Abandoned by their jumpspace transport crew, reluctant spy Carver Denz and a diverse passenger group must improvise to survive and navigate their way back to civilization. Threatening their plans? Mistrust,...

Bodyguard Carver Denz is forcibly separated from his clients one port in to their interstellar pilgrimmage.A mysterious attack from jumpspace against Argosy Station puts the fragile peace between Argosy...

Jake Nourth hunts for a missing topologist. Finding the academic is only the beginning of the latest weird in Meld as the city holds its own deepening secrets. Supported by official sanction, the Throat...

Clay Farina is a private investigator in Monterey, California. Most of his work comes from his father's investment firm, Farina-Black.When a socialite client of Farina-Black is anonymously accused of...

Jake Nourth witnesses one friend's death and another's descent into catatonia during a panic-driven riot. The madness running among Meld's citizens is recent, random and expanding. Casualties mount and...

The word "robot" was coined a little over a century ago, but humankind has always told stories of constructed lifeforms. From the earliest myths to the latest blockbuster, stories of artificial life have...

Crime Is Not Bound by Gravity Turns out, greed and passion are universal truths, and leaving Earth does not mean leaving behind humanity. Spaceships, other planets, even Virtual Reality: all carry the...

Edited by Harvey Stanbrough. Body-Smith 401 and twenty other stories is dedicated to the memory of Ray Bradbury, who passed from among us on June 5, 2012, after having taught many of us a simple truth:...