A new technology takes the world by storm. A new disability is created. Is an inability to assimilate with the Liminal Space a curse – or a blessing in disguise?
Category Archives: Science Fiction
The Twopenny Bargain
‘Two pennies to end your loneliness. What a bargain!’ But there is a darker side to the Twopenny Bargain. And when Aphrodite 100pi starts work with the powerful Androlics Institute, she will be forced to acknowledge the cruelty which keeps her society running…
The Curse
In the world outside the biodome, Outsiders live for hundreds of years. But there is a Curse in Ellerby’s family. And when it comes for her sister, Ellerby must confront the reason why the rest of the world wants her contained…
Understanding
She’s been alone on an alien planet all her life – until the human refugee programme comes to claim her. But her own species is stranger and more frightening than she ever thought…
The Nostalgia Machine
Psychiatrist Rosalind has acclimatised well to life in space, comforting the neurotic first-born space generation whilst enjoying a relationship with fun-loving Winnifred. Until Rosalind’s happy delusion is interrupted by one of her young patients, who wants to know the truth behind his parents’ desertion of the Earth…
Parahumanity
Semi-feral and strange from an isolated upbringing, seventeen-year-old Katrina escapes to Los Angeles, searching for ‘Civilization’. What she finds is very different: both science and religion have fallen into disrepute, and humanity is descending into crisis. As Katrina uncovers the truth, she meets Alexander, a biologist’s son who is secretly working to prove science’s worth with the ultimate experiment. Katrina agrees to help him, unaware that in doing so, she will jeopardise her faith in mankind, her sanity – and her humanity.
Red Planet
Oliver Townsend, aging funder of the original mission to Mars, has been left alone in his mansion on the Red Planet while the rest of his colony scout for more hospitable worlds. He has one instruction: not to go down to the basement. One evening, Oliver finds the door to the basement open, and an unexpected visitor in his living room…
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