Michael Warren Lucas

A FAMILY AFFRAYWith her father's death, mercenary thief Beaks returns to the place she hates most-her childhood home, to both pay her respects and make certain he's gone. She finds only lies. Determined to rip the truth out of the shadows, Beaks ricochets around the world, defying killers and government agents alike.

A FAMILY AFFRAYWith her father's death, mercenary thief Beaks returns to the place she hates most-her childhood home, to both pay her respects and make certain he's gone. She finds only lies. Determined to rip the truth out of the shadows, Beaks ricochets around the world, defying killers and government agents alike.

50% John McClane50% Robin Hood100% troubleReeling from the death of her lover and partner, freelance "exfiltration specialist" Billie Carrie Salton breaks into a high-tech, high-security biotechnology firm to steal their sickle cell anemia cure and broadcast it to the world. Except Salton's life never works that smoothly....

Moles. Seriously? Yes. Mostly seriously. Chemists, Zoologists, Dermatologists, Government Agencies, and Mexican Food. Over a dozen modern authors offer their take on an Interpretation of Moles. Every kind, every definition. From silly to sublime, this anthology takes you on a wild ride, where the only rule was that it had to include moles. And to be entertaining. Come revel with us.

There's no grounds for murder. There's no ground at all. The people exploring and exploiting alien universes risk everything, including their lives. But Devin Gupper's death makes no sense. And the more questions security officer Aidan Redding asks, the less rational it seems. But in a bottomless universe full of impossibilities, one impossible murder begins everything.

Join us for the next exciting issue of Boundary Shock Quarterly We can make her better than she was. Or build a better one to replace him. What does it mean to be Sentient? Human? Or even alive? Fifteen stories and essays explore what it means to be sentient in the present and future tense in stories ranging from artificial lifeforms all the way down to the many ways humans might dream about improving themselves, when the future arrives tomorrow. Welcome to Boundary Shock Quarterly, Issue 004: Robots, Androids, Cyborgs, Oh My Be sure to look for Issue 005: The Boneyard of Lost Dreams, coming January 2019.

What do the people of the post-scarcity future most value? Good sex. When everyone has nanotech implants to monitor their health and nervous system signals, how can you verify proof of ecstasy as the basis of money? Blockchain. Will Robert and Mallory's first NookieCoin transaction go disastrously wrong? Or transform their lives for the better?

Not your normal Friday night in the computer room. Not a normal night anywhere. Terry is the archetypal old-school Unix admin, nurturing servers with care and precision while avoiding the latest trendy garbage. KDE and Gnome on a server? Nope, if you need a GUI use FVWM. The latest trend Terry refuses? One adopted almost everywhere? Systemd, the replacement init. So Systemd comes for Terry. Wearing skin-tight leather pants. No, not a normal night in the computer room at all...

"If Agatha Christie ran Unix Conventions"The BSD North conference draws some of the smartest people in the world. These few days will validate Dale Whitehead's work--or expose him as a fraud. When a tragic death devastates the conference, only Dale suspects murder. Computer geeks care about code. But do they care enough... to kill?

Meet the new universe, same as the old universe-- but thirteen billion years younger. Aidan Redding's new assignment? A space station in a universe so young it's barely invented hydrogen. Researchers study the cosmos' earliest days, discover whole new realms of science... and go screaming insane. The mathematicians claim this universe obeys the same natural laws as Redding's own. At the beginning of time, though, the universe writes its own rules...