Before email,before the world wide web,before hackers,Before sexting,before always-on GPS,before titanium implants,before Alexa, Cortana, and Siri,before the computer in your pocket was more powerful than the one that sent astronauts to the moon,there was cyberpunk.And science fiction was never the same.Cyberpunk writers—serious, smart, and courageous in the face of change—exposed the naiveté of a society rushing headl...

An epic new science fiction series about faith, family, and alien invasion in the wilds of Alaska. This compilation ebook includes the full text of Books 1 and 2, more than a quarter million words in all.When a shooting star plunges through the atmosphere and touches down in the Alaska wilderness, only two earthlings are present to witness the event. But they perceive two utterly different realities. What park ranger Jace Kuliak sees is a UFO and the arrival of a dangerous alien sp...

An epic new science fiction series about family, faith, and alien invasion in the wilds of AlaskaWhen a shooting star plunges through the atmosphere and touches down in the Alaska wilderness, only two earthlings are around to witness the event. But they see two utterly different things. What park ranger Jace Kuliak sees is a UFO and the arrival of a dangerous alien species from beyond the solar system. What Poppy Prophecy sees is the star called Wormwood, as recorded in Scripture, ...

Love is only science fiction.With wedding photos and videos and mementos of all kinds, newlyweds attempt to hold on to their special day and to cherish it forever. Someday technology may enable us to record not only our appearance and voices but everything we know, feel, fear, and love at the moment the shutter clicks. Then our wedding mementos, like Anne and Ben’s in this story, take on a life of their own in a world where love may be eternal, but the world is not. Till deletion d...

Here are three flash science fiction stories collected in one volume for the first time. (Flash fiction is the name given to ultra-short stories of 1000 words or less.) These stories were originally published by the British science journal Nature in their Futures series of original one-page sci-fi stories. “My Morning Glory,” is a curious tale of a man and his apartment and the helpful entity that rules them both. In “Timed Release,” good housekeeping was never so compellin...

The Prophecy family has demolished the entrance to their End Times mountain keep with explosives in order to isolate themselves from Governor Tetlin's army of Doomsday preppers. But the army has other things on its mind — The rogue planet Pipnonia, which is on a collision course with Earth, is being torn apart by cosmic forces in the sky overhead.Deuteronomy Prophecy, outside the mountain keep and abandoned by her family, enlists the help of Ranger Kuliak in a last-ditch effort to ...

Sound the Trumpet — Light the Signal FiresFrom the alien’s point of view, its First Contact with earthlings (Book 1) is a bust, but at least it has survived the ordeal.After executing an emergency landing on the nearest inhabited rock, the celestial being is captured by the Prophecy family and locked away in their doomsday mountain retreat. There it speaks to them in their natural language of fundamental Christianity and appears to them as Martha, a Seraph ...

Despite the alien’s best efforts, the so-called Little Nudge has failed, and the rogue planet Pipnonia is once again on a collision course with Earth. It’s time for the “Big Bump,” the alien’s last-ditch effort to save Earth and its inhabitants from total annihilation. But first it pressures Ranger Jace Kuliak to accompany Deut Prophecy, the Thirteenth Apostle, on her mission to Pipnonia to preach to its doomed population.Meanwhile, civil society is disintegrating around the world....

Welcome to Mind Over Ship, the Endeavour Award-winning sequel to David Marusek's stunning debut novel, Counting Heads, which Publishers Weekly called "ferociously smart, simultaneously horrific and funny."The year is 2135, and the international program to seed the galaxy with human colonies has stalled as greedy, immoral powerbrokers park their starships in Earth's orbit and begin to convert them into space condos. Ellen Starke's head, res...

A father must fight to save the world and what remains of his family after uncovering a terrifying conspiracy in a dystopian future—"One of my favorite books of last year in any category and an exemplary entry in the sci-fi genre" ( The New York Times Book Review )." Counting Heads : exciting major new SF novel. . . . David Marusek is one of the best-kept secrets of scienc...

Forever is a new monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, a brief interview with the novella's author, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke.Our third issue features a novella by David Marusek ("The Wedding Album"), short stories by Ken MacLeod ("The Surface of Last Scattering") and Laur...

This short story first appeared in Playboy magazine. Walt Baffen, an Oxford-trained archeologist, is spending his first winter alone in a remote Alaskan log cabin. All goes well until the temperature drops to minus 40 and he receives a visit by an odd neighbor with a “bone to pick.” What happens next goes way beyond chilling. Not since Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” has a short story made a roaring fire seem so inviting. David Marusek spins quirky tales of science...