Interplanetary Stories

A retired pilot had thought she'd seen it all, until she's asked to become part of the first crew for a spaceship destined to land on a new planet. ✫ ✬ ✫ ✬ Genevieve Autumn considered herself retired. She had served her time in the Air Force as a pilot, and in the Army as an officer. At least, she considered herself retired until she found herself on board the Patriot I, one of the first two spaceships to ever leave Earth. The Patriot I is a smaller, weaponized ship with a tough crew to escort the Pioneer, a ship full of humans meant to colonize the far-away planet Z-031. The main issue is that Z-031 is thousands of years away. Even with Earth's advanced technology, it will take three hundred years to arrive. The Pioneer is a Generational Ship, meant to survive in flight for so long. The Patriot is not. The crew will have to be cryogenically-frozen within the ship, asleep in flight for three centuries. As soon as Genevieve opens her eyes after centuries of being asleep, everything goes wrong. The crew remains asleep. The ship doesn't have enough power to sustain them. Her mind is turning against her with the side-effects of the cryogenic-freezing sleep. Lastly, there are enemies lurking just outside the hull of her ship. Genevieve is losing track of what is happening, but what she knows for sure is that none of it is what she signed up for. Author's note: I can't believe I need to specify this, but this story has no affiliation with politics. --Currently undergoing editing! It needs major work, so you've been warned.--

In a future where humans have become interplanetary, Heather is one of the first people to set foot on Proxima Centauri B. The planet has been thought to be uninhabited until Heather finds a small creature outside of the dome she lives in, but that isn't the only creature roaming the desert. Her discovery ends up putting the whole colony in danger. Cover art and editing by: Zack Bechtel

"MUNE'STAHR and PYLOTT: HELLMARROW" is an epic tale of interstellar/cross-dimensional adventure featuring RIKTONN MUNE'STAHR and KESHURA PYLOTT, former Territorial Expanse SpecOps Troop officers in the Hegemonic Emperium's Extraplanetary High Frontier Extrasolar Naval Fleet. Following the catastrophic events of the Great Cosmic Revocation, that being the return to the Teshiwahurian Homeworld of all Naval Space forces from assignments in the World-Father's far-flung galactic empire, Mune'stahr and Pylott, separated from their naval units, are wrenched from the dimensions of normal Einsteinian SpaceTime to the bizarre cosmic corridor between dimensions known as "The Ventriculum". During a dangerous time of violent internal strife within the World-Father's crumbling interplanetary empire, the two space-armored SpecOps Troop veterans become biologically-bonded with a gigantic, sentient, alien ship called "The Glide", a spherical vessel that follows the programming of its own governing artificial intelligence, known as "Neesharim", on a mysterious mission to police the interdimensional gateways against sorcerers, alien dictators and their armies, space demons and other non-human threats scheming to enslave the Multiverse. Marooned in a colossal, intelligent shiftship that traverses a seemingly endless, omnidirectional fractal metaflow between universes, Mune'stahr and Pylott fight for ultimate Justice and for the control their own fates..." ********************************************************************************* Cover Art by the legendary John Conrad Berkey, copyright © John Berkey / www. johnberkey. com

The interplanetary war has finally come to an end after humans have successfully colonise and integrate in 'foreign' communities but not everyone agrees with their efforts and believes that humans should have left these communities well enough alone, Charlotte is one such freedom fighter and in her quest to try and rewrite history she's gotten herself into a precarious situation that is slowly killing her and she needs help before it's too late. Dylan is a war hero that is struggling to get a grip on his life since the war ended nearly a year ago. In his drunken stupor he meets a young woman who is one of few to challenge him but she mysteriously disappears when he's chasing after her. Two worlds collide but they need each other more than they realised.

When a space portal is used to kill an important elected official, the police are scrambling to get answers before the media gets word and panic can ensue. To help solve the crime, the Intergalactic Police call on the foremost expert of all space portals, Roger Stenely. Accompanied by an expert Detective, Edgar Hort, and a peppy building manager, Olivia Rochester, Roger tries to solve the mystery. But before he can uncover the clues, him and his team are ambushed by brutish alien Dartariot thugs. Fleeing for their lives, Roger opens a portal that accidentally takes them to a toxic planet in another solar system. Their only hope for survival is to do the unthinkable: chase the evil gang leader, Kobold, across the stars to dozens of other worlds collecting clues as they go. The truth they learn uncovers a plot that will shake the entire galaxy and change Roger's life forever.

Bastion, a young mainlander from planet Nebula, is stuck living a meagre existence in the outer deserts. He can feel his mind rotting as he slowly succumbs to the addiction of the cube. His only hope is to escape and find his destiny amongst the stars.

A series of stand-alone vignettes in the universe of "The Heplion Contingency", a space opera / cyberpunk world where psychic powers take the place of technology.

We are in 2037. A man enrols himself and gets finally chosen for the Fifty Entity Mercuria Trip, or usually called FEMT. FEMT is a human colonisation project that aims to create a newly-refreshed society in Mercury, starting with only fifty people. As you may realise, Mercury is the closest planet from the Sun. Studied procedures stated that the trip would take no more than 19 days if everything went as planned. The man we are talking about is called Aras, and he thinks this mission will complete his meaning of life. But the question is: what awaits him in the future? The rocks of hell will be waiting for him and the other forty-nine humans.

A series of short stories about a character's adventures on Mars.

DRAFT: Backstory Captain Tagus Perida and has been tasked with a mission: to scout the Wilderness and probe Mostrel territory - find out what their arch enemy, the Mostrel, are really up to. But Tagus has a mission of his own, avenge his father's death. And a direct order from the Commodore is unlikely to stop him. After the Alecto picks up a special team, they set out. Only to be harassed, diverted, and poked in too many places. Not to mention, have to pick up survivors from Mostrel attacks. When they finally get back to the mission and slip into enemy territory, they soon find they are being hunted down by friend and foe. Set in space, just outside the galaxy core, where the Ky, working with the ages old Empire, have been holding off the onslaught of the Mostrel.

When a pond jumper gets in over his head with a distant planet's crime lord, he has to learn how to navigate through friend and foe and has to decide between abandoning honor or causing an entire quadrant to go dark on the grid.

King Matthew is betrayed by his queen and now he is out for revenge . He is power obsessed and now wants the whols universe for himself but first he must conquer planet Zinmith , a planet that was ruled by his queens lover. He will do anything to colonise it , that may include killing innocent children and in King Matthew words "nobody cares about the little guy, it's all about power" Follow as King Matthew paves way , by destruction #nb this book is for 16+ readers #NB the protagonist of this story is King Matthew #NB this is book 1 in the PLANET PANXIAL series

In the midst of an interplanetary war that has decimated half the earth, there is a small group of people. Teenagers and younger. Just trying to live their lives. Yet it isn't destined to be for them. Meela Delaney, Gree Delaney, Deirdre Thomson, Elbert Credence, Antony and Cara Credence ... this group of people, separated by their positions, find themselves forced together as the war steadily tears apart everything they know and love. Elbert finds himself in a position of leadership. Deirdre is taken from her comfort zone. Meela and Gree try to keep each other safe. And Antony and Cara fight for their brother's safety. But it will not be enough to keep them all safe ...

Roswell Anderson is a StarSoldier from The Interplanetary Republic. He goes to places no human has ever stepped before. This is his journal/story.

An old Ky freighter blunders into the Wilderness, only to find they cannot leave quick enough, and their enemy is on the prowl. This is a Short from the Sunderbans Universe, a rewrite of one of my early space battles I wrote for Sunderbans: K. It's five chapters long and mostly focuses on the bridge crew of the Toronaga as they fight for their lives. Constructive comments/criticism appreciated.

A teacher, a little girl from the streets, a dash of quantum mechanics and an advanced civilisation looking for the next step in Evolution.