Short Stories: Excerpts from Author Aaron Ryan is a lightning tour through one of Christian speculative fiction's most restless imaginations. Nine worlds. One pulse: what remains of the soul when the sky falls, the body fails, or the future arrives too soon.From Dissonance Volume I: Reality,Sergeant Jet Shipley learns the first rule of a gorgon-haunted Earth: one look,and it is over. The End: Alpha drops you into 2113, where a virus anda smiling t...

We thought they were angelic messengers. We were wrong.In 2026 the gorgons drifted down through the clouds: pale, telepathic nightmares whose gaze freezes prey so they can be eaten alive. 16 years later, 85% of humanity is gone. Survivors huddle in fortified blockades, moving only in silence, never daring to look.Sergeant Cameron 'Jet' Shipley and his younger brother Rutty serve the blockade at Clarksville, Tennessee. Orphaned by the invasion, they...

First came the virus. Next, the messiah. Then, the purge.2113 isn't the future we hoped for; it's the one we feared.But fear not! Your redemption draweth nigh.A virus has already erased half of humanity. In the ashes rises Constantine Jedidiah Goodfellow: young, rich, handsome, and irresistible. America, desperate, elects him president. He quickly rebrands himself Emperor Nero and reveals hi...

For the Earth to survive, one father must sacrifice his only son.A father. A dying planet. A sacrifice that mirrors the greatest story ever told. As The World Burns weaves faith, prayer, and biblical allegory into a gripping sci-fi catastrophe.In 2557, 15-year-old Cooper Calloway lives 75 miles underground in a sealed plastic habitat because metal clings to his irradiated skin. Every heartbeat steals momentum from the planet, shortening the days an...

September 11th, 2001. What if you could see disaster before it struck, but no one believed you?Roland Bishop is an ordinary weatherman in Jersey City whose life is shattered by a freak lightning strike. Suddenly cursed - or gifted - with visions of impending violence, he begins to glimpse a catastrophic plot unfolding in the shadows of New York City.Haunted by guilt, hunted by forces he barely understands, and armed with powers he never asked for, ...

He walks the night as a vigilante bound by a cruel cosmic deal. Save one thousand lives, and his wife lives again. Fail, and someone else dies."One Away or One to Stay, and Balance Anew." The Talisman has one mission. Save as many people as he can, and the beings promise they'll bring his wife back from the dead. Fail, or renounce his charge, and someone else he loves dies. No pressure.Five years after losing his wife, the man known only a...

In a world filled with mythical beasts and battles, one young boy is on a quest to defeat his greatest enemy, Shame.Far, far away, yet not too far so as to defy belief, there lies a fantastical world filled with dragons, wargs, and ogres. In this world, a young boy finds solace battling creatures. The boy is determined and brave, using his battles as a way to escape from his worst enemy, one of inner turmoil: Shame. Shame over what he did. Shame over who he was becoming. Shame over...

Dane Currier knew that he was on to something.His Courier3.1 operation system checked out. His teleportation chambers were state of the art, and he knew they would revolutionize the world as we knew it.But in a cruel twist of timing, something draws near which threatens not only his dream, but humanity as a whole. A 'supermassive' black hole is on a collision course with the Milky Way galaxy, and there is no stopping it. Could it be that D...

Twins always finish each other's sentences. Especially in prison.Ex-Marine Tracie Vossler thought working prison security would be safer than combat. She was wrong.When identical twin inmates and an ancient body-swapping demon collide, Tracie's only priority becomes keeping her twelve-year-old daughter alive—no matter the cost.A demon that wears human faces. A prison that cannot contain what is already inside. Set against the claustrophobic...

When a man with power believes he's God, mankind doesn't have a prayer.A virus has already erased half of humanity. From the ashes rises Constantine Jedidiah Goodfellow—charismatic, brilliant, and certain he is the Antichrist. He crowns himself Emperor Nero, brands every Christian, and unleashes robotic Guardians to hunt them. Faith itself becomes a capital crime.18-year-old Sage Maddox watched those Guardians butcher his ...

"Examining The Lord of the Rings" by Aaron Ryan is an in-depth look at what makes the quintessential science fiction fantasy saga by J.R.R. Tolkien work so well, and why it's so appealing across generations and cultures. With themes that resound, characters that appeal, and narrate that resonates, "The Lord of the Rings" is a timeless classic that continues to reach new audiences for good reason.===Also included in this critical piece is an epic 65-stanza p...

A compilation of journals and poetry by award-winning author Aaron Ryan, author of the bestselling "Dissonance" alien invasion saga and the bestselling "The End" Christian post-apocalyptic saga. 44 original works created beginning in 1993 and spanning thirty years of artistry. Contains the epic "Ode to Tolkien", as well as "Slipping down to the Dreamworld," "Hook," "Who?", "Blanket," "Trials," "Earthblood," and many others.