Vaughan: 493 books

An anthology of stories from the long-running One Step Beyond writers' group, including tales from all corners of the speculative fiction genre. All profits from the sale of this anthology will go to English PEN, a charitable network defending and promoting freedom of expression around the world.Includes...

On a near-future Earth, a teacher who had lost everything that matters to her--her husband and her job--faces an agonising decision. Can she let go of the past and grasp the future that is being offered to her?Family Tree is an intriguing and moving science fiction story that explores an alternate...

Touching Distance is a tense and disturbing short story about a blind man participating in an innovative virtual reality experiment that aims to equip people like him with a tactile map of their surroundings. As the experiment proceeds, he realises that a harrowing incident from his recent past is...

The English Dead is a science fiction short story that explores the abiding mystery of whether George Mallory and "Sandy" Irvine could have reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1924, twenty-nine years before the first successful ascent by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.From the review...

'Reeves Indeed!' collects a short series of humorous, all-dialogue science fiction stories that present the adventures of robot butler Reeves, who serves (after a fashion) his master in a linked sequence of ever-more bizarre and apocalyptic situations.This collection includes the...

This ebook collects two of my war-themed alternative history stories: The Peace Criminal and The Eye Patch Protocol. Both stories explore the great "what ifs" of Twentieth Century history, and will appeal to lovers of thought-provoking, character-based fiction. The Peace Criminal...

Stars in Her Eyes is an exciting SF short story that presents an unusual First Contact scenario, in which an obsessive young woman tries to communicate with aliens through the medium of a consensus dream. Jerome Dalton must decide whether to help or hinder Lenora's project, which holds out the prospect...

These tautly-written tales from a remarkable imagination provoke both horror and fascination in equal measures. They're disturbing, but they keep you reading until the shocking finish. In this macabre little collection everyday, mundane events walk hand in hand with the weird, the bizarre and...

Nigel Holmes is a British Police Officer sent to Toronto after a witness was brutally murdered on his watch. Kristen Sherlock is a Detective who was framed for drug possession, and is being harassed by a dirty cop bent on ruining her. Nigel is politically incorrect and swears like a trucker. Kristen...

I was clear at that moment that my mother, was going to kill me. Gasping for air, I tried to loosen the cord to no avail. The gushing blood from my head wound and the incessant throbbing created waves of nausea. I had to make my move. I was not going out like this. Such is the life of Pablo and five...

View our feature on Elizabeth Vaughan's Destiny's Star.A return to the world of the Warlands... Bethral, a beautiful warrior, and Ezren, a quick-witted storyteller, are confronted with a civil war and a tribe or warriors with their own code of honor and their own rules of pleasure and partnership....

This story consists of eight short stories that are all linked to one another. The first story tells of a couple not doing so well. The second introduces Hoody and his Gyal and the story unfolds to a dramatic finish with a twist at the end.

On my 40th Birthday, we throw a party for close friends. After a few intermate dances, I wonder if I could take the wives out for one night of sex and passion. I have a fraught 18-year-old marriage and a son that is an extraordinarily good swimmer, but to be honest; I’m bored! A well-planned theft...

A silver mining heiress and a Texas Ranger find love on the run in this epic tale of romance and high adventure “bursting with the flavor of Mexico” (RT Book Reviews). Aurelia Mazón is determined to escape her high-mountain town and head for the big city—even though her father owns the...