Aliens exist everywhere. They are android. They hide within the mind. They live on other planets. And they can even travel the universe using technology far beyond our understanding.Markey VI, an android on an orbiting space station, assists an artificial intelligence. David, the A.I., ponders the question of humanity's fate. The ultimate question is, "Should life be returned to Earth?" The answer is known as the Singular Conclusion. But the answer's impact reaches far deeper into ...

Military science fiction with the throttle wide open. A powered exosuit. Four combat drones. One mercenary with no one left to trust.Earth won the alien invasion. What came after were the Functionaries: corporations that own whole sectors and everyone breathing in them. In Neocrest City, Tiberius Novak takes their contracts because the registry that keeps him legal is the same leash that keeps him owned. One extraction job. One scientist. Simple work, until the thing guarding that ...

A student sorcerer just can’t seem to get a break after he transmogrifies his assistant into a palm tree. Alien Bleeders are coming for Earth, ingesting one terraformed planet after another. A ghoul hungers for souls but still finds time to enjoy art. And a shoeshine boy struggles to make ends meet at the far edge of the Oberon Galaxy.Markey VI, an android on an orbiting space station, assists an artificial intelligence. David, the AI, ponders the question of humanity’s fate. The u...

The story "The Sound of Blue" was awarded Silver Honorable Mention by Writers of the Future, Q2 2019.David, the A.I., ponders the question of humanity’s fate. The ultimate question is, “Should life be returned to Earth?” The answer is known as the Singular Conclusion. But the answer’s impact reaches far deeper into Markey VI’s electronic components and programmed logic than could be anticipated. And the android’s final moments bring it closer to humanity itself.Dav...