Not your normal Friday night in the computer room.Not a normal night anywhere.Terry is the archetypal old-school Unix admin, nurturing servers with care and precision while avoiding the latest trendy garbage. KDE and Gnome on a server? Nope, if you need a GUI use FVWM.The latest trend Terry refuses? One adopted almost everywhere? Systemd, the replacement init.So Systemd comes for Terry.Wearing skin-tight leather pants.No, not a normal night i...

There’s no grounds for murder. There’s no ground at all.The people exploring and exploiting alien universes risk everything, including their lives. But Devin Gupper’s death makes no sense. And the more questions security officer Aidan Redding asks, the less rational it seems.But in a bottomless universe full of impossibilities, one impossible murder begins everything.

Mayhem, destruction, and domination. Cooperation, friendship, and even love.When strangers from vastly different backgrounds collide, the potential fallouts are infinite.Within these pages you’ll find stories of man vs. man, sapient vs. sapient, and culture vs. culture. These tales span the entire spectrum from political strife among the far-flung stars to the mundane horror of Earthly paperwork. But whether the stories take place in the stars, or in worlds touched by eleme...

After extinction?Politics.Monsters.Murder.The alien Absolute eradicated Earth’s native life, replacing a fraction of it with alien duplicates. Kevin remembers the life of a police officer, but must find a new life in the bizarrely warped landscape of northern Michigan.But even astonishingly resilient alien flesh breaks down, with enough effort.Or enough electricity.Absolute eradicated humani...

If Agatha Christie ran Unix ConventionsThe BSD North conference draws some of the smartest people in the world. These few days will validate Dale Whitehead’s work—or expose him as a fraud.When a tragic death devastates the conference, only Dale suspects murder.Computer geeks care about code.But do they care enough… to kill?

Michael Anthony Warren Grew up to a single black mother in North Minneapolis, and had a Caucasian father whom he never met. This created issues in his life that lingered on into adulthood until he realized that the true father, GOD, loved him unconditionally, and this love trumps any earthly love.

He fell asleep a successful forty-six year and woke in his parents’ ramshackle home, decades earlier -- eighteen years old again, with alcoholic parents and a violent brother.A chance for a better life? Or just another trip through the nightmare?Sometimes, knowing then what you know now doesn’t help.

Every day, we are bombarded with opportunities to get distracted, waste time, or worse. The things that fight for our attention are the things that want to destroy us – and we let them.We have unseen, unmet needs pushing us to make bad decisions. We don’t know why we do the things that we do, but we sin, repent, and repeat.To fight for our present, we need healing for our past and hope for our future. We must face our brokenness and bring it before God’s throne in search of...

It would be fantastic if life's experience was only marked by smooth sailing and ease. Yet, that is not always the case. Jesus expressed, "Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows" (John 16:33 NLT). Nonetheless, sudden storms can catch you off guard.In the middle of one's journey, an unforeseen torrent assails where calm had been. Anxiety rises. The best efforts seem fruitless to diminish the impact of the storm. The strain of trying to navigate the tempestuous waters an...

Duplicate. Infiltrate. Exterminate.Liberate?The alien ate its way out of Antarctica, devouring and duplicating every living thing it found. Humanity turned continents to glass and oceans to poison in a desperate effort to stop it—and failed.Nobody expected that once the alien copied everyone, once it owned the world, it would set the copies free.Police detective Kevin Holtzmann fled with his family into the desert, ...

Not your normal Friday night in the computer room.Not a normal night anywhere.Terry is the archetypal old-school Unix admin, nurturing servers with care and precision while avoiding the latest trendy garbage. KDE and Gnome on a server? Nope, if you need a GUI use FVWM.The latest trend Terry refuses? One adopted almost everywhere? Systemd, the replacement init.So Systemd comes for Terry.Wearing skin-tight leather pant...

Murder on the Sysadmin ExpressAfter accidentally solving two murders, Dale Whitehead hungers to stay in his apartment, hack virtual memory stacks, and forget the whole thing. Instead, his boss sends him to a technology/sci-fi convention in Detroit. He plans to endure his stint at the vendor table, stumble through his presentation, and escape anonymously.A dead body ruins everything.Dale finds himself battling liquid nitrogen ice cream, balk...