My husband Cory and I had an awesome time at Fanboy Expo. I loved seeing local and regional friends, and I met a lot of wonderful new people, too. I’m looking forward to coming back next year and possibly visiting other cities where Fanboy Expo hosts events.
When you discover you’re not alone, will you be ready?
Adventures start within and expand beyond. From a world of shadows to one of light. Fantastic races vying for dominance. A microcosm of the greater good. Battles fought for higher ideals. Battles fought just to survive.
War doesn’t care about human or alien. They fight, and they fight hard, as if the lives of their soldiers depend on it.
Because they do.
More than 600 action-packed pages of never-a-dull-moment entertainment! Seize your copy of The Expanding Universe Volume 6 and immerse yourself in new worlds, with new friends.
“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:
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Short Story Prequel to The Hannaria Series
Following a broadcast interview about Space Station Destiny’s progress, Jernard learns his friend Charlie Miller has disappeared. Jernard travels to Earth to locate the last known person Charlie contacted, Dr. Lance Jacobs.
After saying goodbye to her father earlier that morning, Jacobs’s daughter Lauren drives to work and discovers her lab has been ransacked. After multiple attempts to reach her father, she discovers he’s missing, too.
When a group of serial arsonists begin to plague the planet, Hannaria’s Council accuses Jernard and his family of being connected with the group’s leader.
Councilman Acred interrogates Jernard about a similar set of events that happened on Earth in 2113.
Jernard enlists the help of Bill Dermott and Portia Roberts to investigate Michael Dermott’s past.
A Liozi attacks both EIP members and Jernard’s team on Earth, leading to an uneasy truce until the creature can be located.