Let's admit it, there’s a guilty pleasure in imagining how civilization could end!An invasion from beneath our feet. A hammer blow from the sky. A genetic crop modification that could bring about humanity’s extinction.Tartarus Rising: The most critical business centres of the world are suddenly swallowed into the ground, a chemical explosion devastates New Jersey, and survivors flee the rumours of invaders from beneath the Earth. (First published in the anthology "Doomology...

It’s a hard thing to accept that someone wants you dead. It forces you to decide if you have anything worth living for.Long-time radio “morning man” Lee Garrett is bottoming out. The career he loved has turned sour, leaving behind a dwindling audience and the wreckage of his marriage. When he finds a death threat on his control console, he shrugs it off as a sick prank—until a series of minor harassments turns into a set of undeniable attempts on his life. The suspects are many—he’...

The glowing structure at the bottom of a lonely northern lake is not of this Earth. But Michael Hart can’t stay away. His encounter will leave him utterly changed, with astonishing new abilities and a destiny he could never have imagined.From then on, the choices he makes will affect the very future of humanity, and Michael will either become a hero, or the greatest traitor the world has ever known.Because he is no longer alone, not even in his own body.There is ano...

A woman’s bloodstream has been seeded with death.An American president must betray his country or sacrifice a woman he loves.And their only hope lies with a broken man and a desperate gamble.Curran Hunter almost died at the bottom of the ocean. Now an innocent victim will die unless Hunter can purge her body of deadly devices by piloting the Primus, a prototype submersible the size of a virus. Its control system uses Virtual Reality—its creators assure Hunter there ...

Since the age of fourteen Damon Leiter has had a brain-computer interface implanted beneath his skull to correct a neurological disorder. As a teenager, it branded him as an outcast—as an adult it endows him with extraordinary abilities: he may represent the next step in human evolution. When computerized brain augments replace smartphones as the must-have status item, mega-corporations and governments conspire together and marketing becomes mind control. Damon is the only one equipped to ...

Three thrilling short stories of adventure among the stars:A solo pilot in deep space risks losing his sanity when his ship is invaded by disembodied thoughts.A marathon runner on a dangerous desert planet discovers that it may not be inhabited after all.The crew of a survey ship encounters a powerful being with an injury that will test their every belief.

Who do we really fall in love with? The person we see, or who they are inside?Dylan Knox is not the man he was. He may be like no man who ever existed.Brooke’s old flame doesn’t remember her. Worse, he behaves like different people at any given moment.A victim of a brain injury? Or an imposter—an assassin targeting Brooke’s boss, the secretary-general of the United Nations?Dylan’s tale of castaways in time and space is utter fantasy...

Three thrilling tales that transcend time:A commuter train carries its passengers beyond the constraints of normal space as they strive to correct the errors of past centuries.Blueberries provide a mysterious link between past and present for a young girl and an embittered old woman.Monitoring an experiment to collect the awesome power of a deadly storm, a Hurricane Hunter aircraft crew encounters destructiveness that has no bounds.

A second chance for humanity? Or time to pass the torch.The Zenith Train is primed to break a world speed record. But when the promotional stunt goes horribly wrong, billionaire philanthropist Griffin St. Clair and a group of VIPs find themselves in a world where the human race may be extinct. An apocalypse has spared them. What now?They are not alone. In an uncanny forest devoid of other life, they encounter seemingly benevolent spectres and psychic predat...

The Oceanus CrisisA deadly blast of unknown energy strikes a jetliner over the Pacific Ocean.Hostile aliens? Or a new and unthinkably powerful form of Earth life?An ingenious troubleshooter, a reluctant psychic, a bionic xenobiologist, a brilliant engineer, and a blind psychologist will descend to the depths in a prototype submarine habitat, facing the most inhospitable environment on the planet to attempt a First Contact.Before the nuclear nations ...

A collection of three science fiction thrillers that take the question of identity into whole new realms.THE PRIMUS LABYRINTHA woman's bloodstream has been seeded with death.An American president must betray his country or sacrifice a woman he loves.And their only hope lies with a broken man and a desperate gamble.Curran Hunter almost died at the bottom of the ocean. Now an innocent victim will die unless Hunter can purge her body of deadly devices b...

The crimes of the past—the perils of the future.Five hundred years ago the Earth’s most prosperous people went to live in glittering colonies in space, promising to return one day. Killian Morningcloud has always dreamed of that return, wishing he could leave behind his dreary village life to join the elite among the stars. Colonial aristocrat and video celebrity Natira Celestia is fascinated with Earth and longs to meet the wise and noble souls she is sure must live there...