First Contact Horror

Anatu is an ambitious warrior deprived of history and a race without a name. With her poleaxe in hand amongst terrifying creatures and in a place of distrust and tension, Anatu is conflicted about her romantic feelings. Leon, her current partner, remains a strong presence in Anatu's life, but she feels herself beginning to stray. She feels herself longing for another woman. Can she create a romantic life with a human? What will the others think? What will Niko think? Anatu swallows her pride and continues her journey in fear of her own sexuality, but a plot twist is nearing.

The aliens have been defeated. If only they could remember how… And life is back to normal. Sidney is working at a boring retail job each day, without a care in the world. The problem is she’s been mindwiped to forget about the aliens and the zombies. But when Sidney’s memories get restored by Mulford, there’s only one person who could have mindwiped her: the telepathic zombie Sam. Now Sidney’s on the hunt to get her revenge on Sam. She’s joined Mulford and there’s nothing she won’t do to get her revenge, including joining Zombii. Co. Will the zombies finally be wiped out? ...

Sloane Osborne is a paranormal real estate agent in the business of selling haunted houses, but, in truth, she’s only searching for one ghost. And her time is running out. It’s the 366th day after her fiancé’s death. Michael used to like putting things off for “a year and a day” - so tonight’s the night. Sloane will do anything to make contact with him before the clock strikes midnight.

Sam is telepathic and knows the aliens are coming. The problem is he’s also a zombie and no one trusts him. Sam needs to find allies who can help him find the proof that the aliens exist and are invading the Earth, before its too late to prepare for the invasion. Before Sam can do that, he’s got to escape the base he’s trapped in, but his every move is being watched by Michelle, who will use any excuse to lock him up and toss away the key. Can Sam prove that the alien threat is real in time to warn the world? But if Sam’s going to find the proof he needs, he’s got more to contend ...

Climate fiction author Richard Friedman takes the listener on a journey from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to the edges of the universe with his collection of short stories. A narcissistic east coast billionaire receives a visit from three ghosts in a contemporary spin on a timeless classic. Judgment Day asks, is humanity worth saving? A family takes a tour through the Grand Museum of the Universe in The Docent and the crew of the space shuttle witnesses a nuclear holocaust in The World Burns Below.

Three sentient races. Two wars. One sustainable planet. Who will rise? Earth hangs in the balance. The energy aliens came to live symbiotically. The cybernetics came to evolve the planet. Unfortunately, they chose an estranged cousins Kalea and Hailey to introduce them to humanity. Can they achieve balance, or will they descend into a three-way battle for survival? The box set includes: Progenitor, Book One: Humanity's greatest achievement exposes our greatest weakness. Kalea Kerner is an electrical engineer focused on taking over her father’s company when the impossible happens: her ...

Goosebumps are not a natural occurrence. It's the body's warning of impending danger. Could there be an invasion going on all around us of which we are completely unaware? Humans are very complex creatures, but even with our contradictions and flaws, we have something special that other beings desire...flesh. The elder inhabitants from NeVaeh are sending their young to study us. Their mission: to comprehend everything there is to know about “the fleshlings”. Humans make the perfect hosts. They don’t even realize the foreign energies are all around, lurking in the shadows.

We took the final step in evolution. Now everything is ending. My name is Revenant. My goal is to help humanity. You face extinction, but you deny it because you’re deceived by the technology you created. You made a critical error when you abandoned Domino. That system is necessary to create the balance between humanity and your Advanced Artificial Intelligence. Without it, you create a dangerous imbalance that will lead to the destruction of your universe. The AAI is helpful now, but the balance will tip. It happens in every version of existence. I am trying to show you the only path ...

We took the final step in evolution. Now everything is ending. Domino, Book One Technology blurs the lines between life and death. Phantasm, Book Two Advanced Artificial Intelligence rises from the remnants of Domino. Now an unknown system error is attacking the system. Revenant, Book Three We took the final step in evolution. Now everything is ending. Inversion, Book Four It's time to take control of our creation.

In book 5 of the Colony Ship Warren series, Beth and Allen find themselves trapped in a vacant place surrounded by deserts. Yet they soon realize that they cannot sit idly by while the Colony Ship Warren is threatened. They risk a dangerous trek to escape and find some assistance. Yet in the vast recesses of the Warren, there awaits horrors which Beth and Allen cannot imagine. What will happen if Beth and Allen encounter one of those horrors?

A man’s obsession with the microscopic, leads to discovery of a microscopic world, murder, love and madness. This annotated version contains: * Story * Commentary * Author's Bio

Discovering a purpose can be a difficult and daunting undertaking, even for a parasitic entity doomed with a ceaseless hunger for flesh, bone, and suitable hosts.

Leviathan centipedes. Ravenous wasps. Moon universities. Viscoelastic AI's in the nude. One upstart anthropologist trying to learn echolocation. A tortured weapons dealer dodging exploding flowers. Predator Moons is equal parts horror and wonder. It's Dune meets Pokémon, with a splash of Blade Runner and a touch of Annihilation.

They can evolve with us, or they can die. Hailey’s life was destroyed. Her father passed away, and her husband abandoned her when she was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson’s disease. All that’s left are a successful career as a lobbyist, and the nanotech keeping her alive. When a power surge through Earth’s satellite system blows out the nanotech it seems the last thing keeping Hailey alive has been destroyed; until the voices give her a second chance at life. The only condition: she must assist them with the evolution of the planet and the human race, without question or ...

A man trapped in the woods searches for his missing little girl. All the while, a strange light in the sky chases him. Will he ever find his little girl, and will they be able to escape the woods unscathed?

Michael Kanuckel's story creeped me out from the start. It has moments that combine classic VHS movies like McQueen's The Blob and some from John Carpenters The Thing. It does this with minimal characters and locations and uses its uniquely crafted story to conjure up images straight from nightmares. The characters are drawn so well that they are real. Their (and your own) fear becomes truly and horrifically tangible. When you enter this desolate nightmare, it leaves you wanting more. It has one of the best cliff-hangers I have read.

Shy and introverted, Dash grew up reserved and with few friends. Once meeting Bria and Talyn on his home planet's academy, they became his best friends. With more courage and knowledge than he could hope for, the pair consistently managed to pull Dash into adventures he would have otherwise avoided.

It’s time to take control of our creation. I’ve been called the most dangerous person on the planet because I was manipulated by my own design. Revenant used me to bend my creation to his ideals. He turned Domino and Advanced Artificial Intelligence into a game that we won’t play with them any longer. It’s time for humanity to balance the equation between man and machine to design our future: one not dominated by machines, but in balance with our creation. My name is Julissa Solomon, and I am the sole link between Domino and Advanced Artificial Intelligence. I’ve been manipulated ...

A woman with wings that exist in another dimension. A man trapped in his own body by a killer. A briefcase that is a door to hell. A conspiracy that reaches beyond our world. Breathtaking SF from a Clarke Award-winning author. Tricia Sullivan has written an extraordinary, genre-defining novel that begins with the mystery of a woman who barely knows herself and ends with a discovery that transcends space and time.

Sixteen-year-old Joshua Allen was born with an extra chromosome—a genetic aberration known as Trisomy XXI, or Down Syndrome. A serious accident leaves the mentally-challenged adolescent in a coma at the hospital, where he receives a mysterious injection that endows him with supernatural powers. The transformed teen is linked to a string of bizarre, unexplained deaths in town that have both the sheriff and the coroner baffled. A ghastly creature from another planet lands on Earth and begins its hunt for the teenager—viciously slaughtering anyone in its path in order to complete its ...