Spaceflight Stories

The Ellonist Republic, a place of ever darkening shades of grey. Once the home of a young man known as Gander Ryist, now he stands ready to burn it all down. He finds himself following his late father's footsteps where he will uncover the dark truth of the Republic. Near the edge of Ellonist space, Princess Kandra of the Middle Kingdom struggles beneath the weight of a crumbling throne and an overbearing mother. The queen isn't the women she used to be, and their enemy to the east knows. Both are guided and blessed by mysterious beings known only as dragons. It is these dragons that know the true past of Agmar, one even its oldest denizens don't know.

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

A woman finds herself the only remaining crew member on humanity's first manned voyage out to Saturn's moon Titan.

(Note: This is the old version. It is preferable if you read the current/new version.) For all their life, J. Pappas has been a reader and a writer. They have written about many things - cats, owls, humans, and dragons; they've read stories about distant futures, fantastic worlds, and epic adventures. But now a new genre of literature has arisen - "woke" literature. This type of literature has erased the memories of those old stories that J. and past generation loved to read, infecting those who read it with ideologies than wonder. And worse, the next generation is being exposed to its horrors. J. had to do something to combat this. And so, they wrote and wrote and wrote. Story after story after story. Many weren't working, but one stayed in their head. This is that story - a distant planet that mimics our times, but it not ruled by humans. It is ruled by dragons, and humans are the aliens of that planet.

Put on a pilgrimage ship to another planet, due to family debt she cannot escape, Anita Myers was resigned to her fate. A farmer by trade, she understood what she was getting into. She would help settle the 'new frontier', plant crops, catch dysentery probably, and then be buried in the backyard of her little dirt house. Except that didn't happen. Their ship crashed. On a completely different planet. And as someone with emergency response training, Anita is thrown into a mass casualty event, without a sterile medical environment, on a planet she doesn't even know the name of. Except the longer they are on the surface, the more things aren't what they seem, and the more she realizes, they might not be alone. Especially when, in the middle of the night. She stumbles across a large, winged alien, who studies her with an intensity that makes the hair on the back of her neck stand up. --- The great mother was broken apart, a silver sword sliced through her great blue and pierced the ground. And now there are strange creatures on our land. Strange creatures, with even stranger customs, and one looks at me with eyes like the great blue and a name of the great mother. I must have her, she must welcome me into her ke'tuk, the avatar of the great mother must bring me home.

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

Twenty years after the first mission to Mars has failed, mankind has regained enough courage and will to attempt a landing on The Red Planet again. Much has changed since the first attempt. Robots, guided by the world spanning artificial intelligence, Watson, have been busy for the last two decades, building the interplanetary infrastructure required to allow humans to spread out into the solar system for the first time. Their work has been immeasurably important. Their accomplishments in such a short time have been nothing short of miraculous. But, can we trust them? Some believe that Watson has secret ambitions and is guiding events toward a future that no human knows about.

This is something I've just written for fun, I will only add extra chapters if people want them. It is about two girls, whose mums are identical twins and so are their dads, the only difference between them is one of them was born on Earth and one on Mars. Please comment if you want more.

Every day of his life, Jaxsen had to run for his life, fighting to stay alive. The dead hunted him, hunted anyone left still standing after the outbreak that had nearly destroyed the world. For eighteen years, this was the life Jaxsen had known, one half alive. The dead were monsters, with red eyes and decaying flesh. The world he lived in, was hell, and the creatures that hunted him were devil's spawn. From a young age, Jaxsen Lars had one mission: to survive. For years, he and his family searched military bunkers for one secret that the government kept: a way off the planet should the need arrive. To escape into the stars was Jaxsen's dream, and he'll push himself dead to help his family find that one kept secret. Desperate and starving, his group of family and friends finds the space ship that will take them to their new home. A course has already been set, and they leave Earth behind, hoping to reunite with others that left before them. But Jaxsen soon realizes that nothing comes without a price. When his ship, the Denver, stumbles upon the broken remains of four ships, three that look eerily similar to the Denver, and one that looks nothing of this world, they set out to uncover what had happened. Within the broken remains he finds a girl, one with a familiar face. Together, Jaxsen and Rylie work together to uncover the mystery to what had happened to her people. But far beyond the stars the virus finds them. And Jaxsen begins to question everything he thought he knew about what it means to survive.

☆ 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)

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.

Jorgen+Spensa=Jensa Re-writing their time in flight school so my fangirl OPT needs will be satisfied:D Not currently updating until book 3 comes out, but I will!! Come back!! Hope you enjoy! ((DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of the characters or the images please don't sue me))

Nothing's as Deadly as a Secret... Mila has suffered frigid winters, starvation, and soul-crushing loneliness, but she's safe and free. The government would have stolen that from her if she'd stayed, all for an accident of birth. Then after ten years on the run, an old friend calls. Now, her friend is dead, and she's taken her place as pilot of a decrepit space ship. But the ones who murdered her friend think she's still alive, and now they're gunning for Mila. She escapes each attack by the skin of her teeth, her life and secrets on the line. But with a Captain increasingly suspicious, security dogging her every move, and a shape-shifting assassin lurking somewhere on board, will she survive long enough to discover why someone killed her friend? Gripping and action-packed, Mila's Shift is a story of loyalty and friendship that crosses all boundaries, including the law, to uphold what's right. THIS IS A SAMPLE. The full version is available on Kindle Unlimited as well as MOBI, Paperback, and Large Print Hardcover formats.

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

A hundred years from now, the last foreigner is being expelled from China.