Najat has spent years as a senior-ranked diver, harvesting destins as they are born from pods in a sacred lake. Soon he must give up diving in order to fulfill his duties as the Kumasagi, the younger of two powerful mystics who comfort and guide the souls of the dead.
When his brother Jayan retur...
In the final hours of the dying Earth planet, a convoy of Alien cruisers is dispatched to the doomed world to be set down amid the chaos and burning wreckage. Their mission: to collect and preserve the last remaining members of the human race. On the verge of extinction, they are loaded onto cargo s...
A witty Belle-like wanderer meets murderous beasts. The locals can be like that. Welcome to Haell.
Troubled past? Check. Strictly avoiding interstellar travel for the foreseeable future? Check. Shrouded homeless human on an alien planet dodging draven dung and the occasional hawked loogie? Check...
Rule number 1: Whatever you do, don't open the box.
Well, that's rule number two actually. Rule number one is don't take salvage jobs from people who've tried to sell you to an Antillian bug salesman.
Neara "Tink" Bell is used to a life of odd jobs and even odder crewmates, working as the eng...
Picture a wizard. Go ahead, close your eyes. There he is, see? Skinny old guy with a long straggly beard. No doubt he's wearing iridescent silk robes that couldn't protect his frail body from a light breeze. The hat's a must, too, right? Big, floppy thing, covered in esoteric symbols that would inst...
After a job gone wrong, Special Agent Olgo is trapped within the bowels of Mars with no means of escape. The device that imprisons the trauma within them is about to fail, and the past terrors kept hidden by it must be contained for Olgo’s sanity and everyone's safety.
From the darkness comes a...
How can a colony on Mars survive when the greatest danger on the planet is humanity itself.
All contact is lost with the first human colony on Mars during a long, intense sandstorm. Satellite imagery of the aftermath shows extensive damage to the facility, and the fifty-four colonists who called ...
The fourth in the Privateer Tales series, this short story (47 pages) steps back in time to the Great Amazonian War. .
Shot down behind enemy lines, all Marine Sergeant Pete Hoffen can think of is getting the remainder of his beleaguered platoon back to the extraction zone. But when a cocky, PITA...
To the world at large, he is a mercenary and assassin, a brutal killer with a deadly blade. In reality Kormak is a Guardian, one of an ancient order sworn to protect humanity from the servants of the gathering darkness.
DEFILER OF TOMBS
An open tomb, a dead child and an unleashed ancient horr...
In a remote city on the edge of the Kingdom of Colivar, a young man named Ara encounters a demonic assassin and somehow survives. Not realizing the extent of the threat, he enlists with a company of demon slayers and comes to grips with a mysterious dark soul that shares his fight from within.
Th...