Science Fiction Stories

"A new invention. Just perfected a few weeks ago..." Wireless transmission of matter

The Company was a powerful, efficient, and monstrous insurance organization that controlled the entire world, scientifically regulating everything in life: war, epidemics, one-a-day food pills and test-tube sex...all through the use of its patented, terrifying human deep-freeze vault. Claims Adjuster Wills, a great believer in the Company, begins to have second thoughts when he meets beautiful and sorrowful Rena, whose radical father lies in a frozen subterranean vault.

Hudson lay in his sleeping bag, staring at the sky. It bothered him a lot. There was not one familiar constellation, not one star that he could name with any certainty. This juggling of the stars, he thought, emphasized more than anything else in this ancient land the vast gulf of years which lay between him and the Earth where he had been-or would be-born.

Helpless, doomed, into the graveyard of space floats the wrecked freighter Pallas.

In a world where invisible forces play with human minds, Lazlo and Brixen have fun tempting people into giving in to their darkest impulses. Humans are toys, pieces on a board of chaos that they control at will... until the arrival of Rasher, a mysterious guardian of the Dharmapala caste, puts their plans in jeopardy. "Silent Temptation" is a critical, cynical and darkly humorous story about the power of desire and the fragility of mental balance.

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.

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

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.

All Earth needed was a good stiff dose of common sense, but its rulers preferred to depend on the highly fallible computers instead. As a consequence, interplanetary diplomatic relations were somewhat strained--until a nimble-witted young man from Mars came up with the answer to the "sixty-four dollar" question.

What more fitting place for the last man on Earth to live in than a museum? Now if only he could avoid becoming an exhibit himself!