Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of SharuA long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...There was this suave gambler by the name of Lando Calrissian.While on some backwoods asteroid, winning some credits at the Sabacc table, Lando wins a new droid, Vuffi Raa.Then, poor Lando gets black-mailed into...
In the North American Confederacy . . . People are free--really free. Free to do as they please, whether it be starting a business, running for elected office, or taking target practice in the back forty. There's not a whole lot of government, nor is there a lot of crime, because everyone who w...
The God that failed To his bosses at the Ochskahrt Memorial Academy he was Captain Bernard M. Gruenblum, Temporal Division - just another time traveler. But to the aliens from Yamaguchi he was, literally, God. So, if Bernie was going to medieval Japan, they were too. Well, three of them. It was s...
The Aliens had come a long way from mere cactus hoppers. But their next step was murder--in the First degree! Murder most alien. Something flashed and a great roar deafened the audience. When the smoke and green-tinged vapor cleared, a lamviin alien--what was left of it anyway--lay dead before ...
Earth is ruled by three mighty empires: The Saracen-Jewish Empire led by the Caliph of Rome, the Mughal-Arab Empire, ferocious in its determination to destroy its neighbor, and the great Sino-Aztec’s Crystal Empire, led by a living God.Little is known about the Crystal Empire, which spans most of...
True to his namesake, Emerson Ngu follows the way of individualism, making him the hero of Pallas, a libertarian paradise atop an asteroid, and the enemy of former senator Gibson Altman, the jealous leader of a communist dystopia. Reprint.
Corporal Whitey O’Thraight may need to choose between his own survival or that of his home planet Whitey O’Thraight, the Ship’s Armorer on the first interstellar vessel launched by his home planet Vespucci, finds himself stranded on a strange planet with just one other survivor. Captured by th...
More than a 150,000 women have been kidnapped without a trace or any ransom demand in the ‘normal’ world run by the Federalists and the bureaucracy. But that is not the only problem, because the freedom loving population in the ‘alternate’ reality of the North American Confederacy are facing thei...
The navy cruiser wasn’t naked-eye visible and he had no desire to crank up the telescope. He’d seen a cruiser before. They’d been given ten minutes to make up their minds: prepare for boarders or be obliterated. Lando was using every second of those minutes, trying to produce a third alternative....
I had drifted through all that had happened so far rather numbly. Matter-of-factly. Now, reality was catching up, giving everything that occurred at that table a dreamlike quality. It all required effort, concentration, to focus on any given object, or any specific moment in time. Conversatio...
choosing to do business from the home. Consequently, an individual’s sense of territory and property is enhanced (Americans believed the slightest breach of any of their rights is a grave violation of them all) and at the same time, there is less tendency to identify with any one job, the “job” o...
1349 - The Rat Crusade“And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, it seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house. Then the priest shall command that they empty the house...that all that is in the house be not made unclean....And he shall cause the house to be...