Lawrence M. Schoen

The Sixth Sense meets Planet of the Apes in a moving science fiction novel set so far in the future, humanity is gone and forgotten in Lawrence M. Schoen's Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard An historian who speaks with the dead is ensnared by the past. A child who feels no pain and who should not exist sees the future. Between them are truths that will shake worlds. In a distant future, no remnants of human beings remain, but their successors thrive throughout the galaxy. These are the offspring of humanity's genius-animals uplifted into walking, talking, sentient beings. The Fant are one such species: anthropomorphic elephants ostracized by other races, and long ago exiled to the rainy ghetto world of Barsk. There, they develop medicines upon which all species now depend. The most coveted of these drugs is koph, which allows a small number of users to interact with the recently deceased and learn their secrets. To break the Fant's control of koph, an offworld shadow group attempts to force the Fant to surrender their knowledge. Jorl, a Fant Speaker with the dead, is compelled to question his deceased best friend, who years ago mysteriously committed suicide. In so doing, Jorl unearths a secret the powers that be would prefer to keep buried forever. Meanwhile, his dead friend's son, a physically challenged young Fant named Pizlo, is driven by disturbing visions to take his first unsteady steps toward an uncertain future.

Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard

The Moons of Barsk

Invasion

Having lost his fortune and company, former billionaire corporate mogul, the Amazing Conroy returns to the life of a traveling hypnotist and takes his act beyond Human Space? It should be show business as usual, but hypnotizing aliens never goes as planned?There's?the energy-being the size of a hundred suns that wants to study him,a troupe of alien sex wrestlers,a bartender who can edit her customers' memories,a hypnotized ghost that can't recall who he was in life,and Reggie his pet buffalito stuck in a saurian toilet...Can one man prevail against multiple alien races, a starship captain extortionist, and a planetary crime boss with a blood feud?He'd have to be pretty amazing indeed.Explore distant worlds with the Amazing Conroy when you Download or Buy Now.The Amazing Conroy series is an interstellar adventure by a six-time Nebula Award-nominated author. Mind control, manipulation, and mayhem abound in a story that will keep you brilliantly entertained.

Buffalito Contingency

Ace of Corpses

What wouldn't you do to save your best friend?The Amazing Conroy has lost his fortune and fled Earth.Now Reggie is dying and the buffalito's internal nuclear furnace is growing unstable.Their only hope lies with the Arconi, the same aliens Conroy robbed to create his empire.He must surrender to alien justice - a trial in a telepathic court where everyone already knows he's guilty!But Conroy's a hypnotist and has spent his life altering perceptions of reality. To save Reggie's life - and avoid multiple lifetime prison terms - he'll have to convince a truth-telling tribunal that up is down, day is night, and his crimes of smuggling were a good thing!Download or Buy Now to experience miraculous mental manipulation.The Amazing Conroy series is an intergalactic adventure by a 6-time Nebula Award-nominated author. Mind control, mayhem, and metaphor abound in a story that will keep you brilliantly entertained.

A Novella of the Amazing Conroy

Trial of the Century

Brian Thorne

What happens when a washed-up, black-listed, alcoholic, but still handsome former action star signs a contract for medical experiments with a sinister race of alien machine intelligences?Ben "Coop" Cooper is about to find out.The reality of an unregulated medical laboratory on Titan is nothing like his past roles from the big screen. There's no director on hand to yell "cut" when he's fighting for his life. And no co-star ever injected him with an alien virus before. Instead it's all bar fights and police pursuits and beatdowns from alien robots.But in the end, Coop will strive to do what all movie heroes do: save the world from certain doom.Welcome to Fight or Flight, Book One of the Adrenaline Rush series, an action-packed, humorous romp in the orbit of Saturn that may just hold the cure for all human illness and disease.

Fight Or Flight

Can a dying actor survive being hoodwinked into an alien medical experiment?Will a physician's creation of a virus cure all disease or create untold problems?And what do you do when a comatose girl "wakes up," programmed into an unstoppable killing machine?Ben "Coop" Cooper was a washed-up, alcoholic actor when he signed a contract for medical experiments with a sinister race of alien machine intelligences. The treatment had an unanticipated side effect: Dyrk, an artificial persona that showed up in his head, convinced he was an action hero.Dr. Jessica Acorns has compromised her principles and her Hippocratic Oath, but she may have discovered the cure for everything- except her own fatal disease. Her only hope is to transform herself into the clone of a teenage patient.But that patient, Tycho, has been brain dead and in a coma for many months. The same experiment that gave Coop an intelligent viral echo in his head wakes up the girl and unleashes her as the ultimate, mindless warrior on an unsuspecting domed city on Titan.And then there's Potato, an immortal, blue and green zebra striped alien fuzzball who is the source of the medical experiment's drug and an object of worship by the Box, the robotic intelligences that are calling the shots.The Adrenaline Rush trilogy tells the story of Coop's restoration and redemption as he (with help from Dyrk) confronts the Box, teams up with Jessica to avoid certain death, prevents an innocent girl from killing everyone, and frees Potato from its evil, metal overlords.

The Complete Series

Adrenaline Rush

Mike Resnick

Clelia Farris

Marina and Sergey Dyachenko

Walter Dinjos

Dantzel Cherry

Steve Kopka

Liang Ling

Science fiction magazine featuring stories from across the globe. In this issue we have original fiction and translations from China, the Ukraine, Nigeria, Italy, and the United States. Fiction contents:"The Rule of Three" by Lawrence M. Schoen, "SisiMumu" by Walter Dinjos, "The Emperor of Death" by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, "One Bad Unit" by Steve Kopka, "The Substance of Ideas" by Clelia Farris, "In All Possible Futures" by Dantzel Cherry, "Perfection" by Mike Resnick, "Wordfall" by Liang Ling. Also included is an interview with Hollywood showrunners Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Jose Molina, an essay about the role of empire in SF storytelling, and a profile of Marina and Sergey Dyachenko by their translator and friend Julia Meitov Hersey. Includes 65,000 words of fiction and articles.

Future Science Fiction Digest issue 1

Ken Liu

Sarah Pinsker

Lavie Tidhar

Tim Pratt

Tina Connolly

Cat Rambo

Seventeen of the funniest science fiction stories published in the past decade (2005-2015), featuring alien invasions, global conspiracies, time travel and even animal uprisings. Fiction by Hugo and Nebula award winners and nominees as well as talented newcomers. Stories were selected by the Unidentified Funny Objects series curator Alex Shvartsman.

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