The Astro-Dragon    by Django Mathijsen
Price: $3.49 USD. 13650 words. Language: English. Published by enpublikant on May 22, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi.
Wilvo, like his father, is a space junk salvager. When his dad recovers a defective satellite, launched in 2241, the Pan-American Information Service pressures him to abort. His father continues. Suddenly he sends a distress signal. What’s entangling his spaceship? Can Wilvo, helped by Yaritza from PAIS, save his father? This story was awarded the NCSF-prize 2009.

Rigel Kentaurus    by Rick Novy
Price: $4.95 USD. 93520 words. Language: English. Published on May 22, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure.
It's the first human voyage outside the solar system, and Proxima Centauri is the destination. The sleeper ship Deep Space discovers we are not alone, and not everyone out there is nice. Diverted to Alpha Centauri A (Rigel Kentaurus) for a faster-than-light prototype, they learn humanity is the only civilization to solve the light barrier problem. Now, they must defend it as a military secret.

An Implementation of Magic    by Kim Cowie
Price: Free! 6410 words. Language: English. Published on May 14, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi.
This short story is about what might happen if magic really worked on an industrial scale. And it isn't pretty...

The Guardians    by Eero Tarik
Price: $1.50 USD. 4620 words. Language: English. Published on May 10, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi.
A Sci-Fi Short Story. The first radio stations were sending their message into the skies, changing society, liberating people and entertaining their amazed audiences. It was a revolution on Earth, a new way to communicate was born, a new way to entertain, a social revolution - but little did the inhabitants of the blue planet know who it would bring. The Guardians were dispatched immediately.

Welcome to Mars!    by Chester Burton Brown
Price: $2.99 USD. 13150 words. Language: English. Published on May 8, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » General.
Six astronauts with heavy brand sponsorship have been sent on humanity’s first manned mission to Mars, and cameras around the world are watching their every move and paying for the things they say. Upon landing the crew will discover that they are not the only ones dramatizing the mission with cheap theatrics: so too are the Martians.

The Flight of the Tristan    by David Moreton
Price: $2.99 USD. 20090 words. Language: English. Published on May 7, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi.
The submarine Tristan was patrolling the South Atlantic when it was hit by a magnetic pulse from a solar flare. Being made of so much metal, the energies were focused on the unfortunate submarine - time and space were warped - and it was transferred to another planet, a water world. But the water world was not all it seemed, and the crew were in for the shock of their lives.

The Extra Cars    by Chester Burton Brown
Price: $2.99 USD. 22970 words. Language: English. Published on May 6, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.
The inimitable Detective Mississauga returns to continue pursuing the case of the probability anomalies across the country, this time coming to Kingston to follow phantom cars that clog the roads but never arrive at a destination. Phat-so Kim from Chester Burton Brown's LIFE & TAXES teams up with the enigmatic Mississauga in this physics-based thriller.

Anomalies, a Collection of Short Fiction    by Gregory Benford
Price: $6.99 USD. 73020 words. Language: English. Published on May 4, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi.
A Collection of science fiction ranging from comic to apocalyptic, the stories of Anomalies challenge concepts of time, space and science. And all the while, Author Gregory Benford's characters charm us. Includes Afterwords and insights by Gregory Benford into his writing methods, sometimes quite idiosyncratic – and into the stories behind the stories. Taking Science into Inspired Realms

Dreams of Earth    by Bud Sparhawk
Price: $2.99 USD. 106620 words. Language: English. Published on May 4, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi.
Case awakens on an alien starship with no memory of his origin. He is told that he is the sole survivor of a ship that his alien benefactors assume came from a lost human colony called “Earth.” In the company of his alien caretaker/companion he travels to various systems in search of his origins. As Case recovers from his injuries, he struggles to make sense of the flashes of unconnected memori

Mindware Issues    by John Peace
Price: Free! 8610 words. Language: English. Published on April 30, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.
In the age of the brain-wired supernet and pocket universes, Ghamdan, a 22nd-Century P.I., must track down the only surviving witness to an ugly kidnap and murder. The terrified witness seems to have fled into a top-security prison housed in a pocket universe. He's fleeing the powerful malware that the alleged murderer can inject into a victim's mind. So Ghamdan must follow. But who can he trust?