Bernice is a computer data technician. Every day she services communications networks, both commercial and domestic. Trouble-shooting is her speciality. One morning on a routine job in the house of an officious client, events take an unexpected turn. A very short, free SF flash fiction story in less than 500 words.

Data detective Ben thinks he's succeeded in his latest drugs bust. Now he needs to find some different answers: how did humans use cloning to populate other planets across the Milky Way; how can we communicate almost instantaneously between one star system and the next?After much research and watching old movies, he also discovers that FTL drives never quite worked, suspended animation was too much like being dead, hyperspace was never found, and matter transporters still make a me...

Part One. The authorities should have been more careful after the first zombie breakout infected half of England and disrupted lives right across the country. Unfortunately, either someone got careless, again, or the disease was far more virulent than anyone expected. The remote fishing village of Kilkorne with its picturesque castle and harbour was the last place to expect an attack, despite its proximity to the experimental facility where the disease was invented. Once the second outbrea...

Junker's Moon Scrap, Salvage and Servicing Company had never been attacked before but that didn't mean its base of operations was unprepared. Marshall Brion began the day with no idea that within a few hours he would need all the concentrated expertise of three generations of Brions. Space pirates were inbound to the station. They were something to be feared but also to be repelled at all costs.

British Zombie Breakout Part 2: Escape From Kilkorne. Zombies are still on the rampage, killing and infecting anyone in their path. A close-knit band of ten uninfected fugitives must prove they are clean by escaping the stricken village where they are trapped by the army. A quarantine cordon surrounds the whole area, with an entire army camp between the village and freedom.What chance of survival do the fugitives have while zombies are still at large in the English countryside and ...

Part Three: Zombies Go Global. The Minister's plots deepen, the virus goes awol, and Alex and Steve are on the run again. Where will zombies turn up next and can they be stopped from infecting the world? Will Rachel ever appear on TV or will Steve beat her to it? All this and more in the third and final epidemic: the concluding short story in the British zombie trilogy.

In March 2011, another UK author challenged Peter Salisbury to write outside his usual science fiction comfort zone and produce at least one ghost/horror story. This collection is the result, in which some readers may believe that technology refused to fully relinquish its grip on the author, despite his struggle to wriggle free.(14,300 words plus samples of other stories, total more than 18,000 words)

The fourth and final part of the British Zombie Breakout 'trilogy'.Alex and Steve leave home together to begin their courses but in less than a week Alex goes missing when some hunk called Tarquin steps onto the scene. Just when everything was going so well, suddenly it wasn't…After completing their studies and passing yet more exams, the other Kilkorne chums, Rachel, Maisie and Fred prepare for college by going shopping at the mall, unaware that the screaming may be about ...

A collection of contemporary and near future science fiction short stories: a young man is faced with deadly danger in a post-apocalyptic wasteland; a child finds a cache of century-old 'buried treasure'; a dying father reveals a secret world to his son; on a plane trip from NY to London, a youth's computer tablet is more capable than he anticipated; and the pressure to find new sources of fossil fuels leads to an ominous discovery.Also included is the first chapter of the soon to ...

Carl survived the deadly bioweapon, hoards of starving rats and the legendary Riders that were rumoured to be cannibals. Spending a week with the bikers of Dark Chapter made for a welcome change but being captured by a town full of steampunks did not. When Carl and his new girl finally escaped the steampunks, only to fall prey to a gang of very hungry scavengers, their luck looked set to run out.

What does an unconscious former employee of the Junkers Moon Scrap, Salvage and Servicing Company have to do with a massive smoking metal artefact sitting in a field? Marshall Brion, owner of the company, must use all his wits, and his association with a partially reformed pirate captain, the notorious Inspector Vanessa Robin, in an attempt to save the whole colony from deadly danger.

The fifth and final installment in Peter Salisbury's Passengers series. Best-loved characters and scheming criminals pit their wits against each other over establishing exciting new colonies, while political defectors from the colourful Sentience home world escape violent oppression using a hidden resistance network. The irrepressible pioneering spirit of twins Harry and Suja takes them to long-abandoned worlds.