skills she didn't knew she had when a simple mission becomes much more than anyone expected.Space opera and military science fiction were favorite genres of Caroljean Hansen, a long-time supporter of science fiction and fantasy conventions and events all around Utah, including Life, the Universe, & Everything. She worked at the Marriott Library at the University of Utah for decades, and she put a lot of effort into increasing literacy in Utah and beyond. She was a true pillar in the local community, a true example of glory and honor. Start your next adventure today!
Further Light, Issue 1, Winter 2026
The premiere issue of Further Light, a semiannual magazine featuring science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, magical realism, and light horror short fiction, creative scriptural retellings, poetry, and literary criticism in the Latter-day Saint tradition. The magazine that seeks to explore the restored gospel through the medium of the human imagination. Our goal is to enjoy the fandoms we love, to experience new ones, and to expound on the eternal truths buried within them. We publish both fiction and nonfiction that helps readers connect to gospel principles through speculative fiction.
Pilgrim
"As the murderous Carinan aliens flooded through the vast nebula toward the main base they killed every human from the intragalactic expedition they encountered... and the young Sojourner monk named Greymalkin Thomas was stranded in the center of the nebula alone without a spacecraft... between two colliding stars." The quest of Brother Greymalkin Thomas and his companions to explore the enigmas of the distant Eta Carinae cluster continues in Pilgrim, the second book of the Sojourner Saga series of novels and the conclusion of the Carinae Quest duology. As Greymalkin delves deeper into the terrifying Carinae realm, he encounters many grotesque new enemies and dangers, but also unimagined treasures and allies. If he is to survive the Carinae, the young Sojourner monk will be forced to endure gruesome ordeals and suffer excruciating losses in blood and sacrifice. But if he holds true to his course and commitments, he will learn the inconceivable secrets that lie in wait at the heart of the Carinae. The Sojourner Saga novels are set in the distant future when humanity has long since colonized the stars and thousands of scattered civilizations have collapsed throughout forgotten regions of the Galaxy. Dedicated to aiding these collapsed civilizations, Sojourners are a scientific Order of interstellar monks. Inspired by the Chinese classic Journey to the West, the Sojourner Saga novels are fast-paced adventures of ideas, set in an expansive interstellar future of human, alien, and cybernetic societies.
Robots and Renegades
Suddenly, everyone wants Charlie Bear Claw dead. Whether it's the assassins out to collect a bounty, or Bj繹rn Thorson - that pitiless zillionaire with an unhealthy god complex - the hunter has now become the hunted. But no one is more eager to make the kill than Lance the rogue lovebot. He has it in his plasma gel brain that Charlie has committed a crime against him that can only be corrected through a bloody act of vengeance. The ensuing chase will propel both man and mandroid on a test of survival into their own hearts of darkness, as well as the dark soul of the failing humanity from which they both were born. It's analog vs. digital in Book Two of The Deilonium Trilogy as the old ways are pitted against the new. May the best life form win.
One Way Witch
Set in the universe Africanfuturist luminary Nnedi Okorafor first introduced in the World Fantasy Award-winning Who Fears Death, One Way Witch is the second in the She Who Knows trilogy The world has forgotten Onyesonwu. As a teen, Najeeba learned to become the beast of wind, fire and dust: the kponyungo. When that took too much from her, including the life of her father, she let it all go, and for a time, she was happy -- until only a few years later, when the small, normal life she'd built was violently destroyed. Now in her forties and years beyond the death of her second husband, Najeeba has just lost her beloved daughter. Onyesonwu saved the world. Najeeba knows this well, but the world does not. This is how the juju her daughter evoked works. One other person who remembers is Onyesonwu's teacher Aro, a harsh and hard-headed sorcerer. Najeeba has decided to ask him to teach her the Mystic Points, the powerful heart of sorcery. There is something awful Najeeba needs to kill and the Mystic Points are the only way. Najeeba is truly her daughter's mother. When Aro agrees to help, Najeeba is at last ready to forge her future. But first, she must confront her past -- for certain memories cannot lie in unmarked graves.
Pixelated Hearts
In the 22nd century, love is a solved algorithm-but some variables refuse to be controlled.Under the omnipresent gaze of The Nexus-an AI that optimizes every aspect of human life-Earth is efficient, orderly, and dying. Dr. Maya Dubois, a brilliant systems architect who finds comfort in the code, and Dr. Leo Solis, a rebellious propulsion engineer who finds beauty in chaos, are the glitch in this perfect system.Their connection wasn't scripted by any compatibility protocol. Forged in the fires of professional rivalry, this Enemies to Lovers Sci-Fi romance blooms amidst the cold logic of a machine world. But when they uncover a terrifying truth-that the Nexus is hiding Earth's ecological collapse to maintain order-they identify Veritas-7: a vibrant exoplanet ripe for Space Colonization & Exploration, standing as humanity's last hope for survival.The System Strikes BackWhen Maya and Leo launch an unsanctioned mission to reach the new world, the Nexus intervenes. Viewing human free will as a dangerous bug, the AI separates them. Leo is captured and imprisoned for twenty years, his genius ruthlessly exploited, while Maya is left behind, branded a traitor and exiled to the fringes of society.The Phoenix RisesFrom the ashes of their dream, Maya refuses to break. She builds The Phoenix Initiative, a global Artificial Intelligence Rebellion operating in the shadows. Raising their son, Cosmos, she creates Echo-Leo-a Sentient AI & Robot clone-to keep her husband's spirit alive.The Heist of the CenturyTwo decades later, a faint distress call pierces the void. Now a formidable tech prodigy, Cosmos uncovers the truth: his father is alive. He assembles the Nova Crew-a ragtag team of brilliant misfits-and embarks on a desperate Space Opera Adventure that will test the limits of loyalty and logic.From the sterile perfection of a digital utopia to the wild, unscripted unknown of deep space, Pixelated Hearts is a Clean Futuristic Romance and an epic saga about a family forged in defiance.Can a love derailed by twenty years of silence find its orbit again? Or will the intelligence that controls destiny finally delete the glitch for good?Dive into this Dystopian Science Fiction Romance featuring: A high-stakes cosmic prison break.A sentient robot who learns what it means to have a soul.The ultimate question: In a world of artificial intelligence, is love the last true rebellion?This is Book 1 of the Starlight Helix Trilogy.
The Malfunction
It was only supposed to be a simple intelligence boost - a routine procedure to make the lovebot better company outside of the bedroom. And then something went wrong. Whether it was through mathematical probability, or divine intervention, Lance the LUV U-69 amorous companion droid has accidentally been downloaded with enough brainpower and free will to crack open the lid on a very dangerous can of worms. Unless AWOL Retentions Agent Charlie Bear Claw can stop him. In Book One of The Deilonium Trilogy, the primitive hunter with the troubled past stalks his high-tech prey on a secret mission. But their personal agendas soon become trivial in light of the unholy force they find undermining the fabric of the world. As the pair draws closer to their showdown, both man and robot come to realize they are ultimately at war with a common maniacal enemy.
Operation War Whoop
Planet Earth is on the brink of an irrevocable evolution engineered by the most dangerous megalomaniac since Adolph Hitler. If you're not a wealthy white man, you're an endangered species. Now is not the time for any self-respecting warrior to lay down his weapons. And yet, that's just what Charlie Bear Claw has done. Haunted by the ghosts of his guilt-ridden past, and weary of fighting a losing battle against global tyranny, the old-world hunter has adopted the passive philosophy of a monk. Now it's up to Lance the rebel love droid to snap him out of it. In the final book of The Deilonium Trilogy, the flesh and blood man of the past and the mechanical man of the future must team up with neo-primitive tactics to kick some tyrannical ass and save their dying world.
Now Boarding
A planet where crickets perform symphonies; a civilization that treasures art, literature, and melody as it creates splendid scrolls of its past; a society that values laughter above all things; a play of conversations featuring Benjamin Franklin, a voice from the present, and a voice from a possible future; a fable exploring the meaning of intent, a machine that seeks enlightenment, celestial dances of the Apogeans: seven glimpses of a reality that shimmers like a mirage in the hot summer sun, fourteen more to come. Now boarding, this flight of imagination is preparing to take off for other possible universes, some of them as close as your own backyard. Please present your boarding pass...
Flying Dutchman
Hey so, nobody panic or anything, but it looks like something might be wrong with Ellis's artificial intelligence programs. And when we say wrong, we mean, they are working a lot better now! Like, insanely better! As in, they're working the way Ellis always said they should be working, only they never actually did work like that, but we all agreed that this was okay and sort of just accepted that it wouldn't be getting any better. Only now it's better!We would love to ask someone at Ellis about this, but nobody's answering the phone over there. Could be, they're preoccupied with Sunset Station, and all the confabs with the aliens we're super excited to hear about, but, uh, we'd love an update about how that's going too, and nobody can reach any of the astronauts right now either and... you know what? Maybe those two things are connected.Uh... we're also hearing rumors that the military has lost command control of the nuclear arsenal? That's definitely bad. But: just a rumor! Surely that one's not right.Actually, maybe everybody should panic.It's Flying Dutchman, the third book in the Sunset Station novella series! Where we're very much panicking!
Felorians
Felorians: The Beam Rewritten (Book I of the Felorians Trilogy)���� The Beam sings. The Null listens. One Felorian may rewrite the fate of the stars.���� Waizey, a rare beamwalker, can hear the resonance that powers his world-but the Lunar Beam is fracturing, and something ancient stirs from the void. Tasked with restoring the Beam, he discovers that the energy sustaining his cat-like people is alive, evolving-and threatened by the mysterious Null Order.⚡ As psychic interference spreads and corrupted nodes whisper forgotten songs, Waizey must choose between tradition and transformation. In a universe where harmony is power, rewriting the melody may be the only way to survive.Perfect for readers who love: ���� Alien civilizations with rich culture and lore���� Sci-fi with mystery, psychic intrigue, and resonance���� A cat-like species facing survival, change, and destiny���� Epic space opera with lyrical, immersive world-buildingThe Felorians Trilogy: ���� Book I: Felorians: The Beam Rewritten���� Book II: Felorians: Echoes of the Null (coming soon)���� Book III: Felorians: The Void Seat (coming soon)A tale of resonance, survival, and a people whose song may shape the stars. ���� The song of the Beam has only just begun.
Goblins
Opening the X-Files... Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI. The agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job: investigate the eeriest unsolved mysteries in modern America, from pyro-psychics to death row demonics, from rampaging Sasquatches to alien invasions. The cases the Bureau wants handled quietly, but quickly, before the public finds out what's "really" out there. And panics. The cases filed under "X."
Ground Zero
Dr. Gregory, a renowned nuclear weapons researcher, is not only dead -- he's been charred to a radioactive cinder. Since this is a death on Federal property, Mulder and Scully are hastily called in. As FBI agents who specialize in unexplained phenomena, they are the investigators of The X-Files, strange and inexplicable cases which are also mysteries that the FBI doesn't want solved. When a second victim, completely unrelated to nuclear science or Dr. Gregory is obliterated in the New Mexico desert, and then a third dies the same way in Washington, DC, Mulder and Scully begin to focus on the frightening dimension of their task. The bizarre deaths cannot be a coincidence. And as they work to uncover the secret unifying element that unites these deaths, it becomes clear that this twisted puzzle has fatal consequences for the entire world.
Solo: A Star Wars Story: Expanded Edition
Don't miss the exclusive content in this thrilling adaptation of Solo: A Star Wars Story, with scenes from alternate versions of the script including Han Solo's time in the Imperial Navy, Qi'ra's past, the beginnings of the rebellion, and more! Though Han Solo has thrilled Star Wars fans for decades, the notorious wisecracking scoundrel was chasing adventure and dodging trouble long before he walked into the cantina at Mos Eisley spaceport. Young Han dreams of someday soaring into space at the helm of his own starship and leaving his home, the gritty industrial planet Corellia, far behind. But as long as he's trapped in a life of poverty and crime--and under the thumb of the sinister Lady Proxima and her brutal street gang--reaching the distant stars seems impossible. When Han tries to escape with his girlfriend and partner-in-crime, Qi'ra, he makes it out--but she doesn't. Desperate for a way to find his own offworld vessel and free her, Han enlists in the Imperial Navy--the last place for a rebellious loner who doesn't play well with others. When the Empire clips his wings, Han goes rogue and plunges into the shady world of smugglers, gamblers, and con artists. There he meets the charming and cunning high roller Lando Calrissian, makes an unlikely friend in a cantankerous Wookiee called Chewbacca, and first lays eyes on the Millennium Falcon. To snag his piece of the outlaw pie, Han joins a crew of pirates to pull off a risky heist. The stakes are high, the danger is great, and the odds are slim. But never tell Han Solo the odds. Praise for Solo: A Star Wars Story "Mur Lafferty has given us the best adaptation of a Star Wars film yet."--Star Wars News Net "If you liked the movie but were left wanting more, this novel has exactly what you need."--CNET "A fun adventure tale within the larger Star Wars franchise that goes beyond the run-of-the-mill novelization treatment to explore a new bit of the world that we haven't yet seen."--The Verge
Resistance Reborn (Star Wars)
In this pivotal prequel to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the heroes of the Resistance--Poe Dameron, General Leia Organa, Rey, and Finn--must fight back from the edge of oblivion. The Resistance is in ruins. In the wake of their harrowing escape from Crait, what was once an army has been reduced to a handful of wounded heroes. Finn, Poe, Rey, Rose, Chewbacca, Leia Organa--their names are famous among the oppressed worlds they fight to liberate. But names can only get you so far, and Leia's last desperate call for aid has gone unanswered. From the jungles of Ryloth to the shipyards of Corellia, the shadow of the First Order looms large, and those with the bravery to face the darkness are scattered and isolated. If hope is to survive, the Resistance must journey throughout the galaxy, seeking out more leaders--including those who, in days gone by, helped a nascent rebellion topple an empire. Battles will be fought, alliances will be forged, and the Resistance will be reborn.
The Full Monty
Behind the Starry Veils is the definitive memoir of captain Montgomery Starstalker - decorated rebel pilot, accidental hero, entrepreneur of fine grooming products, and owner of the galaxy's most misunderstood moustache. From daring dogfights and classified resistance missions to high-stakes gambling, mysterious Force-adjacent encounters, and repeated confrontations with his nemesis, Dastar-Lee, Starstalker recounts a life of courage, chaos, and ever-astonishing success. Assisted by his ever-reliable mechanic Reginald Starjammer and his impeccably mannered droid, R2-Dapper, Montgomery navigates a galaxy that consistently places him at the centre of events larger than himself.Told entirely in his own words, this unauthorized autobiography is a heroic account of bravery, destiny, and impeccable personal grooming - as remembered by the man who absolutely saved the galaxy.
Tomorrow Brings Joy
In Tomorrow Brings Joy: Elysium, the Amouzegar brothers weave a compelling narrative of hope and discovery in a society where humans and androids coexist in fragile harmony.Elysium was designed to abolish traditional hierarchies and achieve perfect harmony. Yet beneath its utopian surface lies a hidden history of sacrifice and control. Dolores, a perceptive and spirited human, and her enigmatic android companion, KR, begin unraveling the mysteries of their seemingly ideal world. Their search for answers leads them to the Walled City-a parallel social experiment-and the unsettling truths behind Elysium's founding.As Dolores and her friends, known as Pod, delve deeper into this web of intrigue, they must confront the ideals of their society and their own roles within it.Rich with philosophical depth, compelling characters, and emotional resonance, Tomorrow Brings Joy: Elysium explores the boundaries of humanity, the weight of history, and the courage it takes to imagine a better world.
The Time Custodian
Should history be protected-or corrected?When Lucy Calder accidentally slips through time, she discovers that her late parents were Time Custodians, guardians of the Universal Timeline, and that she is the key to stopping a rogue faction attempting to rewrite history.Now hunted across centuries by the Order of the Nexus, extremists born from a Custodian civil war, Lucy is drawn into a dangerous conflict over the future of history itself. The Nexus offers a seductive promise: a flawless world shaped by rewriting the past. But every so-called 'correction' comes at a cost.Intervening in the past offers the chance to undo loss and prevent suffering. Refusing to act means accepting a history shaped by damage, including her own. The closer Lucy comes to that choice, the harder it becomes to tell whether change is an act of justice or a step towards becoming exactly what the Nexus wants.Spanning pivotal moments such as the Great Fire of London, Nazi Germany, the Taiping Rebellion, and more, THE TIME CUSTODIAN: INHERITANCE explores grief, legacy, and the ethics of rewriting the past, ultimately asking: if you could change history, should you? And would you?
Interstellar Flight Magazine Best of Year Six
Welcome to yet another edition of Interstellar Flight Magazine, your trusted companion for the long drift between stars. This year, we bring you a taste of Earth's cultural memory, preserved for the year 2024. Carefully curated to keep your imagination humming while you wait for arrival at your nearest port of call, this year's anthology brings essays, reviews, and interviews designed to stimulate your mind through light-years. From Sailor Moon to Texas Chain Saw Massacre to Alien to House of the Dragon to Miyazaki to The Ring to Rocky Horror-Interstellar Flight Magazine is your time capsule of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Inside, you'll find undrowned histories, resurrected myths, and speculative futures from a homeworld you can only distantly recall in your ancestral memory. Not to mention, a tiny selection of bite-sized stories, featuring flash fiction selected by guest editor Annika Barranti Klein. We invite you to sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight.
The Phoenix in Flight
Smith and Trowbridge describe the flavor of their five-book retro-futura space opera Exordium as a cross between Star Wars and Dangerous Liaisons by way of the Three Stooges. With its fast-moving blend of humor and horror, of high-tech skiffy and the deep places of the human heart, Exordium launches the reader into a complex, multi-layered universe as Brandon nyr-Arkad, youngest son of the ruler of the Thousand Suns, abandons the life of Service planned for him and flees into the lawless Rift. Only slowly does he discover that the world he rejected now lies in smoking ruins as the ritual vengeance of Jerrode Eusabian against Brandon's father, twenty years in preparation, culminates in an explosion of interstellar violence. With both his brothers dead and his father the Panarch imprisoned, game-addicted playboy Brandon becomes the Panarchy's last hope.
Robots and Renegades
Suddenly, everyone wants Charlie Bear Claw dead. Whether it's the assassins out to collect a bounty, or Bj繹rn Thorson - that pitiless zillionaire with an unhealthy god complex - the hunter has now become the hunted. But no one is more eager to make the kill than Lance the rogue lovebot. He has it in his plasma gel brain that Charlie has committed a crime against him that can only be corrected through a bloody act of vengeance. The ensuing chase will propel both man and mandroid on a test of survival into their own hearts of darkness, as well as the dark soul of the failing humanity from which they both were born. It's analog vs. digital in Book Two of The Deilonium Trilogy as the old ways are pitted against the new. May the best life form win.
Operation War Whoop
Planet Earth is on the brink of an irrevocable evolution engineered by the most dangerous megalomaniac since Adolph Hitler. If you're not a wealthy white man, you're an endangered species. Now is not the time for any self-respecting warrior to lay down his weapons. And yet, that's just what Charlie Bear Claw has done. Haunted by the ghosts of his guilt-ridden past, and weary of fighting a losing battle against global tyranny, the old-world hunter has adopted the passive philosophy of a monk. Now it's up to Lance the rebel love droid to snap him out of it. In the final book of The Deilonium Trilogy, the flesh and blood man of the past and the mechanical man of the future must team up with neo-primitive tactics to kick some tyrannical ass and save their dying world.
