Novel excerpts: Science fiction

by Desmond Smith

U P L O A D E R S Chapter One - Buttons They seemed to know exactly which buttons to press to get me going. It had been an absolute bitch of a day and my life felt lower than a naked limbo dance under a...read more

by Jon Sparks

Under the circumstances, it was a good landing. I read once that the old air pilots used to say, 'Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.' Though I wasn't walking: I was running for my life. I flung myself ...read more

by Kieran Weylin

"What did you expect?" She said it with such contempt. "I guess I expected you to know what would happen." I said as defeated as I could muster. She just looked at me with a cold hard stare. Colder than the rain that...read more

by Ryan Anderson

THE DISAPPEARANCE (excerpt 1) Introduction: How are you supposed to know if you lost your memory? And if you lost it, just what, exactly, did you lose? Or, perhaps, what was taken? And by whom? Questions, questi...read more

by Alden Stevens

RetroGenesis: Chapter I I met her again for the first time in the Grande Parlour of the Paris Pleasure Palace, three kilometers beneath the surface of Earth's improbable moon. It started with a thump. Then the pres...read more

by Rechelle Anonuevo

It is the year of the Lord 3000. Sunrise comes about much slower and sunset much quicker now than a thousand years ago. Or so my mother tells me constantly. In a world where gasoline operated cars, tangible television sets...read more

by Kristen Roley

PROLOGUE: The Decalord's Council Cyrus Donnegan stood at the entrance to the building and tried to look patient. He smiled at the members of the press as they piled up, almost knocking over the podium that separated th...read more

by A. A. Roi

The Undeniable Labyrinth 01 Althea They were ghosts of worlds, memories of what was. Thousands upon thousands glowed brightly against the velvet darkness. Worlds of the Legion Consortia Galacium, their essence, th...read more

by Jeff Franklin

"Weapon of Global Destruction"; Excerpt from Chapter 1 The wind was howling across the desolate tundra bedrock. It was only September, but, it felt like winter had already set in for the vast Canadian Shield geologic ...read more

by Donelle Larsen

Back in the year 2050 a horrible bacteria, called Brac-Nerum, ravaged the planet Earth. A planet about 10 billion light years away from Earth was the only source for a cure. The disease held strong for over 20 years spread...read more

by Bob Horton

Gail heard a chime and suddenly became alert. A light lit up on the panel in front of her. She pressed a button under the light and looked at one of the monitor. She saw what looked like a man snooping around a building. S...read more

by Ella Mad

It hurt this time, I thought to myself as I lay on the cold and wet ground. My heart was beating too fast and I was finding it hard to breathe. Why did it hurt this time? I tried to sit up and winced at the pain of the...read more

by Costas Komborozos

There it was, behind him, the never-ending shadow. As he looked behind him, it seemed to stretch back into the deep distance. His past was buried in the desert, the one he saw in his dreams since he was a child. He felt as...read more

by Heather Foster

K'tur is a planet in the Y'karin sector of the Milky Way galaxy. That is to say, K'tur is far from Terra Prime and not known by many of the other species living much nearer Terra Prime. Being one of seven planets orbiting ...read more

by Laura Milanovich

Excerpt of Sci-Fi novel called "the Kindred and Other Tales" The Guardian of the Watch stood at the doorway, straining to see the sun as it set. He knew he had only one chance at this, and he had scanned the horizon al...read more

by Bethany Delong

The Poison Butterfly Chapter one Preview Chatel leaned against the broom she'd been sweeping the porch with to watch the boy, no more than nine years old, cross over the rock strewn path up to the cottage, his hands ...read more

by Anz Epsilon

Copyright Anz Epsilon, 2006 (c)all rights reserved The following is an excerpt from Brief Candle, a novel by Anz Epsilon. All Our Yesterdays The children were playing and singing. The merry-go-round was ...read more

by Tracey Fischer

Prologue Lord Samuel Jeffries watched from a corner in the ornate ballroom as his wife, Lady Isabella waltzed and flirted with the handsome and young, King Henry. Sporting a red and black mask with devil horns, the tal...read more

by David Christensen

Black Site Prologue The screams of wretched souls and desecrated spirits seemed to fill the endless black void. But there were screams that surpassed all others and could almost be heard in the material world. The scr...read more

by Lysa T.

She leaned down, gripping at her bare calf. Shallow lacerations marked the majority of the flesh on her exposed legs, and they felt sticky from the streams of blood that had began to cloy in its winding journey down her le...read more