A collection of contemporary and near future science fiction short stories: a young man is faced with deadly danger in a post-apocalyptic wasteland; a child finds a cache of century-old 'buried treasure'; a dying father reveals a secret world to his son; on a plane trip from NY to London, a youth's computer tablet is more capable than he anticipated; and the pressure to find new sources of fossil fuels leads to an ominous discovery.Also included is the first chapter of the soon to ...

British Zombie Breakout Part 2: Escape From Kilkorne. Zombies are still on the rampage, killing and infecting anyone in their path. A close-knit band of ten uninfected fugitives must prove they are clean by escaping the stricken village where they are trapped by the army. A quarantine cordon surrounds the whole area, with an entire army camp between the village and freedom.What chance of survival do the fugitives have while zombies are still at large in the English countryside and ...

Part One. The authorities should have been more careful after the first zombie breakout infected half of England and disrupted lives right across the country. Unfortunately, either someone got careless, again, or the disease was far more virulent than anyone expected. The remote fishing village of Kilkorne with its picturesque castle and harbour was the last place to expect an attack, despite its proximity to the experimental facility where the disease was invented. Once the second outbrea...

Part Three: Zombies Go Global. The Minister's plots deepen, the virus goes awol, and Alex and Steve are on the run again. Where will zombies turn up next and can they be stopped from infecting the world? Will Rachel ever appear on TV or will Steve beat her to it? All this and more in the third and final epidemic: the concluding short story in the British zombie trilogy.

The second of Peter Salisbury's Passenger novels. Each book can be read in sequence or as a stand alone story.The electronic mind patterns and DNA records of Raife Harris and Doctor Nancy Zing have been travelling for one hundred and twenty years. They will be the first humans to see Zeta Nine.The AI system aboard an Explorer ship is only interested in worlds habitable by humans. Raife and Doctor Zing are naturally excited when they wake to find Explorer 5017 in orbit. The ...

Data detective Ben thinks he's succeeded in his latest drugs bust. Now he needs to find some different answers: how did humans use cloning to populate other planets across the Milky Way; how can we communicate almost instantaneously between one star system and the next?After much research and watching old movies, he also discovers that FTL drives never quite worked, suspended animation was too much like being dead, hyperspace was never found, and matter transporters still make a me...

The fourth and final part of the British Zombie Breakout 'trilogy'.Alex and Steve leave home together to begin their courses but in less than a week Alex goes missing when some hunk called Tarquin steps onto the scene. Just when everything was going so well, suddenly it wasn't…After completing their studies and passing yet more exams, the other Kilkorne chums, Rachel, Maisie and Fred prepare for college by going shopping at the mall, unaware that the screaming may be about ...

Bernice is a computer data technician. Every day she services communications networks, both commercial and domestic. Trouble-shooting is her speciality. One morning on a routine job in the house of an officious client, events take an unexpected turn. A very short, free SF flash fiction story in less than 500 words.

An anthology of twenty-six themed episodes set in a post-apocalyptic future, where the world population has been ravaged by a flu-like pandemic. A close-knit group of genetically immune men, women and children battle to survive attacks by marauders. The Families attempt to use their ingenuity and disparate skills to evade discovery and establish a viable, self-sustaining community, only to find it falls under attack by armed gangs.There are twenty-three named characters. See how Je...

The fourth book in the Passengers series follows the accelerating development of three major colonies.New dangers and frustrations challenge Raife and Nancy as they work to safely bring up their twin children. They must also wrestle with social unrest as Zeta Nine expands in a direction and at a rate which threatens the stability of the colony as a whole.With less of a head start, Blis on Zexx 2 attempts to keep tight control over the colonists, despite his complete depende...

Carl survived the deadly bioweapon, hoards of starving rats and the legendary Riders that were rumoured to be cannibals. Spending a week with the bikers of Dark Chapter made for a welcome change but being captured by a town full of steampunks did not. When Carl and his new girl finally escaped the steampunks, only to fall prey to a gang of very hungry scavengers, their luck looked set to run out.

The Junkers Moon Scrap, Salvage and Servicing Company have side-stepped interference from the interstellar Bureau, but the team needs to take greater risks to find out more about the alien ship excavated on Cymbeline. The search for translations begins at an abandoned colony and leads from one obscure planet to the next. Will they find what they are looking for, or something completely unexpected?Sequel to Junkers Moon: Lucy And The Quantum Gnarls