The current-day military town of Fort Brazos, Texas, awakens to strange surroundings in a vast, outside-in hollow world. A city in a bottle. Thousands are dead. Thrown into crisis, they are alone, with no help coming. Where are they? Will the military submit to the civilian mayor and city council? Who has done this to them and why? Meanwhile, alien creatures begin to attack, and the people start to discover that not everything, or everyone, is the same as they were before Awakening Day. Ar...

In Accipiter War # 1, the citizens of New London and Fort Brazos awakened to find themselves in a hollow world. Accipiter War # 2: Stealing Fire follows their journey of discovery and what promises to be a generational war against an ancient and galaxy-spanning enemy.Now they must race against time and conspiracy to launch the hybrid starship. The window of opportunity to strike a crucial blow against the enemy is closing fast, and they must somehow put their differences aside long enough ...

After the harrowing raid on occupied Earth, the survivors struggle to cope with what they have learned and to devise a strategy. The Accipiter empire spans the galaxy, and while the remaining humans are safe, for now, the clock is ticking. The Accipiters are turning over every leaf to find them - and they have the millions of ships to do it with. The humans have one cobbled together hybrid. Secrets are revealed and desperate work begins to build defenses. Meanwhile, the true conspirators b...

One man’s insurgent is another man’s freedom fighter…From The Moon is a Harsh Mistress to The Hunger Games, everyone enjoys a good rebellion. There is something compelling about a group (or individual) who throws caution to the wind and rises up in armed defiance against oppression, tyranny, religion, the government—you name it. No matter the cause, or how small the chance, it’s the courage to fight against overwhelming odds that grabs our hearts and has us pumping our fists in the...

Continuing the definitive space opera anthology series. Today's most popular writers produce new stories set in their most famous universes, alongside essential and seminal short fiction from past masters.The definitive collection of explorers and soldiers, charting the dark frontiers of our expanding universe. Amongst the infinite stars we find epic sagas of wars, tales of innermost humanity, and the most powerful of desires – our need to create a better world.

#1 New York Times bestselling author and master of horror Stephen King teams up with Bev Vincent of Cemetery Dance to present a terrifying collection of sixteen short stories (and one poem) that tap into one of King’s greatest fears—air travel—featuring previously unpublished stories by King and Joe Hill, “an expertly compiled collection of tales that entertain and scare” (Booklist).Stephen King hates to fly, and he and c...

War is becoming increasingly 'SF-ized' with remotely controlled attack drones and robot warriors already in development and being tested. Over the past 100 years the technology of war has advanced enormously in destructive power, yet also in sophistication so that we no longer seem to live under the constant threat of all-out global thermonuclear cataclysm. So what will future wars be like? And what will start them: religion, politics, resources, refugees, or advanced weaponry its...

Mission: Sabotage a Planet, Survival Not Guaranteed . . .Kenneth Chinran was a disaffected youth who joined the military and was recruited for an elite deep cover unit, surviving training and exercises so tough that several of the recruits did not survive. At the peak of his career, he was sent by his star nation to infiltrate a fascistic, militaristic planet--Earth.He lived in deep cover for years, marrying and having a daughter. Then the Earth forces attacked his home sys...

ALL-NEW STORIES TAKE THE WILD, WILD WEST TO THE FINAL FRONTIERAn actual wagon train to space?Gunslinging cowpokes riding in rickety rocketships?What isn’t possible when you mix science fiction and Westerns?The final frontier ain’t so final in these 12 tales of space exploration and adventure: each a timeless yarn told around the warm glow of a nuclear reactor just before it goes supernova. There’s a story for everyone who’s ever dreamed of t...

Ruin is Part II in The Sixth Extinction Series.A pandemic has swept the globe, decimating humanity, affecting all who breathe in its deadly spores. The Sixth Extinction Series follows a collection of people from all walks of life, as they struggle to survive through the eradication of the human race.Doctor Melanie Lazaro identified the marker of the disease on the human DNA chain, and she carries a file with the information needed to create a blocker, to stop the disease fr...

Mankind is no longer at the top of the food chain.The Sixth Extinction Series is an apocalyptic tale about a pandemic that sweeps the globe, decimating the human race, leaving humanity struggling to survive. Within three weeks, everything has changed. Social structure has collapsed. The police are non-existent, and the army concentrates on the cities. Gangs of yobs rule the streets.While on her annual leave in Mexico City, Mexico, Echo learns that the seventh pod has been a...

With an introduction by best-selling military science fiction author David Drake and selected by editor David Afsharirad from the top short story markets in the field, here are the most thrilling, pulse-pounding, and thought-provoking stories of the past year. Stories of future military men and women, space opera on a grand scale, and edge-of-your-seat adventure tales in the pulp tradition, from giants of the genre to brilliant up-and-comers.Plus, you be the judge! INTERAC...