Alastair Mayer: 5 books

This short story was first published in the June, 2011 issue of Analog Science Fiction magazine. It also appears in slightly different form in the novel, "The Chara Talisman". While archeologist Hannibal Carson explores ruins on a distant planet, seeking evidence of ancient spacefarers,...

This short story is the first adventure of Jason Curtis and his ship, the Starfire. In a not-too-distant future where small starships are as common as private jets, a skilled but impulsive pilot discovers it is often easier to get himself into trouble than to get out of it, and sometimes the only way out of the frying pan is . . . into the fire.

In the distant future, aliens find mankind's footprints and hardware on the Moon, and a strangely changed Earth. What do they make of it all? This story originally appeared in print in the anthology Footprints, edited by Jay Lake and Eric T. Reynolds, from Hadley Rille Books (July, 2009).

Starship pilot Jason Curtis just wanted to find a beach for a little rest and relaxation. Then he met Renee . . . "‘Starfire, this is Kakuloa control. Are you declaring an emergency?’ Air hissed out of a bullet hole in my cockpit, yellow and red warning lights lit up my control panel,...

Edgar Allan Poe once said "Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them." Yet sleep - hibernation - may be the only way to make interstellar travel possible. Aboard the starship Raven, a crewman standing watch is surrounded by sleeping passengers and crew, and might go a little...