A sampler of short stories taking place before and connected to SCALE-BRIGHT in chronological order.

Drawn into an extraterrestrial war, Ingvild Tang will do anything to meet her anchor, the cognate me

The aliens came to uplift humanity—and brought with them quantum computation that allows chose

Thannarat Vutirangsee has won it all: she’s saved her world, married her perfect bride, and found he

Admiral Anoushka rose from nothing to command an army unrivaled in all the galaxies. She did not ris

For her entire life, Nuawa has made herself a weapon to assassinate the Winter Queen. She failed.

Recadat Kongmanee has lost everything to the machines: the woman she loved, the hero's prize she was

Vishnu’s Leviathan: a half-beast, half-machine warship famed for its speed and might. The great priz

On a remote planet, a convent harbors a deadly secret buried beneath quiet violence--a secret that t

On a graveyard star, machines run a deadly tournament and draw humans like moths to a flame with a p

On the dyson sphere Shenzhen, artificial intelligences rule and humans live in luxury, vying to be c

To give humanity peace, the artificial intelligence Samsara will wage an eternal war . . . In a u

With her mother's blood fresh on her hands, Nuawa has learned that to overthrow the tyrant Winter Qu

Winterglass is a sci-fantasy about one woman’s love for her homeland (Sirapirat) and her determinati