A collection of eighteen short science fiction and mystery/suspense stories by A. C. Ellis.

Book 1 of the Ancients' War Someone is trying to kill Susan Tanner! She hadn't commanded a ship since losing Defiant ten years ago. Vindicated at her court-martial, she still blames herself. Now, she is given the opportunity to pilot another sh...

In a world pocked with gutted buildings, looted stores and packs of computer-implanted wild dogs, one man senses more than mere devastation in his surroundings. He begins to grasp that the biochip in his own skull enables him to change reality at ...

As the most gifted battle unit in the Confraternity of Sentient Races, Five-Red is entitled to nothing but the best: the best bunk, the best food, and the best pleasure units 'Tween has to offer. That is as it should be. But on campaign planet B-...

In an obituary, Brad Carpenter, a San Diego homicide detective, recognizes the North Vietnamese army officer who killed his best friend thirty years ago. Somehow, that enemy soldier had come to the U.S.when he should not have been able to, and had...

A short story in the Ancients' War universe Susan Tanner battles Ghosts on a strange planet circling the Crab Nebula, while fighting ghosts from her own past.