Unioverse — Mario Acevedo

eBook Edition- Original Cover Art- 20 Color Interior IllustrationsIn the year 2145 AD, Malcolm Orion, destined to go down in history as the Brave Traveler, made his historic jump through space, launching his consciousness across the universe. His arrival at an abandoned space station reawakened the Masson Zero-a vast system of instantaneous travelways connecting innumerable worlds, many inhabited by sentient life.Now, centuries later, worlds long isolated from each other are once again connected. This anthology presents tales of this reconvergence. Set on richly imagined planets scattered across the cosmos but linked once again by near-instantaneous travel, these stories introduce you to characters-human and otherwise-navigating love and loss, alliance and intrigue, violence and betrayal, and, most of all, the joys and perils of exploration and scientific discovery. Accept the invitation. Step into a transpod of your own and slip through the Mass-O. You never know where you'll end up.Foreword by Tony HarmanA Note from the Editors by Joshua Viola and Angie HodappIn Translation by Carina BissettMars You Say? by Jane YolenThe Brave Traveler by Andy Baker, Brent Friedman, Mario Acevedo, Angie Hodapp, and Joshua ViolaBlood and Beginnings by Jeanne C. Stein, Mario Acevedo, Angie Hodapp, and Joshua ViolaReunion on Devolver by Wyeth RidgwayTowards Zero Hour by Maxwell I. GoldThe Ambassador by Sean Eads and Joshua ViolaSacrifice by Andy BakerThose That Wear Skin by Jamal HodgeThe Monk by Warren HammondVanetta 4 by Mario AcevedoRuins of Memory by Kevin J. AndersonDark Truths by Dayton Ward and Kevin DilmoreRelentless Realities, Impossible Intention by Linda D. AddisonIcefall by Angie HodappBetween Here and Forever by Gabino IglesiasThe Good Smuggler by Stephen Graham JonesChantress by Akua Lezli HopeSword of the Silent by Matthew KresselUnspoken Truths by Kenneth W. CainFor Every Season by Lee MurrayOh, Those Inner Rings by Jane YolenA Deeper Song by Tim WaggonerGhost in the Machine by Carter WilsonSuigeneriscide by Alvaro Zinos-AmaroThe Glymr by Jezzy Wolfe