My clients started the bad habit of pointing at strangers and calling them birdy heads! Most people will forgive the rantings of people with Down syndrome, but these strangers were not having it. My apologies didn't do much to assuage the victims of the name-calling, and I soon found out why. What I discovered was that they were, in effect, "different" from the rest of us, and I snooped to find out why. I almost wished I hadn't, because the realization...

An alien is visiting Earth invisibly by astral projection when he inadvertently witnesses a murder. He now faces two problems: Should he report the crime to the authorities-and if so, how?

By chance, Tom, a young man from California, meets Coker, the spaceship captain from Ponlenia, an advanced civilization a million light-years away. Coker invites Tom to visit Ponlenia. During a one-year trip, Tom learned a lot of modern knowledge from computers. When they temporarily stay on another terrestrial planet, Edia, Tom follows Coker to do things and meets a young man named Hanson, who looks a lot like Tom. The two young men have a very happy...

In Scimitar's Glory, the alien Tong won the Battle for Earth and took control of the orbital space around the planet. Humanity is now at their mercy, but not all Space Force warships have been defeated. Wolfe Koenig's light cruiser, Excalibur, is on a mission to acquire technology that just might enable the ragged remnants of the Fleet to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat-if he can find an alien race with that technology, if he can convince them...

Sci-fi meets historical fact in this thrilling novel by ancient-language scholar Michael S. Heiser. Haunted by his parents' death and his career failures, Dr. Brian Scott has begun to settle for the life he's been given. Until he's kidnapped by military insiders known as The Group. Disappearances. Visitations. Murder. Brian and a team of world-class scholars are given a confidential mission: To prepare humanity for a new reality. They are here. But...

Two baby girls seating in the rear of a car are involved in a terrible accident and their mother dies. An alien spacecraft hovering in the storm above witnesses the event and teleports the girls from the burning car. The girls are taken to the alien's home world on the other side of the galaxy. On arrival, they are separated and never told they were saved from a burning vehicle on a planet on the other side of the galaxy. Twenty-six...

Ava, Lennox and Heather make contact with alien Sandy and head for a profound confrontation that could mean a possible brighter future ... or the decimation of the Encedalons and the entire human race. The awe-inspiring, exquisite moving sequel to The Space Between Us, as seen on BBC Two' s Between the Covers. Six months since the earth-shattering events of The Space Between Us, the revelatory hope of the aliens' ...

First contact was supposed to change the course of human history. But it turns out, you still have to go to work the next morning.

Science Fiction adventure stories for LOCKDOWN. That Other Place by Archit Joshi One Dissonant Interval by Beth W. Patterson With An agreement With the Headquarters by Christopher T. Dabrowski Left Into Paradise by David Green No Way Out by Dawn DeBraal Pieces of Grace by Hari Navarro Android Bounty Hunter by J.B. Wocoski Peg by Jacqueline Moran Meyer The Apollo Containment by James Pyles Pearls that Were His Eyes by Jen Downs Stairs to the Sky by...

In 1947, the Queen Mary transmits a message which is intercepted by extraterrestrial intelligence. This errant radio signal serves as a beacon for a North Atlantic encounter between James and Jess Bennett, a GI and his war bride, and an otherworldly, desperate mother and her two small children. In the present day, Guy Turner, a melancholy, black filmmaker, finds himself at the center of a supernatural mystery after a haunting prelude with the now...