Great collection of action short stories by Murray Leinster from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "Planet of Dread", "A Thousand Degrees Below Zero", and "The Silver Menace".

The 4th volume in the H2LiftShip Series pits the symbiotic combination of semi-sentient AI tablets and algal rocket ships against the Heliospheric Navy. The HiveSisters, in response to an unwanted software update, brought the heliosphere's economy to its knees by shutting down the bioGel-controlled ATMs Sentients are forced back to BeforeTimes techniques of bartering and IOUs as they struggled to keep fed, warm, and alive in outer space. Captain Graciela...

In the twenty-fourth century, the Council of Economic Unions struggles to maintain power on Earth. The colonies on Europa and Mars have rebelled and are now independent nations. Eddie Falcon, leader of the People's Fist, a resistance organization launches planet-wide protests patterned after the Occupy Los Angeles movement of the twentieth century. When the federal forces of the CEU use deadly force against civilians Eddie Falcon wages all-out war...

Great collection of action short stories by H. B. Fyfe from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "Satellite System", "The Wedge", "The Talkative Tree", "This World Must Die!", "A Transmutation of Muddles", "Exile", "Luna Escapade", and "Round-and-Round Trip".

The saurian Tanar, a reptilian, along with his friends, hatch a plan to save a group of warm blooded slaves from a powerful thaurian sovereign, but when two of Tanar's friends face capture on a distant saurian colony, their plan is put in jeopardy with all of them facing torture and execution. The Sovereign Varranick, who has the ear of the Emperor, persuades the leader of the Thaurian Empire to allow him to look for his missing slaves. As commander...

She must face the machine she created. Maddie has her dream job, leading a team translating ancient languages. The Artificial Intelligence she created does what humans could not. Her AI works perfectly, decrypting and interpreting primitive texts. Until it happened, Maddie didn't consider AI dangerous. Then, her AI found the hidden cryptic and unlocked the cipher. How many will die if she can't stop it? Praise for Threshold News Headline 16-June-2022:...

The Belt Stories is a series of three novels - Milky Way Tango, Milky Way Boogie, and Milky Way Gala, to be read in that order. It is a quest spanning the stars, motivated by young love. Just before high school graduation, Jimmy and Sarah become lovers. But they encounter a staggering stroke of bad luck, resulting in Jimmy's incarceration a thousand light years away. Sarah stays behind and tries to resurrect her life, but she cannot do it; for her,...

In the thrilling world of the near future, where the skies are the new battlegrounds, the adrenaline-pumping motorsport competition of the SkyRace Grand Prix takes centre stage. In SkyRacers, 48 courageous pilots soar through the heavens in racepods, defying gravity and risking their lives for a shot at glory and sporting immortality. Sisters Aleeza and Olivia Martin share a powerful bond and a passion for the skies. As prodigious skyracers on the...

From the renowned, Hugo-nominated titan of science fiction comes a collection of his best short stories. In seventeen classic stories, Henry Kuttner creates a unique galaxy of vain, protective, and murderous robots; devilish angels; and warm and angry aliens. These stories include "Mimsy Were the Borogoves"-the inspiration for New Line Cinema's major motion picture The Last Mimzy-as well as "Two-Handed Engine," "The Proud Robot," "The Misguided Halo,"...

Within a four foot stainless steel cube, a bodiless brain is awake, thinking, computing, knowing. Brian was created by genetic engineer Dr. Ellie Parsons, and neuroscientist Tom Marshall, at biotechnology company Dipol Inc., in San Diego, CA. Ethical questions abound as they hide Brian's true identity from him and the world around. To Brian, he's merely artificial intelligence, tasked with creating even more intelligent systems. To Ellie and her company,...