Short Stories

Money can’t buy happiness, but it increases your chances… until his patron gives Zachary a harsh choice. Compromise his artistic vision, or lose funding.

Everyone remembers President Fletcher's assassination. Most remember his murderer, one of millions of underemployed young men in a world run by the unaging, took First Lady Miranda Fletcher's college course on violent regime change...

After Marcus joined the Coronado's crew, the ship set off on a mission promising huge profits: harvesting helium from the sun to deliver to the Venus terraforming project. But the promise of profit existed because Venus' enemies, forces from the moons of Jupiter, hunted and destroyed helium haulers ...

Americans under the thumb of interplanetary Russians. Can they strike a blow for solar system freedom?

Entering the last game of the season, Cooper could be the first player since Ted Williams a century ago to bat .400 -- thanks to secret biotechnology giving him superior vision.

When a young scientist turns her new invention, the chronoscope, to 1st century Palestine, she finds the result she least expected--Jesus of Nazareth's empty tomb.

In an artificial world whose inhabitants used advanced neurotechnology to implant skills and habits in playing status games, Pavel trumped all his friends by making himself believe in Christianity. But whether true or false, his newly implanted skills and habits wielded a power over Pavel...

With advanced biomedicine banned in the United States, rich and powerful Americans travel to India to extend their lifespans and augment their bodies and minds.So too do Americans who want wealth and power. Middle-class, middle-aged Americans like Liam Kleinschmidt and his wife...

At the start of the basketball season, Coach Huffman expected the usual from his St. Louis Spiders—bickering stars and missed playoffs. The team's new owner, a pharmaceutical tycoon, planned to turn things around by giving new meaning to "team chemistry."

The ultimate flying disc team from the human settlement journeyed to the alien planet’s lowlands with one mission: win a game against the aliens or go “home”—to an Earth the young team had never seen.

Fakes. Johan's newly purchased antique Barcelona chairs came fresh from an asteroid factory, not from the prior century on distant Earth. Facing his wife's anger, risking their friends' scorn, could he use an interplanetary crisis to turn the tables—and chairs?

A secret clinic, engaged in illicit cloning experiments for the benefit of a global elite. Yet even more disturbing was his encounter with the clinic's proprietress....