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Non-Parallel Universes
A collection of Bud Sparhawk's short speculative fiction: 19 stories originally published between 2007 and 2015 in Analog, Abyss and Apex, Daily Science Fiction, and several anthologies.
Dreams of Earth
What is it like to awaken on an alien star ship with no memory of your identity or past, where even everyday tasks seem mysterious? Are you the sole survivor of a wrecked star ship, as they contend and why are so many species interested in you? Such is the situation for Case as he recovers from injuries and struggles to make sense of the unconnected memory flashes that plague him. Do they contain clues to his identity and the location of an Earth he vaguely remembers? Worse, are all these partial memories false or merely products of his damaged brain? Could he really have come from a colony lost in the early days of mankind’s expansion as his caretaker companion contends? These and other questions are answered as he comes to term with his identity and faces a future beyond anything he ever imagined.
Magician
TROLLINGHOM Trollinghom periodically sends Magicians into the world to restore and revitalize the ancient devices that are essential to the scattered villages’ survival. Three magicians; an old man accompanied by a younger one, dark and mysterious, and a beautiful young woman arrive to befriend a smitten Jacob Torvals who has always yearned to learn their magic. FIELTEN When disaster strikes the farming village of Fielten the Magicians escape with a seriously wounded Jacob and embark on a difficult and perilous journey through the wilderness to, as Jacob learns, their mythical city where he hopes to learn their secret arts. POLITICAL TURMOIL As Jacob learns the ways of magical Trollinghom he discovers that he has become a pawn in a political debate about the magicians’ proper role in dealing with the world’s inhabitants. The more he learns the worse his situation seems to become. DILEMMA Finally, facing danger and under the pressure of time, Jason must quickly make the critical decision that will determine the future of his world and its inhabitants.
Shattered Dreams
Morrow colony receives a warning of alien attack. Before they can prepare, the aliens strike with brutal force. A mere scattering of colonists survive, unaware of the greater war. Military command makes the hard call to adapt captured tech, turning Marines into cyberweapons, leaving many to wonder...To Defeat the Enemy, Have We Become Them?
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5
An unabridged collection of the “best of the best” science fiction stories published in 2012 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster. In “Invisible Men,” by Christopher Barzak, a maid in an inn encounters the Invisible Man who makes her an offer to be more than she is in this quasi-retelling of H.G. Wells’ famous story. In this year’s Nebula Award winner for best novelette, “Close Encounters,” by Andy Duncan, an old man is hounded by reporters about the stories he used to tell of an alien who took him into space and the dog he brought back with him. “Bricks, Sticks, Straw,” by Gwyneth Jones, follows virtual scientists forced to survive within ...
Vixen2
When the Covenant entered the Thetti star system after a two hundred-year frozen voyage, her crew awakened to find a new world ripe for colonization. Meridian was everything they could have hoped for—a ripe, virgin world more than capable of supporting Terrestrial life. Tam, the leader of the mission, suspects something is amiss when he glimpses a strange light over the planet...and a previously charted moon disappears. Sloppy work? Space anomalies? Or something new and sinister? Portions of this novel first appeared as HEAVEN’S COVENANT in the September 2017 issue of Analog Science Fiction/Fact and in December 2008 as VIXEN by Cosmos Books
Man and Machine
The plan had been to un-man the battlespace, replacing flesh and blood with steel and carbon fiber. However, as with any arms race, the opposing side's technology eventually catches ups to yours, resulting in the need to put lives back in harm's way on the frontline; to deal with, and adapt to the unknown, as only humans can.
Distant Seas
"Follow Louella Parsons, a profesional, world-class sailor, as she competes - and faces near disaster - in Le Gran Venee, Earth's premier race around the world. Surviving that, she finds herself testing her sailing prowess deep in Jupiter's atmosphere. The wine-red seas of Jupiter make the brutal conditions she faced in the Southern Ocean seem trivial. Louella and her partner then face a new challenge --to sail across the frigid plains in the thin-to-nonexistent Martian atmosphere beneath a cloud of ultra-thin fabric. But is a sailing race, there is nothing Louella will not do for her team to cross the finish line. She is a sailor."--from cover.
In Harm's Way
When fire and steel meet flesh and bone, a soldier learns a hard truth: you're not fighting for Glory and Honor, but for survival, for you and your comrades, and you will be damned if you're going to leave any of them behind. Join us for twelve tales of military heroism and courage in the face of a hostile enemy. With stories by Brenda Cooper, Bud Sparhawk, David Sherman, Robert E. Waters, Jeff Young, James Chambers, Lisanne Norman, Robert Greenberger, Aaron Rosenberg, Christopher M. Hiles, Eric V. Hardenbrook, and Danielle Ackley-McPhail
Alpha
Charon is dead. Long live Charon! The creator of a proscribed network of rogue AIs and androids has been destroyed, his multiple copies deleted. Except for one. Alpha: a female android who seems to possess a conscience¾so much so that her execution is delayed. Big mistake. Now on the run, and with her former captor as hostage, Alpha moves to activate a long dormant master-plan ¾ a plan that may well include the end of humanity and the violent transformation of the world as we know it! A stand-alone sequel to Nebula Award winner Catherine Asaro's moving cyber-thriller, Sunrise Alley. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
