War has come to the galaxy.What's more important?Victory or truth?The entire galaxy knows about the Incepti Cataclysm. The occupation force from Vela destroyed an entire planet with nanotechnology. Only...

Decades ago, we made our separate ways to the desert planet of Elard. We shared a common purpose: enlighten the planet's low-tech, violent aliens with our different paths of uplift. Though we served different...

A Portia Oakeshott, Dinosaur Veterinarian short storyAs a young girl, Portia Oakeshott dreamed of caring for the reconstructed dinosaurs roaming the preserve near the south pole of her home planet, New...

A Writers of the Future honorable mention Chalo had a chance to work hard and build a better life for his family. As a lucky holder of a pase de un día, a day pass, every morning he could teleport from...

As a young girl, Portia Oakeshott dreamed of caring for the reconstructed dinosaurs roaming the preserve near the south pole of her home planet, New New South Wales.Now, as a volcanic eruption devastates...

Leave the safety of your space capsule for the dangers of billion-year old alien derelicts, intelligent insects with mysterious motives, espionage in an alternate 1920s Paris, and rogue reconstructed...

As a girl, Portia Oakeshott dreamed of caring for the reconstructed dinosaurs roaming the preserve near the south pole of her home planet, New New South Wales.As a new hire at the dino company, Portia's...

"When Man goes to the stars, he'll bring a ball with him."Hit the court, tee off, and play ball in these five short stories about future sports.•    Going into the baseball season's final game, he could...

From tomorrow's Earth to distant suns, journey to worlds of wonder and adventureFive stories named as Honorable Mention or Semi-Finalist by judges of the Writers of the Future contest PASE DE UN DÍAChalo...

Powercrosse.A zero-gee sport mixing the best of hockey and lacrosse.Skill moves.Big hits.All while managing your team's limited supply of jet pack air.Jaysen Tkachenko—the best active player to never...

…then he learns the truth about the planet's "animals."Ross Cantrell joins the animal control mission on Azureseas to earn the money he needs to start married life with his girlfriend.The tourist corporations...

As a girl, Portia Oakeshott dreamed of caring for the reconstructed dinosaurs roaming the preserve near the south pole of her home planet, New New South Wales. As a consultant to law enforcement, Portia...

Concordia's mission reflects the best of the human race. Crew and scientists from both of Earth's rival factions journey for years at relativistic speeds to reach Bravo Charlie, a life-bearing planet...

As a young girl, Portia Oakeshott dreamed of caring for the reconstructed dinosaurs roaming the preserve near the south pole of her home planet, New New South Wales.Today, caring for dinosaurs means tending...

A powerful alien ship. Heading to Earth. Intent unknown.Bad: mission control lost contact with the interstellar explorers on Concordia.Worse: mission control now detects an unknown ship leaving the Alpha...

A billion-year-old alien ship.A great treasure.A great danger. With a last surge of the main drive, Barnet matched our bearing and speed with the alien derelict. Twisted lines of tubing and conduit curled...

In these pages, you can join– A mission to terraform a lifeless, rocky planet A private detective uncovering the ultimate crime A woman called by an ex-boyfriend… who's been dead twenty years A President...

One man can make—or break—Earth's iron grip on its galactic colonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth's top operative.Schemes and plots from the colonies and the capital converge in the halls of...

A Writers of the Future semi-finalist A hard-boiled private eye meets a high-tech mystery, in this short story by the author of Azureseas: Cantrell's WarA multi-millionaire heiress commits suicide after...

In these five stories, Raymund Eich posits new amendments to the United States Constitution.Amendments written to better bestow the blessings of liberty on the American people and their posterity.Amendments...

In these pages, you can... ...race against time to solve mysteries hidden in a planet's vast desert—and in a woman's heart ...learn the true story of a president's assassination ...journey 14,000 miles...

One man can make—or break—Earth's iron grip on its galactic colonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth's top operative.From the religious colony world of Trinity come clues of a long-lost prize. The...

One man can make—or break—Earth's iron grip on its galactic colonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth's top operative.The newly-rediscovered high-tech colony of Minerva quickly submits to a wormhole...

Some things only a child can see...The Electrotelepathic Community bound Henri to the Unity and brought news of the Unity's many victories against its galactic rival, the Tiánquán.Henri's son Luc, only...

Smuggle the "reborn" spiritual leader of an oppressed people past their conquerors.What could go wrong?Solitary spacejock Landry Krieger ekes out a living transporting data through the galaxy—and smuggling...

Smart contracts could help her marry well. And divorce better.Ashley clawed her way from her small, poor home town to the high-tech city, and vowed never to go back.Big data from pervasive biosensors...

They will turn a barren planet into a refuge for life.Or die trying.On board the interstellar ship, Theodore wakes from forty years of suspended animation, eager to transform a barren, rocky planet into...

He just wants to have fun.Why won't the aliens let him?Jeffrey just wants to have a good time, drinking and partying in the human zone near the city of the low-tech, insectoid aliens native to the planet...

As a girl, Portia Oakeshott dreamed of caring for the reconstructed dinosaurs roaming the preserve near the south pole of her balmy home planet, New New South Wales.As a graduate from the planet's top...

The kind of man she'd been taught to fear.Her only chance to choose a life for herself.Hiding behind a tank of molten uranium salts, Iphigenia's chewed fingernails gripped the radiation shielding and...