Space Stories

Space Opera

Tricked into helping with a suspicious passenger, this taxi driver is in for some unwarranted activity and some scary surprises.

An android and a human vie for dominance in worlds at war.

Trading for gold, all things look good-to-go, until the copilot goes missing.

Desperate for a job, a small frieghter pilot takes on a passenger that is different beyond her wildest imaginings.

Meet Cyril Potts, a Briton working as a private eye in the USA. He gets some strange clients, which is all right because he is a strange investigator. We first encounter Cyril during one of his reveries, but he soon shows that when the need arises, he can lurch into action - in a way.

This little offering is intended to be part of the opening chapter in the forth volume of the Bill Axon tales. I am posting now because I have been reposting a revised and corrected version of 'Per Ardua Ad Astra'. I would ask that you please read the new version and review it, either through the Finestories review system or send to me in via a feedback comment. Thank you.

An eleven-part story relating an exchange of messages between a disaffected galactic explorer and an increasingly exasperated staff at home-planet mission control.