A Swarm Cycle Story
Set in Thinking Horndog's Swarm Cycle, this pickup story follows two very different families extracted from the same location. Jason stops to help a young girl walking home in the snow, and... Why would Bob White's Covey decline to be picked up - on multiple occasions? Readers advise me that I should let you know characters from "THE Harem Tales" and "Woody" begin to appear in Chapter 2. Having read these stories will help. A character list would not.
An experimental NASA flight goes horribly and the unlucky test pilot wakes up unhurt, back home. Struggling to discover what happened, Eric Morgan returns to NASA prepared to face a thousand questions. Is he still human or a new species? Eric encountered something in the dead of space which left him forever changed. Testifying at a Congressional subcommittee, he inspires fear and hope. As the danger mounts, the rest of the world won't allow him to walk away. / (Reviews)
Combat medic Vance Riker only wanted to save the wounded Valtharian princess bleeding out in a crashed dropship. He didn't plan to trigger an irreversible genetic bonding. Or get her pregnant with quadruplets. Or accidentally start peace negotiations that would end a twelve-year war. Now he's married to alien royalty, director of an interspecies breeding program, and committed to fathering twenty hybrid children. His mother-in-law is a eight-foot warrior empress. His sister-in-law hunts human ma
To be human is not something that can be defined by any one individual. Rachele has her own code of ethics and views having lived in a world alongside other humans. Ghok is an alien with a culture all his own, but becomes more human than he is. Yet the question that arises is: what does it mean to be human?
Mankind learned how to get out of Earth's gravity well for pennies per kilogram. Orbital mining changed the global culture. Then a very smart kid turned polymath discovered a star drive.
A story in the Disunited Front Universe
Dey and Loki are back - and enjoying their vacation. But vacation for a supersoldier and her AI companion in the 22nd century involves more than laying around on the beach and getting a tan. Treasure hunts, terrorist plots, and the threat of global anhillation? All in a day's vacation.
A man is killed by religious militants while protecting his fellow workers. He unexpectedly wakes up to find he's been abducted by aliens and they have an offer for him. He accepts the offer to be placed in an environment like Earth was 35,000 to 40,000 years ago, complete with animals and humans of that time. But there's a catch, it's a one-way trip and he's a star in their version of a reality broadcast show. They supply some gear to help him survive, and now it's up to him to do so. / (Reviews)