It only takes a spark to start a raging inferno. One sharply-worded post online, and now Reginald Waite has a flamewar on his hands. A welcome distraction from the frustrations of preparing for a technically...

It's not easy being married to the leader of the band, even in the best fo times. When everything becomes political, you've got a nightmare Laurel had her doubts when her husband signed on to headline...

A tween boy's Christmas gift opens a world of wonder and brings joy to a whole town fallen on hard times. A young New Englander in the early Twentieth Century discovers that some parts of human history...

The Madrian Empire rules worlds as numerous as the grains of sand on a beach. When the Madrians conquered Roby's homeworld, they brought him to this godforsaken lump of a world, to toil at their will.Now...

Storytelling is as old as humanity. Given the importance of reading to children in their intellectual development, it is certain that we will take the storytelling tradition with us into space as we build...

Surrounded by a family who were happy with life in their West Virginia mining town, Janeen struggled against the pressure to keep her head down and conform. A dreamer, everyone said, Just like her father....

Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad. It's 1934, and the assassination of Sergei Kirov, Leningrad's Communist Party chief, has rocked the Soviet Union. When an up and coming young Party official...

In Stalin's Soviet Union, Tikhon Grigoriev lives a precarious life. He knows too much. He's seen too much. A single misstep could destroy him, and if he stumbles, he will take his family down with him....

Endings always hurt, but Vitali Grigorenko never expected a nightmare in orbit.Assigned to command the last flight of the orbiter Baikal, Vitali had started the mission in a nostalgic mood. That went...

A unicorn's horn for the king, a medal for the admiral -- but what for the lass who makes it possible?Rissa possesses the dolphin-singer gift, which saved her life when the thief-taker found her. If she...

Stacey didn't believe in wishes. Walking home one evening, she saw a bright star shining over the abandoned Starlite Motel and made a wish. Purely as a lark, of course -- she never expected anything to...

Sherry had planned a quick trip to her home town for her forty-year class reunion, to see the current classes' Homecoming game. Instead, she arrives to find the high school just as she remembers it, complete...

In the midst of preparations for a critical mission, Leland Andersen can't afford the return of a childhood nightmare. Yet night after night the vision torments him, of an astronaut dying in flames.Nora...

The disastrous war of 1913 is over, and young journalist Isaak Babel has used his fame as a war correspondent to win a peacetime job covering an international chess tournament in New York City. However,...

What secrets lie beneath an alien world?A routine archeological dig on a world once ruled by the mysterious Star Tyrants. For Moon-born Liu Shang, working on a planetary surface might be unsettling, but...

An afternoon for sketching in peace – that was all Nadine Darby wanted. She thought she was taking a shortcut to get past an overgrown levee and gain a better view of the Mississippi for some landscape...

The war was over, but where was the peace the victors had promised? Geidliv the Tyrant was dead, and the rogue nation of Karmandios now lay in ruins, its people prostrate before the occupying armies of...

Chelsea Ayles dreamed of going to the Moon since she was a child. Now her dream job at NASA has turned into a nightmare, thanks to those many blood-sucking arachnids. Yeah, politics, as in a Senator accusing...

In Greek myth, the phoenix is a bird that rises from its own ashes. Growing up in the city named for it, Toni knew the story well, and being a gamer made her used to death being negotiable. During a visit...

Dreams come true in cyberspace -- but so do nightmares. Roger remembers dying in a fire on the launchpad. He's reconciled it with being alive again. However, being an infomorph in a simulated environment...

The High Frontier is no place for foolishness, but nature can always make a better idiot.Four years ago, Molly's parents brought her up here to the Moon when their work brought them to Shepardsport. In...

In the world we know, Nikola Tesla's Wardencliffe experiment proved a costly failure and was ultimately torn down for scrap. But what if things had gone differently and he pressed his work to completion?In...

As Frank Correra brings his family to a lunar settlement to get them away from a worsening political situation on Earth, he reminisces about how he and his wife met. Frank had always dreamed of the skies....

Life has been a nightmare for Mitya ever since he was arrested on trumped-up charges and exiled to Siberia. But this labor camp in the far north of Magadan Oblast hides a secret far more terrible than...

What would perfect darkness look like? And what would happen if you saw it? When Pavlik becomes obsessed with the idea of seeing perfect darkness, it becomes a distraction from the pod's duty as asteroid...

Nancy White they called her, a good, solid name for a troubled girl. But she knew her father had called her by another name, before he disappeared through the gate into another world of strange stars...

Eight lives depend on Kyle's desperate trek across the Moon to get help. But someone -- or something -- intends for him to fail. Can he defeat it in time?

When Liphrel's family fell too far on their debts, he was sold to the priests of the death god. But his family were followers of the birth goddess, which left him in a difficult position.

Who is the child Reza can hear crying every time she goes to the new addition to the Royal Library? Her boss insists there is no child, that it is nothing more than her uncanny sensitivity to the unseen...

Everywhere Evangeline looks, a thin coating of ice makes objects gleam in the sunlight. However, the beauty proves deceptive, for it hides a deadly secret, one only she can recognize. In her youth, Evangeline...