Captain Teri Cambell on the Starship Bumblebee explores space where no other human has been. The crew discover a plant where men and women have been marooned for years. The men and women chose to stay on the only home they have ever known. Later the Bumblebee will respond to a distress call where a ship is disabled. It will be attacked as the crew of the Bumblebee is assisting. The ship is from a world the Marooned people who are stranded. Captain...

Stars and Dark, a collection of five science-fiction stories, takes you to space in the far-flung future. Silicone-based lifeforms, queer non-binary AI, space stations, and queer trans post-earth humans all populate these pages, each character telling their complex and tangled story of life in a vacuum full of pinpricks of light. Let these hopepunk stories transport you to another time and another place in the great cosmos where love and hope are...

Distant planets, galaxies, alien races--the universe is vast and filled with an almost unimaginable range of possibilities. But imagine it we can. Here are more than twenty stories from the most inventive writers in the field, including: Poul Anderson * Stephen Baxter * Greg Bear * Gregory Benford * Arthur C. Clarke * Hal Clement * Greg Egan * H. B. Fyfe * R. A. Lafferty * Geoffrey A. Landis * Ursula K. Le Guin * Jack McDevitt * Larry Niven * G....

On a quiet space station far from the events and concerns near Earth, Kristy announced her intent to have the child of Pyossel. He handled it with the maturity of his years, in a manner befitting his position as the oldest on Whelan's asteroid mining crew. He choked on his drink and sent the droplets scattering in low gravity to the far corners of the cabin. It was fortunate that Orbital-2 was well set up for similar accidents at mealtimes.' Humans...

Life at Descansar - Heart-warming science fiction!It's perfectly safe.That's what she said the last time.Faye always follows Aria. With disastrous results.Another hare-brained get-rich-quick scheme.Faye must choose what to do.To follow is easy, but there are consequences.A story in the Descansar Universe about choices – the easy and the hard ones.

On the planet Alaria, there is a war stretching across the stars that has come to a standstill. One soldier must decide amidst the chaos of war, if what he is fighting for and what he is fighting against is really as it seems. Is the enemy he has been told about, really as bad as they say? Are they so different from him? In times of war, such questions and decisions can have life-changing consequences. More importantly, can he survive in this war...

Earth had hosted humanity for several thousand years. Hostility between the nations had erupted into open warfare in almost every century. Man had evolved from cavemen to people wielding lasers and nuclear and biological weapons. World wars with entire continents of the planet united against other continents had taken place three times in the past. Earth seemed on the verge of extinction during the fourth world war. The world was engulfed in man's...

"A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in twenty-four hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space-not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its...

Travel through the universe discovering the possibilities of the unknown and exploring the infinite worlds of the future...and sometimes the past.Twenty talented authors bring you a dynamic collection of science fiction and space epics in one amazing collection.A cadet onboard her colony's last hope for survival must overcome her tragic loss and endure the extremities of cargo hauling in Deep Space, or suffer the same fate as her unlucky crewmates.A...

The Pigeon is an old Mercator-class mail delivery transport ship, now turned shabby but well-loved home for its six crew members (and the cat!). Together, they face troubles, make mistakes, learn, grow, bicker, make more mistakes, and usually even save the day. Everything you'd expect from six misfits (and their cat!) aboard a spaceship. Need something transported from one station to another? Looking for something that's hard to find and you're not...