Travel Future

A collection of short stories and a novella covering a large number of subjects, in various styles, ranging from serious to flippant. The stories in this book will introduce you to: - Visit from aliens with an unusual agenda - A Guardian Angel with a peculiar bent - A hightech trap catching an innocent - Obsessing with jealousy can backfire - A time travel villain becoming his own victim - An old man talking to his cat about danger - A driver fretting about safety - Mind before the creation - An unusual TV set saving humanity - A whole town locked down by robots - Secret meeting by star ...

A luxury trip through time—what could go wrong? A journalist is sent to cover the grand opening of a new resort, but when she arrives, she discovers a shocking truth—the resort won’t be built for another 200 years. Chosen as its first guest, Alexis is about to embark on a journey into the future. Unfortunately, this vacation turned into a rescue mission. Upon arriving in the future, she learns she is part of a desperate plan to save the future. Worse, she’s trapped in an endless time loop—forced to relive the same journey over and over as the future races to repair a fractured ...

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.

An exiled prisoner. A desperate woman. A time travel agent willing to break the rules. Malcolm Aldred is starting over in 1868, Oklahoma. There’s just one problem—he’s an exiled prisoner from 2070. In 2071, Los Angeles, housewife Hannah Cole is desperate to escape her abusive husband, and begs Cyber Criminal Enforcement Agent Christine Stewart to send her somewhere, anywhere, in history. When Christine agrees to send Hannah to 1868, neither woman has any idea the events that sets in motion. Malcolm and Hannah adapt to pioneer life in an untamed world full of danger and unimaginable ...

Prepare to be transported seven hundred years into the future. The 'world' you knew as Earth has long been forgotten - a victim of its own overpopulation and moral decay. You, and your predecessors, have only known the confines of this ship - The Cicala. Generations have lived and died aboard this ship. It has served its purpose well. It carries a precious cargo. It is the cradle of humanity - a cross-section of all Earth's diversity. But now the long journey is coming to an end as the intended planet comes into view. What surprises will be offered by this strange new 'world'? Civilization ...

Short Sci-Fi stories from the Lighter Side of yesterday and all your tomorrows; alternative todays; and all those maybe times in between. From orbits and vectors the other side of the spiral arm, to the smoking field at the back of the Yew Tree pub. From Boudicca's helping hand, to the secret behind Toothsavers; Why did the mountain have to move to Mohr? Have the Potens got this Planetary Takeover quite right? It's Absolutely Disgusting, isn't it? the way these immigrants seem to hate everyone on the planet? You only Have One Vote - How important can that be? You turn your back for five ...

Twenty lighter, more intimate, stories from the furthest orbits of the time-space continuum When the gods coming visiting, are we included on their agenda? Or their menu? The ship has suffered a massive structural failure – a Breach: Level Two. Do you still have a future? The Galactic Emperor is passing through your hospitality lounge. “Please,’ they ask, ‘stand in for him at tonight’s banquet.” But why? In his brutal suppression of a city rebellion, the Lord of Tyre has one last matter to deal with. After all the trauma and mistreatment I endured in the alien prison camp, why ...

The stories you’ve dreamed of; the people you crave to meet; or would love to be. The aliens who’d make you shiver, or laugh. The huge risks of guiding your spacecraft here, or there. The adventures you’d have if only you had the nerve… Or the utter romance of doing that… The humour of orbital disasters and alien conflicts; the perils of ill-advised time-interference; the sheer romance of null-gravity love; the terrors of a leaky hull; the fear of a bullying boss when you’re a thousand light years beyond.; the choices you face in the big, black Vac. Mostly a laugh or a satisfied...

The stories you’ve dreamed of; the people you crave to meet; or would love to be. The aliens who’d make you shiver, or laugh. The huge risks of guiding your spacecraft here, or there. The adventures you’d have if only you had the nerve… Or the utter romance of doing that… The humour of orbital disasters and alien conflicts; the perils of ill-advised time-interference; the sheer romance of null-gravity love; the terrors of a leaky hull; the fear of a bullying boss when you’re a thousand light years beyond.; the choices you face in the big, black Vac. Mostly a laugh or a satisfied...

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 ...

In 2170, the future of the world looks very different. In an effort to change the past, three officers with the Time Enforcement Patrol travel back to critical points in time in an effort to make their dystopian future a better place. Will they be successful? and what will they learn in their past that will shape their future?

2145AD. She was created to be better than any artificial intelligence mankind had ever attempted. An AI that could feel, imagine, create, learn, and most importantly, dream. The prototype is set to assist aboard the SS Kennedy - a starship that will go down in history as the farthest and fastest flight ever made by man. Everything is at stake, but the AI's creators have so much faith in their product. The flight of the SS Kennedy will be the first test of this new artificial intelligence. The first trial before its mass-adaptation. As a safety measure, the AI will be given the same ...

Space isn't just the final frontier—it's big business! From exploration to space vacations, learn how private businesses are transforming the future of space travel and exploration.

TEP (Time Enforcement Patrol) assassin Nisha Paquet is on another mission. She travels back to 1930's Shanghai on a mission to kill a Japanese mastermind and alter the course of World War II. There, she meets Yulia Menshikov who is a taxi dance struggling to survive the political intrigues of the dangerous city. Will Nisha's mission be a success? What will happen to Yulia? This is Book #3 in the TEP series but can be read as a stand-alone. Other books in the series are When Birds Sing Again and Golden Opportunities.

Cassique is a time travelling Fixer in AD 2853. It's his job to nip back into the past and fix problems which threaten to wipe out the world of the twenty-ninth century. But the longer Cassique spends in those past times, the more he comes to wonder if the docile, VR-obsessed people of his present would actually benefit from a reset. It's a dangerous thought, because that would mean taking a stand against Father, the world-running super-computer, and Father takes a very dim view of any form of rebellion. When Cassique teams up with a couple of relatively famous figures from the past, they ...

Welcome to Paradise. Daniel's alchemy has hurtled them 112 years into the future where a mysterious tree-shaped structure rises into the Moroccan sky. Generations have passed, but a culture grounded in ancient Yoruba traditions has sprung up. Peri must choose between trusting the friendly strangers she meets and following Ayoub, the terrorist-turned-pirate, into the unknown. She fights to keep her family together, but her faith is shaken. Nothing is as it seems. Caught between two warring factions, Peri must search within herself to discover what truly makes life worth living. How much is ...

The Shadow War: Warriors of the Apocalypse continues the story that began with Aaron: Subject Number Seven and was followed by Wade: Subject Number Four. No one would ever make the mistake of thinking the Kings were an ordinary family but few would understand just how extraordinary they truly were. The mysterious organization, referred to as the Cabal, that had inadvertently brought them together was also working in secret to bring down America and the rest of the world. But the Cabal wasn’t the only entity able to wage a shadow war. Using their genetic gifts and combat skills the Kings ...

Where is A. I. taking us? Ascendancy or Annihilation? Is there a higher power? In quiet moments we sit and wonder what it's all about; looking to the past for a hint of meaning, then imagining what the future might hold for us. Whether here on earth, or out there amongst the stars, will words such as love, kindness, morality, and honor fade to obscurity, or be raised to new levels? This work of fiction paints a picture of what that future might look like for us, thousands of years from now. It traces the journey of space "cops" across the universe on the trail of a murderer. What a shock ...

The "Time Scope", is a Sci-Fi TV Set that can be tuned to any space and time coordinate and observe events, without sound, as they took place in the past. It has control buttons and dials for 'Power', 'Time', 'Space', 'Zoom', 'Speed', 'Scan' and 'Track'. It is used, among other things, by an American Senator to find out if his party's presidential nominee, a retired general is, in fact, a power-mad maniac with dictatorial ambitions. He wants to save his country from a rogue president who could cause immense harm to both the USA and the rest of the world. This is the smallest of their ...

Time is a phenomenon that people have struggled with throughout the ages. There are those who believe that time is like a river. It only flows in one direction and anyone in that river can only occupy a particular area of water once. Which means you cannot travel in time. Then there are those who believe the river of time concept is an illusion, that time is a blocked structure where there is no distinct direction of flow. This perception is that every event that has happened or will happen, is in a block already defined and they all already exist. There is no past or future as everything ...