Author : Michael Georgilis My hand scrambled over tiles studded with shattered glass until it found my gun, clenched, lifted, swung over the bartop, and pointed between the deepest blue eyes I'd ever hunted in the entire system. The gun cocked on reflex. Her eyes ...

Author : Clint Wilson, featured writer "Unbelievable Simmons! We actually have him mainlined through the wormhole!" The assistant was no less excited than the good Doctor. "Professor!" he shouted as he checked the subject's vitals. "The fractal condensers are working ...

Author : Julian Miles, Staff Writer /run -verbose -output=screen * Did you know that programmers have a higher rate of obsessive behaviour than any other occupation? * Watch your terminators, they taught me. * Always free the memory. * Never goto. I love sloppy coders, ...

Author : Steve Smith, Staff Writer Roscoe dimmed the lights in the living room and then powered up his suit. In the floor to ceiling mirror beside the stone fireplace he could admire how truly daunting a warrior he looked. From the heavy platform boots on his feet to the ...

Author : David Nutt It took all of Jimmy J's concentration to lock out the invading minds trying to pry the secrets from him. The first attack was dealt with easily, the Thulian from the belt. It was straight forward frontal lobe probing. Brute force, horribly off balance, ...

Author : Tim Rouse It's been eight years. I suppose it had to happen sometime. They've been here longer than that, of course. Just shy of a century, they say. But eight years ago they revealed themselves, thousands of people enslaved, with aliens in their bodies, and ...