Just about all the world's goods are now manufactured by a small group of companies. Most of the time, products fail just outside their lousy six months guarantee and complaining won't get you anywhere.But one day, Jason, out of work and surrounded b...
He woke up in the midst of a terrifying storm, alone in an ice-cave. He has no memory of where, who or even, after examining himself WHAT he was. As the storm passed, he recalled one fact - he served an unknown master, forced to collect crystals...
Dumped on an alien world, with no memory of his past, and among a strange bunch of people who had filled their own blank memories with myth and legend, what do you do?
If you just agree with the others, you stand a good chance of losing wha...
Long after the mighty dogs of war had barked their last three primitive settlements struggle to survive, distant but connected by a fragile wooden trackway. Brent sails the trackways between the settlements, ferrying materials and goods from his f...
The prospect looked grim for Jed; alone, his escape pod crashed on an uncharted planet with no hope of rescue. But after he died a painful grizzly death in the dry desert things began to look up. The lifeless planet that Jed now roams turns out to...
When the odds are stacked against you to the degree that survival seems impossible, and you make it, you can't be blamed for feeling a little brighter than most. Buoyed up with this feeling of being just about the brightest being in the known...
Fed up to the back teeth with Earth's population, greedy, warring and corrupt, Cresswell decides to up-sticks and spend the rest of his days in a space tug mining asteroids. At last with all the peace and solitude that he craved, life was more bea...
Jassic Koblintz or as he was known to the greater universe, Jas was destined for great things. Cherry-Picked from university by 'The Grey Man' and indoctrinated into the great and secret organisation within the Confederation of Planets formally kn...
A generation-ship bound for a new Earth plunges through space for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. Within, the teaching device broken, the true nature of the ship long forgotten and the Captain unseen, Glyn stumbles upon the ancient journal o...
Explore Strange worlds and unsettling futures in this collection of seven stories by David Reynolds-Moreton.Moreton writes with a direct simplicity that harks back to the golden age of science fiction, and so many of his stories connect with each oth...
Two travellers set out to explore a hidden Mayan temple, lost for thousands of years now revealed in the recently unearthed journals of a dead explorer.But it becomes clear that there was more to the temple than just sacrifice and the worship of stra...
The Nuclear Submarine Tristan is missing…Lost during a solar storm of unprecedented ferocity, the crew emerge from the safety of the depths to find themselves in uncharted waters. Totally alone and cut off from all of humanity, they face a bleak pr...
In a land ruled by outdated beliefs, two friends find themselves cast out of society simply for asking too many questions.Manlen and fellow outcast Glen are forced to roam the land from one primitive society to another looking not only for a better w...
Fourteen short stories of various possibilities. Read them with an open mind. Do not reject something out of unthinking option; Just a thought - remember, that which you resist, you become the effect of, to the degree that you resist it! - enjoy.<...
A dark ugly shape appeared close to Mars, and proceeded to wipe out the mining colonies there. It looked as if Earth would be next, so a probe was sent up to investigate - it disappeared in a puff of dust. The only hope mankind had was to approach...
Borg Grisling considered himself just an ordinary research engineer at the Institute, but someone else thought of him as exceptional - hence the adventure which is about to unfold. The planet he would visit was like nothing known before, and there...
Bod was a loner, more by chance then intention. He was always on the lookout for things to aid his survival, and some of the things he found were to change his life and those of his friends for ever. His little clan was all that was left (as far a...
Alto didn’t think of himself as a slave, but he was. Alto’s clan served the priests in the city from their primitive village in the jungle, risking their lives to collect strange seed pods. Periodically, an emissary from the city would arrive, tr...
Bradford's escape module crashed landed on a seemingly mundane and ordinary planet - but it was anything but ordinary. His badly damaged body was rescued by a creature only seen in your worst nightmare. Humanoid and something frighteningly alien b...
In a faraway Galaxy, a solar system of some four planets came under threat from an alien force. On one of the planets, a civilisation had developed, split in two, and gone their separate ways. Their salvation from destruction will depend upon some...
After informing the General Council of their success in using Kono's (Stinky's) mind blast in destroying the target ship (with the comatosed man from the mountain tribe inside), Zuki thought he should visit his parents, who by now would be worried...
In a faraway Galaxy, a solar system of some four planets came under threat from an alien force. On one of the planets, a civilisation had developed, split in two, and gone their separate ways. Their salvation from destruction will depend upon someone...
Grant was a tough individual, he had to be in order to survive, but he had one weakness - the chance of great riches tempted him beyond his common sense. He was quick to learn, but sometimes not quite quick enough to stay out of trouble. One...
Ellis had a good memory, and when he saw the advertisement in a National newspaper, he was intrigued to say the least of it. Little did he know that the impossible had been achieved to some degree - and he would put the finishing touches to a new...