Science Fiction Stories

Sometimes our desires to be accepted, to be beautiful to be wanted can have dire consequences. But what lengths would you go to have exactly what you want?

A Tara Story
Part of the Keltria universe
It was pitch black and cold, and an odd smell tickled his nostrils. He had been on his way to a transporter dais that was in Brisbane, Queensland, Earth. He had felt the transition start and then he felt searing pain, freezing cold and blackness. 'What the bloody hell did you do to me, Lee?' he thought. Instinctively, he knew that this wasn't where he was supposed to be. Was he blind or was it really just as black as it seemed? Where the bloody hell was he? Why was he here?

A Tara #2 Story
Part of the Keltria universe
Jax blinked and groaned, "Bloody hell, where did you send us, Tommy?" Jax had encouraged her team to go with her to Tara and leave the death and destruction of war behind them. They couldn't all fit onto the dais, so they split into three teams of seven. Jax's team was the last to leave Timor but the first to arrive at wherever it was they had ended up.

A John the Genius Story
Part 2: After turning eight years old omniscient genius John Cook begins to collect the people he needs, and starts his University education in 1985 Oklahoma.

Man finds love on humanity's first trip to the stars. A follow-up to "The Armstrong Incident."

A Story in the Pleiades Empire Universe
A stand-alone story in the Pleiades Empire Universe. This story takes place about two-hundred years before Imperial Dilemma. Same places and family names, but different people. / (Reviews)

Becky Thatcher was a young woman whose claim to fame consisted of putting one hand in front of her and then the other. A tough row to hoe, but when you are up the well-known creek without a paddle, it suffices. After that, as the Chinese would say, she lived in interesting times. / (Reviews)

A Story in the Damsels In Distress Universe
Al Adams is on his way back to Chaos for another rescue, and to do more about setting up his base of operations. This time he has a problem, he's being asked to make a rescue that all the other Heroes have knocked back as a fancy form of suicide! The Damsels are captives of Dragons, a protected species he can't hurt. The Dragons are big, and dangerous. What can he do? He's their last hope, dare he refuse, like the others have?

A Swarm Cycle Story
Char is a very unusual concubine, who will do anything to get picked up, even reveal his big secret!