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Now on Patreon: “Invasion of the Dreamers”: A novelette-length tale of a turbulent first contact with beings so alien in body and mind that it’s difficult to convince them the humans they endanger are even real.
Also: Biauru worldbuilding notes supplementing my new Analog novella “Aleyara’s Flight,” covering the history, language, and mythology of the new culture introduced in the novella.
Current review series: Man from Atlantis, the 1977 undersea adventure series starring Patrick Duffy, co-created by Herbert F. Solow (Star Trek, Mission: Impossible)
Previous review series: Minority Report, covering the 2002 feature film adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novelette and its 2015 television series sequel.
Across multiple realities and millennia of past and future history, heroes human and otherwise challenge their limits and brave the unknown in pursuit of the fundamental truths of the universe—and each other.
From bestselling author Christopher L. Bennett comes Aleyara’s Descent, eleven tales portraying the search for understanding, connection, and hope that unites seekers of all species, eras, and realities.
In an alien past, four impetuous youths brave a forbidden realm to discover their world’s true nature.
A first contact between a UFO believer and a real alien doesn’t go the way either one expects.
Scientists battling a kaiju invasion must overcome the mistrust of the insular enclave they strive to protect.
A government agent’s drive to safeguard the future hits a speed bump when she questions a suspected time traveler.
The inheritor of a fabled superhero name must prove herself by solving the one mystery her predecessor never could.
These and other diverse tales, many in print for the first time, bring a multiverse of aliens, monsters, time travelers, and heroes to life with plausibility and sensitivity.
Includes the brand-new tale “Nilly’s Choice,” a companion story to the Arachne novels.
“Skin in the Game”: The third chapter of the Aleyara saga, in the January/February 2027 Analog Science Fiction and Fact
“If Even Stars Can Die”: The climax of the Aleyara saga, also in Analog (date TBA)
ALSO AVAILABLE
Tangent Knights
An original, full-cast audiodrama trilogy homaging Japanese transforming-hero series like Kamen Rider, Super Sentai/Power Rangers, and Ultraman, told through the eyes of a fangirl-turned-hero. Experience the rousing action, rich character drama, and sheer fun of a full season’s worth of tokusatsu adventure, with a hard science fiction twist rooted in quantum physics and multiverse theory.
An interstellar saga of crime, punishment, and redemption. When a human colony expedition is tried for inadvertently destroying an alien habitat, their journey of redemption will test their beliefs and relationships and draw them into a galactic conspiracy spanning millennia.
“Christopher L. Bennett is a master of words and worlds — readers of his books can always count on being carried away on a fascinating ride!” — John Jackson Miller, author of Star Wars: Kenobi and Star Trek: Discovery – The Enterprise War
“A different treatment of the relationship between humans and aliens. Arachne’s Exile is a fun, exciting read.” — Don Sakers, Analog
A comedy series from the pages of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. The Hub is the single point through which all interstellar travel must pass, yet no one understands how it works. David LaMacchia, an unqualified man from an unimportant planet called Earth, is determined to prove that humanity can make a difference to the greater galaxy.
Footprints in the Stars (Beyond the Cradle Book 2)
To follow in the footsteps of those who have gone before, first we must find them.
Dreaded hope settles over mankind as we stare into the heavens, looking for a sign we are not alone. Fearing we will find it, puzzled when we don’t.
Among the stars or in our own backyard, lose yourself in the wonder of these tales as we humbly posit mankind’s reaction to the awesome certainty that ‘they’ are out there…or at least, they were…
Footprints in the Stars
With stories by Gordon Linzner, Ian Randal Strock, Robert Greenberger, Dayton Ward, Aaron Rosenberg, Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Jody Lynn Nye, Christopher L. Bennett, James Chambers, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Russ Colchamiro, Judi Fleming, and Bryan J.L. Glass
Featuring “The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of,” a brand-new tale of the founder of Only Superhuman‘s Troubleshooter Corps!
“The Melody Lingers”: My first published fantasy story, a tale of magic and grief channeled through music, appearing in issue #39 of Galaxy’s Edge Magazine.
“Though Worlds Divide Us”: Online flash fiction from AmazingStories Magazine, about a proud Mars colonist unhappy at the impact of easy multiverse travel. Set in the “Braneworlds” continuity of my self-published Patreon story “What Slender Threads”.
Author of original and tie-in science fiction. (he/him)
At the age of five and a half, I saw my first episode of Star Trek, believing it to be a show about a strange airplane that only flew at night. As I continued watching, I discovered what those points of light in the sky really were. This awakened a lifelong fascination with space, science and speculative fiction. I devoured Asimov, Clarke, and books on astronomy and physics. I often made up Trek-universe stories set a century after Kirk’s adventures (an idea years ahead of its time), but soon shifted to creating my own original universe. I eventually realized I did this pretty well, and deluded myself into thinking I could make a career out of it. So far, that delusion has been working out for me.
All content in my published works and websites has been created without the use of generative “artificial intelligence” software. The amount of human intelligence used in their creation is left for the reader to decide.
