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Hyperspatial Jump Drive for Dummies    by Harry Heyoka
Price: Free! 1290 words. Published on August 23, 2009. .

This newly revised essay clarifies the theoretical basis of hyperspatial jump drive for those with limited understanding of math, physics, and galactic history. Details on the actual operation, capabilities, and limitations of hyperspatial starships (or “jump ships”) in the Galactic Era are not included; nor are galactic navigation charts, wormhole coordinates, or batteries.
Micah    by Scott Thomas
Price: $1.49 USD. 376760 words. Published on March 18, 2010. .

Book two of the Darkmatter trilogy, an exciting continuation of the story that began in Mindweb. By outward appearances Micah appears to be a normal teenage girl. Those who know her know she is different, but they don't know how different. With an uncanny intelligence and in-sight, she challenges all around her.
Life Probe    by Michael McCollum
Price: $7.99 USD. 97210 words. Published on April 7, 2010. .

The Makers searched for the secret to faster-than-light travel for 100,000 years. Their chosen instruments were the Life Probes, which they launched in every direction to seek out advanced civilizations among the stars. One such machine searching for intelligent life encounters 21st century Earth. It isn’t sure that it has found any...
Procyon's Promise    by Michael McCollum
Price: $7.99 USD. 92820 words. Published on April 7, 2010. .

Three hundred years after humanity made its deal with the Life Probe to search out the secret of faster-than-light travel, the descendants of the original expedition return to Earth in a starship. They find a world that has forgotten the ancient contract. No matter. The colonists have overcome greater obstacles in their single-minded drive to redeem a promise made before any of them were born...
The Dragonfly    by Daniel G. Taylor
Price: $0.99 USD. 15960 words. Published on December 10, 2011. .

Darien makes a discovery that radically alters his entire understanding of humanity, while something strange is happening in the past.
Knight Moves    by Walter Jon Williams
Price: $4.99 USD. 90460 words. Published on December 21, 2011. .

A Philip K Dick Award-nominated novel. Eight hundred years ago Doran Falkner gave humanity the stars, and he now lives with his regrets on a depopulated Earth among tumbledown ruins and ancient dreams brought to life by modern technology. Word now comes that alien life has been discovered, life so strange and impossible that the revelation of its secrets could change everything . . .
Citadel: Paths in Darkness    by J. Kevin Tumlinson
Price: $6.99 USD. 72350 words. Published on March 15, 2012. .

Book Two of the Citadel Trilogy. Threats above. Threats below. As the Citadel survivors cope with the strange rebirth of the long-dead colonists of First Colony, a new threat emerges. The Current, a growing collective of energy-based life forms, is struggling to achieve individuality. How far will the Current go for freedom? The answer will change everything.
Singularity Deferred    by Liam R.W. Doyle
Price: $3.99 USD. 108470 words. Published on April 28, 2012. .

Mitchel Creek is an average guy with a wife, a young daughter, and a simple life. Until he awakens aboard a spacecraft 400 years in the future, alone... except for the dead body stuffed in a crate. To find answers to why he's suddenly where and when he finds himself, and a way back home, he's forced to team up with radicals and pirates, and a woman who forces him to question everything he knows.
Ignorance of the Law    by S. A. Barton
Price: Free! 2020 words. Published on August 16, 2012. .

When a pack of backwoods local yokels begin to lumber toward civilized space in their slapped-together warp speed jalopy, a working-Joe cop has to take action. He soon finds himself in the eternal dilemma of the policeman on the beat: how to strike a balance between justice and enforcing the letter of the law?
Evolving Faster Than Light    by Matthew Davenport
Price: $0.99 USD. 4990 words. Published on October 1, 2012. .

SHORT STORY: Steven Murray has just propelled humanity into a new age with his development of the Faster than Light drive. Now with everyone wanting what he has all Steven wants to do is travel the skies. Steven must now adapt or die in a universe that doesn't appreciate his contribution.