Captaining HMSS Ark Royal as part of Earth’s first interstellar delegation should be an honour. Try telling that to... More > Michael Gilmore.

His passengers are an ill-tempered prince and an inscrutable quadruped alien. His First Officer is ready to mutiny if Ark Royal engages its weaponry. The ship’s A.I. seems to have turned renegade. And the neighbouring vessel harbours a genocidal maniac.

Oh, and it’s altogether possible that they’re heading into some kind of trap ... < Less

In this collection by Ben Jeapes


• a bullied schoolboy escapes into his own future
• the spirit of Karl Marx lives on... More > in a bolshie artificial intelligence
• digital cats prowl a computer network to keep it safe from intruders
• a network of grandmothers patrols our streets very, very slowly
• and a man is put on trial for his life by aliens who barely understand human law, yet alone human nature.


Plus twelve more stories, including one never before seen in print.

These seventeen stories represent the complete early work of Ben Jeapes – at least, as complete as he is prepared to let anyone see without considerably more money exchanging hands than you will have paid to buy it.

Ben Jeapes is the author of the novels Time’s Chariot, The New World Order, The Xenocide Mission and His Majesty’s Starship. His hobbies include playing with Photoshop filters and writing blurbs for
books. < Less

In this collection by Ben Jeapes


• a bullied schoolboy escapes into his own future
• the spirit of Karl Marx lives on... More > in a bolshie artificial intelligence
• digital cats prowl a computer network to keep it safe from intruders
• a network of grandmothers patrols our streets very, very slowly
• and a man is put on trial for his life by aliens who barely understand human law, yet alone human nature.


Plus twelve more stories, including one never before seen in print.

These seventeen stories represent the complete early work of Ben Jeapes – at least, as complete as he is prepared to let anyone see without considerably more money exchanging hands than you will have paid to buy it.

Ben Jeapes is the author of the novels Time’s Chariot, The New World Order, The Xenocide Mission and His Majesty’s Starship. His hobbies include playing with Photoshop filters and writing blurbs for
books. < Less

Captaining HMSS Ark Royal as part of Earth’s first interstellar delegation should be an honour. Try telling that to... More > Michael Gilmore.

His passengers are an ill-tempered prince and an inscrutable quadruped alien. His First Officer is ready to mutiny if Ark Royal engages its weaponry. The ship’s A.I. seems to have turned renegade. And the neighbouring vessel harbours a genocidal maniac.

Oh, and it’s altogether possible that they’re heading into some kind of trap ... < Less