When an NSA cryptographer, Nathaniel Marx, realizes that an alien artefact can imprint Artificial Intelligence onto computer hardware ... he disappears soon afterwards.Back in Ireland, his family are left with no answers, save for a couple of secret deliveries from beyond the grave. Jacob Marx is the son of the missing NSA scientist, who inherits an alien artefact left on Earth aeons ago.Now, with unseen forces in pursuit of the artefact, it falls to his son, Jacob, to decide the f...

Terrorists-for-hire have created a weapon that can induce earthquakes and cause dormant volcanoes to erupt. One terrifying side-effect of the weapon is that prior to the devastation, the vibrations drive ordinary people to suicide and violence. A wave of madness begins sweeping the country beginning with a mass shooting in Congress. Joe Ledger and his team go on a wild hunt to stop the terrorists and uncover the global super-power secretly funding them. At every step the stakes increase as...

*** CORRECTED EDITION ***WELCOME TO THE YEAR 2072...And a world unlike anything you've ever imagined. A world where magic and machines exist side-by-side. Where cybernetics can replace organs or entire limbs with ease, and arcane spells can make the impossible happen. Where the Matrix has become an artificial world of its own, filled with all kinds of pleasure, treasure, and trouble. Where dwarfs, elves, orks and trolls walk alongside human...

Following the exceptionally well received Solaris Rising 1, 1.5 (e-only) and the Philip K. Dick Award-nominated Solaris Rising 2, series editor Ian Whates brings even more best selling and cutting edge SF authors together for the latest extraodrinary volume of new orginal ground-breaking stories. These stories are guaranteed to surprise, thrill and delight, and continue our mission to demonstrate why science fiction remains the most exiting, varied and inspiring of all fi...

When you're commanding a spaceship over a mile long and armed to the teeth you don't exactly expect to be told to get the hell out …

DECISIONS, DECISIONSThe nation of Japan is connected via wormhole to a place called the Holy Eldant Empire in a parallel fantasy world. It had been Japan’s little (or big) secret, but after an aircraft carrier got caught in the time slip, the Americans know about it, too. The Americans have an extralegal idea for how to get their hands on the extraordinary technology of the Eldant Empire—and their target is Petralka! Can Shinichi and his friends stand against the modern world’s mos...

A spaceship soldier falls for an attractive young woman he knows only as G, on a trip to Alpha Centauri, with ManBots, GirlBots, NurseBots and Deadlies. Then he is "called up."

My name is Mike “Magnet” Williams. I've come a long way. These days I have my own ship, the Rubens. We stole it from the Toralii Alliance. For the last year the Rubens has been tasked with ‘counter-logistical privateering’ against the Toralii Alliance, attacking their military supply network.We hit them hard, we get out, we do it all over again. Modern day buccaneers given total autonomy. We're alone, without another Human within a thousand light years.If ...

Watching… waiting… planningHidden somewhere, deep in the Cloud, something is collating information. It reads everything, it learns, it watches. And it plans.Around the world, researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs are being killed in a string of apparently unrelated accidents. But when intelligence-agency analysts spot a pattern they struggle to find the culprit, blocked at every step – by reluctant allies and scheming enemies.Meanwhile a multi-bill...

Conflict: a basic human instinct, helping humankind evolve even while threatening the very existence of the species . . . an instinct that will be as much a part of the future as it is now and always has been. For all the glories of war—the defeat of evil, the promise of freedom, justice, protection of the innocent, the righting of wrongs, technological innovation, heroism—there are also the horrors: individual grief, mass destruction, the elimination of entire cultures and great achievmen...

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This high-powered short story tells the tale of a young military commander and his platoon who attempt to gain access to a heavily-defended terrorist enclosure by using a government-designed "temporal displacement device" or time machine. But the uncertainties of time travel become readily apparent as the platoon quickly faces far more dangerous foes than terrorists, and the young commander must discover a way to escape being trapped in this hostile world.