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Welcome to future-shock. Hold on tight and buckle yourselves in, because the future is on a relentless onslaught, for better or worse. This is a collection of the short speculative fiction of Gabriel Walker Land. Most stories are flash fiction, meaning less than 1000 words. Each contains a story of mystery, action, romance, and suspense.

I was asleep when the world burned. Zain Stone is a rising star at tech giant Thanatos Industries, developing the technology to stop death. But when the building comes under attack, he risks life and limb to protect his research. When he wakes in a cryo chamber, twenty years into the future, everything has changed. The world, which once valued technology so much, has come to despise it. And the girl who woke him up–the beautiful Amy, with strawberry blonde hair and a sweet disposition–might be a cyborg he designed himself. Soon, Zain finds that it’s not just that he needs to survive ...

In a world where reality is not what it seems, the true nature of the “Invisible Dome Projector” is revealed, an enigmatic structure covering the known continents of this Dome-World, with a simulation of the cosmos designed to shape our thinking. This book explores how, over the generations, the Custodians and the Anunnaki have used advanced technology to not only project a fictionalized version of the universe, but also to manipulate human perception and destiny away from our true purpose and surroundings.

Outer Space, Inner Lands includes many of the best known Ursula K. Le Guin nonrealistic stories (such as "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," "Semley' s Necklace," and "She Unnames Them") which have shaped the way many listeners see the world. She gives voice to the voiceless, hope to the outsider, and speaks truth to power - all the time maintaining her independence and sense of humor.

Dan Davis, an electronics engineer, had finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot that could do almost anything. Wild success was within reach, but then Dan's life was ruined. In a plot to steal his business, his greedy partner and greedier fiancée tricked him into taking the "long sleep": suspended animation for 30 years.

Now in paperback, from a “multi-faceted, medium-hopping, culture skewering performer” (SPIN), this is a journey through the world of Patton Oswalt, best known for his roles in film (Big Fan and Ratatouille) and television (The King of Queens and The United States of Tara), but also beloved...

What began for Molly as a simple journey to retrieve her father’s old spaceship has turned into an epic adventure with far-reaching consequences. For years, she dreamed of reconnecting with her past. Now she’s going to meet it in a way she never expected: head-on. Her father is alive. Her mother’s memories are trapped inside his old ship. She’s on the run from her very own Navy, and now has been tasked with the impossible: Rescue her parents. Save the galaxy. End a war.

Tanner Malone never aspired to heroism. For him, the Navy and the Debtor’s War were all about survival. Lately, his life has turned to better days with college, friends, and a growing relationship. He’s not interested when a Union Fleet admiral brings him a mysterious alien threat, but he can’t turn away Alicia Wong.

This was supposed to be a bit of fun, but she can’t get this sexy bad boy out of her head! Lynn meets Tom, a mechanic who drinks at the Australian pub when she works to pay her way through university. When they meet sparks fly, but she is shocked when things become serious. This was supposed to be just a bit of fun after all. The two of them are inseparable and all those walls she put up to protect her heart don’t seem to be doing their job anymore. He is closer than she is ready for and it is driving her crazy. So crazy that when he says he is actually an alien who has taken on human ...

New Lands was the second nonfiction book of the author Charles Fort, written in 1925. It deals primarily with astronomical anomalies. Fort expands in this book on his theory about the Super-Sargasso Sea—a place where earthly things supposedly materialize in order to rain down on Earth—as well as developing an idea that there are continents above the skies of Earth. As evidence, he cites a number of anomalous phenomena, including strange "mirages" of land masses, groups of people, and animals in the skies.

A second young woman needs a place to stay. Joe’s happy to help out.

Relive the race for humanity’s greatest leap—discover the true story of Apollo and the moon landing, even if you think you’ve heard it all before. Were the moon landings truly as triumphant—and as certain—as history claims? Did engineers, astronauts, and ordinary people really overcome the seemingly impossible? And what secrets, doubts, and rivalries shaped the epic journey to that first footprint on lunar soil? If you’ve ever questioned what really happened during the Apollo era, or wondered how the world’s most daring mission overcame disaster, politics, and the limits of ...

Hope ran deep when Smith left humanity’s first generation ship to lay roots with his wife and son in the open air of a new planet. When the colony ship broke apart on entry, however, countless lives were lost, including Smith’s beloved wife. He now fights to keep his son and his colony alive, all the while fighting off alien-induced hallucinations. Meanwhile, Smith’s apprentice Tashon seeks to discover what happened to his beloved mentor and the colony. He soon learns that the expedition’s leaders are focused on a much more imminent danger.

Joe Johnstone wrote science fiction until he grew too old to hold a pen. He never did make it to space. He had to die to do that. In 2092, the line has blurred between the living and the dead. Between organic intelligence and manufactured. Humanity’s first interstellar ships soar into the cosmos for exploration and colonization, leaving a tired and battered Earth behind. They are crewed by artificial intelligences and ghosts like Joe. Will the mission of one such ship, the Excelsior, succeed?

The Galaxy is breaking up as the Confederation of Species fractures. Maauro and her new companion, Dassa, have reached their safe Inner Worlds and sold their fabulous cargo of gems, but restlessness plagues Maauro the AI. She seeks a greater purpose for her existence.

EARTH-LIKE DOESN’T MEAN EARTH At last, the battered interstellar ship Excelsior finally reaches its destination. The ghosts aboard have another shot at life, some to breathe once more and others for the first time. But this doesn’t mean anything will come easy for the “lucky” settlers on the rocky, sub-optimum ball of ice and rock orbiting Trappist Prime. Can our space travelers overcome the obstacles lurking on the planet below? Can the war-weary among them find peace at last? These are good questions; an even better question is if they can meet their basic needs. After all, the ...

The Axiom Diamond is a mythical relic, with the power to show its bearer any truth they desire. Men have sought for it across many continents for centuries but in vain. When trainee sorceress Aimee de Laurent's first ever portal-casting goes awry, she and her mentor are thrown into the race to find the gem, on the skyship Elysium. Opposing them are the infamous magic-wielding knights of the Eternal Order and their ruthless commander, Lord Azrael, who will destroy everything in their path....

When Kandra and her motley crew of one-inch purple warriors crash land in an amusement park, they find themselves in a world full of towering monsters and bizarre landscapes. Their spaceship is broken, and they are stranded on an unfamiliar planet. Captain Kandra, a fierce and resourceful leader, must rely on her team's unique skills to navigate this strange new world. Niraby, a systems engineer with blue locks and a lethal past, Tombila, the muscled weapons expert covered in tattoos, Sanidru, the kind-hearted cook in love with Tombila, and Wilamo, the genius but perpetually grumpy ...

NOMADS 2 – Dark Land After the ZORA mission comes to an abrupt end, Dominic Porter decides to abandon his military career. Together with Ellena Green and Monica Simmons, he embarks on a journey back home to his family. But the journey through the unpredictable vastness of the solar system hides dangers that none of them could have foreseen... NOMADS "Nomads" is the name given to humans by the peoples of the Milky Way. Survivors and fugitives, they roam the galaxy, known to its inhabitants as ASGAROON, and struggle to be accepted by foreign cultures and ancient power structures. Some ...

As a fringe drifter, I deliver latest generation nukes into deep space for cache storage. Company algorithms predict when and where the war will go, like chess. By planting weapons for future use they stay four steps ahead of the game, or in this case, four centuries. Needless to say, I miss out on a lot of the drama back home, wherever that may be. I work alone, always. When I am not in the nightmares of hypersleep, I read, think, and meditate, doing my best to stave off the madness that comes with isolation and alienation from earth, the native environment that I have never seen. My next ...