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  • The Man Who Owned Her
    The Man Who Owned Her Sunny woke up in a motel off I-94 with a headache that felt like someone was driving a nail into her temple. The room smelled like cigarettes and old carpet and whatever the previous guest had left behind in the shower. She counted the cracks in the ceiling. One, two, three, four. The number did not matter. She remembered bits. A bar. A man with a truck. A bag of something...
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  • The Rust Belt Remedy
    Ray McAllister woke up the way he woke up every day: with a mouth that tasted like someone had lit a fire in it and a leg that ached in a place that didn't have a name. He lay on the cot in the back room of the house that was falling apart the way houses fall apart in towns that have stopped growing. The house was in a small valley outside Youngstown, Ohio, where the last coal mine had closed...
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  • The Starlight Fleet
    The jazz band had just finished a set when Nicholas Sterling first spoke the words that would haunt him for the rest of his life. He was sitting at a corner table in the Cotton Club, a glass of gin between his hands, listening to Louis Armstrong's trumpet weave through the smoke and the laughter and the clinking of glasses. The gin was cheap, but the music was priceless, and for a moment,...
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  • The Pattern in the Blueprint
    The first time I met Edward Hartwell, I thought he was the kind of man who would return your shopping cart at the supermarket. Dr. Helena Cross, military psychologist, London School of Economics. That's my title, at least. My actual job, as described in the contract signed by a security consulting firm called Meridian Global, was to conduct a psychological evaluation of a "high-profile defense...
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  • The Starlight Fleet
    The jazz band had just finished a set when Nicholas Sterling first spoke the words that would haunt him for the rest of his life. He was sitting at a corner table in the Cotton Club, a glass of gin between his hands, listening to Louis Armstrong's trumpet weave through the smoke and the laughter and the clinking of glasses. The gin was cheap, but the music was priceless, and for a moment,...
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  • The Black Signal
    The signal came through at 2:17 AM on a Thursday, and Jack Morane was drunk. He worked the graveyard shift at KLA-7, a small radio station in downtown Los Angeles that broadcast old standards and used car commercials between midnight and six. Jack's job was simple: make sure the equipment didn't catch fire, change the records when the automated system glitched, and keep his eyes open well...
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  • The Last Signal from Arecibo
    **October 14th, 1893** The rain has not ceased for eleven days. It falls upon the slate roof of the observatory like a thousand small fingers, persistent and unrelenting. I write this by candlelight, my hands trembling not from cold but from what I have done. What I have dared. Three months ago, I was Dr. Elena Hubbard, unpaid assistant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. My father, Professor...
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  • The Rain of Silence
    ## Act I: The Outset Los Angeles in 1947 was a city of neon lies and wet pavement. Elias sat in the back of a dimly lit diner, the smell of burnt coffee and cheap tobacco clinging to his clothes. He was a man of twenty-two with the eyes of a centenarian, a witness to a crime that the city's elite had spent six months trying to erase. He held a small, leather notebook in his shaking hands—the...
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  • The Velvet Shadow
    (Paranormal Romance Variation) Clara lived in a house that breathed. It was an old Victorian estate on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall, where the wind howled like a wounded animal and the sea crashed against the rocks with a rhythmic, violent hunger. Clara was a restoration artist, spending her days breathing life back into faded canvases, but her nights were spent in the company of a ghost....
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  • The Crown of Dust
    The humid air of the Congo Basin felt like a wet blanket draped over Captain Alistair Finch's shoulders. He wiped the grime from his brass monocle, staring at the impenetrable wall of emerald green that lay before him. Behind him, his small contingent of porters and a disgraced botanist named Dr. Aristhone were hacking through the undergrowth with a desperation that bordered on madness. Finch...
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  • The Epoch of the Iron Will
    (Act I: The Dying Light) The Empire of Solara was a sprawling corpse of a civilization, its cities crumbling under the weight of a thousand years of bureaucracy. Kaelen was a soldier of the borderlands, a man who had seen the horizon burn and the forests turn to ash. He didn't seek the throne; he sought a way to stop the bleeding. He was a man of iron and silence, respected by his men not for...
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  • The Last Untranslated
    The Last Untranslated Act I The world never stopped talking. Not because people wanted to — they didn't, not really — but because they couldn't stop. The Verbalis device, implanted
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