Science Fiction Stories

A story in the The Human Nexus Universe
One night between midnight and six AM Eastern, most of the people of the world died. No one knew why; there was no warning; they simply stopped. Some survived to live a few extra hours or days. In the USA, this meant that most folks died in their beds. Streets, roads, and bridges remained mostly open. In other parts of the world, the timing was such that the visible carnage was horrendous. For the dead, neither situation mattered a whit. After a week, humanity was dead - all but a very few.

Ten thousand years in the future, the galaxy is ruled in peace and prosperity by the Galactic Concordant and protected by the Starship Corps - humanoid robots with superhuman abilities, housing digitized consciousnesses as their crews. Hornet Abernathy, a shy Terran, dreams of nothing but becoming one of these beings...and she's about to get her wish! As she begins her training, the galaxy comes under threat from an ancient and implacable foe... / (Reviews)

Alien Android tech to the extreme! The military's plan to use them as stealth assassins meant holding good scientists hostage until perfected. After that those good folks were expendable. Think again assholes! With the help of one good soldier those geniuses made their escape. While their human bodies were left behind, 25 made it out in the bodies of their pet projects. God rest the souls of those less fortunate. As if they thought they could escape forever. Safe for now! Haven can wait!

Jeff Huston somehow gets flipped back to 1877 in southern New Mexico Territory. He finds that his training as a Marine sniper in Iraq does him a world of good as he lives his new life in the midst of the Indian Wars. His old hobby of Cowboy Shooting is just icing on the cake. The only dialect is in some of the dialogue. This story is in answer to requests for another time-travel Western.

A Third Empire of Man Story
After being kicked out of the Galactic Marines Tom O'Connor in search of work when he discovers wanted posters the leading him to become a bounty hunter.

Being a superhero really isn't all it's cracked up to be. Especially with 'powers' like this.

Edward is a common angel suddenly charged with training a small army of angelic warriors and leading them into battle against the forces of darkness. Will Edward be able to succeed at his assigned task or will his past, his enemies, and the secrets of his companions conspire to destroy him; and is anything really what it seems in this madness?