Their mission wasn’t supposed to find anything – least of all the truth.
Captain Taylor Ray commands a deep-space recon crew on a mission scouring the far reaches of the galaxy for signs of the Hedalt; Earth’s long-defeated alien enemy.
No-one really expects him to find anything because ...
In the far future, mankind lives safe and secure behind the Chronos Ring – an automatic defense system that encircles the area of space occupied by human beings. The Ring keeps out all of humanity’s enemies – in particular, a vicious race of reptilians known as the Parsnaak.
On the outer fr...
Dillon Mackey has always wanted to travel the stars...
When brilliant scientist and inventor Sherisza Rousilarru offers him an apprenticeship aboard her starship, he leaps at the chance to escape a boring future in the law.
But she's not the last of her kind for no reason. Dillon finds himsel...
I leave a trail of bloody bootprints. I never expected to die on this planet.
Red trickles down my arm, pooling on the grip of my blaster.
I was hired to watch: Shadow her, report to her father, then vanish like a ghost.
But in the rain-soaked alleys beneath the old maglev tracks, the rules...
[US + UK] Short stories to entertain, frighten and delight:
Aliens. More than one parallel world. A manic, entertainment-driven civilisation. An automated hotel with a life-changing secret.
2021 Dragon Award Nominee for Best Military Science Fiction. Sit in prison or join the military. The choice is yours. Convicted of a minor traffic violation, Rev Pelletier is conscripted into the Perseus Union Marine Corps... for up to a thirty-year term of service. Anxious to get back to his civili...
The Empire will kill him for stealing this ship… but they have to catch it first!
To the Empire the Wanderer was just another booby-trapped ship to claim, and Jess was just another worthless slave who could be sacrificed in the process.
Things didn’t go to plan. Jess survived the danger...
Six Motivated Thieves. One Deadly Heist.
Chloe Espinoza is a wild-haired petty thief aboard the Kingdom, a drifting city spaceship. Once rich but now poor, Chloe is determined to break free from the Honeycombs and return to her life in the Gardens. Only one problem: she hardly has enough koin for...
How Molly has survived military life this long, we'll never know.
When her implanted computer interface is hacked by a nascent AI, Molly has to escape.
Between the militaries' high tech security shields and advanced personnel protocols, it makes getting out in one piece for Molly nigh on impos...
The Blackfleet has finally been defeated, but this is no time for celebration! Having lost the battle, the alien loyalists take their revenge by setting Mars ablaze in chaos! Worse, they’ve split into two factions.
Bob and Diamond race back to Mars to join the Allied Martian Powers in a fight f...