From a master of science fiction comes eight startling stories of time and space.In “The Year of the Jackpot,” a statistician charts a curve of unusual happenings throughout the earth, only to find that his facts and figures prove the approach of the end of the world.In “By His Bootstraps,” a man steps thirty thousand years into time and is trapped in the fourth dimension with three strange, yet oddly familiar, people.In “Goldfish Bowl,” people disappear one by one,...

Time travel, high-stakes poker and a deadly conspiracy buried in the heart of the Old West…Mick Johnson thought he was returning to Death Valley to confront his past. Instead, he’s drawn into a web of deals, cover-ups, and missing persons that could threaten the very future of the American Southwest. Twenty-five years after his brother’s tragic death, Mick is back in the desert, seeking answers.When Mick teams up with Rose, a determined park ranger investigating mysterious ...

C.R. Ware’s Steampunk Adventure, told through the letters of Sigfried Rium as he fights in the three-year war for Anshald’s Independence.The Laemion Ancestry has begun their invasion of Anshald. As the call to arms goes out and young men and women from across the nation begin to answer the call, three people enlist in the small mining town of Stonlinge.Among them is Sigfried Rium, who is quickly recruited to be a live fire airship saboteur as a par...

In a destitute hospital in the crowded African city of Kikwit, townspeople, nurses, and doctors are dying of a gruesome disease at the rate of more than a dozen a day. Zaire is on the brink of an explosive epidemic - but the outbreak is stopped when experts from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta arrive in the city, reclaim the hospital, and interrupt the chain of virus transmission. With remarkable speed, the CDC's virus detectives trace the outbreak back to its first human ...