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Alien Days is a multi-author anthology with thrilling tales of aliens, invasions, artificial intelligence, friendship, deceit, and extinction. A combination which makes this collection a must-listen for science fiction short story fans. This anthology features Nebula and Dragon award nominees, Amazon best-sellers and award winners alongside rising stars in the science fiction genre. Let the authors take you on adventures through dystopian worlds and far flung planets that will stretch your imagination.

The Apollo program reached the Moon, but, its goal is Mars. It's 0830 hours, July 4th, 1976. The Quest blasts into orbit and rendezvous with NASA’s experimental Nuclear Thermal Rocket. Quest’s mission: To take its three-man-crew on a dangerous and unparalleled journey...to Mars.

The dawning of a new technology - Wetware. Wired directly into the hosts brain Wetware will allow the user to control machinery remotely from anywhere on the planet. Access information from the web. A simple thought and you can place a call to anyone and talk to them as if you were in the same room as them. The ultimate in hands free. There are some though who see this as a technological step too far and are determined to show the rest of us the folly of our ways. What happens when you hack a human brain?

The Faithful had prepared their defenses. One by one the Asatu had hunted down and slaughtered them. Billions were already dead. The survivors sought refuge in the last remaining stronghold. Haven One-Eight.

Frank Winters is a soldier in the British Army. The one time corporal in the Intelligence Corp has become a surveillance operative in the daring and deadly military support group. Called upon to serve in political hotspots around the world he has a variety of skills, surveillance is just one of them. Without warning a murderous terrorist attack plunges Northern Ireland into meltdown. The backlash results in the imposition of direct rule on The Province. London needs it fixed, fast.

The Omega War is in full swing. Earth has fallen to General Peepo’s army, and the surviving human mercenaries have taken refuge at the hidden Winged Hussars’ base in New Warsaw. As humanity begins to think about how to recover the planet, one thing is obvious - more powerful weapons of war will be needed in the effort. One of the keys to recapturing Earth will be the Raknar of Cartwright’s Cavaliers, but the power sources of many of the giant mecha have become unusable over the course of history.

Humanity, previously dependent on the K'Tai for its Redlazore, discovers vast resources of the most valuable mineral in the galaxy on Agate and is now free to expand across the stars: Redlazore is also the key component to faster-than-light travel. The planet Agate is, however, the human colony-world which lies perilously close to the K'Tai Imperium, and the K'Tai resolve to put the upstart humans back in their place. The K'Tai Imperium invades Agate. On the ground, in the midst of the whirlwind conflict is the Carter family.

The Commonwealth rise triumphant over the merciless "Others". The war is over. Pioneers of the Commonwealth race to colonize virgin worlds but do not foresee the chilling Turak with their clear communiqué, "Do not enter Turak space!" Without warning, a deadly offensive is launched on the planet Balat, shattering the fragile uneasy truce between the Alonans and the Commonwealth as blame is wrongly attributed. The prospect of galactic war looms once more.

With their puppet race "The Others" defeated, and imprisoned on a world surrounded by warships and heavily armed orbital fortresses, the ruthless regime of the Saiph are forced to face the combined might of the Commonwealth Union of Planets. Meanwhile, the Empire of Alona has secretly grown its forces and, in a twist of fate, made an unlikely ally in its race for military supremacy which soon becomes moot when they discover themselves to be pawns in an even greater game.