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SFS2 is an amazing collection of ten science fiction stories that will please any reader looking for adventure. The author aims for the stars and definitely hits his mark. Some of these ten stories seems like they could happen right now, and others in the near future. With the technology we live with today, this science fiction could be real life. SUMMARY: Lost Planet: A television news reporter trapped in a new post- apocalyptic world knows that there is more going on than what meets the eye. A surprise plot twist will make your jaw drop. An Alien Animal: An exciting story with a hilarious...

After surviving a harrowing accident that stranded them on an unknown planet, three astronauts, with the unexpected help of benevolent aliens, finally make their way back to Earth. However, their return is far from the joyful homecoming they had imagined. Instead of the familiar world they left behind, they arrive in the future—a time when everything they once knew and cherished has been turned upside down. What greets them is a world consumed by separation, division, and hatred. The values that once held nations and communities together seem to have crumbled into dust. The astronauts are...

Vanessa is a strong, independent woman. Or she was, until she awoke in a world strangely changed. And when her husband and father of her children is in trouble, Vanessa realizes it is up to her to figure out what went so wrong in the world. Vanessa’s journey takes her to the Department of Temporal Adjustment, the department tasked with handling all time travel, where she and her spunky kids go on a hilarious adventure through time—all while traveling incognito.

We live in a universe of endless potential futures. In this collection of stories, characters confront the unique dilemmas posed by the version of the future they inhabit. They struggle with dangerous technology, mysterious alien entities, gods, artificial intelligence, utopias, dystopias, and life itself. General issue science fiction stuff, in other words.

Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author presents “a celebration of all things country music” (Ken Burns) as she reflects on her search for the first family of Black country music.

"How to Write a Short Time-Travel Story: A Comprehensive Guide to Past, Present, and Future Travel" is your indispensable guidebook to crafting compelling Time-Travel stories. This comprehensive book will walk you through every step of writing a short Time-Travel story, from conceptualizing your Time-Travel mechanics to creating authentic time-displaced characters. Learn how to balance historical accuracy with speculative imagination, deal with paradoxes, and structure narratives seamlessly blending the past, present, and future. The book also discusses editing, receiving feedback, and ...

It’s the near future. Stevie Henry is a Cherokee girl working at a museum in Texas, trying to save up enough money to go to college. The world around her is in a cycle of drought and superstorms, ice and fire, but … people get by. But it’s about to get a whole lot worse. When a mysterious boy shows up at Stevie’s museum, saying that he’s from the future—and telling her about the apocalypse that is to come—she refuses to believe him. But soon Stevie will have no choice.

Twenty-plus sci-fi stories from the lighter side, many of them illustrated. More from the lighter, laughing side than the dark-dungeoned depths; but they’re all here somewhere, from a satisfied smile; or shed a tear. Maybe a “Yes! Get in there”. Or catch your breath at the trials that some have to face. From crackling two-pagers where someone hasn’t quite read the situation right, to sixty-plus sides chronicling what you really have to do if you want to survive on this planet. Tales of here and now, wondering what’s among us; or what awaits us amid the distant futures and far-...

Love knows no bounds… In this science fiction anthology, love has no limits across space and time. From Artificial Intelligence, aliens, and intergalactic royalty. From headstrong characters fighting the status quo to those struggling to keep afloat in a tumultuous world. One way or another, their love will survive. Featuring stories by Frank Sawielijew, Kevin A. Davis, Wris Kaye, David W. Landrum, E.B. Hunter, Lyle Hopwood, Amanda Barrett, Katie Kent, T.C. Mill, and Barend Nieuwstraten III. Graphic sexual content is included within this anthology.

Major Chenesai Okonkwo is an auditor for the Sub-Saharan Union. Her mission: to find out if the Sixth Expeditionary Force's newly discovered time gate has been compromised. Is the union's revolutionary discovery already doomed, 11 years in the future? But there is another, more personal mission. The possible murder of her husband remains unsolved. But are the two things connected? Can she navigate the world of aliens, spies, politics and time paradoxes to find the truth, and save her people's future?

Max is back with a thrilling new adventure that involves time travel, creepy bad guys, killer drones, and a shocking mystery about her past that she will stop at nothing to solve! Under constant danger of being kidnapped by the shadowy Corporation, Max is on the run from New York to London and beyond. But soon the call comes for the Change Maker kids' next mission: make sure no kid ever goes hungry again! If anyone can tackle a problem this big, Max and her genius friends can.

The year is twenty-forty-three. Andy Calhoun is the captain of the Blue Moon, an older cruise ship making one last attempt to be profitable with a nineteen-fifties retro theme. In deep space, a luxury yacht appears next to him. When his boss calls and tells Andy to shuttle over to the yacht, he meets Davenport Armstrong, an eccentric trillionaire. Armstrong informs Andy he has been selected to pilot a brand-new state-of-the-art vessel through a newly discovered wormhole to Planet Chang. On Chang, his corporation will build a city and make a movie “Thanksgiving 2045.” This seems strange ...

Three young adventurers— Annie, Oliver, and Ryan— are transported five hundred years into the future by Annie’s magician mother. In this strange future world, some people live a primitive existence in small huts in the countryside, whereas others live in magnificent towers in spectacular gleaming cities. The trio finds themselves in the middle of a conflict between the Supreme Leader Phineas Grimshaw and his opponent Professor Augustus Wrightman on what the society should look like. Annie, Oliver, and Ryan are caught up in adventures and danger as they try to escape the world of the ...

Taken from his home by an army of assassins, a teenage boy must join their ranks in order to save his mother. When Adam Alexandrus was eleven, he and his mother fled Astra, their home-colony, floating just a few miles above the Earth’s surface. After five years in seclusion, Adam’s days are filled with training from his athletic and scientifically gifted mother. She believes that it is only a matter of time before the Volare, a group of elite soldiers, retrieve them for execution. As time goes by, Adam is not convinced. After all, his mother thinks that they are alone in the wilderness,...

In the dystopian 22nd century, Lauren Ramirez is an Assassin 13, the best at her profession. Betrayed by her employer, the president of the United States, on an off-planet op, she escapes when her spacecraft hurtles through time and crash-lands in 1927 Prohibition Hollywood, with its silent film stars and bootlegging gangsters. She finds herself an alien in an alien land.

National Public Radio's Beijing correspondent Rob Gifford recounts his travels along Route 312, the Chinese Mother Road, the longest route in the world's most populous nation. Based on his successful NPR radio series, China Road draws on Gifford's 20 years of observing first-hand this rapidly transforming country, as he travels east to west, from Shanghai to China's border with Kazakhstan. As he takes listeners on this journey, he also takes them through China's past and present while he tries to make sense of this complex nation's potential future.

The year is 2032. Three astronauts—veterans of a harrowing intergalactic journey beyond the Milky Way—find themselves back on Earth, but not the Earth they remember. When they launched into space in 2015, America stood strong: a nation unified by its ideals, a beacon of hope and leadership to the world. But the country they now return to is unrecognizable—fractured, bitterly divided, and teetering on the edge of collapse. Shocked and heartbroken, the astronauts traverse this broken landscape, witnessing firsthand the consequences of years of anger, distrust, and division. America has ...

As a reminder of God's role in the history and future of America, Newt and Callista Gingrich give listeners a look into the architecture and beauty of the nation's capital in Rediscovering God in America. Listeners will take a walk through Washington, DC, to view the nation's monuments and memorials, including the National Archives, where Thomas Jefferson's immortal words jump off the page. But this is not simply a walking tour of the city; this is a tour of American history.

For those who do not know, the Psionicist Guild is the ultra-secret society of technical magic practitioners. Technical magic is the practice of advanced mental science skills that appear like magic to those who cannot yet perform such actions. Just as most of us do not understand how quantum computers with their qubits can compute all variations of a math problem as an inherent function of solving the first question, they also have many confused with their non-linear temporal relationship to my reality. Of course, one does not have to understand the workings of technology to use it, but it...

The thought of exploring space brings wonder and excitement, but do not forget the horrors lurking beyond. The innocent become killers and the killers become prey to aliens in a vicious cycle. Heroic feats, sacrifices, and karma await these space bound characters. Stories by S.O. Green, Robert Allen Lupton, Nina Munteanu, Barend Nieuwstraten III, Kris Ashton, Andrew Ronzino, Aaron P. Hansen, Stephen Herczeg, Janina Franck, Peter VanGelderen, Sjan Evardsson, Lincoln Reed, Jo Niederhoff, and James Romag.