Ham Sandwich is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by James H. Schmitz is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of James H. Schmitz then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

Stairway to the Stars is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Larry T. Shaw is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Larry T. Shaw then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

In this short story, space is a harsh, unforgiving place - especially if you're holding a fish.*Contains adult themes and language. Not for the faint of heart or the narrow of mind.*This story is a companion piece to 'The Elf and The Ogre, which by the way is also completely free.Forever Ends is one of many self-contained tales of an aberrant future. Find more in 'Breaking Benjamin', available in print or e-book.

In the year 2494, time the last frontier had just been conquered, and the two most powerful megalomaniacs in the galaxy each want control of it.An out of work twenty first century researcher battles against a time storm, the jungle, a tribe of Troglodytes, an alien invader, and finally a space pirate, to stop them.In the year 2494, time the last frontier had just been conquered, and the two most powerful megalomaniacs in the galaxy each want control of it.An out of work twenty first century researcher is caught up in a time storm, where he first battles against the universe itself to survive. Finally released from its clutches he must do battle against the jungle, a tribe of Troglodytes, an army of androids and finally an old evil, the Heliots. All the answers for our hero are to be found in the aftermath of the time storm upon the lonely planet of Orion.

Pirates, Bots and Ghost ships, oh my! Captain Anker and his lovable band of misfits have found a legendary Star liner that was lost hundreds of years ago during the golden era of space exploration. Only one thing stands between them and riches, well make that two things and maybe an insane Artificial Intelligence thrown into the mix. Now with more pop culture and a corgi thrown in!The defiance, a small fast cargo ship in which Captain Anker runs his galactic salvage business. Anker and the crew are on their way back from some time off when they discover an abandoned lost space liner from the golden age of space exploration. The Golden sun is huge and beautiful an example of the opulence of early space exploration.This will not be an easy job though, something is just not right on board the golden sun.

Stan is recruited by the CIA for its ultra top secret Tarizon Repopulation project. His first assignment is to defend a woman accused of murdering her children and alien husband. The alien husband, however, is not from Mexico but Tarizon, a planet in another solar system.Stan is recruited by the CIA for its ultra top secret Tarizon Repopulation project. His first assignment is to defend a woman accused of murdering her children and alien husband. The alien husband, however, is not from Mexico but Tarizon, a planet in another solar system. Stan must not only prove his client innocent but also make sure nobody finds out the government is allowing aliens to live and propagate on Earth. While Stan is busy with his CIA project, Paula is asked to defend the accused in the arson-murder of a prominent scientist and his family. While a bitter feud between neighbors over a barking dog and a chain link fence appears to be the motive for the crime, Paula discovers several others who have benefitted from Chester Brown's death.In the midst of the two murder investigations Stan is lured into a dangerous relationship with an alien woman assigned to keep an eye on him. He soon learns the women of Tarizon are much more dangerous than those on Earth.

Five billion years ago The Beyonder became the first starship to reach the planet Doldoria. Meanwhile on that planet a primitive being named Alldegallo dreams about gods from the stars who are coming. He becomes a prophet who predicts that the gods shall soon change their simple steam-powered animal-pulled world for all time. Other aliens of this galactic empire will also never be the same.Almost five billion years ago there arose the galactic empire of Nephapricus that encompassed the galaxy from one side to the other connected by advanced wormhole technologies. The book Voyage of the Beyonder begins the story of this culture where they first began the age of hyper-acceleration to over half the speed of light. These incredible speeds caused changes to their DNA that mutated them from the terrestrial aliens that were evolving on different planets into galactic beings who lived exponentially longer lives. Voyage of the Beyonder is a full-length novel where each chapter has had an illustration by artist Davol White included as part of the writing process. The title of this latest book by DD White, ‘Voyage of the Beyonder,’ is about Nephapricus, which is an alien word for a galactic culture that rose and fell billions of years before the planet Earth was even conceived. Nephapricus began as a cluster of 15 tightly packed stars where three separate intelligent species of aliens evolved on separate planets that were orbiting the stars named Ea, Poa, and Dol. This book chronicles the journey of a member of the Nephrican alien species who was the first to travel from the star Ea to the star Dol. He was a three-legged one-eyed squid-like alien, and his name was Captain Mynervood. In this story he is the first to travel to the planet Doldoria where the intelligent life there still lived in primitive superstitious societies. Doldorians were beings with exoskeleton anatomies that could see and speak with the dead, and they practiced a plurality of religions and mystical forms of magic. The third species of aliens in this story were the Pripicans who were 4-legged furry beings that looked like mythical centaurs. Pripicans were the victors in the Great War between planets against the Nephricans. Pripicans were also the inventors of the quantum-bit technologies, which were starting to inundate this galactic culture at the time of the story. The quantum-bit technology in this story was also used to make artificially intelligent forms of microscopic beings that were more intelligent than any organic life form, they were immortal, and their microscopic size made them virtually invisible. Nephapricus goes back to the beginning of this alien culture, and begins to chronicle the history of this legendary galactic civilization that rose and fell in the 2nd Age of Magphoreus, long before this present galactic dark age where we exist in ignorance of our rich galactic history, and the true nature of our existence possibly remains blind under the mysterious shadow of these highly evolved ancient aliens.

Chosen to be the Advocates of the mystical and incorporeal Guardians of Peace, twins Tymos and Kryslie must first learn to control and use the power rising in them - or it will destroy them.On Tymorea, only the ruling Triumvirate Governors are powerful enough to guide the strong-willed alien-bred twins until they have mastered their power.The Tymorean Trust - When peace rules Tymorea - Peace reigns in the universe.Chosen to be the Advocates of the mystical and incorporeal Guardians of Peace, twins Tymos and Kryslie must first learn to control and use the power rising in them - or it will destroy them.On Tymorea, only the ruling Triumvirate Governors are powerful enough to guide the strong-willed alien-bred twins until they have mastered their power.But even as Tymos and Kryslie are pushed ever harder to learn skills and wisdom, alien infiltrators are secretly finalising plans to undermine and destroy the ruling Royal elite, enslave the common people, and reform the planetary terrain to suit their own needs.To achieve this, the alien Warlords have already corrupted susceptible Royals, and learnt that Tymos and Kryslie are two of three who are destined to protect the Tymorean Trust and thus thwart their plans.However, Tymos and Kryslie must leave the protected Royal Estate to begin to learn of their other gifts and to come to understand their destiny, even though this will place them in deadly peril.

The Interdimensional Dilemmas of IAN and Betty is an episodic SFF story that reads like a cross between Doctor Who and Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series. Betty Mortimer is a theoretical researcher who one day meets the man she'd thought only existed in thesis. He takes her on an adventure through dimensions and what's waiting for them on the other side will be the challenge of Betty's life.Betty Mortimer has spent her career researching Dimension theory, only to be stonewalled by her colleagues when she suggests that other dimensions bleed into ours. Not only that, but if her theories are correct, there is an intelligent agency that moves through the bleeds. On the edge of abandoning her work, one day Betty receives a strange letter, purporting to be from the very same intelligence of which she had written – and he's inviting her to experience a bleed firsthand.Enter IAN, who takes Betty on an interdimensional adventure where everything she had ever held to be true will be questioned. Journey with them to a place where truth is stranger than fiction and myths are reality. Meet Madame Gabriella Papillon, a lady with questionable motives and a strange thirst; her loyal servant, Schreck, whose quiet menace is palpable; her mysterious friend, locked away for crimes of infamy; the things that reside underneath her estate. Find the secret of the Ancients and experience the perilous expeditions of IAN and Betty.

What looks like a cathedral suddenly begins to emerge from the sands of the Mojave Desert. Scientist believe it is a natural phenomenon but a local religious leader insists it is a sign from the Lord of the second coming of Christ.Due to a freak auto accident, Jack Carpenter discovers a strange geological formation in the Mojave Desert near Bat Mountain, California. He thinks little about it until he returns out of curiosity and discovers the formation is growing, and doing so at a staggering rate. Fascinated by this, he calls in his friend George Parker, a local geology professor, and together they begin to study the Bat Mountain Formation in earnest.Professor Parker has never seen or heard of a geological formation that is growing nearly six inches a day, so he contacts a friend at the U.S. Park Service to get him to take a look. Eventually word of the bizarre discovery gets out and people flock to see this miracle in the desert, which is beginning to look like a cathedral. Seeing an opportunity to save his failing Church of the Living Desert, Reverend John Little proclaims that the Bat Mountain Formation is, indeed, a cathedral and it is being built by God to herald the second coming of Christ.But before Reverend Little and his flock can get their movement off the ground, the U.S. Army steps in and declares the formation a potential public hazard and possible threat to national security. A series of mysterious deaths and the inability of scientist to explain the phenomenon gives credence to the Army's concern.

The legendary White Buffalo Calf Woman said that when the last buffalo dies, the world will end. The zookeeper caring for the only remaining American Bison is about to see that prophecy fulfilled.Dr. John Hollow Horn is a zoo veterinarian entrusted with the world’s last American Bison. Hollow Horn is dying of lung cancer, and the world around him is dying, too, suffocated and starved by pollution and decay.He shares with his colleagues the Lakota legends he learned as a boy, saying “Guess now that I’m getting near the end, I’m getting closer to my beginnings.”~ ~ ~ ~This dystopian science fiction short story is based on the legend of the White Buffalo Calf Woman, who prophesied that when the last buffalo dies, the world will end.

“Nano Stories from Hilbert Space” are very short stories set in the whimsical world of Hilbert Space."Fully Automated" is the tale of a race of aliens, who face a unique challenge on their way to a free civilization. Their fate serves as a warning, that in a world, dominated by economy, capitalism and money, automation can be seen as an extinction event.“Nano Stories from Hilbert Space” are very short stories (no longer than 4000 words each) set in the whimsical world of Hilbert Space. Hilbert Space, a very special region of the universe, is a rather unique place. Inhabited by dozens of space faring civilizations and spanning hundreds of systems, it is home to thousands of stories worth telling. While the laws of physics, which lead to the rest of space being quite dull and boring for the most part, are acknowledged here, Hilbert Space is known to find many workarounds, loopholes, and compromises that ensure that it is a dangerous, yet also extremely entertaining domain. "Fully Automated" is the tale of the Parokk, an alien race that lives peacefully and happily on their planet Parogia. But then something terrible happens: Due to technological progress the Parokk can have everything they wish for, wihtout the need to work. While other races simply accept their fate and live as a free society of scientists, artists and philosophers, the Parokk choose to fight. They fight for their right to do manual labour, their right to serve the Corporation and ultimately their right to earn barely enough to survive.

It's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone. Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is perhaps the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear. Within the FAYZ, life breaks down while the Darkness takes over, literally—turning the dome-world of the FAYZ entirely black. In darkness, the worst fears of all emerge, and the cruelest of intentions are carried out. But even in their darkest moments, the inhabitants of the FAYZ maintain a will to survive and a desire to take care of the others in their ravaged band that endures, no matter what the cost. Fear, Michael Grant's fifth book in the bestselling dystopian Gone series, will thrill readers . . . even as it terrifies them.

2000 B.C. A beautiful, ambitious angel stands on a mountaintop, surveying the world and its little inhabitants below. He smiles because soon, the last of humanity who survived the great flood will meet its end, too. And he should know. He’s going to play a big part in it. Our angel usually doesn’t get to do field work, and if he does well, he’s certain he’ll be get a big promotion. And now it’s time . . . The angel reaches into his pocket for the instrument of humanity’s doom. Must be in the other pocket. Then he frantically begins to pat himself down. Dejected, he realizes he has lost the object. Looking over the Earth at all that could have been, the majestic angel utters a single word. “Crap.” 2015 A thief named Coop-a specialist in purloining magic objects-steals and delivers a small box to the mysterious client who engaged his services. Coop doesn’t know that his latest job could be the end of him-and the rest of the world. Suddenly he finds himself in the company of the Department of Peculiar Science, a fearsome enforcement agency that polices the odd and strange. The box isn’t just a supernatural heirloom with quaint powers, they tell him. It’s a doomsday device. They think. . . And suddenly, everyone is out to get it.

All space was electrified as that harsh challenge rang out . . . but John Endlich hesitated. For he saw beyond his own murder -- saw the horror and destruction his death would unleash -- and knew he dared not fight back! The space ship landed briefly, and John Endlich lifted the huge Asteroids Homesteaders Office box, which contained everything from a prefabricated house to toothbrushes for his family, down from the hold-port without help or visible effort. In the tiny gravity of the asteroid, Vesta, doing this was no trouble at all. But beyond this point the situation was -- bitter.