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Introducing Leland Hale, who will steal your heart - and all your money! Fraud, larceny, and murder are all in a day's work for this master interstellar confidence man. Leland thought the universe owed him a living - and he was collecting on the installment plan! He is about to descend on the planet Cardigan's Green with a planetary scam designed to make him rich at the population's expense. What this scoundrel doesn't know is that he is about to become a savior! And if he survives this misadventure, he has two more brilliant schemes in mind.

Involuntary Immortals is the story of a woman who finds herself outliving her lovers and the incredible peril she faces when she sets out to discover the source of her involuntary immortality. Helen Ranston discovers her own daughter Agnes thinks she is a witch or vampire. Agnes is 40, but still looks 20 and has never aged throughout her daughter's entire life.

Matty Williams’ retirement as a computer tech goes awry when he and his girlfriend Divvie discover that new social technologies are subtly affecting the minds of their users. As they delve deeper into the technological marvels, revolutionizing the lives of virtually everyone on the planet, they are set on a course that leads directly back to their employer Roydon Technologies.

The author places us in the middle of the cosmos right from the start. The story is futuristic but not necessarily true science fiction. It could be now! What dangers lurk in the cosmos? What dangers are from Earth? How mysterious is that unknown dark abyss of space? Look up. See yourself! Visualize your future; it could be sooner than you think. This story relates to you; your future. Feel yourself inside the character's magnetic space boots and experience the cosmos...but be careful of the symbol situation.

NYPD Homicide Detectives Rahim Percy and Bobby Sullivan thought they’d seen it all; then they walked into a murder scene where “the body” was a layer of pink ooze splattered on an apartment wall. They quickly come into possession of a video that changes their question from “Who could have done this - and how?” to “What could have done this - and why?” As their investigation rapidly spins into a much larger, and more disturbing, set of questions: They’re not always sure they want the answers.

Six often overlooked award-caliber sci-fi short novels and novelettes.

Paul W. Fairman (1916-1977) was the author of not one - but two stories for science fiction magazines that were later purchased and transformed into classic 1950s drive-in theater horror fare. Oddly both tales were published in the same year, 1953, two months apart. The first, "Deadly City" appeared in the March 1953 issue of Worlds of If, under Fairman's "Ivar Jorgensen" pseudonym; and was filmed as Target Earth (1954).

Levi Levins retires from the army and is off on vacation before starting his new job. He suffers a horrendous loss accompanying "lights out" and must find a way to help humanity in order to keep his own sanity. He has no bug-out bag, no hidden weapons cache, no transportation. What does he do, and how does he do it? Levi will walk us through his path to survival. Perhaps it may also be yours.... This gripping tale takes us on a journey to try to stave off the New Dark Age brought on by a worldwide EMP apocalypse.

Presenting six stories involving science and its interaction with the human psyche. Included are elements of mystery, horror, whimsy, fantasy, touches of romance, and some technology run amuck. From the story of a group of elder humans hoping to ride to the stars, an AI system taking its programming too literally, and a young woman who can really take charge, to a story that will have you watching the night sky in case an ovoid spaceship appears, each story stretches reality beyond the norm and shows how our qualities as humans have to take charge.

From the warped mind of award-winning sci-fi author Steve Bellinger. Weird things happening in the Earth’s core, environmental pollution from an unexpected source, and a rogue comet with strange properties. Put them all together and you get the end of the world as we know it.