Spaceflight Stories

☆ COMPLETE NOVEL by Lynda Williams ☆ From two cultures that should never meet, come four people who do. RIRE. The homeworld of a science-driven and inclusive civilization, underpinned by an AI network and spanning a handful of worlds. Faster-than-light pilots like Ann are essential but heavily monitored due to their reckless personalities. When a new mission will take her to the long-lost Sevolite empire after 200 years of separation, she is accompanied by the brilliant scholar Ranar, a renowned expert on Sevolite culture and language who must mitigate the impending culture clash. GELION. In the Sevolite empire, piloting aptitude is hereditary. With their superhuman capacity for reality skimming, Sevolites rule over natural humans. Di Mon is the leader of one of the eight families at the heart of Sevildom's oligarchy. Although a power broker in a corrupt and elitist court, he believes in the equality of all humankind. Meanwhile, at the bottom of society, the beautiful dancer and courtesan Von struggles to survive as a pawn in the power games of his Sevolite superiors. (cover art & design by Michelle Amy Milburn)

☆ COMPLETE NOVELLA by Lynda Williams ☆ Dr. Lorel partners with couples around the world to take humanity to the next level through the gift of genetically enhanced children with a sense of responsibility for their fellow man and the ability to take the long view in planning for the future. But people resent competing with 'Lorels' and when the philanthropic doctor is killed, his son, Damien Lorel, opts to dehumanize the products of the family business, Self-Evolved Limited. Damien's Sevolites serve mankind as 'flesh robots'. It takes another Lorel, named Sandrine, to uncover Damien's long term plans - but will she be too late? (Cover by Michelle Amy Milburn © 2023. Interior illustrations by Richard Bartrop.)

☆ COMPLETE NOVEL by Lynda Williams ☆ One family, two ideologies. Whose blood will pay the price? BLACK HEARTH. Horth Nersal is the child of a marriage between enemies undertaken to end a war. The fighting did stop, but the war of ideology continued with sometimes lethal results for loved ones on both sides. Though Horth struggles against a language impairment, he is a gifted warrior in space and on the challenge floor, where his culture settles differences among themselves. His martial genius makes it vital that he work out where honour lies in these conflicting visions of Okal Rel. Once it is discovered that Prince Amel suffered atrocities at the hands of the despised Reetion aliens (commoners who govern themselves), the powerful House of Nersal issues a call to unite splintered Sevolite alliances in a single act of Righteous Anger. In this intricate tale of power, passion and politics, Horth must consider all odds, weighing familial duty against what he believes to be right. (cover art by Michelle Amy Milburn)

An alien woman helps an astronaut escape her people, but must decide whether or not to accompany him to Earth.

A reenacting of a Star Wars scenario turns out to be the product of alien mind-reading.

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When a crew of astronauts investigating a strange space disaster discover an alien artifact on a top-secret space station, their mission goals morph into simple survival. **** In the winter of 2087, the dark and covert part of NASA comes back online when they lose all contact from the top-secret space station Astroria, orbiting Jupiter. A crew of astronauts must travel to the rotating wheel to find out what happened, alone. Their mission: find our what happened. But not everyone wants the truth to get out and, as politics collides with espionage, sceince and cold-blooded murder, a second, more bloodier spacerace ensues and the crew find themselves in the very center of it. What they would find would make them rethink their understanding of the universe...and humanity's chances of survival.

Space exploration mission failed almost at the beginning and there is no going back due to mission being kept secret from the whole world. Everything that could possibly go wrong happened and our hero is sentenced to twenty-five years of lonely spaceflight through the vast universe. What is going to happen to him ? Will he ever come back to Earth ? Will he ever see his kid ?

Aboard Earth's very first generation ship, Dan marvelled again at this miracle of modern technology. Complete with seeds, tools, survival kits, everything they would need to establish themselves on a new world; Tabula Rasa was humanity's last hope. Earth was no longer habitable... My entry for the Planet Or Plastic competition

James is an engineer and he travels to the Moon Colony on a one-year contract. He has some doubts about the safety of space travel and living in the unfriendly environment of the satellite, yet he is fascinated with the new colony and dreams about the future.

A group of human astronauts discovers two alien races.

When a comet threatens to destroy all life on Earth, humanity comes together in unexpected ways to find a solution. That solution - as so many solutions do - creates its own problems. How do you keep an impending disaster secret and prevent mass panic? Another life form, older than mankind and as intelligent, is encountered, and inadvertently brought to Earth. What does it mean to be 'human'? What does 'life' mean? Can the definitions of either 'human' or 'life' change? What happens when humanity finds that 'life' and 'human' mean more than they know? The interaction between the two species - human and Hive - forms the basis for a story that could span hundreds of years. This is a story about the start of the first 200 years.

"Our team is filled with knights and only knights. Your side, is filled with pawns and then the kings and queens. They are just using you, open your damn eyes!" Rider Candanoza is a boring, no nonsense, resident of Earth. Protecting his planet with his friends and causes trouble throughout the system is his only purpose. Everyone on this planet knows his name and his trusty cannon. Very very boring. Aurora Dadamo, a demon when you first lay eyes on her, a psychopath when you get to know her. She is a loyal Saturn soldier and deemed the strongest. Challenge her authority and she will challenge your life and next of kin. She fights with the purple sword of her deceased father and determination to win for her people. With rage in every bone in her body, she's that kind of girl you want to steer clear of. But unfortunately their crossing fate is unavoidable...

by Lynda Williams (cover art by Michelle Amy Milburn) The Okal Rel Universe is a future where the cultural and biological evolution of the human race has divided it into two societies: "Gelacks" and "Reetions." Gelacks are dominated by the neo-feudal descendants of an ancient bioengineering project that modified humans to tolerate reality skimming, a physically and mentally strenuous method of faster than light space travel which underpins the economy and culture of the Okal Rel Universe. The Reetions are the descendants of unmodified humans whose social system depends upon transparency moderated by a form of artificial intelligence known as arbiters. Each race has advantages and handicaps, physical or cultural. In this official guide by author Lynda Williams, you will discover an ever-increasing treasure trove of information and insight into the Okal Rel Universe.

Will lost in space and almost dead where his past moments comes to mind as we see he been pulled into a thing.

The survivor of a spaceship crash unknowingly founds a civilization of sentient dogs, who experience pivotal events of their history a thousand years later.

Radiant Phoenix is a short story written for International Women's Day 2017 about a fighter pilot named Cail Reid, and her ship the Radiant Phoenix.

Major Christi Thom's first faster-than-light flight yields some unexpected results.