Space Travel Fiction

In a distant solar system in a distant time, a malignant evil lurks on a deserted planet. A gentleman farmer with a less than placid past, an exotic stranger with a shocking secret, six honest smugglers, and a disaffected chieftain journey across the solar system to recover ancient artifacts and end up confronting the Menace in the Goldilocks Zone.

Jon Hunter has made it home. But a lot of things have happened to him over the last year. Some of them made no sense at all to those with him, but they accepted the really weird as if it was part of him. Jon himself didn't understand a lot of it, but accepted he wasn't allowed to know yet. But what really happened, and why? For 600 odd years, Hunter's have traveled space. Where did it all start? What were the events which shaped the galaxy Jon Hunter finds himself in? And what of the previous Jon Hunter's, mentioned in prophecy?

Please Note: This story is also part of book 10 of The Hunter Legacy series, The Long Road to Gaia. Thirteen doesn't like humans. The last thing he wants is to be assigned a mission to babysit them. Given a choice, he'd happily let them blow themselves up, after he saved all the cats first. Exactly how humans could ever have anything to do with galaxy wide consequences is completely beyond his ability to understand. When asked to perform an intervention, there was always freewill to choose not to. But in this case, does he really have a choice? This is a 5000 word short story, set in The ...

Jens needed to get off the planet in a hurry so he took the first job on an interstellar freighter he found—part of a convoy to a far-flung mining colony three Steps and almost three thousand lightyears away. Only the desperate went so far—colonists willing to trade a life on Earth for a new start on a rock somewhere across the galaxy, or spacers one step ahead of the law. But as each Step takes him farther from home, Jens learns that the job isn’t exactly what he was told, the cargo not as legitimate, and his situation even more precarious. Jens finds himself being groomed for a role...

Ranked Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill Subs Synopsis: Carefully curated stories from our monthly magazine to create a themed short story book about the philosophy and ethics of sex and sexuality. Perfect for classrooms and book clubs, each story is 1,500-7,000 words and comes with five suggested discussion questions. Human Contact: A college student heads to a party, gets high and drunk, and ends up having a night that will forever change lives. For Your Safety: Zoe is visited by the government for having sexual relations without first filing an "Intimate Partnership Agreement...

Dr. Xandria Trebelin, graduating her studies as the galaxy's most skilled physician for both humans and aliens, can't find work despite her impeccable credentials. Dubbed "Dr. Trouble," Xandria's reputation for attracting bizarre medical cases leaves her shunned by colleagues. Desperate, she applies for a position on a distant, remote planet, hoping to escape her undeserved reputation. However, her journey takes an unexpected turn when she literally collides with an unknown-to-her species. This encounter leaves her with a debilitating condition that prevents her from physically touching ...

Three original stories by storyteller E.T. Bryant: Collector's Edition The Paradox of Dawn - Jarem is trying to find answers to what happened in the past. Who was the first man and woman? Who is the god with no name? Will he find the one? Picture a dying planet where survivors are waiting for rescue by a race of clones. A quest for answers to questions past and future. Jarem’s journey to find who he is, and love offers a true paradox. The Farm - is a strange place where things are not as they seem. A story with a mixture of truth and fantasy. You will find yourself in a special place ...

To Mars! A groundbreaking planetary exploration book set in the early 20th century, primarily focused on the journey from Earth to Mars. The world is captivated by the McNally-Dobson controversy, sparked by Professor Richard McNally's revolutionary theories about life on Mars. This scientific exploration novel delves into the mysteries of the red planet and the incredible technological advancements of the time. An Unlikely Partnership When young inventor Thomas Fairbanks reveals his father's perfected anti-gravity device to Professor McNally, the two visionaries join forces. McNally's ...

Flint, Wren, and Ace, along with Charles, are now members of the Eureka, a state-of-the-art vessel heading for a world in the far reaches of a new galaxy. Sixty years ago a colony ship was sent there, along with someone close to their benefactor. But when they arrive, they find getting to the surface isn’t as easy as they thought. With a crash-landing, and news that shocks the entire crew, they must collectively find a way to get the Pilgrim off-planet and into the fight against the Watchers.

In Soul to Soul, Jon, Simon and Lyn continue to trip and stumble across the universe in search of the ultimate margarita and a possible date for their friend Gilbert. As usual, they become tangled up with the universal forces of confusion, female androids are added into the mix, abstract consciousness is discovered in soup bowl, late night cable movies are discussed, insane theories win out and, as always, an ample amount of alcohol is consumed along the way. All this for your reading entertainment. This novel supports Amazon’s ‘look inside’ feature so if you like witty dialogue and ...

Dream-Storm The Legacy is a journey into your imagination made up of two books of which this is the Second, subtitled "Journey Two - The Evil Rise" and it has over 500+ pages written under the influence of Hypnosis when author Roger Howarth had been Hypnotized by British Hypnotist Jonathan Royle to enable him to experience Lucid Dreaming and Astral Travel Phenomena. Within the pages you will meet Jayden, The Dream People and a whole host of other characters that will introduce you to the deepest realms of your own imagination and dream world realities as you explore the Universe through ...

Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the dark ages. Hot on her trail is the Pax - a collection of fascist zealots who believe they are the rightful rulers of the galaxy and who remain untouched by the Pulse. Now Jane, a handful of comrades from her past, and a telekinetic girl called Esa must fight their way through a galaxy full of dangerous conflicts, remnants of ancient technology, and other hidden dangers.

Book One of the series, titled “When we built a space elevator”, follows the people producing the elevator at Ellemental Space in New Mexico, as they conspire with the Pentagon to launch it before anyone finds out and can stop it. Enough Rope is a hard science fiction series by Phillips, exploring a future in which the first space elevator was built in the 20s. This is a disruptive technology, something we’ve become familiar with, but there are fortunes being made, building rockets. The rocket set are not happy and face financial ruin if the elevator is successful. What will they do?

Taking advantage of the worldwide Blackout, the Travelers from the planet Schyllus unite the nations of Earth into a single supernation called Pangaea, governed by the World Council. Travelers dominate the World Council, and have surreptitiously placed Travelers in strategic positions in the government, military, and society. But are the Traveler's intentions for Earth good or evil? Simultaneously, the world's elite have established themselves in 144 utopian cities scattered throughout the globe, declaring their independence from Pangaea in utter defiance of the World Council. Civil war ...

The story begun in The Reefs of Time continues. The time-tides caused by Karellia’s defenses have brought the malicious Mindaru AI out of the deep past into the present, threatening Bandicut and Li-Jared, who have arrived at the backwater planet - Li-Jared’s homeworld - to find it on the brink of interplanetary war. Somehow they must forge a peace between Karellia and its neighboring world if the Mindaru threat is to be broken.

In the 36th century, humanity faces annihilation at the hands of the Formorians—a parasitic hive that corrupts and consumes all organic life in its path. As the war for survival rages on, Tristan MacArthur, an astronaut from the 24th century who returned from a deep-space voyage, continues his perilous quest to unlock the secrets of Excalibur—an ancient technology that may hold the key to defeating the unstoppable Formorian virus. After narrowly surviving the events from the first novel, Tristan journeys into the distant past with Merlin, where ancient prophecies speak of a mortal ...

Could you survive? ..........In the 22nd Century? ....................After an apocalypse? Youngblood was a computer whiz. Kira was a kickass huntress. Could they make a difference? Youngblood was an eighteen-year-old when his father placed him in hibernation to await a cure for his disease. But when he woke a century later, he was gasping for breath in a deserted underground bunker. The post-apocalyptic world he found was divided between the valley settlers who lived a subsistence existence and their mountain dwelling overlords who reaped all the benefits of a 22nd Century lifestyle. ...

In the final throes of the generations-long war with the alien Felen, smuggler Jereth Keeven's junk freighter breaks down in a strange rift in deep space, with little chance of rescue—until they encounter a science vessel that claims to be from 152 years in the future. Engineer Uma Ozakka has always been fascinated with the past, especially the desperate peace mission that ended the war with the Felen and ushered in a new age of collaboration—a mission Keeven's first mate, Leesongronski, is supposed to be leading right now.

Lucas Ramsay thought he was ready. He thought his plan was foolproof. But he was wrong. When the Baaku come for him on a remote Earth outpost, they challenge everything he knows to be true. Soon, he’s on the run as a renegade, someone who’s willing to cross the line and do whatever it takes, all in a quest to find those he lost and set things right. He vows to never stop searching.

He dreamed of reaching the stars, but everythig has a price… Ethan develops the first warp bubble technology to break the light speed barrier. Excited by his achievement, he builds the first spaceship size warp bubble drive. But blood drains from his face when he discovers the project sabotaged. It must be someone on the project team. Who can he trust? As they begin the ship’s maiden voyage, his worst fears are realised when someone murders his best friend and they detect another spaceship headed to their destination. Despairing, he sees his life-long dream slipping from his grip. Can ...