Bruce Corbett

• Sep-2023
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Timm Bruce is the son of a farmer on a small agricultural planet, who escapes boredom and his father’s control by enlisting in the Space marines. Soon he finds himself fighting the alien TRILL in space, and then again on a contested planet. New...

• Oct-2013
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King Alfred the Great is dead, and young Prince Edward must persuade the Witan that he should be the next king. His own royal cousin, Ethelwold, rebels, and is soon leading an unholy alliance of influential noblemen and Vikings. Wearing the Viking cr...

• Mar-2013
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An unholy alliance of Viking raiders and kings sends the largest Viking armies seen in Alfred the Great's time into the last remaining Saxon kingdom. Can Christian Wessex survive the barbarian onslaught? With Alfred away in the west fighting two inva...

• Feb-2013
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After seven years of hard-won peace, a Viking army lands in Wessex and attacks Rochester. Alfred the Great has traitors within the Empire, and two powerful Viking Kings to his north. Nevertheless, he manages to drive out the invaders. He hits back at...

• Jan-2013
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The Great Army of the Danes invades Wessex, and, after two sieges, Alfred forces King Guthrum to agree to withdraw. When the leader of the Great Army breaks his word and invades Wessex in early winter, he nearly succeeds in Capturing Alfred and destr...

• Jan-2013
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Ambrose, Prince of Wessex; Emissary to Byzantium,is a story set during the time of the Viking invasions of much of Europe and Russia. This story chronicles the life of Ambrose, a bastard Saxon prince of England, and elder brother to Alfred the Great....

• Jan-2013
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The betrothed of Ambrose, bastard prince of Wessex, is kidnapped by Welsh brigands, and then a raiding party of Norse pirates. With the army of Wessex at his back, Ambrose attacks a Welsh coastal stronghold, only to find that Gretchen never made it t...

• Jan-2013
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Ambrose and his friends flee for their lives from imperial Constantinople. The Grand Chamberlain wants them dead, and has dispatched an admiral and a fleet to dispose of them. The prince hopes to return to his native Wessex. Caught by pirates, they a...

• Jan-2013
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After returning from Constantinople, Ambrose and his friends ride north with his brother the king to face the all-conquering Great Army of the Vikings. The king of Mercia sues for peace and battle is averted. Fearing a massive surprise attack, Ambros...

• Dec-2012
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Ambrose and his comrades have been marked for death by the emperor of Byzantium. Having being chased from Alexandria and crossing North Africa, they flee north through Italy, doggedly pursued by the Byzantine Admiral Demetrious. The Church attempts t...

• Nov-2012
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My stories cover time travel to space opera, shootouts to alien invaders. This book is a collection of my short stories, written over many years. Several have been published previously, and some are available individually....

• May-2012
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Ambrose, a Saxon prince, his fierce warrior companion, and a learned Byzantine scholar face assassins, bandits and a vengeful admiral on their journey north from southern Italy to England. Set in the ninth century, it was a time of turmoil, when Char...

• Mar-2012
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The betrothed of Ambrose, bastard prince of Wessex, is kidnapped by Welsh brigands, and then a raiding party of Norse pirates. With the army of Wessex at his back, Ambrose attacks a Welsh coastal stronghold, only to find that Gretchen never made it t...

• Mar-2012
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After returning from Constantinople, Ambrose and his friends ride north with his brother the king to face the all-conquering Great Army of the Vikings. The king of Mercia sues for peace and battle is averted. Fearing a massive surprise attack, Ambros...

• Sep-2011
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Loosely based on the Primary Russian Chronicles, the story is of a Saxon prince and his two companions who arrive at the time of the founding of a Viking empire on the major rivers of Russia. In spite of implacable enemies and rapids, the Vikings and...

• Sep-2011
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A young prince of Wessex is captured by Viking raiders. He and his friends manage to escape captivity in Denmark, and begin an epic journey to Norway and then Sweden. The rest of the story is loosely based on the Primary Russian Chronicles. There, th...

• Sep-2011
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The mysterious ship came from the stars. Invulnerable to human weapons, the metal creatures swarmed across Africa. Could anything stop them? Could Earth be saved? This story first appeared in the September 2001 edition of ALTERNATE REALITIES....

• Sep-2011
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• Sep-2011
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This short story is the reciprocal of The Hunters. Carnivorous dinosaurs find time-travelling humans whose electronic defenses are inadvertently shut down. This is the story of what happens - from the dinosaurs' point-of-view. This short story was fi...

• Sep-2011
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• Sep-2011
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What happens when Staid Ontario joins the United States? What happens to Toronto when guns flood north? This is the story of one man and his struggle to cope with a new reality. This short story first appeared in the Fall 1999 edition of PERIDOT....

• Sep-2011
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Does hell exist? What is purgatory? Can one man’s hell be another man’s heaven? Here is one man’s experience. This story was first published in the Spring 2004 edition of Gateway....

• Sep-2011
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