Best Short Stories Books
Best Free Short Stories Books of 2024
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Moments In A Crowd Book Reviews
Ray DaleyThe moments in a crowd can make a lifetime. And they can end one too. Trying to stop a killer is like trying to stop a runaway train, can our hero succeed?
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The Ground Beneath My Feet Book Reviews
Ray DaleyWhen Earth finally can't supoport us all mankind has to come up with an alternate plan to ensure the survival of the species. The ships that carry the seed of humanity out int...
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All The Pretty Boys From Charm School Book Reviews
Ray DaleyWork hard at your studies and one day you too will make someone a wonderful husband. Unless you decide to smash the system from within of course.
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Wool 1 - Wool Book Reviews
Hugh HoweyThousands of them have lived underground. They've lived there so long, there are only legends about people living anywhere else. Such a life requires rules. Strict rules. Ther...
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In The Mouth Of The Gift Horse Book Reviews
Ray DaleySurprise presents are very nice, even to tyranical dictators. Sometimes the surprise is that anyone will even SEND you a present!
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The Shifter from Space Book Reviews
Vivian HawthorneAfter throwing himself into an A.I.guided escape pod, Enki the Elyrian warrior flees an enemy ship to emerge on a strange planet, where he encounters a woman. He can tell she’s a w...
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The Bomb Book Reviews
Ray DaleyWhen a bomb is deprived of its creator, how will it react? Perhaps by doing the one thing it was made to do? Or can it be stopped?
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Boneyard Book Reviews
Ray DaleyThe most important fight you'll ever undertake is that for survival, for your very existence. When you are called to fight on your own field of battle, how will you fare? Live...
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First One There Dies Book Reviews
Ray DaleyCan the first crew to land on Mars uphold a deadly ancient local tradition and still all survive?
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One Smaller Step Book Reviews
Ray DaleyWhen one man is sent to scout the location for the first Lunar Dome, are the steps he takes the first ones ever made there? Or is he walking in someone elses footsteps?
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Quantum Frontier Book Reviews
Stephen Drake, R.S. Penney & Johan M. DahlgrenA collection of three science fiction series starters by R.S. Penney, Stephen Drake and Johan M. Dahlgren, now in one volume! Desa Kincaid Bounty Hunter (Desa Kincaid Book 1) : De...
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Not Eddie Book Reviews
Ray DaleyMany things are done in the cause of Friendship. Friends don't let friends go out the hard way.
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Something Borrowed, Something Blew Book Reviews
Ray DaleyNever complain about your luck, at least it's yours. Even if it is ALL bad. One day you MIGHT get a break!
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It Might as Well Be String Theory Book Reviews
Chris TromanIn this work I attempt to speculate on the nature of the universe, reality, and our place within it. There are many lines of scientific enquiry that yield significant results, need...
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Alarm Clock Book Reviews
Everett B. ColeMany years had passed since the original country rock had been broken, cut and set, to form solid pavement for the courtyard at Opertal Prison. And over those years the stones had ...
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The Short Trip Book Reviews
Ray DaleyWhat lengths will a Doctor Who fan go to in order to retrieve missing episodes?
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The Doctor Goes into a Bar Book Reviews
Matthew SawyerThis is a short Jon Pertwee Doctor Who tale the third Time Lord in the BBC science fiction television series. This time, the Doctor comes to early America the colonies. Despite c...
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The Apes Are Crazy Book Reviews
Ray DaleyIn a secret underground facility, scientists seek a way to rehabilitate criminals. But the experiment is still in its early days.
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Delhi De Kingre Book Reviews
Ajmer SidhuThis is a short description of police atrocities on people involved in revolutionary movements in Punjab/India conveyed in the form of punjabi scientific fiction.
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The Mason Procedure Book Reviews
Ray DaleyA conveyor belt of warm bodies brings a constant stream of eager new young volunteers to fill the dangerous jobs in space. Every day is lived on the edge of danger where the slight...
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UFO 1955 Book Reviews
Marvin PerkinsAn escaped prisoner is taken up into a UFO and transformed into a hideous creature designed to harvest humans to be used as food on an alien planet.
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Not A Stranger In Paradise Book Reviews
Ray DaleyWake up from your dreams, things are never as it seems, Look all around you, the trials that surround you. Is this a test? Or are you the test?
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Dark Tidings Book Reviews
Gregory Marshall SmithTired of hohum horror and science fiction stories that fail to keep your interest? Want some tales to keep you awake at night? Then try this double anthology of original science fi...
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Destiny - Nazis on the Moon Book Reviews
Ilsa von BraunfelsThe year is 1945. The Third Reich has unleashed, and subsequently lost the Second World War. Their home in Europe lies in ruins, and their dictator Hitler has escaped by means of s...
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The Spaceship To Last Week Book Reviews
Ray DaleyCan an amazing spaceship be used to save the Earth from destruction?
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Wolf Book Reviews
Paul G MannWolf is one of the main characters in NEWTH (The Early Years) and explains the truth of how Fredrick Marchland became known as 'Wolf' Long before the story of Newth began...
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Missing, Presumed Vanished Book Reviews
Ray DaleyAfter the escape from a robbery almost becomes a disaster, can two fugitives stay free from the long arm of the law?
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Mars Conspiracy Book Reviews
Josh MillerA mission to Mars has left Earth but more may be at work behind the mission than there first seems. A short story.
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Welcome to New York Book Reviews
Ray DaleyThe tourist attraction of the past is also the tourist attraction of the future for an entirely different reason!
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The Duel Book Reviews
Ray DaleyA duel to the death! Pistols at dawn, honour to be satisfied. Only one man can come out of this unscathed. He'll make sure he's the right one, he's got an unfair adv...
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From Out of the Dark Book Reviews
Robert N. StephensonFrom Out of the Dark is a not for profit publication featuring notable and new authors writing to the theme of Horror from the depths of space, or horror in the space between galax...
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I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon Book Reviews
Richard SabiaPoor Dolliver Wims is a terribly misunderstood teen age boy from the backwoods. Is he mean or evil? Quite the opposite: He does nothing wrong, hurts no one and wants only to be lik...
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The Time of the Nephilim Book Reviews
Tara EllisHave you read of the Nephilim and found yourself wondering who they really were? What about the other, similarly described beings from ancient text? Over the past two years, I have...
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Milk Run Book Reviews
Ray DaleyOn a regular planet hop made many times before without incident the first blemish on a perfect record is only ever less than a second away. When the worst happens can anyone save t...
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City of the Reptilians Book Reviews
Xaiver MordenSteven Cross, a man from a small town in Colorado goes climbing to the nearby mountains. As a result of a sudden and strong earthquake, several rifts open in the ground. From one o...
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Veterans Book Reviews
Ray DaleySometimes you give your life to your country. Then you get it back, and become a veteran. But there's always a new war rolling around. What can you offer now, when the planet&...
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Blue Haired Alien Girlfriend Book Reviews
John H. CarrollEvery evening Joshua, a manager at FishBurgers, walks home alone. One night, he comes across Mariella, an unusual young woman sitting on a bench. He's thrown for a loop when s...
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The Latest Version Book Reviews
Ray DaleyThe President has to account for how money is spent on behalf of the Nation. Is it worthwhile? Is it cost effective? Or is it from one of those black budgets you normally don'...
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The Day The Earth Died Book Reviews
Troy DennisonThe end of the world is at hand and humanity races for survival in the face of an extinction level event that will wipe out all life on Earth.
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Aardvarks to Planet X Book Reviews
Chris TromanCome on a journey through space, time, death and reality. To learn what it truly is to be human, even when your not. Revel in mankind’s greatest achievements, and bear witness to o...
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In the Beginning Book Reviews
Yuri CsapoFirst contact. For the first time, humans will be meeting members of another intelligent species. One man has a question: why now? The answer will be more surprising than he could ...
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How I Met My Mother Book Reviews
Ray DaleyAn orphan boy has terrible nightmares, dreams that only his screams wake him from. So when his orphanage go on a field trip, why is his destination so familiar?
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Little Green Men From..... Book Reviews
Ray DaleyOn an exploration mission into deep space to an apparently dead planet that suddenly starts sending out signals. What will they find? A warm welcome? Or?
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Five Sci-Fi Short Stories Book Reviews
H. Beam PiperHenry Beam Piper’s book “Five SciFi Short Stories“ is a collection of: The Answer, Temple Trouble, Flight From Tomorrow, Police Operation and Graveyard of Dreams. “The Answer” is a...
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Tomorrow, There Will Be A Bear Book Reviews
Ray DaleyIn the perfect society, a Leaders role is never questioned. His guidance is everywhere, his love all encompassing. But if you betray your beloved country? His imagination is unpara...
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Slipping Away Book Reviews
Ray DaleyWhen Aliens finally arrive are they here to save at least some of us? As a species, love is the our one redeeming factor but can it keep those we care about close to us forever?
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The Old Ways Book Reviews
Ray DaleySometimes the old ways are the best ways. If they work, then they're the best ways.
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Adam Savages Secret Diary Book Reviews
Ray DaleyThe page of his diary Adam hoped the world would never find. Do you dare read it, and learn the grim truth?
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Summer Girl Book Reviews
Coffie O. LoreI was thirteen when I first met her. By the end of our first encounter, I knew she wasn't human. By the end of our second, I knew she was a friend. By our third encounter, I c...
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Fall of the Faithful Book Reviews
Tom WellsDepartment of Human Preservation Agent Harold Gains had been called out to the crime scene of an apparent suicide jump from a highrise hotel. Agent Gains had been dispatched to inv...
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Divergent Dreams Book Reviews
Tony EvansGreat short stories told in 1,000 words or less to fill those times between sleeping and working. In here you’ll learn that burying a body in the woods is difficult when you’re bei...
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One Plus One Makes Me Book Reviews
Ray DaleyIs a prison with no bars still a prison? Or is the mind the worst prison of all? Worse than the sentance of being completely alone?
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The Machine Is Working Book Reviews
Ray DaleyWhen The President says something he needs to forget in a hurry then it's time to send him to The Machine. But how can the world be sure he's really forgotten that vital ...
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Reality Check Book Reviews
David BrinDo you ever get that sense of deja vu...a feeling that you've experienced something before? As computers get more and more complex, they are able to replicate the nature of re...
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TV Times Book Reviews
Ray DaleyAs television gets more and more stations, you'll find there's less and less worth watching any more. Just pray that one day your TV doesn't start watching YOU!
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Discipline Book Reviews
W.E. LarsonThere's no joy in coming of age for Lexi. As a illegitimate thirdborn daughter, she knew the day only held exile from her clanhold. Outside the walls of her home, there is onl...
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The Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Volume 2 Book Reviews
Robert N. StephensonAn eclectic collection of science fiction, fantasy and horror from around the world. The eversion in all formats is available for sharing and distribution in its original format. F...
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Twisted All To Hell Book Reviews
J. E. MooreIt will be the best short story collection you have ever read guaranteed.
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The Giving Plague Book Reviews
David BrinNot all villains succeed at being evil. Not all diseases deserve the word plague. Fate can be ironic indeed. The chilling short story, The Giving Plague, follows microbiologist For...
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Future Imperfect Book Reviews
Cassidy Raine Wolters, Jon Flushing, Doug Ward, Mark Hospodar, Jr, Jerry Clark, B.C. Richards, Leonard Herrington, Scott Lee & April WardWho says that the future is always bright? The prospect of better things yet to come is most certainly an attractive thought, one that propels scientific, creative, and social adva...
Best Paid Short Stories Books of 2024
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Moments In A Crowd Book Reviews
Ray DaleyThe moments in a crowd can make a lifetime. And they can end one too. Trying to stop a killer is like trying to stop a runaway train, can our hero succeed?
-
The Ground Beneath My Feet Book Reviews
Ray DaleyWhen Earth finally can't supoport us all mankind has to come up with an alternate plan to ensure the survival of the species. The ships that carry the seed of humanity out int...
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All The Pretty Boys From Charm School Book Reviews
Ray DaleyWork hard at your studies and one day you too will make someone a wonderful husband. Unless you decide to smash the system from within of course.
-
Wool 1 - Wool Book Reviews
Hugh HoweyThousands of them have lived underground. They've lived there so long, there are only legends about people living anywhere else. Such a life requires rules. Strict rules. Ther...
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In The Mouth Of The Gift Horse Book Reviews
Ray DaleySurprise presents are very nice, even to tyranical dictators. Sometimes the surprise is that anyone will even SEND you a present!
-
The Shifter from Space Book Reviews
Vivian HawthorneAfter throwing himself into an A.I.guided escape pod, Enki the Elyrian warrior flees an enemy ship to emerge on a strange planet, where he encounters a woman. He can tell she’s a w...
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The Bomb Book Reviews
Ray DaleyWhen a bomb is deprived of its creator, how will it react? Perhaps by doing the one thing it was made to do? Or can it be stopped?
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Boneyard Book Reviews
Ray DaleyThe most important fight you'll ever undertake is that for survival, for your very existence. When you are called to fight on your own field of battle, how will you fare? Live...
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First One There Dies Book Reviews
Ray DaleyCan the first crew to land on Mars uphold a deadly ancient local tradition and still all survive?
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One Smaller Step Book Reviews
Ray DaleyWhen one man is sent to scout the location for the first Lunar Dome, are the steps he takes the first ones ever made there? Or is he walking in someone elses footsteps?
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Quantum Frontier Book Reviews
Stephen Drake, R.S. Penney & Johan M. DahlgrenA collection of three science fiction series starters by R.S. Penney, Stephen Drake and Johan M. Dahlgren, now in one volume! Desa Kincaid Bounty Hunter (Desa Kincaid Book 1) : De...
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Not Eddie Book Reviews
Ray DaleyMany things are done in the cause of Friendship. Friends don't let friends go out the hard way.
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Something Borrowed, Something Blew Book Reviews
Ray DaleyNever complain about your luck, at least it's yours. Even if it is ALL bad. One day you MIGHT get a break!
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It Might as Well Be String Theory Book Reviews
Chris TromanIn this work I attempt to speculate on the nature of the universe, reality, and our place within it. There are many lines of scientific enquiry that yield significant results, need...
-
Alarm Clock Book Reviews
Everett B. ColeMany years had passed since the original country rock had been broken, cut and set, to form solid pavement for the courtyard at Opertal Prison. And over those years the stones had ...
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The Short Trip Book Reviews
Ray DaleyWhat lengths will a Doctor Who fan go to in order to retrieve missing episodes?
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The Doctor Goes into a Bar Book Reviews
Matthew SawyerThis is a short Jon Pertwee Doctor Who tale the third Time Lord in the BBC science fiction television series. This time, the Doctor comes to early America the colonies. Despite c...
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The Apes Are Crazy Book Reviews
Ray DaleyIn a secret underground facility, scientists seek a way to rehabilitate criminals. But the experiment is still in its early days.
-
Delhi De Kingre Book Reviews
Ajmer SidhuThis is a short description of police atrocities on people involved in revolutionary movements in Punjab/India conveyed in the form of punjabi scientific fiction.
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The Mason Procedure Book Reviews
Ray DaleyA conveyor belt of warm bodies brings a constant stream of eager new young volunteers to fill the dangerous jobs in space. Every day is lived on the edge of danger where the slight...
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UFO 1955 Book Reviews
Marvin PerkinsAn escaped prisoner is taken up into a UFO and transformed into a hideous creature designed to harvest humans to be used as food on an alien planet.
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Not A Stranger In Paradise Book Reviews
Ray DaleyWake up from your dreams, things are never as it seems, Look all around you, the trials that surround you. Is this a test? Or are you the test?
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Dark Tidings Book Reviews
Gregory Marshall SmithTired of hohum horror and science fiction stories that fail to keep your interest? Want some tales to keep you awake at night? Then try this double anthology of original science fi...
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Destiny - Nazis on the Moon Book Reviews
Ilsa von BraunfelsThe year is 1945. The Third Reich has unleashed, and subsequently lost the Second World War. Their home in Europe lies in ruins, and their dictator Hitler has escaped by means of s...
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The Spaceship To Last Week Book Reviews
Ray DaleyCan an amazing spaceship be used to save the Earth from destruction?
-
Wolf Book Reviews
Paul G MannWolf is one of the main characters in NEWTH (The Early Years) and explains the truth of how Fredrick Marchland became known as 'Wolf' Long before the story of Newth began...
-
Missing, Presumed Vanished Book Reviews
Ray DaleyAfter the escape from a robbery almost becomes a disaster, can two fugitives stay free from the long arm of the law?
-
Mars Conspiracy Book Reviews
Josh MillerA mission to Mars has left Earth but more may be at work behind the mission than there first seems. A short story.
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Welcome to New York Book Reviews
Ray DaleyThe tourist attraction of the past is also the tourist attraction of the future for an entirely different reason!
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The Duel Book Reviews
Ray DaleyA duel to the death! Pistols at dawn, honour to be satisfied. Only one man can come out of this unscathed. He'll make sure he's the right one, he's got an unfair adv...
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From Out of the Dark Book Reviews
Robert N. StephensonFrom Out of the Dark is a not for profit publication featuring notable and new authors writing to the theme of Horror from the depths of space, or horror in the space between galax...
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I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon Book Reviews
Richard SabiaPoor Dolliver Wims is a terribly misunderstood teen age boy from the backwoods. Is he mean or evil? Quite the opposite: He does nothing wrong, hurts no one and wants only to be lik...
-
The Time of the Nephilim Book Reviews
Tara EllisHave you read of the Nephilim and found yourself wondering who they really were? What about the other, similarly described beings from ancient text? Over the past two years, I have...
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Milk Run Book Reviews
Ray DaleyOn a regular planet hop made many times before without incident the first blemish on a perfect record is only ever less than a second away. When the worst happens can anyone save t...
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City of the Reptilians Book Reviews
Xaiver MordenSteven Cross, a man from a small town in Colorado goes climbing to the nearby mountains. As a result of a sudden and strong earthquake, several rifts open in the ground. From one o...
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Veterans Book Reviews
Ray DaleySometimes you give your life to your country. Then you get it back, and become a veteran. But there's always a new war rolling around. What can you offer now, when the planet&...
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Blue Haired Alien Girlfriend Book Reviews
John H. CarrollEvery evening Joshua, a manager at FishBurgers, walks home alone. One night, he comes across Mariella, an unusual young woman sitting on a bench. He's thrown for a loop when s...
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The Latest Version Book Reviews
Ray DaleyThe President has to account for how money is spent on behalf of the Nation. Is it worthwhile? Is it cost effective? Or is it from one of those black budgets you normally don'...
-
The Day The Earth Died Book Reviews
Troy DennisonThe end of the world is at hand and humanity races for survival in the face of an extinction level event that will wipe out all life on Earth.
-
Aardvarks to Planet X Book Reviews
Chris TromanCome on a journey through space, time, death and reality. To learn what it truly is to be human, even when your not. Revel in mankind’s greatest achievements, and bear witness to o...
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In the Beginning Book Reviews
Yuri CsapoFirst contact. For the first time, humans will be meeting members of another intelligent species. One man has a question: why now? The answer will be more surprising than he could ...
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How I Met My Mother Book Reviews
Ray DaleyAn orphan boy has terrible nightmares, dreams that only his screams wake him from. So when his orphanage go on a field trip, why is his destination so familiar?
-
Little Green Men From..... Book Reviews
Ray DaleyOn an exploration mission into deep space to an apparently dead planet that suddenly starts sending out signals. What will they find? A warm welcome? Or?
-
Five Sci-Fi Short Stories Book Reviews
H. Beam PiperHenry Beam Piper’s book “Five SciFi Short Stories“ is a collection of: The Answer, Temple Trouble, Flight From Tomorrow, Police Operation and Graveyard of Dreams. “The Answer” is a...
-
Tomorrow, There Will Be A Bear Book Reviews
Ray DaleyIn the perfect society, a Leaders role is never questioned. His guidance is everywhere, his love all encompassing. But if you betray your beloved country? His imagination is unpara...
-
Slipping Away Book Reviews
Ray DaleyWhen Aliens finally arrive are they here to save at least some of us? As a species, love is the our one redeeming factor but can it keep those we care about close to us forever?
-
The Old Ways Book Reviews
Ray DaleySometimes the old ways are the best ways. If they work, then they're the best ways.
-
Adam Savages Secret Diary Book Reviews
Ray DaleyThe page of his diary Adam hoped the world would never find. Do you dare read it, and learn the grim truth?
-
Summer Girl Book Reviews
Coffie O. LoreI was thirteen when I first met her. By the end of our first encounter, I knew she wasn't human. By the end of our second, I knew she was a friend. By our third encounter, I c...
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Fall of the Faithful Book Reviews
Tom WellsDepartment of Human Preservation Agent Harold Gains had been called out to the crime scene of an apparent suicide jump from a highrise hotel. Agent Gains had been dispatched to inv...
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Divergent Dreams Book Reviews
Tony EvansGreat short stories told in 1,000 words or less to fill those times between sleeping and working. In here you’ll learn that burying a body in the woods is difficult when you’re bei...
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One Plus One Makes Me Book Reviews
Ray DaleyIs a prison with no bars still a prison? Or is the mind the worst prison of all? Worse than the sentance of being completely alone?
-
The Machine Is Working Book Reviews
Ray DaleyWhen The President says something he needs to forget in a hurry then it's time to send him to The Machine. But how can the world be sure he's really forgotten that vital ...
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Reality Check Book Reviews
David BrinDo you ever get that sense of deja vu...a feeling that you've experienced something before? As computers get more and more complex, they are able to replicate the nature of re...
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TV Times Book Reviews
Ray DaleyAs television gets more and more stations, you'll find there's less and less worth watching any more. Just pray that one day your TV doesn't start watching YOU!
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Discipline Book Reviews
W.E. LarsonThere's no joy in coming of age for Lexi. As a illegitimate thirdborn daughter, she knew the day only held exile from her clanhold. Outside the walls of her home, there is onl...
-
The Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Volume 2 Book Reviews
Robert N. StephensonAn eclectic collection of science fiction, fantasy and horror from around the world. The eversion in all formats is available for sharing and distribution in its original format. F...
-
Twisted All To Hell Book Reviews
J. E. MooreIt will be the best short story collection you have ever read guaranteed.
-
The Giving Plague Book Reviews
David BrinNot all villains succeed at being evil. Not all diseases deserve the word plague. Fate can be ironic indeed. The chilling short story, The Giving Plague, follows microbiologist For...
-
Future Imperfect Book Reviews
Cassidy Raine Wolters, Jon Flushing, Doug Ward, Mark Hospodar, Jr, Jerry Clark, B.C. Richards, Leonard Herrington, Scott Lee & April WardWho says that the future is always bright? The prospect of better things yet to come is most certainly an attractive thought, one that propels scientific, creative, and social adva...
