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Climbing Olympus    by Kevin J Anderson
Price: $4.99 USD. 96320 words. Published by WordFire Press  on June 24, 2010. .

They were prisoners, exiles, pawns of a corrupt government. They became Dr. Rachel Dycek’s adin, surgically transformed to survive on the surface of Mars. Still exiles & pawns, they exist to terraform Mars for human colonists, not themselves. Adin leader Boris Tiban tries to sabotage the transformation. His people will die unless Rachel Dycek can save the Mars Project and the race she created.
The Planet Dweller    by Jane Palmer
Price: $2.99 USD. 47000 words. Published by Dodo Books on October 21, 2010. .

Diana hears the voice of Moosevan, an entity who inhabits a distant planet, in her head. Her world is threatened and she wants Diana’s help. Yuri believes her, though he's usually drunk in charge of a ten inch reflector and has a bizarre theory about the movement of the asteroids. Then two cosmic intelligences decide to help. They may understand the Universe, but mere mortals are beyond them.
Moving Moosevan    by Jane Palmer
Price: $2.99 USD. 47670 words. Published by Dodo Books on October 26, 2010. .

Moosevan has been moved to a new planet after the machinations of the empire building Mott, Kulp, and Dax and Reniola, cosmic super intelligences, ensured its destruction. Moosevan now lives inside the Earth, adding interesting twists to motorways. Unfortunately, Mott androids and Kulp turn their attention to the Earth. Even worse, Dax and Reniola are sent to deal with them.
Parallel Moons    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $2.99 USD. 5230 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on November 6, 2010. .

The moon. Engine of tides and inspiration to lovers. Unchanging and eternal. Or is it? What if the moon disappeared? Savor three intertwined tales of the vanished moon: extinguished by semantics, indifference, and love.
Duckbill Soup    by Jane Palmer
Price: $2.99 USD. 47110 words. Published by Dodo Books on November 22, 2010. .

A sequel to The Planet Dweller and Moving Moosevan. Human civilisation has been moved to Titan. It is now in a synchronous orbit on the opposite side of the Sun to the Earth. Titan has no oceans, so when the atmosphere starts to deteriorate, the two shape-changing super-beings who caused the problem in the first place are sent back to rectify things. Can they make matters even worse? Read on …
Predestination (and Other Games of Chance)    by J. Daniel Sawyer
Price: $5.99 USD. 124010 words. Published by AWP Books  on April 25, 2011. .

When leaving Earth to escape a contract on his life, Joss Kyle finds his poker habit gets him caught up in a struggle for control of the entire solar system. He just wants to build a new life, but in the looking-glass world above the gravity well, survival, like poker, is just another sport. And in this contest, it isn’t whether you win or lose, it's how you rig the game.
With New Eyes    by Patrick Walts
Price: Free! 3360 words. Published on July 17, 2011. .

Galen the Sixth receives a startling revelation that will forever change the way he perceives the so-called world around him.
Our Own Personal Gaia    by James Monaghan
Price: Free! 9000 words. Published on October 11, 2011. .

A short story from the pen of speculative fiction writer James Monaghan. Do worlds have souls? Can planets fight back? In the near future, mankind has spread to the stars, terraforming planets for their own convenience. But when the thirst for new worlds leads men to a world unlike any other, life as we know it may come to an end…
Selling Short    by Raymund Eich
Price: $2.99 USD. 8990 words. Published on November 3, 2011. .

After Marqus signed on with the Coronado, he discovered its captain planned a dangerous venture--harvesting helium from the sun. Compounding the risks of the hottest place in the solar system, a spy on board wanted to wreck the mission at all costs.
Vaporize Marineris    by Sean Monaghan
Price: $1.99 USD. 3470 words. Published by seanmonaghan on November 13, 2011. .

With a comet about to obliterate the colonies, Martian radio satellite repairers Ryan and Delia suddenly find they have more than a usual workday on their hands.