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A 'First Man' Expedition    by Vincent Strangecraft
Price: $0.99 USD. 5370 words. Language: English. Published on April 15, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure.

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The year is 2179. Roriark is a ‘First Man’. His job is one where he is the first man to visit unexplored alien lands. The expeditions can often be dangerous, but he is shocked when the commander asks him to execute a ‘Phase two’, something he’d heard about but never actually seen in practice. It doesn’t appear that this will be an ordinary ‘First Man’ expedition.
Star Destroyers    by Glenn Maluchnik
Price: $1.49 USD. 4440 words. Language: English. Published on April 15, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.

Aliens come to the earth in the time when the pyramids were being built in Egypt. The aliens who become friends of the people of that time on the earth see the Earths future and it's destruction and take humans off the Earth to a planet in a far off solar system to live. They now are fighting a war that may lead to there elimination of human life on there planets.
Great Expectorations    by Christie Meierz
Price: Free! 4010 words. Language: English. Published on April 14, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.

A short story by the author of The Marann. At the beginning of the 25th century, Cassie Johnson is a debt worker just starting a new life on a new planet. When she finds a pest in the basement of a building she’s inspecting, things change.
Three-Quarters Martian    by CR Hodges
Price: $0.99 USD. 3760 words. Language: English. Published on April 14, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » General.

The first man to walk on the moon was a hero to five generations. The first woman to walk on Mars was forgotten even before her boots plunked into the red dust. Abandoned by a fracturing civilization on Earth, the first mission to Mars is in trouble. Anna-Jing, her left leg buried along with her co-pilot, and her malnourished crewmates must make impossible choices in order to return home.
Attack of the Tinkers, and Other Hidden Village Stories    by Greg Krehbiel
Price: Free! 10530 words. Language: English. Published on April 14, 2013. Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories.

This is a collection of short stories based around the concepts in The Hidden Village, an (as-yet) imaginary game for city dwellers to play in their off hours -- at lunch or happy hour, or as they wander the city streets. The participants join a guild and compete with one another for members, points and territory. But there’s a secret purpose to the game that the players don’t know about.
Mind-Bending Tales of Alien Encounters    by V Bertolaccini
Price: $4.95 USD. 53940 words. Language: English. Published by CosmicBlueCB  on April 14, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » General.

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A new sci-fi action thriller with two tales of explorers encountering mind-bending aliens! In deep space explorers encounter something of unknown origins that has been hidden there since the dawn of creation that starts killing them, and if it escapes could destroy the universe. Explorers find a pulsating alien sphere, and it enters them into another universe where they encounter strange entities.
U.S.S. Humanity    by Nathanial Covell
Price: $2.99 USD. 16360 words. Language: English. Published on April 14, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure.

Outcast for protecting lives, a highly skilled, disillusioned 6-person crew embarks on a 6-year corporate deep-space mission, but together emerges as an uncompromising human force when confronted by greedy syndicates and aliens in the lawlessness of space.
Antologia Fénix de Ficção Científica e Fantasia - Volume I    by Ficções Phantasticas
Price: Free! 14010 words. Language: Portuguese. Published on April 13, 2013. Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories.

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Constituída por mini contos de autores portugueses, cujo tema comum é Livros. Livros que comem, livros que sonham, livros que alteram o ordem do tempo, tudo o que poderá imaginar de fantástico nos livros.
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Festival    by L L Watkin
Price: Free! 11640 words. Language: British English. Published on April 13, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.

The festival always brings crowds of tourists to Abatha, thronging the streets with their holier than thou attitude and easy to steal purses. Keldaren is about to find out the hard way that they're not all as harmless as she thinks.
Las Tres Rosas    by Gabriel Guerrero Gómez
Price: $1.30 USD. 1550 words. Language: Spanish. Published on April 12, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.

El cuento de Las Tres Rosas, ha sido publicado en diferentes medios, Curiosamente pese a lo corto de su narración, la belleza de su contenido ha sido muy del agrado de los lectores, cumpliéndose la máxima de: “lo bueno y breve dos veces bueno”.