You must accept that there will be loss. To deny this is to deny the nature of our struggle. And with the loss, the darkness will come for you at times.—Col. Akio Sato (726 AF).On a planet lost in the great Void, Lt. Thomas Walker wakes up after a horrific dream—alone, low on supplies, and at the beginning of a dangerous mission. One thousand years ago, the denizens of Earth colonized Thomas’s planet, but communications were cut off after a mysterious and catastrophic event...

“A small eternity I did spend in near solitude, with naught but a madman as company. In consequence, I find it did leave me ill-prepared to approach some circumstances.”–Sam (773 AF).Lieutenant Thomas Walker’s mission was successful, but he will not be thanked for it. His rediscovery of the colony’s now-repentant ancient enemy is not the salvation they hoped for...and may have arrived too late. The increasing threat of the monstrous, alien Others, coupled with fear-fueled un...

A crew of outcasts tries to find a legendary ship before it falls into the hands of those who would use it as a weapon in this science fiction adventure series for fans of The Expanse and Firefly.A washed-up treasure hunter, a hotshot racer, and a deadly secret society.They're all on a race against time to hunt down the greatest warship ever built. Some think the ship is lost forever, some think it's been destroyed, and some think it's only a legen...

WE HAVE A JOB FOR YOU ...Just a routine day in lunar orbit. That's all Lieutenant Commander Colin Maclntyre, USN, expected. Only a simple training mission to test a new survey instrument intended for the first manned American-Russian interstellar flight.What he got was just a bit different.First, there was the fact that Earth didn't actually have a Moon.Then there was the three thousand-kilometer diameter alien starship pretending it was the Moon. And the mi...

A visit from Yanko’s older brother is interrupted when an alarm blasts through the mine. Mutilated workers have been found dead in a newly opened tunnel.Yanko has been studying to become a mage, and his brother is a soldier, so they believe they are prepared to deal with this unknown threat, but what awaits them in the subterranean depths is nothing the mine has seen in its hundreds of years of operation.Death from Below is a 13,000-word novella.

Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun in this genre-bending queer fantasy debut inspired by Maori culture, Asian folklore, and sci-fi noir—where murder, resurrection, and rebellion collide on the high seas.In the port city of Hainak, everything is alive—its buildings, its weapons, its fashion—thrumming with the pulse of a biotech revolution after a devastating war. All Yat Jyn-Hok wants is peace. Once a thief, now a night-patrolling co...

A world of endless sky, with no land, no gravity: this is Virga. Beginning in the seminal science fiction novel Sun of Suns, the saga of this striking world has introduced us to the people of stubborn pride and resilience who have made Virga their home; but also, always lurking beyond the walls of the world, to the mysterious threat known only as Artificial Nature. In The Sunless Countries, history tutor Leal Hieronyma Maspeth became the first human in centuries to learn ...

Joan D. Vinge returns to Tiamat, the world of her Hugo Award-winning novel The Snow Queen and its bestselling sequel The Summer Queen.Set during the time of The Snow Queen, BZ Gundhalinu is a by-the-book "Blue" on the trail of high corruption within the force. When a police raid goes horribly awry, BZ finds himself teamed up with Nyx LaisTree, a hard-nosed cop with no respect for the rules, and Devony Seaward, a beautiful hooker with a heart of gold. Toget...

Suddenly, staying alive is more than a personal problem . . .In a galaxy worn down by generations of war against an implacable foe, a star pilot's mission brings him an unexpected ally and a chance to serve his troop—and mankind.M. Jela Granthor's Guard is a soldier who was born to be a~ soldier, a solider whose genes were selected before birth, whose life was chosen for him as one of service and dedication.Cantra yos'Pheliu...

The Ballad of Halo Jones meets Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers by way of 3:10 to Yuma; a clash of law and lawlessness, storytelling and truth in a headlong romp across the stars.After forty years of wreaking havoc across the galaxy, the outlaw Nine Lives – AKA Former General Gabriella Ortiz – has finally run out of lives. Shot down into a backwater at the system’s edge, she is rescued by Deputy Air Marshall Havemercy Grey.Hav is a true ...

A Warhammer Crime AnthologyIn the sprawling hive city of Varangantua, crime lords and gangers, law enforcers, and vigilantes live cheek-by-jowl killers, thieves, and worse from all echelons of society doing what they can to survive.READ IT BECAUSEReturn to Varangantua, a decaying hellscape where only the ruthless prosper.In such a choking and claustrophobic environment, neither law-maker nor law-breaker is safe from dark des...

A mission of mercy. A world of nobles and vendettas. And a gunslinger caught between his conscience and his aim.Jake, gunslinger, fugitive mage, and reluctant saivior, doesn’t mix well with the rich and powerful. But when ten thousand refugees are trapped on a ship and running out of food, air, and time, he agrees to help even if it means begging supplies from one of the galaxy’s most thin-skinned noble houses.He expected stiff etiquette, maybe some awkward...