The panther braced itself and jumped. It landed right in front of me, its eyes glaring at me as if it were starving. The panther braced itself and jumped. It landed right in front of me, its eyes glaring at me as if it were starving. I turned the laser back on its eyes. It contracted its muscles, jumped up and... ... dove toward me. I dropped to the floor and felt the beast's claws against my left arm. The sound of breaking glass. The feline roared. Glass shards showered over me. I rolled ...

Marikken hapte naar adem. 'Het zijn onze schapen!' Ze greep in haar buidel en pakte een steen. Het was meteen de zwarte. Ze herkende zijn gladde ronde vorm.'Dat klopt,' zei de monnik. 'Ze blijven ook van jullie. Ik ga er alleen voor zorgen zolang je pa dat zelf niet kan. Zodra hij overeind staat, mogen jullie ze terug. Tegen vergoeding, uiteraard.''Vergoeding?' Marikken voelde het wit worden achter haar ogen, zo kwaad was ze. De steen lag zwaar en glad in haar hand.'Ik...

After Django Mathijsen had won the Unleash Award, a prestigious Dutch story award, twice in a row, a publisher asked him to write this novel. It was published in Dutch in March 2010 and is based on the short story for which Django won his second Unleash Award. This science fiction techno-thriller is set around the year 2040. A programmer of robotic cars loses everything when he is accused of terrorism. Hunted by the police, Mando hides with the real terrorists and discovers a conspiracy fo...

Captain Berend Ruiter desperately fights to prevent his heavily damaged spaceship from falling into enemy hands.

Gerard lands on Spitsbergen to visit the Global seed vault. He poses as Doctor Hamid Büchler of the Leibniz-institute, delivering frozen seeds. But in reality the contents of his cabin trunk are highly explosive. What's his secret mission? Can he stay out of the UN's clutches long enough to complete it, or will he fall for the charm of the white blonde Doctor Kaia Hansen?This exciting and poetic techno thriller was nominated for the Paul Harland Prize 2008. The judges commented: "A ...

Steampunk flash fiction in which Jellana, riding from town to town on her steam tandem, gets in trouble with an unscrupulous traffic cop.

Wilvo, like his father, is a space junk salvager. When his dad recovers a defective satellite, launched in 2241, the Pan-American Information Service pressures him to abort. His father continues. Suddenly he sends a distress signal. What's entangling his spaceship? Can Wilvo, helped by Yaritza from PAIS, save his father? This story was awarded the NCSF-prize 2009: the prize for the best Dutch science fiction story.

Santa has become too heavy for his sleigh. So he takes drastic action. Will he be able to bring the children their presents again? This story and picture is a Christmas present from Django Mathijsen and Anaïd Haen to their readers.

Steam technology and spring-powered engines have evolved since the discovery of Blackrock Steel, which can store vast amounts of energy, but word of this incredible resource has spread far and wide. When a horde of barbarian warriors known as Vangars sweep across the Frigid Sea in massive airships fueled by precious but dwindling supplies of black tar-like oil, they are determined to learn the secrets of Blackrock Steel at any cost. They assault the capital city, slaying King Ryshan and th...

At last, all will be known...Many years have passed since Breeze Tinkerman vanished in her spring-powered plane over the northern Wastes while searching for the fabled lost city in the ice, but her daughter River is more than happy to carry on her legacy. The Vangar overlords have turned Astatia into a slave state, forcing citizens to work in their mines and factories, stealing Astatia's resources for their own greedy ends while living safely high above in the sky-city known as Jun...

When war breaks out in the Russian Empire, airship captain Stig Rayner has little choice but to bring along the teenage girl he found hiding out in his hangar as he flees the opening skirmishes. He has every intention of just dropping her off in the next port, when he picks up his cargo.Isabelle Feeney Hemsworth has different ideas. Rayner could be her ticket out of the Empire. If she could just get back to London, where her brother still lives, then maybe she can finally get off t...

Clairissa Maggio, archaeological log. 3983, New Galen Ruins.The Arcturian O'Neal station is a testament to that culture's space engineering. Fifty kilometers long, the station had apparently been the largest settlement in system, and directed high energy farming from a solar panel array. The array, of some note in archaeological architectural circles for some time, remains still, in various conditions, a matrix of panels encompassing a full inner orbit of the star, its Herculean sca...