Christina Engela

Book List in Order: 58 titles

  • Dust

    At a remote starbase, a long-lost ship missing for 63 years mysteriously appears out of the black. There's no sign of the crew or any clue what happened to them. Plates of food are laid out on tables in the mess, a shower was left running, clothes la...

  • Best Served Cold

    Revenge. Getting even. Fighting back. Whatever it's called, it's supposed to warrant two graves – or at least, that's how one old saying went – usually, in the case of mere mortal Human beings. In the case of the Human race as a whole, it...

  • Duck Blind

    Things aren't always as they seem. Neither was Charlie Branson. Outwardly, Charlie appeared to be the successful, respected, somewhat over-paid Captain of a commercial space liner. Charlie loved his job, and not just because being a semi-silent part...

  • The Next Room

    Things aren't always as they seem. Neither was Andy Niksn. Outwardly, Andy appeared to be the successful, respected, somewhat over-paid Captain of a commercial space liner. Andy loved his job, and not just because it paid well and the crisp white ...

  • Space Sucks Too!

    Launch into space, the future and beyond! Enjoy another humorous look at life in space in this second collection of unique sci-fi short stories by Christina Engela, spanning everything from adventure to suspense to comedy and then back again! In Spa...

  • When Darkness Calls

    Ghosts. Hauntings. Disembodied voices. Malicious entities that make it their goal to destroy their victims utterly. The things that go bump in the night... They're real. Sometimes the most unlikely of people find themselves under attack by supernatu...

  • Christina Engela's Strangely Compelling Science Fiction Anthology

    Sci-fi is the main thing. I was told, Compelling would be nice. Strange is only a suggestion. That set the wheels turning – and why not – since I've been a sci-fi fan my entire life! So I set out to look for stories that met these param...

  • Escape from Paradise Ms

    Newly promoted, Captain Joe Lofflin ("Demonspawn" - book 2 in the Galaxii Series) and his crew are on shore leave recuperating from their harrowing experiences while marooned in deep space - and their chance encounter with the alien derelict ...

  • The Quantum Series Book 3 - Dead Man's Hammer Ms

    An assassin had come to Atro City, an assassin with a score to settle. She was refined and pretty - but as poets might say, beauty can be deceiving - and the same poets who described Helen of Troy as the face that launched a thousand ships might have...




  • The Quantum Series Book 6 - High Steaks Ms

    Troubled times had come to the small Terran Colony planet of Deanna – and having amusing names for its sun (Ramalama) and two moons (Ding and Dong) hadn't made this quaint little world immune to bad things. After a shock assassination, the thre...

  • Escape From Paradise

    Newly promoted, Captain Joe Lofflin ("Demonspawn" - book 2 in the Galaxii Series) and his crew are on shore leave recuperating from their harrowing experiences while marooned in deep space - and their chance encounter with the alien derelict vessel a...

  • The Jug Of Death

    Unfortunately for Stuart Flane – Captain of the Terran starship Mercury - and his intrepid crew, their latest assignment did not go without a hitch ...but then, the thing was called ‘the Jug of Death‘, and obviously with good reason."It’s a f...

  • A Nine In Time

    “A Nine In Time” provides a glimpse into the life and background of one of the main characters of the Quantum Series – Johnathan Scrooby, a.k.a. Agent Scrooby of the Time Saving Agency – set overlapping “Prodigal Sun”, the fifth book in t...

  • A Badfeller's Tale

    “A Badfeller’s Tale” is a glimpse into the life and background of one of the main characters of the Quantum Series – Gary Beck, a.k.a. ‘Beck the Badfeller’ – set just before “Black Sunrise”, the first book in that series! 2550 words...

  • Broken Promises

    “Broken Promises” is set just two decades after the Big Nuke, on the eve of the Gimp War, when Earth faced the horde of invading Ruminarii – and about a century before “Blachart”, book 1 in the Galaxii Series. It helps set the scene for the...

  • Going Quantum

    "Going Quantum" is a preview and introduction to the Quantum Series, featuring one of the main characters, former CIA agent Cindy-Mei Winter. The last night of Mei's journey to Deanna aboard the S.S. Duval, contains over 3000 words of completely new,...

  • Life Signs

    Christina Engela presents a tale of terror that will make your toes curl!While on a routine deep-space mission to chart the frontier of unknown space, Captain Stuart Flane and the crew of the Mercury encounter an alien marooned in a ship wrecked on t...

  • Malice!

    What is it that lurks in the darkness? In the closet, under the bed... or in the dark, abandoned basement of a busy city hospital? The terror is everywhere. It follows us wherever we go - even into the dark, terrifyingly empty depths of space. Watchi...

  • Mercury Rising

    While on a routine deep-space mission to chart new territory on the frontier of unknown space, the starship Mercury stumbles across an apparent shipwreck in deep-space that poses quite a mystery for her crew. How had the Kilgary - a cargo ship last s...

  • Overkill

  • The Quantum Guide to Deanna

    "The Quantum Guide To Deanna" - A nice free guide to the quirky third rate Terran colony which is the setting of most stories in the Quantum Series, featuring diagrams and illustrations by the creator of the Quantum series, Christina Engela....

  • Static

    Christina Engela presents a tale of terror that will make your toes curl! Of all the starships in the Terran Space Fleet, the I.S.S. Mercury is probably the unluckiest ship in history. Not once, not twice, but many times over, the same hapless crew ...

  • Lange's Legacy

    “Lange’s Legacy” is a story about Sean Lange, a man who works on a huge star-liner as chief of security. It’s a monotonous routine job, and with around 3000 guests and 1500 crew to look after, there’s no rest for the wicked. Space travel is...

  • Into the Abyss

  • Dead Beckoning

    Meradinis! The stuff of myths and legends! The Turtle Island of the stars – home planet to the fearsome Corsairs – the terrors of the black, the monsters in Human form who killed innocents and waged a campaign of terror against the colonies for n...

  • African Assignment

    Theo Engela's short stories were written during the 1950's and 60's, and set in the South African bushveld and society of the day, providing a fresh look at a world now long vanished. Using imagery and place names unfamiliar to folk living in the 21s...

  • A Way of Life

    Louis van Pletten was a successful young writer once. With two novels to his name in his early twenties and more talent than you could shake a stick at – he excelled in music, writing, art, philosophy – anything it seemed he set his mind to. But ...

  • Shakandazu Valley

    In Shakandazu Valley, a typical small rural town in the Ciskei, ruled over by the Inkosi from the grand mansion called The Residence, attention is diverted from the boredom of daily life and the pressure of the severe drought by various pursuits: mov...

  • Panic!

    Of all the starships in the elite Terran Space Fleet, the I.S.S. Mercury is probably the unluckiest ship in history. Not once, not twice, but many times over, the same hapless crew - give or take a few dozen casualties - on a supposed voyage of deep ...




  • Panic! Horror In Space #2

    Christina Engela proudly presents the 2nd volume in a series of horror misadventures in deep space with the crew of the I.S.S. Mercury. In "Dead Center", to repay a debt, Captain Flane accompanies the crew of the cult TV show "Spect...

  • Keep Off the Crabbygrass

    Starting with former C.I.A. Agent (that's Colonial Intelligence Agency) Cindy-Mei Winter's arrival on the backwater Terran colony of Deanna, the planet's reputation for being the center of the universe as far as weirdness is concerned held true; stra...

  • Galaxii - Into the Abyss

    Blachart, Demonspawn and Dead Beckoning Ð the first three stories in the Galaxii Series in one big volume! Life hardly ever turns out the way we expect it to, and for Mykl dÕAngelo it had just taken a bad turn for terrible. Stranded in deep space, ...

  • High Steaks

    Troubled times have come to the small backwater Terran Colony planet of Deanna – and having amusing names for its sun (Ramalama) and two moons (Ding and Dong) have not made this quaint little world immune to bad things – not even having a small m...

  • Panic! Horror In Space #1

    Of all the starships in the elite Terran Space Fleet, the I.S.S. Mercury is probably the unluckiest ship in history. Not once, not twice, but many times over, the same hapless crew - give or take a few dozen casualties - on a supposed voyage of deep ...

  • Prodigal Sun

    Something had stirred in the darkness, something ugly. Suddenly, Sheriff Peggy-Ann Muller found herself hip-deep in strange events. Well, she admitted, stranger than usual. And skinheads too. Did she mention the skinheads? And it seemed to be ge...

  • The Thirteenth Ship

    They called her ‘the Hell Queen’.Cold. Cruel. Savage. She was the epitome of the deep space Corsair – and far more. The rumors said ‘blood drinker’… ‘vampire.’ For Hank MacMillan the perils of deep space travel were a familiar occupa...

  • Death By Vampire

    For Lirian Nimah, her job was more than just a job with perks that would allow her to occasionally slake her thirst for blood – it was an opportunity to slake her thirst for justice. Being an operative for the Colonial Intelligence Agency – a spe...

  • Space Vacation

    Everybody likes to take a vacation now and then, and perhaps on the rarer occasion, people like to take an extra-special holiday. In the more likely case of the wealthy – and less frequently, the extremely lucky – this means a cruise off-world on...

  • Wiggle Room

    “James Booth’s eyes flickered open. The lights were blinding. He remembered the car accident. He remembered the dog running into the road ahead of him, swerving, the screeching of brakes, a tree on the side of the road – the awful jarring impac...

  • Other Kids Are Kids Almost Just Like You

    Join a lovable group of children in a delightful romp through an explanation of diversity, understanding it better, encouraging them to be compassionate towards others, regardless of who they are. Many kids today face bullying from their peers based ...

  • Space Sucks!

    “Starship on frontier patrol… Suddenly attacked by unidentified ship… Heavy damage… Loss of weapons and defensive capabilities… Engines off-line… Life support has failed… We've missed supper… Disaster seems inevitable...” Launch int...

  • The Time Saving Agency

    The TSA liked having fresh agents on the job with a clear mind and steady hand. Time travel wasn’t for the faint of heart. The pay was good enough, but as Scrooby had decided long ago, that even if he didn’t get paid for it, the thrill alone wa...

  • Black Sunrise

    When a single Ruminarii Hammerhead arrived to invade the small backwater Terran colony of Deanna, the people of Atro City went to meet them at the space port with open arms. (Perhaps ‘exposed’ is a better word?)Life as a private investigator, sl...

  • Dead Man's Hammer

    Deanna was just another third rate colony in the Terran Empire – and it was pretty much as boring a lump of rock as could be expected. That is, until Gary Beck, aka Beck the Badfeller ran over an obsidian crow with his Jeepo and didn’t have a spa...

  • Loderunner

    Ever since he’d decided to quit being a P.I. and to try his hand at running cargo instead, things had just blown up in Timaset Skooch’s face one day at a time. (Florpavian Flamebirds tended to do that occasionally.) Between the labour disputes an...

  • Demonspawn

    The battle cruiser was lost. Kaine was the last of his crew that survived – or if any others were still alive, he was unaware of it. It didn’t seem likely. Somehow the thing had managed to kill every one of them within the space of only a few day...

  • Blachart

    Truthfully, d’Angelo found himself unsurprised that the engines had finally packed up. Weaver – like his predecessors – had been a kind of starship ‘backyard mechanic’ and at the time of the explosion, the stardrive was all but held togethe...

  • African Assignment Ms

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    Theo Engela’s short stories were written during the 1950’s and 60’s, and set in the South African bushveld and society of the day. Today they provide a fresh glimpse at a world now long vanished. Using imagery and place-names unfa...

  • Chasing Ghosts Ms

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    “Specter Adventures” - as a paranormal investigative TV show - was a huge success. It had been Mak Sagan and Neil Gruff's bread and butter for twelve years, and for the last seven years running the show had received accolades and annual a...




  • The Jug of Death Ms

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    Unfortunately for Stuart Flane – Captain of the Terran starship Mercury - and his intrepid crew, their latest assignment did not go without a hitch ...but then, the thing was called ‘the Jug of Death‘, and obviously with good reason...

  • A Nine In Time Ms

    • / Science Fiction
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    “A Nine In Time” provides a glimpse into the life and background of one of the main characters of the Quantum Series – Johnathan Scrooby, a.k.a. Agent Scrooby of the Time Saving Agency – set overlapping “Prodigal SunR...

  • Other Kids Are Kids Almost Just Like You Ms

    • / General Fiction
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    Join a lovable group of children in a delightful romp through an explanation of diversity, understanding it better, encouraging them to be compassionate towards others, regardless of who they are. Many kids today face bullying from their peers based...

  • The Quantum Series Book 1 - Black Sunrise Ms

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    Cindy-Mei, who until recently had been Agent Winter, C.I.A. - that's Colonial Intelligence Agency - and one of their best agents... that is, until they threw her out for coming to work in a dress. After that disappointing and sudden end to what had b...

  • The Quantum Series Book 2 - The Time Saving Agency Ms

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    Each day shapes the days that follow... Preserve the past. Save the future. The Time Saving Agency liked having fresh agents on the job, who had a clear mind and steady hand. After all, time travel wasn’t for the faint of heart. The pay was go...

  • The Quantum Series Book 4 - Loderunner Ms

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    Ever since Timaset Skooch had decided to quit being a P.I. and to try his hand at running space cargo instead, things had just blown up in his face one day at a time (Florpavian Flamebirds tended to do that occasionally). Between the labor disputes a...

  • The Quantum Series Book 5 - Prodigal Sun Ms

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    Sheriff Peggy-Ann Muller suddenly found herself hip-deep in strange events - even stranger than usual... and skinheads too - did she mention the skinheads? Something had stirred in the darkness on the remote, usually idyllic Terran colony of Deanna -...

  • Space Sucks! Ms

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    Does space really suck? Find out here! Launch into space, the future and beyond! Enjoy a humorous look at life in space through the eyes of some colorful characters in this collection of five unique sci-fi tales by Christina Engela, spanning everyth...

  • A Way of Life Ms

    • / General Fiction
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    Alcoholism is a creeping, crippling tragedy that affects the lives of millions. It's irrevocably affected the life of Louis van Pletten. At 45 years old, he is still struggling to complete his third book, his Great Masterpiece, his magnum opus. Trou...

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