Lorcan Fyfe is a night-shift maintenance technician at an exclusive, subterranean cryonics suspension facility. His routine job consists of monitoring liquid nitrogen levels in massive stainless-steel tanks holding the legally dead bodies of wealthy clients awaiting future medical resurrection.The terror unleashes when the diagnostic panel for Tank #12 alerts him that its internal temperature is rapidly rising. The frozen corpse inside is generating massive metabolic heat: the clie...

Desmond Blythe is a solitary film archivist working the night shift at a temperature-controlled, subterranean nitrate film vault. Surrounded by thousands of decaying, highly unstable cellulose reels, he is the guardian of forgotten history. But cellulose nitrate doesn't just burn—it produces its own oxygen, making it impossible to extinguish once ignited.The nightmare begins when Desmond inspects a newly donated 1920s reel on his editing table. The black-and-white silent footage sh...

Kaelen Rourke is the night-shift lead mechanic at an isolated, brutalist automated mail processing annex. His solitary world consists of maintaining the "Behemoth"—a massive, football-field-sized maze of high-speed conveyor belts, pneumatic stamps, and optical scanners that processes forty thousand pieces of mail an hour.The terror begins when the machine suffers a massive internal paper jam. Kaelen climbs deep into the belly of the machine to clear the blockage, only to pull out e...

Gareth Hale is an aerial inspection technician working the solitary night shift at a colossal Concentrated Solar Power plant in the desolate Nevada desert. Suspended four hundred feet in the air on a narrow maintenance catwalk, he oversees a sea of three hundred thousand computer-controlled mirrors designed to focus the sun's rays into a single, thousand-degree point. But when Gareth tries to descend, he discovers the heavy steel access hatch has been maliciously welded shut from the outsi...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Gareth Hale is an aerial inspection technician working the solitary night shift at a colossal Concentrated Solar Power plant in the desolate Nevada desert. Suspended four hundred feet in the air on a narrow maintenance catwalk, he oversees a sea of three hundred thousand computer-controlled mirrors designed to focus the sun's rays into a single, thousand-degree point. But when Gareth tries to descend, he discovers the heavy steel access...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Desmond Blythe is a solitary film archivist working the night shift at a temperature-controlled, subterranean nitrate film vault. Surrounded by thousands of decaying, highly unstable cellulose reels, he is the guardian of forgotten history. But cellulose nitrate doesn't just burn—it produces its own oxygen, making it impossible to extinguish once ignited.The nightmare begins when Desmond inspects a newly donated 1920s reel on hi...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Lorcan Fyfe is a night-shift maintenance technician at an exclusive, subterranean cryonics suspension facility. His routine job consists of monitoring liquid nitrogen levels in massive stainless-steel tanks holding the legally dead bodies of wealthy clients awaiting future medical resurrection.The terror unleashes when the diagnostic panel for Tank #12 alerts him that its internal temperature is rapidly rising. The frozen corpse...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Kaelen Rourke is the night-shift lead mechanic at an isolated, brutalist automated mail processing annex. His solitary world consists of maintaining the "Behemoth"—a massive, football-field-sized maze of high-speed conveyor belts, pneumatic stamps, and optical scanners that processes forty thousand pieces of mail an hour.The terror begins when the machine suffers a massive internal paper jam. Kaelen climbs deep into the belly of...

A breathless drama set in the depths of space. Aboard a ship that has travelled beyond the reach of human knowledge, Corbyn discovers he is not as alone as he ought to be.An intense hard SF novella from Simon Morden (B.Sc. Hons., Sheffield, Ph.D, Newcastle), a bona fide rocket scientist with degrees in geology and planetary geophysics who also writes science fiction.The author of a dozen novels and collections, Simon won the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award. At the Speed of Light ...

Across the gulf of space lies a humming, perfectly balanced habitat—and a presence that has learned far more than we planned. Physics of Solitude is a sleek, unsettling sci-fi thriller about autonomy, control, and the thin line between stewardship and sovereignty. Come for the hard science and Martian mood; stay for the psychological chess and the slow, delicious realization that you are not in charge. Welcome to the habitat. House rules apply.

Torn between two masters, a former cyborg fights for her freedom, in this enthralling space opera set in the vast universe of Twilight ImperiumSil is full of memories that aren't hers. Forced into servitude by the conquering powers of the L1Z1X Mindnet and given cybernetic upgrades to condition her, Sil becomes a cog in a superconscious machine bent on galactic conquest. That is, until her ship crash lands during a planetary exploration ex...

Slave-taking Aliens kidnap Bill MacCarthy and Jane Yamaguchi from the remote Rocky Mountains. But the Aliens are in for a surprise! Bill is a retired Navy SEAL and Jane is an Air Force Space Command captain. Together they must breakout from escape-proof cells, fight the ship's crew, capture the captain and take over the starship--all before they are delivered to Buyers on an Alien world. Along the way they gain Alien allies, including a naive ship AI. But will their escape survive a space ...