The Expanding Universe #3

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Twenty-five talented authors. One incredible science fiction collection.

The universe is expanding and these are some of its stories. Worlds where invasions are apocalyptic and space empires are in peril. Travel vast distances. Explore and discover. Learn that space is tragically unforgiving, but wonderful. The universe is beyond our understanding... or is it?

Craig Martelle - A Language Barrier - Language isn't the only thing that can bring humans and aliens together
Mike Kraus - To Catch a King - One ship, one crew and more trouble than they bargained for.
Richard Fox - The Achenaen Reception - Security for the wedding of a merchant prince and his mysterious fiancée grows complicated as the bride's family has a very different notion of matrimony.
Chris Fox - Exiled- Mankind's outer colonies are quietly disappearing and Commander Nolan is ordered to find out why.
Jonathan Brazee - Weaponized Math - Staff Sergeant Gracie Medicine Crow, United Federation Marine Corps sniper guards a well-known secret to her success.
S. M. Schmitz & Lisa Blackwood - Catalyst--When Catalyst sustains heavy damage from a rogue AI attack, the Spire warship's only chance for survival lies in an outlaw telepath.
Terry Mixon - Blood and Treasure - The Terran Empire's best brings the hammer down.
Christian Kallias - Across the Galactic Pond - Kevin's encounter with a dying alien propels him into the midst of an intergalactic war
C.C. Ekeke - Severance - One brutal act of sabotage throws a day of celebration between two star-spanning governments into chaos
Bill Patterson - Alas, Thudonia - To whom does she owe her allegiance her ancestors or the man who would take her away from a future disaster?
Zen DiPietro - Wrenching Free - Wren can fix anything mechanical. But can she fix her own life?
Amy DuBoff - One Last Job - Thom's simple delivery contract takes an unexpected turn when he discovers the cargo is far from legal
J.A. Cipriano - Save the Scientist - When a research vessel crash lands on a bug-infested planet, only Infinity Marine Mark Ryder is close enough to save them in time
M.D. Cooper - Assault on Tarja - Venus may stand, but Tarja must fall
Andrew Dobell - Epiphany - Dains first mission as a special forces Wraith isn't as simple as it sounds
Kevin McLaughlin - Final Intelligence - Investigating a derelict starship turns out to be anything but what it seems
Michael La Ronn - Maybe Now the Stars Will Shine--Stuck on an icy planet, in a warehouse, with only her wits and a few bullets, Agent Devika Sharma must rescue twelve innocent people before criminals transport them to the next galaxy as human slaves.
BC Kellogg - The Trophy - An unlikely ally forces an Imperial soldier to reconsider his allegiance during a bloody invasion.
Robert Jeschonek - Voyage of the Dog-Propelled Starship - Dogs are man's best friend, but dogs' best friends are something else entirely...
Emily Walker - Save the Queen - Spence has the chance to prove he's a real hero to the galaxy, but the Queen of Pop won't make it easy
T.M. Catron - Fugitives' Gamble - Smuggler Captain Rance Cooper must decide which is worse-getting sent home to get married or fighting off hordes of angry pirates
Yudhanjaya Wijeratne - Dreadnought - How does a starship deal with death? A tale of life, AI ,and Old Earth poetry
JR Handley - LZ New Birth - No one's ever found glory hiding in a bunker.
Mikey Campling - Skeleton Crew - It takes a million moving moving parts to send a starship across the galaxy, but only one mistake to bring it crashing down.
Laura Martone & Daniel Martone - The Piayan Job - One conniving high priest. A handful of pirates. Toss in dashes of deceit for mayhem and misadventure in the galaxy.
Danny A. Brown - In The Shadows - Can a rogue planet be home to both the explorers who found it, and it's inhabitants?