Jim Baen's Universe

Incident on a Small Colony Full Story

by Kristine Smith

The receiving dock stank of berries.

Tesseract Full Story

by Tom Brennan

Anna came in too fast, too low.

There was a screech of tearing metal as Stheno's carbon trees gouged the hull and the flyer tilted fifty degrees. Anna's body slammed forward in her rigid suit.

Alone Full Story

by Joe R. Lansdale and Melissa Mia Hall

The smooth silver rockets stood against the sky, silent sentinels piercing the night. Waiting for something or someone, those spaceships reminded him of those big, old stone faces down on the ridge outside of Mud Creek.

Olaf and the Merchandisers Full Story

by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini

Olaf imagines better times while he watches sports action rumble, commercials and promos tumble.

Murphy's Law Full Story

by Douglas Smith

Dex hadn't planned to save the entire human race. Mostly, he'd been trying not to die, while still keeping his job in the process—two goals that, Dex had learned, were often mutually exclusive.

The Big Ice Full Story

by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold

"Governor‑General's dead."

I glanced up from the disassembled comm‑comp I'd been trying to Frankenstein together. The G‑G was Core. Unkillable. But Mox didn't look like he was kidding.

"How?"