Science Fiction Stories

Colonists on a planet already occupied by sentient beings must learn how to coexist.
This is NOT a sex story. It contains descriptions of bloody violence and killing. If you want to stroke, don't bother. If violence and/or blood and/or killing bother you, stay away. Otherwise, let me know what you think of the story.

A story in the Faster Than Light universe
The short version of my lifetime as Jim before perfecting an FTL drive and leaving the planet. Episode 3 in the FTL universe.

A Tiger's Spirit Story
Jim Coleman rescues a beautiful senator from her crashed plane before the local fauna can kill her. They get involved in a political war over water rights on the planet Sauna.

A Ka'an Story
Crashed Plane, Broken leg, Strange plants

A Swarm Cycle Story
All in grey, all in grey I wonder where they'll lay All those nuns with nowhere to pray The Civil Service does some unofficial recruiting back on Earth.

Newer Universe
It's the quiet ones you have to watch out for. If you can...

A Story in the The Anomaly Universe
Paul had never believed that he could qualiify for passage aboard the Interplanetary Space Ship Intrepid on its mission across the Kuiper Belt to investigate the unknown entity known as the Anomaly that lies beyond the edge of the Solar System. Neither has anyone who has ever met him. But notwithstanding his evident unsuitability, Paul and his new wife Beatrice are passengers on a voyage beyond the solar ecliptic in the company of the Solar System's most expert scientists.

A Story in the The Anomaly Universe
The voyage of the Space Ship Intrepid is approaching its end. Will the nature of the Anomaly at last reveal itself? This is a question of paramount importance to Vashti and Beatrice, and in which there is no greater stake. For Captain Kerensky, the success of the mission is measured more by the well-being of the Intrepid's crew and passengers. Whereas Paul remains blissfully ignorant and unaware of almost everything around him and expects to play no part in the success of the mission.

American retirees, Henry and Bella Wheeler decide to take a vacation in the UK. They rent a holiday cottage in a picturesque part of the West Country. All goes well until Henry gets lost in a mist while exploring the coastline. An old lady directs him to an inn where he is obliged to stay for the night. Henry discovers that things are not quite as they seem.