Science Fiction Stories

A Swarm Cycle Story
A short ground action during the Third Battle of Earthat. Companion piece to "Pyrrhic Victory" and "Fly By". They may be read in any order. Part of the Swarm Cycle Universe.

Space. Ships. Pirates. Space-ships and Space-pirates! Varna is the daughter of a couple who own and operate an ice hauler which is raided by pirates. She is taken as a flesh toy and this is her story of what happens next.

A story in the Sunny Corner Universe
Odd little tale about prospecting. Not a single word of truth in it.

A story in the Disunited Front Universe
Faster than light travel and first contact has given humanity the stars - but it hasn't given us peace. With a world balanced precariously between multiple superpowers and extrasolar colonies constantly under threat from alien enemies, unknown dangers and good old fashioned human greed, the United States needs a new breed of special forces. DeShane Gallagher and her A.I companion Loki are one of them. They are Devil Troops. This is their story.

Kellie gets injected with a serum which makes her shrink. Her downsizing rapidly takes her into the subatomic world of a 2" square aluminum cube, where she discovers that physicists have it all wrong. This trip was not made of her free will. She is unwillingly sent ahead to test the new serum. A rewrite of a story posted by my wife in 2001 & 2013.

A story in the Hermaphrodite/Androgeny Universe
A sixty-year-old late blooming Australian actor on his way to a meeting with Angelina Jolie is hijacked from his limousine and brought aboard an alien spaceship. He awakens to find that Ms Jolie has been kidnapped, too, and that they have both been subjected to chromosome and DNA-altering mutagens. Is this real? Why have they been chosen? Does the fate of these aliens truly rest on their shoulders? Are these aliens humankind’s progenitors?

A The Alderian Wars Story (2)
The Carrier HMS Eagle and her fighters at the Battle of New Singapore. Takes place as the same time as the Last Stand. These stories are sub stories of the Swiftshire book I am working on. These are based in the Aldearian Wars. There are four major powers, but the Primary are the Alderian and the Gormarian empires. They take place roughly 5000 years from now.