"99 Science Fiction Short Stories" brings together some of the finest sci fi short stories ever crafted. Featuring gems from masters of the genre, such as H.G Wells , Robert Barr , PKD, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Norton, and many, many more!

The “happiness agenda” is a worldwide movement that claims that happiness is the highest good, happiness can be measured, and public policy should promote happiness. Against Happiness is a thorough and powerful critique of this program, revealing the flaws of its concept of happiness and advocating a renewed focus on equality and justice.Written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, this book provides both theoretical and empirical analysis of the limitations of the hap...

Traditional Ranching and Cattle Range Conflicts – 4 Classic Western Novels delves deep into the rugged landscape of the American West, encapsulating an era rife with tensions between traditional ranching lifestyles and the burgeoning conflicts of cattle range expansion. This anthology presents a varied spectrum of literary styles and narrative techniques, capturing the raw, unpolished yet profoundly compelling spirit of Western literature. The collection masterfully includes tales that exp...

The “happiness agenda” is a worldwide movement that claims that happiness is the highest good, happiness can be measured, and public policy should promote happiness. Against Happiness is a thorough and powerful critique of this program, revealing the flaws of its concept of happiness and advocating a renewed focus on equality and justice.Written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, this book provides both theoretical and empirical analysis of the limitations of the hap...

This prequel story to Survival Instincts finds Daniel Bennett serving hard time on the Holt penal station. Outed as a former cop, he doesn't stand a chance. His survival requires that he give up who he is - a good cop and honorable man - and become even more ruthless than the dregs of humanity that surround him. Instead, he attempts a precarious balancing act between Bennett the cop and Bennett the convict. But when an asteroid mining accident leaves him and two convicts adrift and short o...

Non Plus Ultra is the first story in M.E Owen's exciting new Zion Station series.Old, poorly maintained, and sliding into decrepitude, Zion Station orbits a gas giant in a backwater of human space. Originally purposed for scientific research, and then as support for the methane mining industry, its scientists are long gone, and its transfer pods have been decommissioned.Police Chief Pilar Jones y Garcia has enough on her plate dealing with rowdy gas miners on shore...

Forced to take a vacation, Zion Police Chief Pilar Jones y Garcia joins Skip and his Far Trails crew on what she thinks is a random cargo run. Grumpy and short-tempered on the second anniversary of Garcia's death, she just wants to be left alone. Instead, she finds herself on a ship full of idealistic hippies, who are traveling to a hidden ecological preserve planet.But sabotage on the ship and a murder on the colony derail Jones's hope of an uneventful vacation. And as sh...

Four peaceful alien dirigibles, living in the upper atmosphere of the gas giant Galtus, find themselves sucked into a flying metal behemoth and left to starve.Max, stripped-down copy of Zion Station's rogue AI, temporarily installed in the ghost ship Suyash, discovers the two surviving aliens in the ship's gas pod. Given command of the ship by Police Chief Jones, he's tasked with returning the dirigibles home without detection and then forging a partnership with their cult...

Zion Station. Slowly decaying in a backwater of human space, now only useful as support for the methane mining industry that operates in the atmosphere of the gas giant planet below.But Zion harbors secrets that could topple the Consortium, Earth's oppressive, genocidal empire.Zion's saga continues, as Police Chief Pilar Jones y Garcia and her friends continue to protect those secrets with their lives and work toward bringing down the Consortium.The stories within b...

Former cop Daniel Bennett has survived a brutal jail sentence only to find himself stranded on a backwater colony planet. Outcast, homeless, and desperate, his survival depends on becoming a host for parasitic juvenile aliens.The juveniles look like spiders – an arachnophobe's worst nightmare.And when he discovers that his only friend on the planet stands accused of a grisly double murder, Daniel must unravel the truth before his friend is shipped back to the hellish penal ...

Captain Skip Thompson, cargo specialist without a ship. It's been stolen right out of Davadas Station's space dock. His ship, its cargo, its other cargo, in order of increasing importance.And heading fast for the nearest Jump point. If it goes through, it's gone for good. The ship and cargo can be replaced, but the losing the other cargo will get Skip killed.With his crew in the brig and the Davadas sheriff refusing to help, his only assistance comes from ...

Old, poorly maintained, and sliding into decrepitude, Zion Station orbits a gas giant planet in a backwater of human space. Originally purposed for scientific research, its scientists are long gone, leaving dusty closed-off sections of the station behind. These days it supports the methane mining industry for the planet below.But Zion has secrets. Big secrets. The type of secrets that may just topple an oppressive, genocidal empire.Police Chief Pilar Jones y Garcia knows th...