A collection of contemporary and near future science fiction short stories: a young man is faced with deadly danger in a post-apocalyptic wasteland; a child finds a cache of century-old 'buried treasure'; a dying father reveals a secret world to his son; on a plane trip from NY to London, a youth's computer tablet is more capable than he anticipated; and the pressure to find new sources of fossil fuels leads to an ominous discovery.Also included is the first chapter of the soon to ...

An anthology of twenty-six themed episodes set in a post-apocalyptic future, where the world population has been ravaged by a flu-like pandemic. A close-knit group of genetically immune men, women and children battle to survive attacks by marauders. The Families attempt to use their ingenuity and disparate skills to evade discovery and establish a viable, self-sustaining community, only to find it falls under attack by armed gangs.There are twenty-three named characters. See how Je...

British Zombie Breakout Part 2: Escape From Kilkorne. Zombies are still on the rampage, killing and infecting anyone in their path. A close-knit band of ten uninfected fugitives must prove they are clean by escaping the stricken village where they are trapped by the army. A quarantine cordon surrounds the whole area, with an entire army camp between the village and freedom.What chance of survival do the fugitives have while zombies are still at large in the English countryside and ...

Part Three: Zombies Go Global. The Minister's plots deepen, the virus goes awol, and Alex and Steve are on the run again. Where will zombies turn up next and can they be stopped from infecting the world? Will Rachel ever appear on TV or will Steve beat her to it? All this and more in the third and final epidemic: the concluding short story in the British zombie trilogy.

The second of Peter Salisbury's Passenger novels. Each book can be read in sequence or as a stand alone story.The electronic mind patterns and DNA records of Raife Harris and Doctor Nancy Zing have been travelling for one hundred and twenty years. They will be the first humans to see Zeta Nine.The AI system aboard an Explorer ship is only interested in worlds habitable by humans. Raife and Doctor Zing are naturally excited when they wake to find Explorer 5017 in orbit. The ...

The fourth and final part of the British Zombie Breakout 'trilogy'.Alex and Steve leave home together to begin their courses but in less than a week Alex goes missing when some hunk called Tarquin steps onto the scene. Just when everything was going so well, suddenly it wasn't…After completing their studies and passing yet more exams, the other Kilkorne chums, Rachel, Maisie and Fred prepare for college by going shopping at the mall, unaware that the screaming may be about ...

Third in Peter Salisbury's Passenger series of SF novels.With the news media in a frenzy imagining man-eating aliens, Ben and Lori need all the help they can get in breaking the news that an alien race had been found. Meanwhile, doing penance for their previous misdeeds, Symch and Goster have a shock in store for their jailers.Spider technology is licensed for industrial use but at a price, and old foes reappear to do no-one any good but themselves.Raife and Nancy f...

In March 2011, another UK author challenged Peter Salisbury to write outside his usual science fiction comfort zone and produce at least one ghost/horror story. This collection is the result, in which some readers may believe that technology refused to fully relinquish its grip on the author, despite his struggle to wriggle free.(14,300 words plus samples of other stories, total more than 18,000 words)

Book 1 in the Ripper's World post-apocalyptic series. Ripper Lee, vintage fighter, saw the world collapse under a viral blight inflicted by the pharmaceutical giant Viral Benefits Corp. He was amongst the survivors who escaped from the mounds of the dead in the remains of the old world. Through the smoke the lucky ones emerged into a new world of rampant profit and corrupt corpies. Did Ripper have any reason to remain true to his ideals of fair play?

The fourth book in the Passengers series follows the accelerating development of three major colonies.New dangers and frustrations challenge Raife and Nancy as they work to safely bring up their twin children. They must also wrestle with social unrest as Zeta Nine expands in a direction and at a rate which threatens the stability of the colony as a whole.With less of a head start, Blis on Zexx 2 attempts to keep tight control over the colonists, despite his complete depende...

Is it possible to tell a tall tale in as few as thirty words? That would require a limerick, a five-line rhyming cartoon in words. In this case fifty-three tiny capsule science fiction stories to make you smile.A hot little androidal missWho jets off her steam with a hissIs made out of junkAnd is very steam punkSo she's much too risky to kiss.The book is divided into ten categories: The Boys, The Girls, Medical Advances, Aliens, Space, The Law, M...

Carl survived the deadly bioweapon, hoards of starving rats and the legendary Riders that were rumoured to be cannibals. Spending a week with the bikers of Dark Chapter made for a welcome change but being captured by a town full of steampunks did not. When Carl and his new girl finally escaped the steampunks, only to fall prey to a gang of very hungry scavengers, their luck looked set to run out.