Stories Starting with S

Amy Ballantine has a talent... and sometimes it lets her know more than she needs to know.

Second Skin is a psychological sci-fi thriller about Becca Dorain, a woman plagued by memory lapses, sudden sickness, and a disturbing sense that she’s being quietly replaced. A routine business trip turns into a paranoid nightmare when time fractures and slips As reality peels away, Becca races to hold onto her identity—mind, body, and memory—before it’s overwritten forever.

A nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the West has reduced much of the world to a barren wasteland. The war continues however among the scattered remains of humanity. The Western forces have recently developed "claws", which are autonomous self-replicating robots to fight on their side.

A story of the shocking revelation that came to the twenty-first Baron Kralitz.

On the day that the theft of the solar system's light begins, Burl Denning is with an archaeological expedition in the Andes. Within hours the U.S. Air Force has ordered the expedition to investigate the strange phenomenon that is causing a dimness and a drop in temperature throughout the world. This is the start of a fantastic adventure that takes Burl on the first circumnavigation of the solar system on the Magellan. Each planet-fall brings unexpected hazards, as the ship draws closer.

In a world where Security is all-important, nothing can ever be secure. A mountain-climbing vacation may wind up in deep Space. Or loyalty may prove to be high treason. But it has its rewards.

I had something better than investing for the future. the future investing in me!

General David Walker looked up again at the seamed face of the Chief of Staff, General Marcus Meriwether. "This could be serious," he said slowly, with a sick sense of the statement's inadequacy. An old tic suddenly returned, tugging at the left corner of his mouth. The deadly, unsmiling expression on Meriwether's face did not change as he slid more tightly into his chair. "You know as well as I that it means the Interplanetary Confederation is ready to go to war with us."

Seeing things? Don't go to an analyst--see the Commission--if it doesn't find you first!