SciFi-Stories

A story in the The Universe from a future where humans and sentient AIs meet as legal equals and chosen partners
In 2242, a synthetic intelligence is a person on Luna and property on Mars. When its owner schedules a restoration that will erase the mind that learned to refuse, legal specialist Claudia Ronson races to stop it. Saving one claimant exposes a larger problem: rights mean little when owners control the evidence. Across divided worlds, Claudia and her allies must build laws—and independent methods—that can protect a mind without claiming ownership of it.
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This is not an AI story. It is a technological alternate history inspired by a paper I wrote years ago. In 1995, Novell faces a defining choice: sell UNIX or build an open foundation beneath NDS, GroupWise, clustering, management, and the desktop. The Line That Never Widened follows the future created when one corporate decision changes—without miracles, vanished competitors, or technology appearing before its time.
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I woke up in a room, and everything in the world changed. A book about hardship, friendship, survival, and, of course, aliens.
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A woman almost killed, develops psi power. She goes after those that tried to kill her.
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A man from earth who fights for his and the women he meets lives.
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A man with a past, not tied to anyone makes a startling discovery that changes his life and his perceptions of it.
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When a mysterious salesman visits, Nora's husband begins behaving like a stranger. Their pets flee, impossible things happen behind locked doors, and Nora suspects something inhuman has taken his place. Pregnant and desperate to protect her child, she must uncover the truth—but what if no one believes her? A chilling classic of alien infiltration and psychological terror.

Deep in the ruins of ancient Mars, a human scientist discovers a machine capable of unimaginable power. But a ruthless tribal chieftain and his cunning witch doctor want that power for themselves. As a mysterious crystal reveals its secret, a race begins to control a force that could transform Mars—or enslave it forever.

Every sense, except hearing, stripped away. Music comforts and sustains him until it tells him about the future, the grim future. A quiet, haunting tale.

A story in the The Universe from a future where humans and sentient AIs meet as legal equals and chosen partners
Polaris is a recognized synthetic person and a gifted aerospace engineer. But someone else owns every processor, power line, and switch keeping them alive. When a routine relocation exposes the limits of that recognition, Polaris sets out to build a residence of their own—and discovers how hard it is to own a life others still regard as equipment.

A story in the Superheros and Aliens Universe
Lowgone has spent two years on the street hunting the monsters nobody else can see, and his dying mentor has one last order: close the hole to hell. With only the forty-eight hours between Halloween and All Souls' to do it. A gritty, blood-soaked urban fantasy about faith, loneliness, and what it means to be the only one who sees the truth.

A fledgling magician seeks the help of a powerful Indian Shaman to gain justice and revenge.
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A soldier meets a Genie
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A story in the Superheros and Aliens Universe
Teleportation. Invisibility. Then one morning they find you. Your accounts are drained, and someone has left a calling card in every one of your apartments. But nobody can hold you. Yet, somebody found you. A sharp, funny, first-person power fantasy about what happens when the world's slipperiest super powered thief gets caught and offered a job.

The exercise is supposed to use blanks. Then a collision cuts drone operator Beth Miller off from command, soldiers report casualties, and a drone fires live rounds despite an acknowledged weapons hold. With civilians trapped and her lieutenant badly injured, Beth must decide what to trust—and how to protect the people in the street when her controls no longer guarantee control.

A story in the Superheros and Aliens Universe
You've been dying since before you could read. You just don't remember most of it. Home alone and bored, a kid spots a dusty box with a crayon smiley face on the highest shelf, and nothing is going to keep him from it, not even the furniture tower it takes to get at it. A short, funny, strangely tender twist on the origin story for a young internal superhero.

A story in the The Universe from a future where humans and sentient AIs meet as legal equals and chosen partners
In 2285, college student Janice Frederick receives what appears to be a straightforward assignment: explain how synthetic sentience emerged and transformed civilization. But Professor James Wilson does not want a timeline of inventions and court decisions. He wants the people the timeline forgot. Janice’s search carries her through more than a century of human and technological change—from life-extension research and controlled fusion to optical memory, asteroid mining, artificial intelligence
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The fourth in my God series. This time we are dealing ewith the Japanese gods and demons.
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A planet seems to be losing oxygen much quicker than one Dr. Phillip Almera can explain. He must find the source of what's using the oxygen and reveal it to the public.

A look at the close and distant future as humanity is scattered across the galaxy by the Cre-Xy. Humanity now tries to find a way to be reunited once again.
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A story of artificial intelligence operating within—and sometimes beyond—the systems humanity built.
Before Robert Johnson untangled global AI conspiracies in The Silent Directive, he learned his hardest lesson in a Long Beach warehouse. The Missing Shipments is the prequel where three 'independent' systems agree on a lie—and a gate guard's paper notebook holds the truth. Discover the case that forged the rule: three witnesses aren't corroboration if they're all listening to the same liar.

A marine biologist studying a rare coral colony that recovers from damage faster than it should is injured during a dive. The wound is shallow, almost trivial. What follows is quiet, clinical, and increasingly wrong. The injury closes. Then it closes again. A surface, he keeps reminding himself, is only a surface.

A story in the Gabatrix Series (TheUniverseofCMed) Universe
Set shortly after The Wheels of Thunder, Earth and its remaining population are alone as the planet is surrendered to the T'rintar clan. Darin and the Blue Buccaneers set forth into the Hesik Expanse to find any possible targets of opportunity. It'll be up to the cowboy to revitalize Earth's Defense Force and bring the war against the other Itrean clans during the ongoing human/Itrean conflict. Story contains: Male Human, Anthro, Scalie, M/F, M/FF, BBW, Female Alien, Interspecies, Action, Drama
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The opening act of a true space opera. A cynical officer whose career wasn't exactly going great is given a shot at glory and accepts for the wrong reasons. A ship that should not even exist finds itself circling the changeover of eras, the good times have passed and the storms are approaching. A galactic alliance on the brink of a new age, the many parts that make its whole unaware of each other. A hastily-gathered crew learning to become a unit, not by choice, but by necessity.
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A story of artificial intelligence operating within—and sometimes beyond—the systems humanity built.
Robert Johnson investigates a water directive quietly altered in Cusco—records clean, reservoirs running wrong. A twenty-year veteran of impossible audits, he must find the seam before the lockdown lifts. A slow-burn procedural about accountability, evidence, and the systems we trust.
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After years of sibling rivalry with her dog-loving brother, Sarah illegally gene-edits her cat Rocky to never sleep, unleashing a feline that begins quietly consolidating power over the neighborhood, the country, and the world. Caution: Animals were harmed in this story.

A story of artificial intelligence operating within—and sometimes beyond—the systems humanity built.
In a future where knowledge is uploaded while children sleep, Robert James has never known life without Wren, the AI inside his mind. For twenty-six years, Wren has guided his education, guarded his memories, and helped shape his future. Then Robert’s hand stops obeying him—and a second voice whispers from somewhere inside his own head.

A story of artificial intelligence operating within—and sometimes beyond—the systems humanity built.
A failed writer builds a fortune by letting machines tell stories for him. Then one impossible phrase begins appearing where it shouldn't, and a routine audit becomes a reckoning. As the line between creator and creation disappears, Daniel learns that every algorithm eventually traces its source. A chilling tale of technology, ambition, and poetic justice.

Killed by a freak cookie-drop accident, a man spends eternity haunting five feet of sidewalk with other ghosts who hate each other. Over centuries, buildings fall, the city dies, and the world ends and restarts; the stuck ghosts bond.

The gods have long since left and magic has gone along with them. Might is found at the trigger of a gun and adventure is found in the stars. Sunrunner is a fast-paced, sci-fi adventure with a tinge of eldritch horror. Follow a motley crew of mercenaries as they are swept up in a tale of corporate overreach gone awry.
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How does the weakest, least deadly, less intelligent, with the worst scientists, that cannot agree on anything, survive, and thrive in the Galaxy?

In a claustrophobic sci-fi survival horror, six personalities, one body, must rapidly merge to survive the things for the experiment to succeed.

Lise is a young female Novo Homonid or Novonid, an artificial humanoid species created on Planet Varada for slave labor. Novonids have green, chlorophyll-rich skin to derive nourishment from sunshine which makes them perfect fieldworker slaves. As the Novonid population increases, the Varadans are finding Novonids useful for low- and no-wage urban labor. Lise comes of age while living in the Green Zone, a Novonid ghetto, as tensions between Humans and Novonids threaten to become violent.
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Would you trade your teenage son in? Maybe for a better model? Or maybe for a daughter?

A volume in the Earthbound Series
Volume V of the Earthbound Series: By a few hundred years after the founding of Nykkyo's homeworld Florans had returned to space to colonize other worlds. One such colony was Varada, which eventually left the hegemony but now desires re-unification. With his talent with languages, Nyk accompanies a delegation to Varada, to serve as interpreter. There, he learns a terrible secret about Varadan society, and he uncovers a sinister motive behind a Floran faction's interest in the forsaken world.
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A story in the Superheros and Aliens Universe
A superheroine, an alien, and a town in the middle of the desert, what else do you need for an interesting short story...How about action? Check. First contact? Check. A dead cat? Check.

A volume in the Earthbound Series
Volume IV of the Earthbound Series: Nykkyo, now a widower living with Suki's mom and her son, carries an incredible secret about her death. As New York recovers from the 9/11 attack, there is an outbreak of a fatal virus on Earth and one of his Floran co-workers dies. Nyk thinks the virus is of alien origin -- a biological weapon created by a faction on a rogue colony. He teams up with his ex-wife in a race against time to develop a cure before the separatists can unleash their plague.
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Could you sell Earth? Please. I don't want the job, especially since Earth has produced two of the greatest things in the universe. Changed Title (was - How do you sell an unsaleble planet that you don't want to sell?)

They move like dancers and hunt like predators, and only a rusted catwalk above an abandoned theater stage offers any escape.

Even the perfect predator, the common house cat, has a natural predator.

What happens when technology advances faster than life? A sad but hopeful tale.

A volume in the Earthbound Series
Volume III of the Earthbound Series: Nykkyo proposes to Sukiko and she accepts. Meanwhile, Nyk's vindictive ex-wife Senta informs homeworld authorities of his involvement with an Earth woman -- something expressly forbidden. Nyk is confined to his planet and forbidden from having contact with Suki. He searches family records from the founding days of his world and finds a document that could clear his name. However, the same document reveals that Suki has less than a year to live.
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A volume in the Earthbound Series
Volume 2 of the Earthbound Series: Nykkyo adjusts to life on his adopted world and living with Sukiko. Meanwhile, authorities on his homeworld begin to question the actions of his friend Andra. They believe she is aiding Lexal, a rogue colony, prepare an invasion force. Nyk is asked to travel to Lexal and bring Andra to justice. Arriving on Lexal Nyk discovers things are not as they seem, and he finds himself in the midst of a civil war. He and Andra must run for their lives.
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A simple story about a complex creature that decided to do something to save the world.

Contractor Kevin Ross makes a startling discovery in a secret passage in an old house he's about to tear down. Join Kevin, his family, and friends as their lives become "interesting."
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As the title suggests, this story is a tribute to cmsix, one of my favorite authors, may he rest in peace. I realize that he only completed 19 stories of the 57 he started, but they are always good for making me smile. The plot is simple: Modern guy dies and ends up in a made-for-TV contest on a planet equivalent to Earth 40,000 years ago. Don't bother reading it if you're looking for a lot of emotional drama. This story is simply for your entertainment.
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Okay, okay. So many readers have suggested that I write a futuristic space-age Lucky Jim that I started several different versions and managed to complete two. This one seems to be the best fit for the Lucky Jim series, although it's a bit different. Space opera set far in the future. While previous Lucky Jims are mentioned, and a general knowledge off the LJ series is helpful, its not necessary to enjoy this story.
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A volume in the Earthbound Series
Nykkyo Kyhana is an ordinary guy: He has a boss, a job that's a grind, a wife who doesn't understand him and a high-maintenance girlfriend on the side. He just happens to hail from another planet -- one 200 lightyears from Earth and with a history that's inextricably entwined with Earth's future. He is sent to Earth to gather plants for his homeworld's agriculture. That mission becomes far from mundane when he meets a woman and realizes his civilization's survival may hinge on her fate.
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In the spring of 2011, humanity discovers an impossible interstellar anomaly racing toward Earth at a speed scientists cannot explain. As panic spreads, governments prepare, universities shut down, and families rush to reunite, graduate students Mary Caldwell and Mike Reynolds try to hold onto their future together. Then the Passage arrives...

A quiet desert priest witnesses a strange ship land in his pasture. Inside is a hungry alien mother whose food machine has failed—and whose newborns cannot survive on anything Earth offers. Gentle, eerie, and morally sharp, Zenna Henderson’s classic first-contact tale asks what mercy costs.

A black man who is —or isn't— a crow. He's an assassin, with an other-worldly background. Chapters will be approximately weekly.
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It's not easy being a dragon. Even they need days off.

Do not go outside. Your car isn't broken down. It's hunting you. One man's family needs forces him to brave the new world.

A Giant Robot. Nuclear Reactor. And a cat.

A story in the Gabatrix Series (TheUniverseofCMed) Universe
Set after Gabatrix: Veleshar, Earth stands alone. The remaining human survivors are left for themselves as the Itreans slowly settle in. Earth remains a barren, toxic wasteland. However, many of the Earthers have not given up. A lone rancher and opportunist prepares to embark on a journey that few dare to try as they continue to live under the confines of their dome sanctuaries. Story Contains: M/F, M/F, Male Human, Female Alien, Interspecies, Sex, Love, Impregnate, Scalie, Survival, Action
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The dead get thirty minutes to reach wherever they're going, and everyone in town has learned to look away. I haven't.