In this dystopian fantasy, certain people are stuck at binary ages (8, 16, 32 ...) due to an unknown cause. They cannot age, or change, or become sick or even injured. By turns experimented on, abused, tortured and scorned, they are eventually exiled into a strange prison, an infinite forest world from which there is no escape. There they seek a cure, an antidote, a solution to their problem.Four people are selected, seemingly at random, by an invisible being who communicates to th...

All they wanted was to get out of the infinite forest where they'd been imprisoned for what seemed like millennia. Immortal and frozen forever at age sixty four, their leader was set on revenge and his loyal pair of eight-year old followers were more than happy to go along for the ride. They assumed that the world outside had changed since they'd been locked away, but never in a million years could they have imagined just how much, or what bewildering surprises lay in store for them now. '...

Epic Fail. The anti-hero, anti-fantasy, anti-quest adventure continues. Escaping from one prison only to find themselves inside another, where machines run wild, the sun doesn't know how to set, and time itself is running out, the chosen ones find themselves without a clue. All they have is an old battered book that re-writes itself daily and advises them to "follow the path", but what they find at the end of the line is both more and less than they ever expected.

SENTENCED TO LIVE"She had only wanted to study life, she roared, now transformed into a beast, not destroy it."A powerful story told through a "sensorial book"The world is on the brink of collapse. Coastal cities are being lost to the oceans but the evacuation of millions of people is impossible. The Army is put in charge, however for the majority there is no way out and they are left to their destiny. Only those w...

Humans by themselves could only fail. Society is splintered after allowing an evolving artificial intelligence, calling itself Makr run the planet's resources, saving humankind the trouble. Not all people have accepted the illusion of a perfectly run society or PerSoc. The lazy and frustrated ones did. Some even worship Makr as a god. Makr has armies of mobile cyberts constantly seeking out human malcontents to delete. Had the human race rebelled or unified in some way there might ...

A former member of Saddam Hussein's Special Security Force arrives in Richmond, Virginia. Under the name of Ari Ciminon, he sets up house on the James River. The house was purchased for him by the U.S. Marshals Service, which is responsible for watching over him while he supplies intelligence to CENTCOM. Because he is fluent in Italian (as well as a host of other languages) he is presented to his new neighbors as an Italian of Arab descent. Ari learns on his first day that the previous occ...

In which bedlam threatens to envelope the world, unless Oscar can do something about it, which he's willing to consider, providing it involves an enormous breakfast first.

A pacy, three part, sci-fi thriller for adults.Astrophysicist, Robert McPherson, has joined a team of the world's most eminent scientists at a top-secret project, listening to the universe. Based in Houston, Texas, they receive a strange communication from outerspace that they cannot understand. Meanwhile, the team are unaware that a leaked document, exposing the project's daring goals, is about to start a series of deadly events.At the same time two alien bodies, stored in...

Hank Beveridge and Lieutenant Newton Shapiro are a couple of nice guys whose worlds just happen to collide. Hank's getting up in years and Newton has his first independent field command. On Third World, women of marrying age are scarce as hen's teeth. Hank's still looking though. Newton has a job to do, no matter who gets hurt. The Empire is a long ways away, but the locals are at least peaceable.

A high tech software and medical conglomerate is capitalizing on decades of advancement and the evolution of medical and computer science, which may enable the seamless merging of the human mind with the modern electronic world. Created and born in a laboratory, seven-year old Toby Crawford is an engineered test subject for new research on human simulation and artificial intelligence. Toby is a genius with a photographic memory, otherwise enviable gifts; Toby was born with a limited short-...

What would you do if you discovered you were a key to human salvation? Living his very ordinary life, Jacob soon discovers he is one of the gatekeepers. What is a gatekeeper? If you die near a gatekeeper you automatically go to heaven...or hell, depending on which gatekeeper you are lucky or unlucky enough to die close to. Will their power remain a secret or is the only way to help, a full reveal?

This collection features 10 stories from Scott Seldon's Galactic Confederation Universe. Smuggler Tramp Darvon makes a run through a dangerous stellar nursery. Smuggler Hazdon Brenker is tricked into doing a job by a girl out for revenge. Customs Marine Sgt. Rolfel is tested to see if he has what it takes to be promoted to commander and then he and his best friend take a leisure cruise that turns out to be more business than pleasure. Trader Alluren Beldaras makes a normal delivery, but en...