• Supernova Shadow
    Los Angeles, 1947. The rain had not stopped for two years. It fell on the city like a verdict, washing the ash from the supernova into the gutters and down into the Pacific, where it mixed with salt and became something that even the ocean could not digest. Jack Morane sat in his office on Sunset Boulevard, smoking a cigarette that cost him three cans of beans at the black market. The office...
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  • The Supernova Conspiracy
    The woman in the red dress appeared in my office at four-thirty on a Thursday, which was either very brave or very stupid. In Los Angeles in 1947, those were often the same thing. She introduced herself as Diane Cole and sat down without being invited. She was thirty-five if she was a day, wearing a dress that cost more than my car and an expression that said she had already made a decision she...
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  • The Supernova Paradox
    (Variant V-12: Psychological Thriller) The Far East Isle was a place of jagged edges and screaming winds. Julian had come to save Clara, but the Stoker he found was not a man—he was a mirror. The Stoker looked exactly like Julian, only older, his eyes filled with a terrifying, knowing hunger. "The stars are not lights, boy," the Stoker whispered, his voice a distorted echo of Julian's own....
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  • The Supernova Rose
    Cambridge, 1938. Edmund Blackwood was thirty-five, serious, and tired in a way that sleep couldn't fix. He was an astrophysicist at Cambridge University, which meant he spent his days calculating the trajectories of distant stars and his nights wondering if any of it mattered. The signal came on a Thursday in March. Edmund was alone in the observatory, calibrating a radio telescope that had...
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  • The Golden Tomorrow
    The Golden Tomorrow ACT ONE: THE SILENT CITY (20%) Tommy O'Brien woke to the sound of jazz. It was coming from a gramophone on the corner of Fulton and Clinton—some automatic mechanism, wound up before the world ended, still turning its crank, still playing "Happy Days Are Here Again" in a scratchy, warbling voice that sounded like laughter from another century. Tommy pulled back the...
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  • The Hollow Republic
    The Hollow Republic ACT ONE: THE HURRICANE (20%) The hurricane came on a Tuesday in September, 1955, and when it was done, the Beaumont plantation looked like a painting that had been left out in the rain—the colors running, the edges blurring, the whole thing dissolving into something unrecognizable. Zeke Beaumont woke to the sound of water. Not rain—water, the kind that moves with weight...
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