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A Green Sun    by Charles Gray
Price: $1.99 USD. 41870 words. Language: English. Published on August 7, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » General.

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Fusion was impossible. Nobody would ever make a practical fusion reactor. Jolene Wu didn’t believe that. She was going to change the world with her fusor design, and free mankind from the tyranny of fossil fuels. But when the largest oil field in the world came up empty and gas prices spiked to ten dollars a gallon, it was no longer about changing the world. It was about saving the world.
The Nexus Odyssey    by Hylton Smith
Price: $5.95 USD. 304710 words. Language: English. Published on August 6, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » High tech.

The Nexus Odyssey is an epic journey of human exploration. Overpopulation and its attendant problems force colonisation of another planet. Having achieved this salvation, the relations between Earth and Mars become fractious, and this leads to the development of interstellar propulsion capability, a joint strategy of humans and intelligent aliens. The problems are immense, and benefits uncertain.
Iraq 2050 (Tech Wars)    by Kenneth Guthrie
Price: $2.99 USD. 2200 words. Language: English. Published by Lunatic Ink Publishing  on August 6, 2011. Fiction » Literature » War.

The war born of the foolishness of our leaders never stopped. In 2003 we started a war. We started a war, but it never ended. Countless people died as the terrorists formed into a united group. Now we must face their wraith and fight for what little we have in a world gone mad. This is the story of one man and his struggle in this war.
Passing in the Night    by Michael Kingswood
Price: $2.99 USD. 12310 words. Language: English. Published by SSN Storytelling  on August 6, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » General.

The starliner Pericles is en route to Earth from the Gliese system with a full load of passengers and cargo. Carlton, the pilot on shift in the middle of the transit, is resigned to an extremely boring year, with little to do except monitor instruments. Then sensors detect an object ahead, and what he and his shipmates discover will change their view of the universe. 12,200 words.
Digital Memories    by Clyde Key
Price: $0.99 USD. 10280 words. Language: English. Published on August 5, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » General.

Roger W. Banning was not alive when he awoke after being mugged in the parking garage at his brokerage firm. And he wasn't Roger Banning any more, either, because he had become an unwilling participant in a high-tech AI development. Like any other person with Type A personality, Banning objected to being exploited even though he was dead.
Chiller    by Gregory Benford
Price: $7.00 USD. 195870 words. Language: English. Published on August 3, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » High tech.

Chiller – one of Gregory Benford's most thrilling convergences of science and imagination! What happens when cryonics works? When scientists awaken the cryonically preserved "Chillers" who lie frozen and waiting? Benford gives us a story that snaps along through the crazed mind of a serial killer, the scientists he stalks, and the chilling results of science advancing against death.
Evolve    by Adam Savard
Price: Free! 6570 words. Language: English. Published on August 3, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » High tech.

A scientist must face the hardest decision of his life: is humanity really faced with inevitability, or do we make our own choices?
Bleak Rock    by James Bailey
Price: $0.99 USD. 10390 words. Language: English. Published on August 3, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » General.

An accident on a distant asteroid mining base has plunged Seth and his fellow miners into despair. Food is running short, power is running low and tempers are flaring. As Seth and his work mates struggle to shut down as many power draining systems as they can, others have more brutal ideas for how to survive the long wait till rescue.
Renewal    by Hylton Smith
Price: $2.25 USD. 83710 words. Language: English. Published on August 3, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » High tech.

Renewal is the fourth volume in The Nexus Odyssey. The city vessel Phoenix is in its 43rd year of the journey from Mars to the 55 Cancri system. The three species aboard are shocked to find Nexus is nothing like the Axis remembered. Renewal chronicles the struggle between the crew and a lifeform which tries to control them, while Mars is unaware of the same threat as the surface temperature rises.
Water: A Global Catastrophe    by Erik Cain
Price: $2.99 USD. 24270 words. Language: English. Published on August 3, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » General.

A short novella about a future global drought and how 2 people struggle against this crisis. Story is told through 2 narratives. This novella is about 25,000 words long.