It was a quiet, peaceful city. It was a city ruled by apes and served by men. It was a city unaware of an angry band of viscous gorillas anxious to revolt and an insane cadre of mutant humans hungry to kill. It was a city on the brink of an horrendous destruction that had happened once -- and ...
Who will keep the starways safe when bioengineered superhumans make war on the human race? Executive Officer Jonathan Thomas Korie and the crew of Alliance Liberty Ship LS-1187 made the mistake of surviving an ambush by the Morthan Solidarity. The attack had come without warning., devastating...
Gerrold's The Man Who Folded Himself is really the first time-travel story I've read. (Except for A Sound of Thunder of course, which now seems extraordinarily tepid by comparison.) That I rate it so highly may follow from this fact. I'm sure others who are more familiar with time-travel literatu...
Once they had been humanity's last best hope; a race of genetically engineered killing machines known as the Phaestor and their army of deadly Moktar Dragons. Now, the enemy long vanquished, the Phaestor themselves have become the enemy, seizing control of the galaxy and subjugating all lesser sp...
Star Trek: Constellations is a mind-blowing collection of specially-commissioned stories designed to go where no anthology has gone before. Featuring the iconic heroes of the Star Trek universe -- the legendary characters who were the inspiration for all those who followed -- this treasure trove ...
Humanity tries to escape enslavement by intergalactic aliens.
Moons travel about planets. Planets circle suns. Suns move in relation to other suns and all of them spin within the galaxy. The galaxy itself is moving in relation to other galaxies and who it to say that the Universe itself is not moving in some vast unknown direction? —JARLES “FREE FALL” FERRI...
Breathing bus farts. It was hot. I was unhappy. I was impatient to go and I couldn’t see what the holdup was. All I could see was the billboard on the ass of a rabid-transit behemoth. After a moment, I realized I was fumbling around on the dashboard, looking for the button to arm the lasers and l...
He insists on creeping into books that are not supposed to be about him and making them about him anyway. He has gone to space in The Dingilliad series (Jumping Off The Planet, Bouncing Off The Moon, and Leaping To The Stars). He’s fought more-than-human super-warriors as the brain of the LS-1187...
A little while after that, Moffin transferred out and they promoted Jaxin’s ma to take his place. Administor Rance seemed a lot quieter and a lot more thoughtful than Moffin, but nobody doubted her commitment. She had lived on Linnea almost since the day the gate first opened. She knew almost eve...
Parts of the corridor were less than three meters high and he had to crouch low to get through. They stepped through a series of sealed hatches and arrived at the Forward Airlock Reception Bay—identified by large block letters on the bulkhead as FARB—to find Williger readying a crash cart and a m...
Consider this a warning. It is not safe to eat the fruitcake just before going to bed. The Ghost of Christmas Sideways WHEN THE GHOST APPEARED, Kris Kringle was humping an elf. The centuries-old oak bed was creaking and groaning like a whale with indigestion, as Kringle pounded furiously away. Th...
MORE! MORE! THE VOYAGE OF THE STAR WOLF Star Wolf Trilogy, Book One 9781935251514 The first work in David Gerrold’s Star Wolf trilogy, this tale pits the human members of the Star Wolf space vessel against the superhuman Morthan crew. Captain Jonathan Korie, hampered by the loss of most of the hu...
Then . . . distastefully, they removed the silence helmet from Zillabar’s head and helped her down from the sled. Zillabar, still in shackles and restraints, hissed at their touch and pulled away so violently that she slipped and tumbled, falling painfully onto the rocks and rolling dangerously c...