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Hostile Configuration
This collection contains seven thrilling science fiction short stories. Featuring rogue mechs, recalcitrant aliens, warring cities, and first contact disasters, Hostile Configuration is an action-packed adventure across the galaxy.
Lacuna
A distant archive can’t - or won’t - give up its secrets. One man embarks upon a journey across the stars to find out what the archive is hiding, and he’s willing to give up everything for just one glimpse.
Blossom
An alien collector makes a startling discovery on a remote planet, but can he exploit it before his mechanised servant or the planet’s inhabitants take it from him?
What If The Aliens Are Tasty?
Extract from a xenoetiquette manual explaining the dos and don’ts of alien cuisine.
The Mountain’s Song
Drawn to a distant planet where rumours tell of a mystical, once-in-a-lifetime experience, a couple find that the Mountain’s Song is more than they could have ever dreamed, but that it also exacts a terrible price.
Gilded
An eyewitness history of the vicious gild trade told by those that prospered from, and suffered, it.
Polis
When cities become sentient, their organic inhabitants' lives begin to look more and more fragile - and expendable.
Hostile Configuration
A first contact meeting far from civilisation goes catastrophically wrong.
Lacuna
A distant archive can’t - or won’t - give up its secrets. One man embarks upon a journey across the stars to find out what the archive is hiding, and he’s willing to give up everything for just one glimpse.
Blossom
An alien collector makes a startling discovery on a remote planet, but can he exploit it before his mechanised servant or the planet’s inhabitants take it from him?
What If The Aliens Are Tasty?
Extract from a xenoetiquette manual explaining the dos and don’ts of alien cuisine.
The Mountain’s Song
Drawn to a distant planet where rumours tell of a mystical, once-in-a-lifetime experience, a couple find that the Mountain’s Song is more than they could have ever dreamed, but that it also exacts a terrible price.
Gilded
An eyewitness history of the vicious gild trade told by those that prospered from, and suffered, it.
Polis
When cities become sentient, their organic inhabitants' lives begin to look more and more fragile - and expendable.
Hostile Configuration
A first contact meeting far from civilisation goes catastrophically wrong.
115 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 1, 2021
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