A Collection of Lost Ships and Colonies
A Collection of Lost Ships and Colonies

Author: C.M. Simpson

Publisher: C.M. Simpson

Published: 2022-09-14

Total Pages: 249

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From ships lost to accidents in warp, space pirates and plague, to colonies facing unexpected rivals, and new lifeforms on the ground, this collection draws on some of the what-ifs and maybes surrounding humanity’s future among the stars. From flash fiction to novelette-length short stories to verse, the speculation runs from the idea of corporate takeovers of colony worlds, to unusual critter incursions, to the simplicity of plague, and how our future selves might cope when facing the gamut of human emotion on an extra-terrestrial stage.

Everything Has its Price
Everything Has its Price

Author: C.M. Simpson

Publisher: C.M. Simpson Publishing

Published: 2024-04-10

Total Pages: 28

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A fantasy short story containing: A place by the fire in exchange for a story, the tale of a blind bard and a dragon, a knight and his squire. Sharing stories for a place at a fire. It’s a highlight of the road—but the tale of a blind bard and a dragon, and how things used to be? Maybe it wasn’t my best choice.

Harper's Choice
Harper's Choice

Author: C.M. Simpson

Publisher: C.M. Simpson Publishing

Published: 2024-02-14

Total Pages: 30

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An urban fantasy science fiction short story. Rescued by an elf. Approved of by the pixies. Protected by the unicorns. Harper returns to the world of man, to find it greatly changed. Fate has drawn her dance card, and rudely changed the tune. Will she surrender to its whims? Or find the courage to choose the next few dance steps for herself?

Earth and Lunar Dreaming
Earth and Lunar Dreaming

Author: C.M. Simpson

Publisher: C.M. Simpson

Published: 2024-01-31

Total Pages: 32

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A science-fiction short story involving: A werewolf on the moon. A kit that wants to be a human girl. A vigilante corporation with interstellar reach. And dreams of an Earth return. When Chitin decides to protect a young shapeshifter, he takes on more than he knows. Can he negotiate an ending that will see her stay free, and help him build his dream of returning to a renewed Earth?

Reflections
Reflections

Author: C.M. Simpson

Publisher: C.M. Simpson

Published: 2024-06-20

Total Pages: 64

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A science-fiction short story involving: a crystalline canyon, cats and spinners hidden along the walls, a missing flyer, a stolen child, and an agent and her nemesis working together to bring them to safety. When Odyssey Agent Catriona Delight is called from hunting a renegade to undertake a mission to rescue a child, her salvager, and another missing agent, she finds herself working with Cutter, Mack and Tens, all ex-Odyssey and antagonistic. Can they work together to reach their target in time, or will their differences bring the mission to failure on a hostile world?

A Planet's Bounty
A Planet's Bounty

Author: C.M. Simpson

Publisher: C.M. Simpson Publishing

Published: 2022-12-18

Total Pages: 323

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Governing a colony isn’t easy. I mean, I should be in my last year of school, stressing over exams and annoying my parents, not on some distant planet as a ransom for my world’s good behavior. Instead, I’m running a colony of five, while doing classes on planetary development, so when a strange spacecraft goes overhead, flying fast and low, toward a group of colonists I haven’t met yet? Well, even my Keepers think we have to move fast, or risk losing friends we’ve never met. And here I was thinking they’d dealt with the Heritage threat.

Dark God Emergent
Dark God Emergent

Author: C.M. Simpson

Publisher: C.M. Simpson

Published: 2022-08-30

Total Pages: 459

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A spymaster’s apprentice, a warrior from the Lands of Ice, and a high priest of the goddess of the night. A wizardess who can tap the realm of magic, and three apprentices of notable power. A king suborned by an ancient god. With a dark power rising and the gods caught by surprise, can priest, apprentice and warrior save the lives of those sought for sacrifice by a deity from a near-forgotten pantheon?

Calliope's Challenge
Calliope's Challenge

Author: C.M. Simpson

Publisher: C.M. Simpson

Published: 2024-02-28

Total Pages: 69

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A science-fiction short story incorporating: A downed ship. An AI sentience in jeopardy. A hostile take-over in action. When Peony sneaks out to make sure the crashed ship’s AI is okay, she has no idea of what she, and her charge, are going up against. Can they survive the coming confrontation? And will they be forgiven for the measures they have to take?

Autumnal Threat
Autumnal Threat

Author: C.M. Simpson

Publisher: C.M. Simpson

Published: 2024-06-06

Total Pages: 30

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A science-fiction short story involving: an alien autumn, an unseen predator, deadly burrowers and an oncoming winter, and bugs big enough to ride. Joaquin only wants to warn his daughter of a new danger, to keep her safe, to make her understand her mother isn’t coming back, while keeping her alive. But what if he’s wrong? What if Mariam really did survive? What if, when everything looks like it’s going wrong, it’s really going right?

The Island that Disappeared
The Island that Disappeared

Author: Tom Feiling

Publisher: Melville House

Published: 2018-03-20

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1612194109

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The creation myth of the United States begins with the plucky English puritans of the Mayflower--but what about the story of its sister ship, the Seaflower. Few people today know the story of the passengers aboard the Seaflower, who in 1630 founded a rival puritan colony on an isolated Caribbean island called Providence. They were convinced that England’s empire would rise not in barren New England, but rather in tropical Central America. However, Providence became a colony in constant crisis: crops failed, slaves revolted . . . and then there were the pirates. And, as Tom Feiling discovers in this surprising history, the same drama was played out by the men and women who re-settled the island one hundred years later. The Island That Disappeared presents Providence as a fascinating microcosm of colonialism--even today. At first glance it is an island of devout churchgoers - but look a little closer, and you see that it is still dependent on its smugglers. At once intimate and global, this story of puritans and pirates goes to the heart of the contradictory nature of the Caribbean and how the Western World took shape.