Emerging from a dystopian future, a generational space station heads away from Earth in search of a new home. Gaia Station is run by the charismatic AI sharing the same name. Expeditions take place as the smaller, faster Titans seek out and verify the viability of new potential worlds. By chance, four childhood friend...
Short essays on how to make your star drives, freeze rays, and time machines more "believable" along with some insights on what is and isn't possible. Most of these essays will probably focus on general relativity, as that's the field I've published in.
The world has been overrun by monsters. Governments have toppled, nations have fallen. Desperation has ushered in a new world order. Welcome to The Bright Waste where violence is cheap and salvation is in short supply. Where survivors are brutal and compassion is a rare commodity. Akiva is a scavenger for The Mother...
[2018 WATTYS WINNER] Louise Johnson was an African American teen living on the brink of the Space Race. Her hobbies included studying the twinkling night sky, ignoring her racist classmates, equally fantasizing about both killing and kissing Patricia Morris--and oh, using quantum teleportation to her own advantage by...
X97A2 is an orbital on a century-long research mission in around Jupiter. He hears music coming deep from within the planet, and enters its atmosphere on a one way trip to investigate. What he learns on his five minute journey will not only change the world, but it will challenge his place in it. I wrote this story si...
On the planet of Daneria, civil war has brewed for the last twenty years. The Empiric army, led by Emperor Zell, and the Rebel Knights, led by Rigore Tract have been warring over who should lead the planet. Six interconnected people, all on different sides of this war, struggle to survive in their surroundings and fi...
-An asteroid hits Mars knocking it out of our time / space continuum. NASA records the impact and then the planet simply disappears. Unbeknownst to anyone the asteroid was made up of frozen water seeding the barren landscape. Ten years later Mars suddenly appears back in our space but it is a very different place. Eon...
In a bronze age culture on an alien world live two teenagers. Apjay speaks to the dead in dreams, and remembers words of a language forgotten long ago. He believes his gifts come from the invisible stars--lights that once ruled the night sky. The only person in his tribe who understands him, so he belives, is the beau...
Sareth is a Pharaoh on a lost planet at the far end of an arm of the Milky Way. While imposing a hard-line, despotic regime there, he is accidentally teleported to the centre of the galaxy. Lost, bewildered, incredulous, Sareth goes to take refuge in the most famous library in town in order to try to understand what i...
(Highest Ranking: 37 in Science Fiction) In the 24th century, mankind has moved away from Earth, and spread to new planets. But, after uncovering a map to an ancient treasure, promising power and riches, humanity is now on the hunt. Now, an archeologist, a wanderer, a pilot and her crew, and the two best con artists i...
Faster than light travel has been discovered 20 years ago and man has a doorway to the stars. Now, after years of research and sending probes they found a candidate for humanity's next home. The Earth is dying from war, famines and depleted resources. What's left of humanity, has to find a new planet if it wants to s...
An epic adventure, an unreliable narrator, an intense cast of characters. Follow a digital subroutine from a 21st century Earth VR simulation that uploads himself into an advanced synthetic body, yet still identifies as human, when he wakes up on a gargantuan space freighter piloted by a 100-year-old sperm whale named...
Welcome to the future, the earth now lives on mars, and we are more prosperous than we have ever been... But when a new planet is discovered that might bear life, a team will be assembled to go into the unknown in search of life. What they find could change the course of human history.
Dawn is the first child born on Mars. Her entire world is one single habitat covered by a dome. The entire thing can be understood. She knows everybody on the planet and they all know and love her. Then the first really BIG colony ship arrives, and the population of Mars quadruples overnight. Her parents warn her to...
Sometimes there is no difference between a hero and a traitor... Timothy Val wants nothing more than to serve the Senjelian Empire. As captain of the ranks, he has sworn his life to protect and serve, a fact that brings him honor among his people and those under his command. But the butchery of prisoners is not w...
When starfighter pilot Simon Dodds is enrolled in a top secret military project, he and his wingmates begin to suspect that there is a lot more to the theft of a legendary battleship and an Imperial nation's civil war than either the Confederation Stellar Navy or the government are willing to let on.
________________________________________ In the year 2674 a man named John will become one of the greatest soldiers ever known. the human race has expanded among the stars of terrestrial and extra terrestrial races. After the galactic war against the Zanpie alien fleet a century ago. The Central United Alliance and th...
After decades of struggling, the broken remnants of humanity barely escape on the last starship from a cataclysmic otherworldly threat and wanders in the darkness of space for blind hope and a desolate future. They eventually find themselves on a journey and a fight for ancient wisdom, long forgotten civilizations an...
Godspeed was once fueled by lies. Now it is ruled by chaos. It’s been three months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is over. And everywhere she looks, she sees the walls of the spaceship Godspeed. But there may just be hope: Elder has assumed leadership of the ship. He’s finally free to enact his vis...
Things aren't going well for Julia Black. Business has slowed to a crawl for the rough-hewn Martian bounty hunter, forcing her to subsist on a diet of booze, cigarettes, and pity sushi. Life, quite frankly, sucks for her. So when the CEO of a mining corporation contacts her to find her missing son, Julia sees a chanc...
The year is 2083, and for the last 40 years, Humanity has enjoyed a golden age of science and technology, due to breakthrough faster-than-light space travel. Colonies flourished from population spikes, creating thriving economies and large industries. But the peace is soon to be shattered when colonial scientists awak...
War looms on the horizon... After the colonization of Mars and Europa, it took us fewer than five generations to reach beyond our solar system and discover new planets capable of supporting human life. Too far away to be governed under Earth law, the Collective was formed. Several hundred years later, the Collective...
After an attack on a space freighter, the only two survivors find themselves marooned in an emergency shuttle. When an unknown ship approaches them, the men think they are saved. But everything changes, when they fall into the hands of pirates. Follow Luke, an ordinary adolescent from the prosperous Federation, as he...
Set in a distant binary star system, warring families struggle for supremacy. Against a backdrop of cataclysmic conditions, an alien race and a society forced to come to terms with the cyclical changes of their colony world, politics and intrigue thrive. From the author of Wyrmhole, Metal Sky, The Star Tablet and Wall...
SIREN is a novel about six people from around the world selected by the UN to investigate a strange musical transmission emanating from Neptune's orbit. They're given a spaceship with cutting edge technology, placed into an induced coma, and expected to report back in three years time. But when the awakened crew arriv...
When a demon-possessed tree tries to impose its will on the universe, the future turns dark. But what does Dekker want? The leader of the only mercenary squad capable of standing in the enemy's way would be content if his ex-girlfriend and business partner promised not to stab him again. As he and his eleven teammates...
It's the dawn of a new era for humankind, and the Huxley Foundation has sent out a fleet of exploratory vessels on a mission of peace. The FSS Armstrong, one of the most advanced ships in the Foundation fleet, rides on the forefront of this age of exploration. A series of episodic short stories that build on one anot...
The thrill of adventure and deep space travel beckons Kenzi to join Earth's interstellar military force. But in order to follow her dreams, she has to leave behind more than just her fashionable civvies. She gives up a family legacy and her first love to travel half way across the galaxy to attend a premier academy fo...
Cory has always believed we were not alone. After he meets Krystal, a beautiful woman he literally bumps into, he's about to find out just how right he was when she reveals that she's not human. With a group of extraterrestrial fighters to train him and a small force of human mercenaries to help in the fight. Together...
Earth has made first contact with an alien race. At the historic first meeting, an ambush put peace for humanity out of reach. Colonel Kyle Martin was there that day. It was his leadership and the bravery of his marines that saved what little hope mankind had. When Earth was threatened with invasion, Martin again felt...