They told you space was empty. They were wrong.In the cold vacuum between stars, humanity has spread its reach across the cosmos, building stations in the void, sending colony ships into the dark, and folding space to touch distant worlds. But with every jump, every transmission, every lonely outpost established in the black, we discover a terrible truth: we are not alone, and we were never meant to leave Earth.HYPERSLEEP NIGHTMARES present...

Houston, we have a problem...Life is fragile. The difference between success and failure can come down to nothing – the thread of a screw, the flick of a switch – and when it goes wrong, you fix it... or someone dies.Mission Critical takes us from our world, across the Solar System, and out into deep space to tell the stories of people who had to do the impossible. And do it fast.Featuring stories by Peter F. Hamilton, Yoon Ha Lee, ...

Doctor Jasmine Marks is going back into hell.The Hygrometric Dehabitation Region, or the “Zone,” is a growing band of rainforest on the equator, where the heat and humidity make it impossible for warm-blooded animals to survive. A human being without protection in the Zone is dead in minutes.Twenty years ago, Marks went into the rainforest with a group of researchers led by Doctor Elaine Fell, to study the extraordinary climate and see if it could be used i...

2018 Writer’s Digest eBook Award - First Place Winner for Science FictionLos Angeles: 2065A wealthy young woman vanishes from her high-security apartment without leaving a single strand of DNA behind. No trace of the victim’s disappearance is recorded on any of the building’s many cameras or security sensors. Her apartment’s memory cores have been destroyed beyond any hope of recovery.To find the missing woman, Private Detective David Stalin must un...

Chariot to the Stars features some of Steve Miller's favorite early work from Amazing Science Fiction and elsewhere. as well as a previously unpublished short story.The stories in Chariot to the Stars ask:*Who builds a chariot to the stars?*What if the fate of the world were in the paws of a pet?*Where do you find zero-gravity buckets and Christmas twice a year?*When is the best time to count the lines on the highway?*How can a spaceman survive t...

Space is the Place! Over forty stories and poems by some of the best African/African Diaspora authors and poets from around the world. In Spacefunk you'll experience amazing stories of action, adventure, escape, hope, and home among the stars. Featuring stories and poems by Linda Addison, Sheree Renee Thomas, Eugen Bacon, S.A. Cosby, Jessica Cage, Maurice Broaddus, Wole Talabi, Gerald L. Coleman, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Zig Zag Claybourne, and many more!

PeeDee3, Season 1, Episode 2Cloaked in shadow, a tall figure lurks in a doorway, ducking the weather and a solitary street lamp. A pair of segmented antennae pokes though his faded fedora. Four plated arms are through the sleeves of a weathered trench coat; the collar's pulled up high against the planet's menthol flavored rain. Huge, complex eyes reflect light in a prism of colors. His mandibles click together in eager anticipation. On the mortar wall behind him ink runs from a wan...

Titan Six must be in trouble. A broken antenna? Impossible, they have backup systems to the backup systems. The closest satellites became our magnifying glasses, trained on the tiny spot on Titan, where our human brothers and sisters were supposed to be. Another round of arguments, back and forth, for another hour. By then, my eyes were fighting to stay open. That's when the nightmare really began."Uh, sir?" a voice asked at my elbow. "A new message has arrived, from ... uh, from T...

Breena Nez loves the life she shares with her dad aboard the Elantia Nebula Research Station. She loves their work on the lonely little station, with its spectacular view of the nebula. Until their clothes refresher dies on laundry day, leaving her clad in dregs of her wardrobe looking like a maniac.Fortunately, laundry day also happens to be their monthly delivery day—and their delivery pilot always arrives on time. Except for today.A fun short story set on space’s wild fr...

From the award-winning, bestselling Retrieval Artist Universe comes a story about a pulse-pounding race for survival and a foreshadowing of dangerous events yet to unfold.Takara Hamasaki made plans to leave the far-flung starbase for weeks, but something always stopped her. Until today. Now, she finds herself running for her life as bodies fall all around her, cut down by dozens of identical-looking men. If only she can reach her ship, maybe she can escape. Because one thing seems ...

“A gripping time travel adventure that hooks the reader from the beginning and keeps their attention to the very last page.” - Literary Titan"Compelling and fascinating." - Whispering Stories Book Review“Readers who enjoyed The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey will appreciate Dilation’s grand scale, well-rendered characters, and ingenious melding of scientific possibilities with logical speculation.” - Independent Book ReviewThe human rac...

Rescued, retrained, and re-armed to fight back against the enemy that wants only the destructionof all that is not theirs, there is quite a lot resting on her shoulders. Now, though, Kendra“Amaratzu” Anteen wakes up in a recovery pod with no memory of who she is or what ishappening. She only manages to get out of the time-worn and damaged tube by accidentallybreaking it.With the help of flashbacks and a computer installed in her head, she must figure everything outand escape before she run...