Space Opera Horror

Charting the frontier of unknown space was a guaranteed humdrum, routine mission—which in the case of the starship Mercury, may or may not have been a subtle way to punish Captain Stuart Flane for recently losing 90 percent of his crew without a satisfactory explanation. It was hard to tell sometimes, when it came to discerning Admiral Tawney's motives. The Old Man was like that—but at least he seemed to have a sense of humor.

Dark clouds overhead may stir up whimsical twists. Collected for the first time since their initial publications, Darkness with a Chance of Whimsy presents 10 tales from the imagination of R.J. Sullivan. Thrills and chills await you, but you may also get blindsided by the absurd. This volume includes a pair of stories featuring Rebecca Burton, the mysterious investigator of R.J.'s acclaimed paranormal thriller series.

She wakes up drowning, escapes from a watery canister into a deathtrap of fiery corridors and exploding machinery. Somehow, she’s in space. She can’t remember her name or why she’s here. Her mind is a mixed-up Rubik’s cube of fuzzy memories. But she knows that spaceships don’t exist, and if they did ordinary girls like her don’t belong on them. And there’s something else. She’s not alone. Someone or something lurks in the shadows. And it wants her dead....

Stuart Flane, Captain of the starship Mercury, and lately the butt-end of innumerable jokes doing the rounds at Space Fleet H.Q., is called upon once more—kicking and screaming—to investigate all manner of preternatural fuckery.

After the events of Part One, Avery, Layanna and the others are on the run, pursued by Admiral Sheridan and all the forces of Ghenisa. Can they reach the mysterious beacon they're trying to find before their enemies overtake them -- and if they do, what will they find there?

Endlich sind die Menschen in der Lage, sich gegen die Akkato aufzulehnen und das Joch der Außerirdischen abzuschütten. Allerdings ist die Menschheit noch immer zerstritten und uneins. Der ehemalige Admiral Edvard Blake sieht seine Stunde gekommen, die verschieden Fraktionen zu vereinen und gegen die Besatzer anzuführen.

Captain Reeds and his crew are on their way to a salvage job when they encounter an intriguing signal. They go to check it out, which may be their undoing. The signal originates from a long-derelict space station drifting in deep space. But something is not quite right aboard the station. Something dark and sinister lurks in the shadows. Something waits to feed.

Es el fin del mundo. El final de muchos mundos. Un colapso de realidades está a punto de llevarse por delante un sinfín de Tierras paralelas. Muchos de esos planetas están condenados ya, pero desde otra Tierra alternativa intentan por todos los medios que la destrucción no se propague y arrase el multiverso.

Scrapper, a disgraced United Corp Captain, and his crew of salvagers have found a bounty too large to ignore orbiting a gas giant. Upon arriving on the unnamed science vessel, they find all but two of the crew slaughtered. The survivors, Naomi, a computer programmer, and Professor Litchen, the ship’s lead scientist, tell conflicting stories of crew members turning into murderous monsters.

Twenty-eight years ago, we lost contact with an ill-fated settlement mission to the outer solar system. This mission was to Uranus II...also called Umbriel. Here, on the frozen blue moon circling that distant upside-down world, 58 of our bravest explorers vanished. What became of those doomed settlers after their final transmission? Why did they abandon the surface and seek refuge underground?

Scarred, careful Eliza would rather dig around in the guts of a half-wrecked Russian viper than talk to her ex. But when her ship, the USS Melissa, gets called upon to race out past Pluto she might not have any choice. They need her ex's ship and its experimental skipdrive to beat their competitors to the prize: the first alien life forms, hovering cold and inert in the deep black.

Am östlichen Rand des Sternenreiches ist die C.S.S. Falgon auf der Jagd nach einer Gruppe Piraten. Als ihre Beute jedoch in den unbekannten Raum flieht und plötzlich von den Sensoren verschwindet, ahnt die Besatzung der Falgon noch nicht, in was für eine Hölle sie ihnen folgen werden. Die Leere streckt ihre Finger nach den Sternen dort aus.

Jack, Samantha und Benji wittern eine lukrative Bergung – doch was sie an Bord des verlassenen Schiffs erwartet, ist weit schlimmer als ein technischer Defekt. Tote, die sich nicht erklären lassen. Blut, das durch die Gänge schwebt. Und eine Präsenz, die sie langsam aber sicher zersetzt – von innen.

On a planet where the locals of a certain age go rogue, it's up to the human keepers to track the crazies. The human keepers must follow them deep into the planet through twisting, claustrophobic tunnels in order to restrain or terminate them.

But these seek-and-destroy missions rarely go according to plan...