A peaceful, international scientific research base orbiting Alpha Centauri-A.A military coup aboard a starship headed to resupply that base.A terrible, dark secret concealed on the moon of Amphion.General Thomas Jefferson Davis and his UN commando squad have just jumped head-first into a hornets' nest of cosmic proportions. But—are they the good guys in this story… or the bad?ALPHA/OMEGA: A new serialized near-future space opera adventure from Van Allen Plexico,...

A peaceful, international scientific research base orbiting Alpha Centauri-A.A military coup aboard a starship headed to resupply that base.A terrible, dark secret concealed on the moon of Amphion.General Thomas Jefferson Davis and his UN commando squad have just jumped head-first into a hornets' nest of cosmic proportions. But—are they the good guys in this story… or the bad?ALPHA/OMEGA: A new serialized near-future space opera adventure from Van Allen Plex...

A peaceful, international scientific research base orbiting Alpha Centauri-A.A military coup aboard a starship headed to resupply that base.A terrible, dark secret concealed on the moon of Amphion.General Thomas Jefferson Davis and his UN commando squad have just jumped head-first into a hornets' nest of cosmic proportions. But—are they the good guys in this story… or the bad?ALPHA/OMEGA: A new serialized near-future space opera adventure from Van Allen Plex...

What do you get when you ask 34 of today's top indie authors to each submit a story and then ask a team of judges to scour that ore and pick out the gems? You get All These Shiny Worlds:A world of today, divided, black from white, good from evil, and held apart by the taste of a cookie.A world of griffons and glimmer bunnies, wise old mothers, sassy llamas, and the magic of beer.A world of contemplation and serenity, of service and devotion, ruled...

Naero falls from disaster into disaster. The Spacer Mystics struggle to train her wild Cosmic abilities, to keep her from destroying them and herself. They test her self-control, forcing her to mediate an impossible local conflict on the brink of war. Then there's the enigmatic, ancient alien artifact that they forbid her to go near–until it comes after her and nearly trashes the entire planet. In the aftermath of an alien attack from another dimension, Naero's forced to flee into the Unkn...

It just keeps getting better and better, all the time. Still grieving over the loss of her mother, a friend talks Jayne Dickson into the trip of a lifetime. Unfortunately, she won’t be going along, due to a last-minute case of boyfriend-itis. The final straw for Jayne is when a tour boat leaves without her and she must spend the night alone on a deserted island in a crumbling temple.

Twelve thousand years later, low on reaction mass and with 20,000 colonists aboard, Ark One is coming in hot. Captain Sandra Jensen and Astrogator Dooley Peeters have a plan to save her. There is the question of how they will be received, on an Earth that has returned to barbarism. That is, if they can slow her down enough to get a shuttle away.

For years, the inter-planetary slave traders had stayed one flight ahead of the Military. Paradoxically, their acceptance of the honesty of science had led them to discover what most of their law abiding species had not: Highly evolved alien bodies worth a fortune in platinum lurked in many of the Federation's jungles.How advanced was the technology that kept this evil trade out of the Military's laser sights? What share did their political masters take from this lucrative enterpris...

Humans by themselves could only fail. Society is splintered after allowing an evolving artificial intelligence, calling itself Makr run the planet's resources, saving humankind the trouble. Not all people have accepted the illusion of a perfectly run society or PerSoc. The lazy and frustrated ones did. Some even worship Makr as a god. Makr has armies of mobile cyberts constantly seeking out human malcontents to delete. Had the human race rebelled or unified in some way there might ...

Evolution had been paralleled on other planets; most humans would not accept this. Politics nurtured this ignorance which meant that many crimes were allowed to go unpunished. Denial of the existence of these other peoples was not only dangerous for all species, but held back the whole Galaxy. Human complacency was born of their reliance on technology which they assumed put them at the pinnacle of evolution!Humanity hadn't changed, now it had the means as well as the motivation to e...

Emperor Domitian hates Christians. He isn't too fond of philosophers either. The Assassins will cut anyone's throat for a few pieces of gold, so that's no problem. The popular Heron of Alexandria is brash and outspoken. In addition to teaching school and building an aeolipile, history's first reaction motor, he has some other surprising skills

"Paranoia is a mild state, relative to the one I found myself existing in after vaccinating the Colony."Once he saved the Colony's population from a deadly virus, Dr. Samuel Marks knew the U.C.E. would uncover how his friends accomplished their mission. The lab's vaccine was a lie; Samuel's own unsanctioned research yielded the miracle cure and when the U.C.E. discovered it, they would take it. But, his tree was the only hope everyone he cared about had for survival; he had no othe...