Science Stories

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 of a Great War between the Neumann Empire and the Earth Empires.

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 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.