Disaster Is Brewing In Donner Pass...Winter in the High Sierras has always been a challenge, but this time is different. Global warming has spawned an endless series of blizzards the likes of which have never been seen before. Even the proud Union Pacific is reeling from the onslaught.But the relentless storms and equipment breakdowns are only the beginning. They face a crisis at Donner Summit: a passenger train wrecked in the most dangerous, inhospitable terrain in all of ...

The starship was plain to see even in low earth orbit. It was roughly the size and shape of Manhattan Island."Please understand...we never wanted anything like this to happen." The Attorney General was sweating from more than just the summer heat. "This was the act of a madman! We're sincerely sorry!"The new alien reared back. "We understand our envoy was killed the moment it appeared on your world, while offering our good wishes and expressions of friendship!"The time...

A Chance To Start Over...R'nemReth was an outcast all her young life. A troubled, unstable youngling, she fled the crèche at an early age to take up a skittish life on the streets. Now she faced a lifetime in a remote penal nest for the crime of surviving by any means necessary.She received a last moment reprieve: a chance to earn her freedom. But to do so, she had to face unimaginable dangers on a distant world.What was worse was why she received this chance: she b...

If one is good...War is brewing between the Ic'nichi and the humans. A rising tide of human fanaticism threatens to tear the Concord apart, and the Ic'nichi have just made a stunning discovery: the humans have their own version of Admiral MacKenna! By best estimates, Mac can double the effective strength of any fleet he commands, so the Ic'nichi have no choice but to field one of their own. When an unstoppable force like Admiral Brian A. MacKenna meets itself head-on, anything can ...

"The Anthology Goes 'Bump' In The Night"Here is a collection of short stories and articles, sometimes humorous, sometimes informative, sometimes horrifying - and sometimes all three at once - on a theme of the macabre, black humor, and delicious horror. Herein is revealed the awful truth that the Universe is not what it seems. From Divine Justice gone awry to deals with the Devil, from the fate of mankind to reaching for the stars, this work will entertain, inform, and make you loo...

Here is the answer to the degradation wrought upon classic fantasy by role-playing games! From muscle-bound heroes and bumbling wizards to a vegetarian vampire and Hollywood zombies, this tongue-in-cheek anthology rips them all with fine impartiality. Included is the infamous 'Roadquest!', charitably described as 'The Lord Of The Rings done by Monty Python'. This collection of eleven short stories finally does justice to the overworked, much-abused fantasy genre by presenting them as we wo...

The sad part was that we all meant well...Everyone—us, the humans, the Dreamsingers—really wanted to do the right thing for all concerned. And as usual with good intentions, the results were anything but.You know you're having a bad day when you suffer two political coups, you and all your friends are hospitalized with an imaginary illness, and you fight an interstellar war lasting all of five minutes.Friend and foe become interchangeable, and it's hard to tell if pan...

The time is fifty years in the future. Ordinary fire ants have mutated: their reproductive rate has skyrocketed, and they are advancing around the world eating everything in their path. Human civilization is crumbling under the onslaught. What's left of the 45th Division struggles against hopeless odds to hold the Red River, in Oklahoma. Their numbers have been decimated, their equipment is worn out, their morale is shot. They can't endure any longer, but they can't retreat: this is our la...

It was our first alien contact......and it was a crisis right from the start. We avoided an interstellar war by sheer luck, but both sides were still on edge, and the situation was explosive. Now we were trying the uncharted waters of interspecies diplomacy. No one knew what to expect: we had never faced a situation like this before. All we could be sure of was that the humans were unpredictable, unstable, and just as terrified of us as we were of them. Anything could happen, may ou...

It felt so good to be home again...It took two tumultuous years, but we finally completed the First Accord with the humans. We took honest pride in our achievement, and we were thankful to leave that er'trxxda world behind us.Triumphant, and dragging our tails, we came home to d'enchia. It wasn't long before we went our separate ways to new careers, new challenges, new headaches, confident that the future of d'enchia-earth relations was secure.Or so we thought......

Have you ever pondered the 'might-have-beens' of life? Have you ever wondered if your destiny might have taken a different course? Brenda Hayward, former centerfold model, found herself caught up in such a web of 'might-have-been': an alternate future filled with terror, danger, and sheer, unspeakable horror.Trapped in a high-tech hell when an experiment goes badly wrong, she faces a hopeless struggle to save not only herself, but the human race too. Her one resource is her hard-wo...

Brian Adelbard MacKenna - former submarine captain; life-long knight-errant who fought to preserve civilization through the horrors of the Collapse; Admiral of earth's tiny space fleet during the Contact Crisis - dead man. His skills were desperately needed to face a crisis beyond anything the Concord could cope with, so the Ic'nichi brought him back from the dead. What they expected was a slick finesse move that would counter the overwhelming power of the mysterious alien attackers. What ...