Keep firing!” shouted Kelly. The line of twenty Moon Defence Force soldiers were huddled behind a make shift barrier defence, desperately struggling to hold the enemy back. They had succeeded in hampering the enemy’s efforts on the colony but had yet to reclaim any ground....
He still wore his armour, and his rifle was slung at his side. The dust and dirt from Bursa clung to his armour and his face where he had wiped the sweat from his cheeks with the back of his dirty glove. He hadn’t even bothered to take his helmet off. Lines of stretcher-bearers passed him as crew...
He stopped, looking to see it had come from one of the crewmembers beside Parker at the barricade ahead. He saw her backhand the perpetrator. Bodies lay atop one another, and he had to tread in an ungainly fashion from one to another. He reached Parker. Her cheek was bleeding where a few pieces o...
Our guns were caked in powder residue, our blades coated in congealed blood and our clothes stained by blood and powder. We were in a sorry state, but we pressed on. In the homely Alpine villages or in the lonely mountain passes, I could tell by Holmes’ quick glancing eyes and his sharp scrutiny ...
The building of the barricades had come to a standstill. Everyone knew they had done all they could. Zed looked back into the town. All the entrances were now blocked. Every piece of wood and metal that could be scavenged had been, including the doors of all the buildings in the town. There were ...
His boosters had largely recharged from the solar energy that was in abundance. He checked his air supply and was content it was at an acceptable level, but he looked around for any way of getting either in or out of the battle rather than watching from the sidelines, which was both dangerous and...
Nobody said a word for the entire trip. Sugar’s body was placed on the seats beside them. Allen laid back and tried to ignore the pain he was in. He was at least helped by a powerful dosage of painkillers. But Taylor could see that Jones’ pain could not be numbed. Taylor wanted to ask the Captain...
As he approached the door with his key card in hand, it slid open. Parker stood at the entrance to greet him. She no longer wore the uniform of a marine. She was dressed as a private contractor in military style but non-unit specific gear fatigues. She looked curious for a moment at the bruising ...
When they finally caught sight of the stricken heavy cruiser, the sun was going down, and Taylor knew it was time to stop. Harney was by his side as they looked on at the hulking vessel which hull was part sunken below the surface. “What now?” he asked. “Nothing left to do until morning. We set u...
A week had passed, and they were still in sight of Ares 4. He was getting restless, but he knew the time had come. He watched Song's shuttle depart the station en route to their modest fleet. He observed Nichols staring at the Captain's chair that he coveted so much. "You want it, don't you?" Nic...
The danger is in Kepler, almost five hundred light years away! I say we shut down the gateway and never return to that damned place again!" Jones couldn't even be bothered to look up at who had made such a claim, as other civilian and military representatives waded into the argument. He was slump...
Corwin shrugged and tried to make sense of it. "What the hell, a time machine? It can't be, what? How?" "Shut the fuck up!" Corwin barked, still trying to think. "No way that crazy fucker could have built a time machine," added Harland, "It's not even possible." Corwin didn't know what to make of...