Dystopian Stories

"Never Leave Anyone Behind" is a familiar refrain for American Servicemen. A crew is incapacitated in a strange land and a hostile government tries to capture them and steal their resources. If you're not in the military, do you put your family's lives at risk to help those who can't help themselves, or may not even survive? Previously published as "Stranded".

A WIP Cyberpunk story, the content of which will probably change and adapt as it grows. Plot: A female British squaddie finds herself in a futuristic world that may, or may not be, hers. But a gun's a gun, right?

The real estate market is dead, the job market has dried up, the stock market has crashed, and cost of living has shot up. Half the world is faced with becoming homeless. Young and old alike are being pounded by events outside their control. Jack and Abby find what might be a solution - a commune. The result is even more than that - it is a community.

A Make the Cut Story
John, a depressed widower faces the end of the world. He is offered an unexpected ray of hope.

A Not-Quite Human Story
Al and Betty aren't like their classmates. They've developed skills which set them apart and sets them on a search for others like them. As they discover who they might be, they become alienated from friends, family and humanity in general. Between walking into disasters, ungrateful rescues and government agents tracking their movements, they're searching for a way out and a way home, wherever that might be. Updated and revised to match the other books in the series.

A Not-Quite Human Story
Unable to find a home and acceptance on Earth, an intrepid band of misplaced youth seek their ancestral home among the stars. Unfortunately, their reception is not what they hoped. The home they discover is a hostile environment, involved in a huge interstellar war with a hostile alien species. Viewed as untrusted interlopers, they search for a place in a universe with no use for them, and no place turn for assistance. One chapter has some explicit interspecies sex, but it's part of the plot.

A Darker England Story
A nation almost destroyed by grief, horror and rage. A group of men both feared and hated by those in power. A destiny revealed and a return to civilised values. Sometimes the return from the edge is fraught with danger, yet hope abides.

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.

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

In a future devastated by the reversal of the Earth's magnetic field, Mongolia becomes the last refuge of civilization, protected by a natural anomaly. Astrophysicist Altaa and her team discover that to avoid disaster they must restore an ancient reactor capable of stabilizing the Earth's magnetic field.