Allen Stroud

Inspirational and thought-provoking collection of short stories imagining future crises and solutions, uniting the spheres of creative storytelling and real-life resilience building. We're going to change the world. Science Fiction writers spend their lives thinking about what will happen in the future. In this anthology, a select group bring imaginative thinking to the challenges the world will face in the...

Anti-State is a standalone story set in The Fractal series world, which began with the much-lauded Fearless and Resilient, hard-sf masterpieces which Analog called "Rigorous hard SF with a powerful but flawed protagonist." 2121 AD. Three years after the first Mars conflict, the colony is still struggling to recover. Corporations fight to hold on to their investments. Old secrets resurface...

The stirring finale of The Fractal series, which began with the much-lauded Fearless and Resilient hard-sf masterpieces. "Stroud raises fascinating questions about the politics of space exploration." — Publisher's Weekly In the aftermath of Phobos Station's destruction, sinister forces fight to control humanity's fragile first steps in colonising other worlds. There are competing agendas at work. Some seek to overthrow...