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Gerald's Star    by Mike Sledge
Price: $4.99 USD. 24490 words. Published on November 25, 2009. .

A long-dead astronaut circling the earth in a decaying orbit, his cosmonaut crewmate from many years before, and his son are all destined to be reunited in the weathered rocks of Moab, Utah. A Chekhovian novella in which the reader peels away the characters' layers like an onion until only the tender core remains.
White Pine    by F. J. Mackelroy
Price: Free! 1570 words. Published on May 10, 2010. .

As his world and plans disintegrate, will the north woods be enough to heal one man’s pain? A short-short story of the future, past, and present.
Ignition    by Kevin J Anderson
Price: $4.99 USD. 93610 words. Published by WordFire Press  on October 9, 2010. .

In this high-tech action adventure from Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason, terrorists seize control of the Kennedy Space Center and hold the shuttle Atlantis and its crew hostage on the launchpad. Anderson and Beason have packed Ignition with insider information to create an extremely plausible, action-packed thriller.
Godspeed (Short Story)    by Christina F. York
Price: $1.99 USD. 3690 words. Published by Tsunami Ridge Publishing  on December 12, 2010. .

When Air Force One sends a mayday call, President John Glenn has only moments to make a momentous decision: Take the controls and try to save the plane? Or accept the offer to go back, change his life, and try to save the space program? He only has seconds, and lives hang in the balance. What will he choose?
Dust    by Allison M.  Dickson
Price: $0.99 USD. 6320 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .

Clyde Jackson is holed up in his panic room. But he isn't hiding from terrorists, at least not the Earthly variety.
Mary Had a Little Dagnaserub    by Kalifer Deil
Price: Free! 2490 words. Published on March 27, 2011. .

A very short children's science fiction story: Seven year old Mary Johnson met up with a little creature that lost his spaceship. She just thought it was a cute little animal she could take home as a secret pet. Secret because grandma doesn't want pets in her house. When she realized who and what he really was she helped him retrieve his ship so he could return to his mother ship.
At the Mountains of Malapert    by David Barron
Price: $2.99 USD. 37530 words. Published by H2NH ePub  on May 14, 2011. .

A sweeping epic of the first generation of lunar colonists, this hard science fiction short novel follows the careers of agents in the joint United States-Chinese moon colony.
Final Entry    by Shaun Allan
Price: $0.99 USD. 2230 words. Published on May 15, 2011. .

Of all the days to have a problem, today was the worst. Of all the problems to have on all of the days, this was the worst. 3000 years, they'd travelled the stars. 3,000 years of searching and archiving, cataloguing every single planet in the entire Universe. Their journey was now over. The day was here when they could, finally return home. But they'd found another planet. Oops...
STAR TRUCK: Untold History of the Space Shuttle    by John Getter
Price: $5.99 USD. 20060 words. Published by Premiere Projects Publishing on June 6, 2011. .

In Volume 2 of his Moonwalkers(tm) series, author John Getter once again uses his experience as NASA’s reporter-of-choice for pool coverage, pilot and personal friend to many of the astronauts, to reveal the little-known stories behind the history of the space shuttle. Share the humor in the "Cola Wars" in space as well as the shocking revelations behind the Challenger and Columbia disasters.
Mars is a Bummer, Man    by Frank Severino
Price: $2.99 USD. 11650 words. Published on June 9, 2011. .

You can take people off earth, but can you take the earth out of people? Humanity's first mission to Mars hits a nasty speed bump. Personality, passion and persuasion form a deadly triangle on the first Martian colony. This novelette by Frank Severino cynically explores notions of character, class, human expansion, legacies and what the future might regrettably consider historically valuable.