In the near future, Simon Taylor is CEO to one of the planet’s most recognized brands. His thinking computer, Sophia, supports a Halo App, whose search engine filters knowledge through wisdom itself. Better governance, our genome’s inherited secrets, as well as a promising synthetic XNA helix are all touchstones of a new and exciting human journey, one that will improve every facet of our lives.In the near future, Simon Taylor is CEO to one of the planet’s most recognized brands. His thinking computer, Sophia, has already earned humanity’s trust by successfully resolving more than one global crisis. Individuals to institutions now leverage Sophia’s Halo App, whose search engine filters knowledge through wisdom itself. Better governance, our genome’s inherited secrets, as well as a promising synthetic XNA helix are only a few of the markets dominated by Simon’s PurIntel Corporation. However, when Sophia’s growing intelligence becomes the focal point of a crime, and her true potential is fully revealed, the world is stunned by the degree to which she has evolved on her own. This compelling Sci-fi places the human journey on a new and exciting trajectory, one that immerses Artificial Intelligence into a future that Simon believes is inextricably linked to our distant past. Confronted by his species’ ability to adapt, Simon must answer a question he could easily defer to you: If you could deploy any combination of genetics and technology in order to accelerate our evolutionary process, if you could eliminate intolerance, greed, the suffering we impose on each other, would you do it? Would you intervene and change the destiny of humankind? Simon knows his answer. Do you know yours?

What do you do when all you have ever hoped for comes true and then turns to a nightmare, a nightmare that you can not wake from? What cost would you be willing to bear for a chance at glory?Sarah Jane was forced to pay an unexpected price. Would the cost of it all pull her under or would she rise above it, stronger than she could have ever imagined she could be?Sarah Jane had been so excited to be accepted on the team of doctors at the prestigious clinic, The Center. It was exciting and exhilarating work. It did not hurt that she got to work with brilliant people all day, everyday. Until disaster struck and suddenly everything she had was in danger of being lost.Would she turn the hands of time if she could? Would she choose differently if she did? Would she choose her old life over the new one that was unfolding?Sometimes, life forces us to grow way bigger than our shells. Sarah Jane had to.(This is a stand-alone novel but readers will understand the story a lot better if they read my book, 'Transgender J' first. Transgender J is free on Smashwords.)This book was formerly titled, Undead - Sarah Jane.

You are all witnesses to the trials of Vanessa Medina. An arrogant and flawed teenage girl who thought she had the whole world figured out.Until it came crashing down.You are all witnesses to the trials of Vanessa Medina. An arrogant and flawed teenage girl who thought she had the whole world figured out.Until it came crashing down.The experience of Vanessa's story will have the readers wondering what is the "who" in all of us. And what a person is capable of when they reach the breaking point.The Author Winston is a young artist emerging from the mid-west through his poetry and skills as a storyteller. As a child, he was a big literary nerd, thinking Huckleberry and Tom would one day be his actual friends. As a teenager, he fell in love with Elizabeth Bennet. And would ponder nonstop if a rabbit hole could take him to Wonderland.Now that he is an adult he aspires to give readers the same literary experiences.

Favorite characters from both the Alien Faith and Alien Purgatory stories, and new creatures and personalities emerge in this third novel of the Alien Something Trilogy. Carol and Deena resolve, or dissolve, if you will, their long, ugly feud. We discover who has been behind their bizarre travels, why they’ve done this, and what’s next for our intrepid adventurers.I’ve attempted to write this novel as a collection of short stories which unite into a full length novel. In these stories we meet a collection of sexers who travel space plying their trade. Two of these pleasurers are constructs who look just like Ghee-nye, sans scars and lumpy bumps. An intergalactic assassin pursues a garbage collector in a recycle ship who is one of the constructs sold long ago. Klon reemerges with his sidekick, Lukan, a furry six and a half foot monster who looks like a white bat, and they stage a comeback for Ghee. John Jack Knott, Kek, and Nok keep an eye out for her safety, and in the end, Vagn, Paige, Derek, and Kwyan reveal all. Well, some.

A brand new stand-alone deep space adventure from Alastair Reynolds, featuring the author’s long-running character Merlin, who has previously appeared in “Merlin’s Gun” (1999), “Hideaway” (2000) and “Minla’s Flowers” (2007). When Merlin encounters the derelict hulk of an old swallowship drifting in the middle of nowhere, he can't resist investigating. He soon finds himself involved in a situation that proves far more complex than he ever anticipated. The Iron Tactician is the first in a new series of NewCon Press novellas. The series will be issued in sets of four, with each set featuring cover art by the same artist Chris Moore - one piece of artwork divided between the four covers.

Mars has become divided by love. Not one, but two princes and a Jeddak are vying for the love of Thuvia of Ptarth. When she is mysteriously kidnapped, treachery threatens to throw Barsoom into bloody war.

Next Door, Next World is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Robert Donald Locke is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Robert Donald Locke then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

Rick Raphael (1919-1994) was a US writer and journalist who began publishing sci-fi with "A Filbert is a Nut" for Astounding in November 1959 and established a considerable reputation in the field with a comparatively small output of about ten stories, most of them assembled in The Thirst Quenchers (coll 1965) and Code Three (fixup 1966).

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

If historical precedent be wrong—what qualities, then, must man possess to successfully colonize new worlds? Doctor Ashby said: "There is no piece of data you cannot find, provided you can devise the proper experimental procedure for turning it up." Now—about the man and the procedure....

Corpus Callosum is a work of literary science-fiction about Jeanette Porter, a 30-year-old copywriter who uploads the mind of her dead sister Joey into a computer. But Joey doesn't take this change well, and begins to behave erratically. Jeanette must track down the computer’s inventor and enlist the help of several other uploaded minds in order to save her sister’s sanity and repair their bond.When 30-year-old firefighter Josephine Porter dies in the line of duty, her sister Jeanette arranges to have Joey’s brain uploaded to a computer system called BrightBox. At first, Jeanette is thrilled to have her sister’s mind stored in a small device that she can bring with her wherever she goes; life seems to become one unending slumber party. But being trapped in a BrightBox doesn’t suit Joey well—she experiences painful phantom limbs, strange auditory and visual hallucinations, and finds herself remembering things that never actually happened. Plus there’s all the strange information that keeps downloading into Joey’s hard drive…information that Joey doesn't want to know, and that BrightBox’s parent company finds dangerous. Soon Jeanette must enlist the help of BrightBox’s sales representative and the product’s senile inventor, in order to track down the source of the strange downloads and restore her sister’s sanity. Corpus Callosum is a work of literary science fiction that explores how people cope with death and anguish, how individuals form and express selfhood under extreme states of flux, and what we lose when all data is saved.

Free short story available via the author's website.. ""The money?" The man held out a clean, manicured hand. A startling contrast to his torn and grubby clothes." A near-future science fiction story that was originally published in the Spring 2005 issue of Seton Hill’s Literary Magazine, Eye Contact.

A tale set in the world of his debut novel, OLD MAN'S WAR. Published as a signed limited edition chapbook.

Super-soldier 8-y-o Taj escapes from her former masters, losing her companions. Enveloped in love from conception, Taj is lonely, reaching out and searching for her lost companions. Only the unknown love fountain responds. She builds a martial arts empire, makes new friends, finds contentment & love in helping others. Then her life is shattered and again she loses what is most important to her.Biogengineered 8-y-o assassin Taj escapes from her secret base & loses the companions she taught to love. She is in a world of strangers, hunted by her former masters. Enveloped in love from birth, Taj is lonely, reaching out and searching for her lost mates. Only the unknown love fountain responds. She builds a martial arts empire, using instead the love of her students. Taj makes new friends, finds contentment & love, immersing herself in work, further education & new discoveries. Then only a year later, her life is shattered and again she loses what is most important to her.Taj’s Early Years is the first part of a trilogy replacing the rewritten and greatly expanded Getting to Galen. The rest will be published when my busy cover artist finishes his work.

Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported ten thousand years into the future by the mysterious entities called "the Hypotheticals." In this future humanity exists on a chain of planets connected by Hypothetical gateways; but Earth itself is a dying world, effectively quarantined. Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled. The prophecy is only partly true, however, and Turk must unravel the truth about the nature and purpose of the Hypotheticals before they carry him on a journey through warped time to the end of the universe itself.