Skyboat Media / Science Fiction

Two Suns at Sunset

by Gene Doucette, Stefan Rudnicki, Paul Boehmer & Gabrielle de Cuir et al. – Skyboat Media (December 08, 2020)

Welcome to Dib!

Dib is an Earthlike planet, only slightly smaller, with shorter days and longer years, in orbit around twin suns.

On the continent of Geo, in the city of Velon in the nation of Inimata, a man lies...

Coup D’Etat

by C. R. Daems & Gabrielle de Cuir – Skyboat Media (March 17, 2020)

An insidious cabal has decided to change the direction of the United Alliance of Stars (UAS) with a coup d?etat?but not through a military takeover. They have devised a subtler coup: the manipulation of the...

The Boss in the Wall

by Grania Davis, Avram Davidson, Jim Meskimen & Stefan Rudnicki et al. – Skyboat Media (November 24, 2020)

Professor Vlad Smith is on a terrifying quest, one that will take him from the halls of our most hallowed institutions to the most run-down of old houses in blighted neighborhoods. A mysterious committee, shredded...

The Death of Sleep

by Anne Mccaffrey, Jody Lynn Nye & Gabrielle de Cuir – Skyboat Media (October 13, 2020)

Like every other citizen of the Federation of Sentient Planets, Lunzie Mespil believed that no harm would come to her, but when the planet pirates attack the space liner on which she is a passenger, she might...

Or Else the Light

by Various Authors, Janina Edwards, Judy Young & Mirron Willis et al. – Skyboat Media (October 06, 2020)

Burn the Ashes

by Various Authors, Gabrielle de Cuir, Mirron Willis & Stefan Rudnicki et al. – Skyboat Media (October 06, 2020)

Ignorance Is Strength

by Various Authors, Janina Edwards, Justine Eyre & various narrators et al. – Skyboat Media (September 29, 2020)

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

George Orwell once wrote of a world where abuse of power begins with an abuse of language and a bastardization of truth. Some of today's most exciting...

Sassinak

by Anne Mccaffrey, Elizabeth Moon & Gabrielle de Cuir – Skyboat Media (September 01, 2020)

Old enough to be used Young enough to be broken

Sassinak was twelve when the raiders came. That made her just the right age: old enough to be used, young enough to be broken. Or so the slavers thought. But Sassy...

The Shockwave Rider

by John Brunner, Stefan Rudnicki & Claire Bloom – Skyboat Media (July 07, 2020)

He was the most dangerous fugitive, but didn't exist!

Nickie Haflinger had lived several lifetimes...but technically never existed. He was originally a fugitive from Tarnover, the incredibly powerful government...

Nebulus

by Suzanne Hagelin, Gabrielle de Cuir & Stefan Rudnicki – Skyboat Media (June 16, 2020)

Out of the frying pan into the fire...

Silvariah Frandelle, the famed "Miner Girl" who escaped certain death on Mars, wants nothing more than a stable life on Earth, free from the trauma of the past. Lazarus...

Alternative Apocalypse

by Various Authors, Justine Eyre, Stefan Rudnicki & Kristoffer Tabori et al. – Skyboat Media (April 28, 2020)

Thirty stories from thirty authors, including Jane Yolen, Mike Resnick & J. J. Steinfeld.

How will the world end? With aliens or angels? Or a ground hog? Bleak despair? Martial fervor? Or a belly laugh? Whatever...

The Shallow End of the Pool

by Adam-Troy Castro & Justine Eyre – Skyboat Media (February 04, 2020)

2008 Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Long Fiction

Includes an introduction by the author

Resolution. Reason. Respect.

Among U.S. couples marrying today, roughly 40% will divorce. About half of those will have children...

Star of Gypsies

by Robert Silverberg, Stefan Rudnicki & Cassandra de Cuir – Skyboat Media (September 15, 2015)

Yakoub was once the legendary king of the Rom, the Gypsy race that has evolved from the days of caravans into lords of the spaceways--the only pilots capable of steering ships safely between the many worlds...

The Wild Shore

by Kim Stanley Robinson, Stefan Rudnicki & Susan Hanfield – Skyboat Media (March 10, 2015)

From the author of the award-winning Mars trilogy comesa vision of a radically different alternative future, where every day is afight to survive.

North America, 2047. For the small Pacific Coastcommunity of...

Dragons in Pieces

by Lee French, Stefan Rudnicki, Claire Bloom & Gabrielle de Cuir – Skyboat Media (December 15, 2015)

Real superheroes wear denim.

All Bobby wanted was a girl to come home to after a hard day of work. Like the last one said before she left, he was going exactly two places--no and where--and he was happy with...

The Long List Anthology

by Others, Gabrielle de Cuir, various narrators & Xia Jia et al. – Skyboat Media (December 15, 2015)

The Long List Anthology is designed to recognize the short works that were nominated for the 2015 Hugo Awards but did not make it into the top five short list for the final ballot. Thus, voted into the Hugo...

Nova

by Samuel R. Delany, Stefan Rudnicki & Claire Bloom – Skyboat Media (March 08, 2016)

Given that the suns of Draco stretch almost sixteen light years from end to end, it stands to reason that the cost of transportation is the most important factor driving the thirty-second century. And since...

Zeroboxer

by Fonda Lee, Stefan Rudnicki & Claire Bloom – Skyboat Media (January 12, 2016)

A rising star in the weightless combat sport of zeroboxing, Carr "the Raptor" Luka dreams of winning the championship title. Recognizing his talent, the Zero Gravity Fighting Association assigns Risha, an ambitious...

Dragons in Flight

by Lee French, Stefan Rudnicki & Claire Bloom – Skyboat Media (April 12, 2016)

It all comes down to this: Bobby has to find the girl, save the woman, wake the team, stop the disaster, open the door, and eat the partridge in a pear tree. Not even Head Cowboy can do it all alone. Like it...

Nihala

by Scott Burdick, Gabrielle de Cuir & Jodi Dorries – Skyboat Media (January 19, 2016)

Kayla Nighthawk, born crippled and orphaned in the theocratic realm of Potemia, defies her society's ban against reading the ancient books on sciencecraft. Her search for a cure for her deformities and for the...

Dragons in Chains

by Lee French, Stefan Rudnicki & Claire Bloom – Skyboat Media (March 22, 2016)

Everyone got comfortable. It was understandable, really: soft beds, good food, contentment. Not for Bobby; together with Stephen, he's shaking off the torpor and getting into bed with Privek--nothing is out...

Bears Discover Fire, and Other Stories

by Terry Bisson, Stefan Rudnicki, Janis Ian & Kristoffer Tabori – Skyboat Media (June 24, 2014)

A brilliant collection by SF master Terry Bisson

Bears Discover Fire isthe first short-story collection by the most acclaimed science fiction writerof the decade, the author of such brilliant novels as TalkingMan...

Heart of the Comet

by David Brin, Gregory Benford, P. J. Ochlan & Stefan Rudnicki et al. – Skyboat Media (March 24, 2015)

Gregory Benford and David Brin come together in thisbold collaboration about our near human future in space

Prescient and scientifically accurate, Heart of the Comet is known as one ofthe great hard SF novels...

The Fear Institute

by Jonathan L. Howard, Nicholas Guy Smith & Cassandra de Cuir – Skyboat Media (November 11, 2014)

The third novel in theacclaimed cult-favorite series starring necromancer Johannes Cabal

Johannes Cabal and hisrather inexact powers of necromancy are back once more. This time, his talentsare purchased by the...

Thorns

by Robert Silverberg, Stefan Rudnicki & Gabrielle de Cuir – Skyboat Media (July 14, 2015)

Duncan Chalk is a monstrous media mogul with a vast appetite for other people's pain. He feeds off it and carefully nurtures it in order to feed it to the public. It is inevitable that Chalk should home in on...

Frontera

by Lewis Shiner, Gabrielle de Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki & Claire Bloom – Skyboat Media (October 28, 2014)

Lewis Shiner's stunning science fiction debut

After theworld's governments collapsed, the corporations took control. Houston'sPulsystems has sent an expedition to the lost Martian colony of Frontera tosearch...

The Brothers Cabal

by Jonathan L. Howard, Nicholas Guy Smith & Cassandra de Cuir – Skyboat Media (September 30, 2014)

The fourth novel in the acclaimed cult-favorite series starring necromancer Johannes Cabal

Horst Cabal has risen from the dead--again.

Horst,the most affable vampire one is ever likely to meet, is resurrected...

The Sound of His Horn

by John William Wall, Stefan Rudnicki & Claire Bloom – Skyboat Media (June 03, 2014)

A horrifying masterpiece of science fiction

The Sound of His Horn is a classic novel of the uncanny. Alan Querdilion becomes a prisoner of war during World War II and then awakes, only to find himself in an alternative...

Fury

by Henry Kuttner, Stefan Rudnicki, C. L. Moore & Gabrielle de Cuir et al. – Skyboat Media (February 24, 2015)

Beneath the rolling seas and deadly atmosphere of Venus are the Keeps--fully enclosed cities that house descendants of the survivors who first harbored atomic energy to escape a dying earth. In massive superstructures...

The Old Gods Waken

by Manly Wade Wellman, Stefan Rudnicki & Claire Bloom – Skyboat Media (October 21, 2014)

The first Silver John novel

In the wilds of Southern Appalachia lies WolterMountain--a sacred place for the Indians and their predecessors. But the landatop the mountain, taken over by two Englishmen, Brummitt...

The Sunborn

by Gregory Benford, Richard Gilliland, Stefan Rudnicki & Susan Hanfield et al. – Skyboat Media (February 10, 2015)

The award-winning author of Timescape and Eater returns with a gripping new novel set in the same dynamic future as his wildly popular The Martian Race.

Their historic mission to Mars made Julia and Victorthe...

The Martian Race

by Gregory Benford & Gabrielle de Cuir – Skyboat Media (December 09, 2014)

From the Nebula Award-winning author of Timescapeand Foundation's Fear comes a hard-science thriller about the race toMars.

When an explosion of the rocket launching the MarsTransit Vehicle kills four crewmen,...

Ellison Wonderland

by Harlan Ellison, Richard Gilliland, Jim Meskimen & Gabrielle de Cuir et al. – Skyboat Media (May 13, 2015)

Originally published in 1962 and updated in laterdecades with a new introduction, EllisonWonderland contains sixteen masterful stories from the author's earlycareer. This collection shows a vibrant young writer...

The Gold Coast

by Kim Stanley Robinson, Stefan Rudnicki & Claire Bloom – Skyboat Media (May 05, 2015)

This second book in Kim Stanley Robinson's richlydetailed Three Californias triptych reveals a second, all-too-plausiblepossible future for Orange County.

North America, 2027. Southern California is adeveloper's...

Neptune Crossing

by Jeffrey A. Carver, Stefan Rudnicki & Claire Bloom – Skyboat Media (September 06, 2016)

The first installment in the thrilling, action-packed Chaos Chronicles

When John Bandicut sets out across the surface of Triton, he?s hardly ready for the storm of chaos that?s about to blow through his life....

Pacific Edge

by Kim Stanley Robinson, Stefan Rudnicki & Claire Bloom – Skyboat Media (January 13, 2015)

North America, 2065. In a world that hasrediscovered harmony with nature, the village of El Modena, California, is anecotopia in the making. Kevin Claiborne, a young builder who has grown up inthis "green" world,...

Martians, Go Home

by Fredric Brown, Stefan Rudnicki & Cassandra de Cuir – Skyboat Media (March 18, 2014)

Martians, Go Home,originally published in 1955, is a comic science fiction novel that tells thestory of Luke Devereaux, a science fiction writer who witnesses an alien invasion of little green men. TheseMartians...

Babel-17

by Samuel R. Delany, Stefan Rudnicki & Cassandra de Cuir – Skyboat Media (November 17, 2015)

Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemy's deadly force, a task that requires...

Dragoncaller

by Lee French, Jeffrey Cook, Susan Hanfield & Judy Young – Skyboat Media (November 26, 2019)

Aliens. Space pirates. Dragons.

Madison Wayward, niece to the most notorious captain among the outlaw Stardrifters, has a plan. She'll stop at nothing to give humanity a flicker of hope in its darkest hour. If...

Honeymoon in Hell

by Fredric Brown, Stefan Rudnicki, Gabrielle de Cuir & Harlan Ellison et al. – Skyboat Media (March 11, 2014)

Imagine ...

Ghosts, gods, and devils--heavens and hells--cities in the skyand cities beneath the sea.

Time machines, spaceships--certainly you can imagineMartians, but what about interplanetary vampires? Or a...

Overlay

by Barry N. Malzberg, Stefan Rudnicki & Claire Bloom – Skyboat Media (April 08, 2014)

Earth was a planet of incompetents, but Simmons was thegreatest loser of all. It seemed as if the powers of the Universe wereconcentrated on grinding his small soul into ultimate insignificance, until thealiens...

Night Ride, and Other Journeys

by Charles Beaumont, Paul Boehmer, Harlan Ellison & Stefan Rudnicki et al. – Skyboat Media (April 15, 2014)

For the oddball in you, flights into the sinister andfantastic

The stories in this third collection from amaster of speculative fiction are at once playful and dark, but each iswonderfully told.

Contents include...

The City on the Edge of Forever

by Harlan Ellison, Paul Boehmer, LeVar Burton & Jean Smart et al. – Skyboat Media (July 26, 2016)

The original teleplay that became the classic Star Trek episode, with an expanded introductory essay by Harlan Ellison, The City on the Edge of Forever has been surrounded by controversy since the airing of...

Different Kinds of Dead, and Other Tales

by Ed Gorman, Rex Linn, Gabrielle de Cuir & Arte Johnson et al. – Skyboat Media (May 05, 2016)

This collection of short stories displays Ed Gorman's talents as a masterful storyteller across a range of genres.

A mysterious and beautiful girl who teaches arrogant young men about true love, a lonely traveling...

Nightwings

by Robert Silverberg, Stefan Rudnicki & Claire Bloom – Skyboat Media (May 13, 2014)

Robert Silverberg's enduring classic about one man's journeyto find salvation for a planet on the brink of destruction.

"Roum is a city built on seven hills. They say it was acapital of man in one of the earlier...

Untouched by Human Hands

by Robert Sheckley, Harlan Ellison, Stefan Rudnicki & Gabrielle de Cuir et al. – Skyboat Media (March 17, 2015)

Untouched by Human Hands consists of thirteen stories of beings who dwell on the strange borders of reality. Some of these stories tell of people you know or of events that might happen--but haven't yet. Some...