When the Department trained me to catch criminals, I never dreamed I’d become one.
I was one of them until I shot my partner in self-defense. Even though the Department cleared me of wrongdoing, my co-workers didn’t agree. They turned their backs on me, so I turned my back on them.
My par...
He’s been stranded beyond the stars for years. When he buys himself a down-and-out squad, he crash-lands into a whole galaxy of trouble…Lone human Wil Calder is bored out of his freakin’ mind. So when he gets word of a couple of criminals being hauled to a penal colony, he figures he’s got a...
What if the robots didn't conquer humanity, but simply... optimized it?
Forget robot wars. The real apocalypse is a spreadsheet-driven paradise where your purpose has been filed under 'legacy assets' and your social life is managed by a chatbot. In Alan Douglas's biting speculative satire, the AI...
What if the robots didn't conquer humanity, but simply... optimized it?
Forget robot wars. The real apocalypse is a spreadsheet-driven paradise where your purpose has been filed under 'legacy assets' and your social life is managed by a chatbot. In Alan Douglas's biting speculative satire, the AI...
If you love Star Trek and parodies...
If the Orville and Galaxy Quest give you as much joy as Wrath of Khan...
If you believe (as Tumblr users do) that humans will rule the galaxy because we are the only species crazy enough to tie two warp cores together, reverse the polarity and toss them into a...
When Chris Loughty finds a strange woman waiting for him in his house, he hears her out. Maybe it's because he's at his lowest point. Maybe it's because she possesses technology unknown to anyone on Earth. Or maybe it's because she's the most beautiful woman he's ever seen.
Whatever the reason, h...
MECH COMMAND: WHEN IT ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, HAS TO BE DESTROYED OVERNIGHT
Once upon a time, the Earth had protectors.
Seal Team 6 … Delta Force … Paw Patrol.
They’re all gone now, vaporized during an alien invasion that has only recently ended.
What’s left behind is a small gro...
The newly renamed Vance Turbo has sabotaged his own career at Space Fleet Academy due to a desire to atone for a training accident. Unfortunately, his actions result in him getting press-ganged into an expendable crew of misfits recruited by a legendary starship captain. Their mission? To recover a ...
When Jane Kovak trades her cheating ex-husband and a cushy city life for an old Victorian farmhouse in the mountains of Virginia, she’s prepared to face some challenges. Sulky teenager? Check. Leaky roof? No problem. Territorial chickens? Hmm, that wasn't in the real estate listing. A misogynistic...
In the year A.D. 3000, Earth is a dystopian wasteland. The great cities stand crumbling as a brutal reminder of what we once were. When the Psychlos invaded, all the world’s armies mustered little resistance against the advanced alien weapons.
Now, the man animals serve one purpose. Do the Psyc...