Take a deep dive into the realms of imaginative science fiction, including eight brand-new stories by award-winning author Alison McBain. Diving into Nebulae brings you over two dozen of McBain’s most popular SF stories, including her award-winning and nominated shorts “Pillar of Salt,” “What Are Friends For?” and “Asylum.”

So, grab your mitt to play some baseball in space, punch your ticket for the first traveling circus at the Milky Way station, and prepare to delve into a future that’s sometimes dark, sometimes hopeful, but always full of adventure!

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In a future where corporations own everything—including people—one murder could ignite a revolution.

Twenty years from now, the United States is completely privatized. The Big Six syndicates own schools, roads, police departments…even human beings.

When a young immigrant woman—51% owned by the syndicates—is brutally murdered, NYPD, Inc. Detective Juke O'Keefe and his partner, Crime Marketing Consultant Haylee Navarro, catch the case. Pregnant and broke, Haylee knows they can’t crowdfund enough from a dead immigrant to pay for basic forensics, let alone their paychecks. But Juke, with his old-school sense of justice, is determined to find the killer.

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An obsolete ship. A disgraced captain. One chance at redemption.

For a hundred and fifty years, an uneasy peace has endured within the Ballenverse—a hundred-light-year sphere centered on Sol. But now Corporate forces have launched a ruthless surprise attack, leaving the United Earth Alliance fleet shattered and Earth, along with her allies, desperate and reeling.

Disgraced Jumpship captain Tarak Draeger has spent three long, bitter years languishing in jail for war crimes after destroying a civilian ship. But now he’s dragged from his cell, placed in command of an obsolete cruiser known as Hellhound, and given a deadly mission in the heart of enemy territory.

For Draeger, facing a hostile crew, doubting his own abilities, and dealing with a murderous traitor onboard, the vicious Corporate commander determined to annihilate him and his ship is almost the least of his problems.

The year is 1584. Covens from across England and

Scotland gather around sacred sites, offering homage to

their pagan gods on the night of nights, but everything

seems lost when those in power intervene.

With the magical mysticism of Samhain tainted by

bloodshed, a great quest is undertaken in hopes of

preventing future catastrophes. A lone warlock and his

unlikely companion set out to discover the whereabouts of

a witch who legends claim can put an end to the unjust

violence sweeping across the land.

Shadowed by a man tainted by family history, the

unsuspecting witch must flee for her life across the Isle of

Skye’s rugged landscape. Hounded by King James’ men

and a notorious witch hunter harbouring a secret of his

own, the witch finds she is unable to trust those who should

have her back, and her fate hangs in the balance.

In this timeless adventure, the fate of three realms teeter on

the edge of a claymore as the goodness of mankind wages

war against the inherent evil present in our world.

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