Aeons ago, a super-scientific culture known as 'Angels' had left incomprehensible relics all over the galaxy. Among these phenomena were the Stations, whereby human spacecraft could jump instantly from one part of the galaxy to another. And from them the brilliant Angel technology could be explor...
‘Didn’t see that one coming.’ I looked between the two of them. ‘Why? Is it that hard to get hold of a portable stage?’ Rozalia let out a stifled laugh. ‘Hell, yes. You can’t just walk in and grab a bunch of field-pillars and something to run them with. All the equipment’s kept under lock and key...
The guard walked close behind Corso, occasionally prodding him in the back to keep him moving in the right direction.‘Your protocols will be used to extract any useful data from the derelict’s stacks. They are now the property of my Queen, to do with as she sees fit as the ruler, mother and prote...
High-priority alerts floated all around her and, based on what those were warning her of, there was a real risk they might simply fall out of the sky. And every minute they stayed up, the more certain that became. They clearly weren’t going to make it to high orbit. ...
He lurched upright, panic blighting his thoughts. This is what it’s like to be dead, he thought: no heartbeat, no breath of life. A terrible silence filled the cavity of his chest, like a void. He had been asleep for several hours on a cot in one corner of the house. Crick...
The brilliant lights built into his suit blazed through the abyssal darkness, illuminating the ridge ahead.He shuffled towards the edge of this ridge, noting the way the alien derelict teetered on the edge of an abyss that fell away into bottomless depths. The derelict, he thought, looked like so...
An image of the Sequoia floated before him in the cockpit of his flier, rendered in real-time. One of its several domed arboretums dotted around its exterior had been torn open and exposed to vacuum, and as a result a glittering halo of debris and frozen atmosphere now surrounded the station, whi...
By the time he woke again, cramped and hungry, mountains that had been a distant blue at the start of his journey now rose all around him, their grassy slopes dense with forest and spotted with clumps of snow. He pulled in at an autocafé, less than fifty kilometres from his destination. Breakfast...
Taking a seat in an observation blister overlooking its airless interior, she saw the Meridian drones nestled amongst the drop-ships and cradles, and clinging to various bulkheads as if glued to them. Their perfectly reflective surfaces rendered them nearly invisible.She watched the main doors of...