Showing results for "Red" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Helen Bell has changed since facing off with Mara Rouge in the Quarrel of Sword and Bone. But so has Winter. When a Timepiece crosses the intersect to give Helen a set of three warnings in the form of a puzzle, she's forced to re-enter the world she thought she might never see again to solve it before she meets a deadly end.

Professor Garrett Somers wants to liberate the planet from religious rules that hinder people's freedom of choice. He becomes embroiled in a series of events and must rely on his knowledge of history to survive unscathed. His work exposed him to historical documents that revealed the actual cause of religious conflicts on the planet.

In a near future America pulled from today's headlines and coming apart at the seams, Turn Red Tomorrow details a soberingly possible scenario where the nation's financial system is obliterated overnight, plunging the country into chaos. The story follows a typical extended family and their friends, scattered across the country, as they seek to reunite and survive the ever-present horrors of disease, starvation, and violence.

When a test of a breakthrough drive ends in tragedy, Commander Mara Ellington, pilot Imani Brooks, and young engineer Elias Chen are marooned near a labyrinth of stone canyons the maps call Cathedral Spires. Their only guide is an improbable signal hidden in the static, three simple notes that echo an old Psalm and point toward forgotten Sparrow caches that were meant to keep the lost alive. With oxygen thin and time thinner, the crew wrestles grief, guilt, and a rising storm. An AI that is learning gentleness keeps watch. A tug called Gabriel fights its own corridor of peril.

One choice could cost him everything. His career. His family. His soul. Captain Flick Alastar has always been a man of duty, sacrificing his own desires for the greater good of his people in Zanther. As he stands on the brink of securing his future as High Inquisitor, he believes that he has finally found the stability and protection he has fought for. But then he meets Anca Cassy, a woman who challenges everything he thought he knew about himself and the world around him. Anca is a follower of the outlawed god HaMelech, a deity that Flick and his people have been taught to fear and despise.

The white room had a red door and a purple door. Everyone knew where the purple door went, it went to Utopia, the most technologically advanced planet in the galaxy. To enter the purple door, you had to be a committed atheist, and Utopia was proud of the fact that not a single person there believed in God, and they all wanted it that way.

The prophet changed the world twice. Is Ruma cursed to witness both changes? When Ruma jumps through the Shards with her father, Gulatu brings down the Pithrean, thus shattering them and their network. Instead of arriving at her destination, Ruma wakes up on her home planet - 800 years in the past! But she's not alone. Because, in her mind, the first has made his home. The Pithrean promises her a way back. But only if she follows his designs.

Can a medieval prophet save the world from a future alien invasion? Gulatu Koza often looks to the heavens and imagines his eternal reward. But when his day of reckoning arrives, he wakes up to an Earth 800 years in the future. Above him, he’s shocked to see familiar stars sharing the sky with strange ships in flight. No sooner than he makes his peace with the curious new world and the alien colonists living alongside humans, a hostile fleet arrives with a bloody purpose. With Earth under attack, Gulatu struggles to help defend against an enemy.

"God's Little Red Pen" is an original short story that wraps a humorous "what if?" into the grand "how & why?" by showing us an alternate take on creation where an exasperated God, looking to break his celestial flock out of a collective funk, enlists the help of his angels to work on his newest pet project: a little thing called "The Universe".