Cold and Distant Space and other science fiction stories

By Zach Nash

Cold and Distant Space is a collection of contest winning science fiction short stories. Stories include:The Other Voice: A teenager moving from body to body to stay alive realizes the body he has been transplanted in may still be conscious. The Emerged: With a virus that transforms people's bodies and minds spreading, Max keeps his head down until his brother is the one transformed. A Touch: They were a rescue party for scientists trapped hundreds of miles underground but warped creatures, which once were human, force the rescuers true agendas into the light. Ice and Rock: As ice sheets melt from global warming prospectors scour Antarctica for the next oil deposit. Now as unofficial claims to land become untapped riches, American soldiers have orders to steal under America ally noses, even if it leads to a bloodbath.Into the hornet's nest: A boy and the bear he is psychically connected to wish to be a ranger in the wasteland of earth, but as the cyborgs who created the wasteland reappear he must face the danger in his dream in order to protect his village. Fallen in the Cracks: A boy wanting to escape the torments of freshmen year creates a wormhole to escape to another place while also causing the one friendship that made life good to fall apart.The Space between Stars: A messenger going between star systems, Paige feels untethered and free, but as she is brought onto a space ship with her old flame and a runaway terrorist she is dragged into the exact thing she swore she would always run from.Cold and Distant space: A group of astronauts begin a long spaceflight mission, but once a crisis hits and tempers run it will take all of their training to start their journey.The Winged Death (Loscon 2015 contest winner, Tomorrow Prize honorable mention): An Under appreciated worker at a air base on a distant planet tries to survive a dragon attack.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521441898
• ISBN13: 9781521441893
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"