Now complete! ~~~ WE WON THE WAR, BUT CAN WE SURVIVE THE NIGHT? Nineteen years ago, the Maydays attacked. Five colossal monsters rose from the earth and laid waste to cities around the globe, pushing humanity to the brink of extinction. Now those monsters are our slaves, fighting each other for our amusement in brutal...
A Knights of the Old Republic fan fiction. In orbit over a backwater world named Taris, the Endar Spire, a Republic vessel, is being torn apart by the Sith battle fleet. Survivors flee in escape pods, crashing onto the cityscape that covers Taris. One such survivor is Seth Kast. A battle-hardened veteran who has b...
We've known that the moon is dead since Apollo. But what if something lay dormant in the dust, waiting to be found? In 2028, Mark Noble is conducting a survey of a moon crater. The entity secretly grabs a ride back to Moonbase on Mark's buggy. Once in the habitat, it begins to infect the crew. They find themselves in...
Corporal Greg Walker has just awoken in an icebound nightmare. With the decades-long war between his own race and the collective of genocidal, religious zealots known only as the Covenant comes to what might be an apocalyptic end, and the Covenant at long last finding humanity's homeworld, Greg is burning with rage...
MINDSLIP is the catastrophe which hits the Earth at 8.15am GMT next Wednesday morning. It began six hundred and fifty years earlier when Betelgeuse fulfilled its long-held prophecy to turn supernova. The radiation, gamma rays and gravitational waves hit the Earth at the same time as a coronal mass ejection. The comb...
Federation takes close encounters to a whole new level. A galactic empire of a quarter of a million worlds stumbles across the Earth. Their philosophy on life is totally unexpected. With the help of intelligent automatons, they've turned a reviled political system into a utopia for the masses, but are they a force for...
The fate of a kingdom rests in the hands of three unlikely heroes: a garrulous half-human mercenary, a meek mage who hasn't finished his training, and an ill-tempered archeress who loathes her two companions. What could possibly go wrong?
It is always very difficult to debunk conspiracy theories because the claims made by the conspiracists need no justification at all and are often based on an actual ignorance of the science. Debunking their claims requires an understanding of basic scientific procedure at the very least, the exact knowledge they lack...
An experiment leaves a man with no memories and the ability to pass through solid objects as a living shadow, but will his new powers let him escape before the dark purposes of his captors are realized?
A small team of battle-hardened Orbital Drop Shock Troopers are given a strangely simple assignment in an isolated region of space. As they settle into orbit over a small colony world named Darkholm, Corporal Ashton Kane feels his suspicions growing. The seemingly simple assignment complicates when scans show a stra...
Eric Bishop's life has stalled in a way he never quite expected. At twenty seven years old, he thought that he would be more than thrilled to run security for a top-secret government research installation out in the middle of nowhere. He's spent just over two years at the Black Mesa Research Facility. He's good at h...
Understanding what is happening in space research is no longer a matter of watching a documentary once a year, or reading the odd abridged article in a newspaper. It requires a comprehensive knowledge of all things NASA, ESA, Roscosmos and the work going on in universities around the world. I have tried to keep up to...
Computer updates are simple, right? Apparently, that's not always the case when it involves a Spaceship's AI in the middle of deep space. We have always relied upon technology to travel through space, but sometimes that very same technology has a mind of its own... (This story has a happy ending) -------- Sneak Peek: ...
The year is 2083, and for the last 40 years, Humanity has enjoyed a golden age of science and technology, due to breakthrough faster-than-light space travel. Colonies flourished from population spikes, creating thriving economies and large industries. But the peace is soon to be shattered when colonial scientists awak...
This was a short story I wrote for the recent XPrize "Seat 14C" competition (https://seat14c.com). Although I didn't win, I think I came up with something special here. The premise was simple but intriguing: Create a first-person account of the passenger in Seat 14C, on ANA Flight #008, as this passenger discovers the...
Henry Mackay and his dog regularly walk alongside an ancient convent wall. Today, as he passes the green door, he glances at its peeling paint. Moments later he stops dead in his tracks. He returns to the spot, and all he sees is an ivy-covered wall. The door has vanished! He unwittingly embarks on an exciting trail...
Survival is more than air and water when you're being hunted by the undead. Worst yet, when you caused it. Willow ascends into what she believes is an answer to prayer, leaving the harsh realities of the world below behind her. But when she arrives onboard Proc 1, nothing is as it seems. She's quickly indoctrinat...
Specialist astronaut Evelyn Slater encounters a small, badly damaged, ancient alien artefact on the first ever space-junk elimination mission. Where was it from? Who'd sent it? International governments impose a security clampdown. Evelyn leads a team of hand-picked scientists who make amazing discoveries within the a...
A full novelization of the DOOM universe. The year is 2145. The Union Aerospace Corporation is the largest company in human history. It deals in everything from weapons technology to medicine to space travel. It is worth trillions and has remote research outposts all over the solar system. But the UAC is about t...
Colonel Bill Butcher is a reluctant hero, but he is given a second chance by the Republic's Joint Chiefs of Staff. He takes command of the Special Unit: Odin's Spear. In a secret deal, he enters into an agreement with the ambitious corporate executive, Jacqueline Buren. She promises to guarantee his victory in the des...
Nearly a year ago an alien race had laid claim to our world. But through the sacrifice of so many the Druidth quickly learned of Human Determination and the mountains it can move. As Operation Unity continues across the world hero's are made and justice wrought. However, the Alien War Machine will not be defeated so...
Three hundred years after Earth’s sentient internet takes the planet into Singularity—and out of spacetime—to avoid a sun going supernova ahead of schedule, the fleeing Martian colonists have found another kind of liberation. Using space warping ships they spread their seed across Andromeda. But if Frakas, the genius...
Unwritten, is the massively inaccurate and possibly fictional account of David and Atticus and their nine month disappearance. Warning the following story contains people, flimsy philosophical arguments, occasional banter and the possibility of flashing light effects. Do not read this if you wish to preserve your san...
The Company mining town of Thurber, Texas has fallen off the map. Some want to keep it that way. Others seek the truth. But its plague-infected residents have a mind of their own. "Forget emergency landing procedures. When reading Twitch and Die! all one can do is hold on for dear life." "Disguised as double-fisted pu...
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Well we know he's been writing pretty much nothing but horror of late, and if you haven't checked out his 'ZEDS,' series then you probably should, but apparently he writes sci-fi, too! In this, the second TK special to feature a rather prolific - though not the most prolific, by any stretch of the imagination! - con...
In 1908 a comet exploded above the pristine forest of Tunguska in the middle of Siberia. Unknown to many, however, was that the physical remains of the comet was acquired by the army of the Tsar and locked away to be forgotten. Until in 1953 the KGB uncovered what was hidden. Now, the power of the Tunguska Artifact ha...
Max Larson is a relic hunter in a human galactic empire where the only aliens found are long extinct. However, he's going to find more than treasure in an ancient temple he's exploring, and this discovery will put him on the trail of the biggest score of all time, if he can survive. NOTE: This is my side project while...
In the year 300056, we ran out on planet Earth. Mass production was the new low, and some humans left, headed in the direction of a new, more prosperous life. Those humans bred with aliens and created a new genus of humans, referred to as Hybrids. However, some humans stayed on Earth, in hopes to try and create a bett...