the eternal zones
story archive

Here is our archive of OSS tales, arranged, broadly, in astronomical zones from the Sun outwards to the System's edge. (When a tale is set on more than one world, it is listed in more than one zone.)

The links are either to where you can find the tales on this site, or they provide references to how to find them, in those cases where the tales have now "graduated" to book publishing, for example in the Vintage Worlds anthologies. Either way, this is where the unwary reader is drawn into our ameliorated neighbouring worlds... worlds which have progressed, under the loving care of our writers, to being what they jolly well ought to be.

in and around the solar furnace

Flow by K S Augustin

Incandescence (opening extract) by Dylan Jeninga

The Winds of Vulcan by Dylan Jeninga

marvels of old mercury

The Resurrection of Merrick Hardcastle by K S Augustin

Zookie Must Die by Violet Bertelsen

Lady Penelope and the Cultists of Thule by David England

Where the Nightlife Never Ends by Dylan Jeninga

a warm but not scorching venus

The Hard Streets of Aphrodite by David England

Lady Penelope and the Drug Lords of Venus by David England

Blood Prince of Venus (second part) by Joel B Jones

Love in the Mountains of Venus by Ron Mucklestone

A Life of Leisure and Renewed Vigor by James W Murphy

Project Utopia by R Olsen

Home by Levi Seeley

earth-shimmer and earth-fate

A Martian Iliad (main setting) by Ariel Cohen

Man of the World by Robert Gibson

The Slavanns Must Play by Robert Gibson

Provided at Generous Prices by Dylan Jeninga

Exile to Space by Jamie Ross

mysteries of the moon

The Archives of the Moon by Robert Gibson

The Mare Frigoris Culture by Robert Gibson

Whom Gods Destroy by Dylan Jeninga

The Rogue Planet by Dylan Jeninga

meandering on mars

Exodus by Joel Caris

The Hidden City of Mars by Dylan Jeninga

Wanderers of Mars by Dylan Jeninga

Blood Prince of Venus (first part) by Joel B Jones

The Sarcastic Snake-Men of Neptune (opening scene on Callisto)
by Troy Jones III

The Horse-Men of Ganymede (first part) by Ron Mucklestone

The Magistrate by Jamie Ross

The Adventures of Longtail by Xiangjun Zeng

asteroidal adventures

Decision on Euphrosyne by David England

Rock and a Hard Place by Joseph Guzzo

Rock and the Belt Pirates by Joseph Guzzo

Project Selene by "Xorx"

Peril on Pallas by Dylan Jeninga and Zendexor

Rimworld Trash by Dylan T Jeninga

jovian jeopardy

The Colorless Colossus of the Cold by Dylan Jeninga (set on Europa)

Flame Lords of Jupiter by Robert Gibson

The Horse-Men of Ganymede by Ron Mucklestone

Europa Dive by Jamie Ross

Rimworld Trash by Dylan T Jeninga (the opening episode on Leda)

the saturn system

The Arc of Iapetus by Robert Gibson

Rescue on Dione by Robert Gibson

Pirates of Titan by Dylan T Jeninga

Ghosts of Saturn by Augustus and Lenore Keden

The Lost Rings of Saturn by James W Murphy

uranian dreams

The Chthonic Pull by Violet Bertelsen

Uranian Throne by Robert Gibson

Plague Planet by Dylan Jeninga

Beyond Despair by Jamie Ross

Into the Wilds by Jamie Ross

neptunian horizons

Outlaws of Neptune by Robert Gibson

The Sea Empress by Dylan Jeninga

The Sarcastic Snake-Men of Neptune by Troy Jones III

Cutter Pristine by James W Murphy

plutonian nightmare

On the Shoreline of Darkness by Violet Bertelsen

The Slavanns Must Play by Robert Gibson (set on Earth under Plutonian rule)

Trans-plutonian trip

Mission to the Tenth Planet by Dylan Jeninga and Zendexor

workshop

Discussion of Longtail: A Prologue - critique by Troy Jones
[note: the piece discussed, which is by Xiangjun Zeng, has been removed to the author's website A Distant Sun]