Author: Nathan Shumate

Coming next month: Shared Nightmares, an anthology of dark dreaming fiction! Edited by Steve Diamond (of the Hugo-nominated Elitist Book Reviews) and Nathan Shumate, Shared Nightmares features new fiction by Larry Correia, Sarah Hoyt, Dan Wells, Howard Tayler, Michaelbrent Collings and many others! Cover art is provided by Dan Verkys, familiar from previous covers for…
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INNOCENT ILLUSTRATIONS, RECONTEXTUALIZED AGAINST THEIR WILL! Plumbing the depths of forgotten illustrations as grist for the mill, the cult webcomic CheapCaffeine is here presented in its first print collection. These first 300 cartoons introduce running gags and recurring characters—the Martian, the Egyptian embalmers, and of course the irrepressible Grievance Gorilla—in a daily dose of surreal,…
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Coming this month: Ethnic Albanians Need Not Apply, a print collection of webcomics from CheapCaffeine.net.  Here’s the cover:

This Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Cold Fusion Media will have a table in the dealers room at Life, the Universe, & Everything in Provo, UT.  Not only will we have copies of The Golden Age of Crap, Arcane and Arcane II, and Space Eldritch and Space Eldritch II for sale, but a goodly number of…
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If you’ve been waiting for the awesomeness of Space Eldritch II: The Haunted Stars to be available in dead-tree format, your wait is over! All 298 pages of interstellar dread can be yours (or a love one’s) for $14.99 at Amazon.com!

 “The problem with rune-tech, a problem exacerbated by our reluctance to acknowledge it as a problem, is that despite twenty-eight years of research, development, application, and deployment, it remains indistinguishable from magic.”–Saadiq Sebastian DuChamps, RUNExpo Chicago, 2055  “Captain Tamrielle Surinam.” I give my name to my medicine band, a shiny bracelet on my right wrist.…
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We weren’t even through our post-transit checklists after the jump, and I still had that nauseated tang in the back of my throat, when Jimi sang out from his station. “Picking up refined metal ahead.” I pulled back from looking over Kessler’s virtual shoulder. “Details.” Jimi gestured, and the contents of his heads-up display overlaid…
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Her lover caressed her from the inside. Her skin tingled from the energy, ancient and primal, that welled up within her, coursed through her sinews and transformed her entire being into one vibrating Pythagorean string, a perfect single note of husky alto joy. She screamed, feeling her lover between her teeth, under her tongue, behind…
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If you need regularly scheduled passage from Star A to Star B, then you take an interstellar liner. If you can afford a ticket. A modern interstellar can travel 1600 times the speed of light. Getting from Earth to Alpha Centauri in less than an E-day is pretty amazing. At that rate, though, it’ll take…
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Something was wrong. In a micro-cosmic big bang, Jane Thorson’s eyes flashed open from stygian black to a blinding haze. A jarring wrench forced Jane out the door of her cryo-stasis pod. Why was she already conscious? Was she falling or being pulled out by someone? Milliseconds seemed an eternity as her body gave way…
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