Science Fiction Stories

A tribute story in The Vallis Defense universe, continuing worlds created by Refusenik and Cold Creek
Three worlds. One saga — and you don't need to have read a page to start. This companion to The Vallis Defense: Cold Human catches you up on every source story, from Refusenik's Island Mine and Human novels to Cold Creek's Defenceman series, then hands you a full codex of the characters, locations, and lore behind Waylon's Mars, Scott's Texas, and Michael's Michigan. New readers start here; returning readers keep it close.

A Swarm Cycle Story
How does a colony get ready to take on immigrants? Take a ride with a country boy and a businesswoman from Mississippi and find out how they managed to create a manufacturing sanctuary after being dropped on a backwater planet. Diverse groups converge and turn a barely habitable planet into a Mecca of culture and technology.

A Bob Roberts Story
This is the continuing story of Bob Roberts, who woke up one morning with very acute mental powers. You do not have to read “What’s All the Fuss About?” to understand this story, but it would help understand who the players are and how Bob became to be like he is.

A Story in the Damsels In Distress Universe
JJ is a strong, attractive, young woman trained in medieval martial arts by her father, a professor of History. She has always dreamed of having the chance to test her fighting skills in a real fight, but without avail. Then she joins Mike on a trip to Chaos and learns that there is more to fighting than knowing how to wield a weapon.

Sarah's Saga
A group of aliens stranded near Mars seek to rebuild their crew using humans as surrogate mothers. Sarah and her friends are presented to them as ideal candidates. However when evaluating them upon their arrival, the aliens discover them to be in poor health. Using their medical facility, their health is restored. They come together to restore the spaceship while recruiting additional humans to join the crew. All of which leads to a very different destiny. 2nd edition.

John is slugging his way through the Underground Slums and finds a new Pokémon. It's clearly a human but the Pokedex says it's a Poison/Fighting type.

On a distant planet, our hero wants to become a ranger when they get attacked.

A Story in the Damsels In Distress Universe
The rebels on Cassandra have tricked the system into sending an important person to Chaos when they didn't want to go. Al is asked to rescue her then return her to Crossroads with two Damsels on the same island off the enemy held coast. To do so he must arrive on Chaos too far from his usual helpers to involve them in his plans to free the islands from his enemies. 27,300 words

A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
Splashdown Remastered: Stranded in an alien jungle during a botched mission, a plucky shuttle pilot and a fierce alien warrior must learn to overcome their differences if they want to survive their ordeal. (This story has been re-edited and improved to bring it up to my current standards.) Housecat: Zhari and McGregor take some much deserved shore leave, and the wily pilot takes full advantage of his dominant position over the alien to explore the limits of her submissive nature.