What will the end of the world be like?Plague or nuclear fire? Asteroids or floods?Divine wrath or people meddling with what should have been left alone?The apocalypse may come in the future, but what apocalypses might have occurred if history had played out differently? What if nukes had flown during the Cuban Missile Crisis? What if an asteroid had been on a collision course with Earth before the first person could set foot on the Moon? What if humanity destroyed it...

It took three things to bring about the End of the World:A space drive that was to open the stars to humanity.Exiled Warlords willing to blackmail the world to restore their tyranny.Their intended victims, desperate to avoid them.But even though the Earth might be doomed, Hope could still survive.Pip Allen was desperate to go to the stars after he graduated.Charlie Jennings was seeking a new life and meaning.Joe Mbutu...

Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Hitler?What if, in the summer of 1940, Nazi Germany had invaded the United Kingdom? Nearly eighty years on, images of swastikas on Whitehall still resonate and horrify in the popular imagination.But what would that invasion look like, even if it were doomed to fail? What sacrifices would occupation mean for the people of Britain, and what might be the lasting cultural effects of collaboration?In this collection of stories, the au...

"It was seven months since the world had ended, and it was her birthday"Endeavour, the Earth's first starship, carrying the refugees from the ruined Earth to the stars, with a murderer on the loose on an ailing starship...The few survivors on Earth, fighting to survive long enough to be rescued by the under-construction second starship - which will be doomed in any case if Endeavour fails in its mission... The world might have ended, but the struggle to survive has not.

As the overloaded Endeavour reaches the end of its long voyage and its hoped-for planetfall, the refugees from Earth need to find out:- Can they live on the planet Elpis?- What threats will it throw at them?- How quickly can they safely disembark - if they can disembark at all?Endeavour is desperately needed back on Earth to help rescue the last survivors. But if it does not establish a foothold on Elpis, there will be nowhere for them to go.Both on Elp...