Fresh chapters · 9 stories
No tag matches.
Eric John Stark can spend twenty years in the Luna cell-blocks, or he can ride into Valkis as a spy for the man who once pulled him out of a cage. Simon Ashton, the lawman who raised him, runs him down in the Martian desert and makes the offer. Stark takes it…
Chapter 12Alfric of Aslak rides into Valkarion looking for work for his sword, and before he reaches the gate, Temple slaves try to kill him with poisoned darts. Valkarion is the last withered remnant of a once-mighty empire, perched above a dead sea-bottom, and tonigh…
Chapter 6Terra has spent a century bottled up by the decaying Centauran Empire, and the SRB computers finally say the odds are turning. Security Commissioner Reinhart is ready for war, and Peter Sherikov's labs under the Urals are close to the weapon that could break…
Chapter 4Outlaw pilot Roy Campbell has the Spaceguard on his tail and a price on his head, and the only people who ever took him in are about to vanish. The Kraylens, a dying tribe of the Venusian swamps, call him their almost-son. Now the Terra-Venusian Coalition pla…
Chapter 5Bored Chicago clubman Robert Grandon is drugged at the opera, offered a taste of real adventure, and wakes in another man's body as a slave in the marble quarries of Venus. A scientist with telepathic powers has traded him into the flesh of Prince Thaddor of…
The New EmperorConn Maxwell comes home to Poictesme after six years at university on Terra, and the whole town of Litchfield is waiting for him to tell them where Merlin is. Merlin was the legendary supercomputer of the war that left Poictesme littered with abandoned milita…
Chapter 22Trigger Argee was sent to Maccadon's Colonial School to organize the Plasmoid Project, the study of living Old Galactic artifacts her boss, Commissioner Holati Tate, discovered. Eight weeks later she is working under a false name with dyed hair, Tate and the…
Chapter 29On the day Lucas Trask marries Elaine Karvall, a jealous rival with a submachine gun turns the wedding into a funeral. The killer, Andray Dunnan, steals the new warship Enterprise and flees Gram for the half-ruined worlds of the Old Federation. Trask has alwa…
Chapter 27A chemist peers through a microscope of his own making into a scratch on his mother's wedding ring and sees, deep inside a single atom of gold, a girl sitting beside a pool. He cannot forget her. So he invents drugs to shrink himself, vanishes into the ring,…
The First Christmas
