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Rocking Space

Beyond the Stars

Beyond the Stars

“A blisteringly good collection.”

“Will read everything in this series I can get my hands on.”

“These stories are full of great, complex characters (not all of them human), twists and turns, and fantastic world-building.”

Beyond The Stars: Rocking Space includes these short stories:

  • One Last Gig (Cain V. Hopwood)
  • Camp Kids (Patrice Fitzgerald)
  • First Contract (Julia Huni)
  • Destroy Is My Favorite Part (David Bruns)
  • Chocolate (Andy McKell)
  • Unfair Advantage (Misty Zaugg)
  • The Switcheroo (Christopher J. Valin)
  • Juno Triumphant (Patty Jansen)
  • I Said Flamenco (J.M. Thomas)
  • Curiosity (R.J. Howell)
  • Imperatrix (Nemma Wollenfang)
  • The Original Sacrifice (A.K. DuBoff)
  • Wily and Tate (Patricia Gilliam)

Thirteen brand new tales from fantastic writers–both bestselling and freshly discovered–in this seventh collection from the BEYOND THE STARS series of space opera anthologies.

Join these authors who are deep into… Rocking Space!

Don’t miss the earlier volumes:

Dark Beyond The Stars
Beyond The Stars: A Planet Too Far
Beyond The Stars: At Galaxy’s Edge
Beyond The Stars: New Worlds, New Suns
Best Of Beyond The Stars
Beyond The Stars: Unimagined Realms
Beyond The Stars: Rocking Space
Beyond The Stars: Infinite Expanse

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Horizons Beyond

Horizons Beyond

The Future is now! Torn from the headlines of next year’s news, Keystroke Medium brings you ten stories, not from the distant past or centuries in the future, but close enough to change your life… very soon.This anthology will take you on a journey you won’t soon forget.

Included:

Ozymandias by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

The Big Box Store by Patricia Gilliam

I Am Christopher by K. R. McClellan

Clean Sweep by C. C. Ekeke

C-481 by Kalene Williams

Salvation of the Seas by Andrew Gates

X-Roads by Walt Robillard

Spark Joy by I.Q. Malcolm

The God in the Details by Rick Partlow

Randall Duchamp and the Strip Club of Tomorrow by James S. Aaron

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A Superhero’s Duty

The Heroes of Corvus

Superheros Duty Cover
Myth by Name.
Villain by Nature.
Hero by Choice.

A fight between a second-generation superhero named Red Bolt and a villain-for-hire named Icarus goes terribly wrong, resulting in the drowning deaths of three innocent civilians and orphaning a six-year-old boy.

Racked with guilt, Red Bolt visits Cameron Wilson at the hospital every night and won’t leave the boy’s side until he falls asleep.

Befriended by a night-shift nurse, the man in costume begins to disclose what really happened after the fight—and why he feels the deaths of Cameron’s parents and sister fall on his actions.

A superhero didn’t survive that night, and Cameron and the rest of the city aren’t out of danger.

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Thaw

A Silo Saga Short Story

Thaw

Some Secrets are Necessary.

Hal discovers secrets in Silo 1 that lead to him being deep-frozen. Carlton’s role in Operation Fifty is revealed.

Author’s Note: Republished with permission from Hugh Howey. It is recommended that you read WOOL and SHIFT prior to this story to avoid potential spoilers. While I tried to remain within the current series canon of WOOL, SHIFT, and DUST, characters and other story elements may be developed differently in the future.

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Building a Novel Series Bible

Seriescraft 101

Building a Novel Series Bible

This condensed version contains templates from the Seriescraft 101: Fictional Character Creator Workbook and Setting & World-Building Workbooks and is an alternative for writers organizing their novel series in Word or Scrivener.

There are several approaches to creating a series bible. If you have an existing series, rereading your own books and filling in existing information can help with continuity and developing potential sequels.

If you’re starting a series from scratch, you can begin with what you know about your world and use the prompts to flesh out specific details. Don’t feel obligated to fill in every category to start on your actual books. Over time, a dynamic exchange will form between your books and reference material—resulting in an overall richer story.

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Setting and World-Building Workbook

Seriescraft 101

Setting & World-Building

Like character creation, developing a believable fictional world is a process that becomes more defined with experience. If you’re just starting out, however, planning your foundation will make the overall writing process a lot easier.This workbook contains twenty location templates, ten group templates, a series glossary, a timeline and history index, a section for series rules to maintain continuity, and prompts to help with brainstorming. For visual authors or stories that may require sets, there is space for sketches, maps, and layouts.

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Fictional Character Creator Workbook

Seriescraft 101

Fictional Character Creator Workbook

This workbook contains templates to help brainstorm and organize up to 35 fictional characters within the same series. It was originally designed as a quick tactile reference for authors to hold information that may not be included in their actual novels. For screenwriters, it can be used to create the character segment of a story bible.

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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane!

Superheroes and Vile Villains: Volume 1

It's A Bird! It's a Plane!

Nothing captures the marvel of our inner-child like Superheroes. Which of us hasn’t dreamed of feeling the wind whipping through our hair as we fly through the air at unimaginable speeds? Who hasn’t fantasized about using supernatural strength to quell the tyranny of a cruel, selfish leader?

Live vicariously through the Supers of today in all original, never before published stories from some of today’s hottest authors.Help Carrie Conrad stop a school shooting in Chris Pourteau’s Geek Gurl Rising. Experience the rise and fall of superhero great, The Roach in Rhett C. Bruno’s The Roach Rising. Explore the Raptorverse in Christopher J. Valin’s Photo Op.

Read these and so many more exciting stories today for barely a buck a story.

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The Backup

A Hannaria Series Short Story

The Backup

After being shot during a press conference, tech mogul Nick Mathis wakes up alone in a cloning lab over nine hundred miles away.

Unsure of whom he can trust, he seeks out his best friend from childhood, Josh McFerrin—and draws his killer to them both.

Author’s note: This short story contains characters from The Hannaria Series Book 4: Something Like the Truth. While not required for understanding the overall story, events from the novel are referenced.

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The Immortality Chronicles

Future Chronicles: Book 6

Immortality Chronicles

What if you could live forever? Defy death itself? Even now, scientific advances in regenerative medicine, life extension, cryonics, cybernetics, and in other areas have brought humans to the brink of solving life’s final conundrum.

In this volume of the acclaimed ‘Future Chronicles’ anthology series, twelve authors imagine that uninterrupted journey, confronting not just how, but what it means when human life can continue indefinitely, invulnerable, immortal.

“The Immortality Chronicles” features stories by award-winning scientist and author E.E. Giorgi (Chimeras), Amazon bestselling author Will Swardstrom (Contact Window) and ten more of today’s most visionary authors in science and speculative fiction.