In a time of post-Singularity and FTL, the Helix War has raged across galaxies. Ex-soldier Keenan is now working as a private investigator on a planet at the peacful fringes of the Tri-Gal. Since his family has died he's run up debts and become a heavy drinker, but he cannot refuse business. Espe...
The earth has been devastated by a nuclear holocaust, and humanity is trapped under the iron fist of a new world government. But the promises of salvation are lies, and a fate even more terrible awaits mankind. The secret organization known as SPIRAL, the last line of defense against global chaos...
A thousand missions. She'd killed men, women, children, of every colour and "alien" species to walk the multiple exotic soils of the thousands of worlds of Quad-Gal. She'd blown up factories, oil rigs, military installations, tank depots, politicians' headquarters, schools, and hospitals; she kne...
"No. I won't let it end like this. I won't die like this. I won't fucking kill like this!" Tears streamed down her ashen face, and she threw her weapon to the ground. "I will not fight you," she said, voice a hoarse whisper. The nurses surged up to her, their breath fire, flames curling from lips...
said the horse. Svool’s smile remained fixed in place. “Excuse me?” “No. You’re going to rescue Lumar.” “What... how could you possibly know that?” “It’s a process of ‘limination, innit? Neigh.” “No it isn’t. This has NOTHING to do with you. So I’m getting off. And you’re fucking off.” ...
For a few moments he thought he'd been on the whiskey again, down that hole, locked in that dungeon, and a terrible dread stole over him and he rifled frantically through the pages of his fractured memory. But then, like the break of a new dawn, images slowly filtered back through the upper reach...
It was the perfect place for a high security prison, and allowed for a purely nominal staff. The place was almost self-governing. Each moon housed a colony for criminals slotted neatly into categories rated by severity of crime and judged on a points basis. One moon contained low-risk criminals, ...
Darkness lay like a veil of mist around her. Everything was silent - deadly silent. And yet: She knew. Knew it was almost complete. Knew it was almost ready ... a few tweaks here and there, some optimisation of code, a few re-routes and the QIII wou...
And as he observed that crescent razor approach, an utter calm descended on him and he reflected on his life, his early goals, his mistakes, and on his current self-loathing; and he knew, knew life was unfair and the world took no prisoners, but that ultimately he had made his own choices, and he...
screamed Dek, as the Iron Wolves attacked the beast… weapons raised and hacking down with ferocity and need. “Take it alive!” bellowed Kiki over the melee, and the Iron Wolves hacked at the splice, cutting at limbs as Dalgoran pulled a coil of rope from his pack and tossed...
Beetrax formed the point of the wedge, as he always had in the past, as he always would in the future. It was a pride thing, it was a warrior thing, it was a man thing; nobody objected. It kept him from moaning. Second came Dake and Jonti, at ease atop their mounts; Lillit...
‘You killed them.’ He stared at Nicky’s face. Tears flowed down her red-puffed cheeks and he hung his head in shame, staring at his scuffed boots, then rubbed at his face and looked up again. The accusation in her eyes felled him more easily than any bullet. &n...
It ploughed over the mountains from all points of the compass. It cast giant shadows over the Crystal Sea, the Elf Rat Lands and the Plague Lands to the southwest. Winter’s onslaught had arrived, pushing forward, violating the skies, with towering storm fronts driving across Vagandrak in its enti...
His cock was a narrow worm in the moonlight, and she realised with a start she had aroused him. Or her vulnerability had. She bared her teeth in a snarl. I'll bite it off, she thought, and images of blood descended into her mind and she knew, knew she was not strong enough to take on this man, th...
Recharge, he thought. That’s what this holiday is. A recharge! The option to get away from it all, get away from the stresses of life in London. To sit back, and relax, and weigh up one’s options in life. Gradually, light oozed through his slumber and, yawning, Dex rolled over and reached out f...
It was just before General Dalgoran summoned the young soldier to his office at Desekra to outline his plans for a new elite squad: the Iron Wolves. Dek remembered that day proudly, stood to attention, spring sunlight spilling through the lead-lined windows across Dalgoran’s oak desk; but he reme...
said Franco, quietly. “Better them than us,” said Keenan. “Damn right,” snapped Knuckles. He still held Olga’s hand, and his eyes carried a strange, haunted look. “Time for us to get out of here,” said Professor Xakus. His eyes were gleaming, as, for the first time in history, he tested his...