Armchair Alien
Jeannette Bedard, Rene AstleWelcome to Armchair Alien, home of space adventure and mythical magic. Get science fiction and fantasy tales delivered to your inbox as serial fiction, along with a side of interesting and quirky facts.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 416 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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The Collectors Part 4
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Max placed the cold can of soda against her bruised cheek.
Roddy hadn’t appreciated it when she’d called him disgusting. And he had a mean left hook. But she had pointier elbows, heavier boo...
The Collectors Part 3
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Max peered through the glass into the shop jammed with a jumble of bicycle wheels and frames.
Trev. The fourth member of the quartet of misfits that had been Max and Jaspar’s surrogate famil...
The Collectors Part 2
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Max stopped at the intersection to consider her options.
She glanced east toward the sliver of blue at the end of the street. The ocean. That way led off planet, but DeltaPort still sat dark...
The Collectors Part 1
Max’s hair fell forward again as she contorted her neck, trying to read the numbers on the collar. She blew a strand away from her face, just to have it fall back down.
No matter how she twisted, she couldn’t see the display. She considere...
Book of the Month August 2026
This month’s book is free for all! Lunar Escape is a prequel novella for the Settler Chronicles series (my most popular series).
Lucas Ordaz has one last mission before he goes home for good.
After years captaining a cramped survey...
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Always writing, Jeannette has filled hard drives with ones and zeros that occasionally coalesce into books. She lives on a non-tropical island in the Pacific and loves a good math joke, especially if there is pi involved.
Rene Astle is the author of the scifi series The Lyra Cycle. Under the super secret pseudonyn C. Rene Astle she also writes the Bloodborne Pathogens dark fantasy series. She's also penned short stories under both names.
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