Nicholas Stillman: 54 books

The warlords of two dystopian cities bomb each other in perpetual, pointless drone attacks. The ego clash has even spread to the lowly freedom fighters: a spy with an ironclad bladder for a skill set; Terrance, a bored resistance leader tasked with making phone calls any schlub could make; and Cody,...

Imagine a world without willpower, an entire Earth of licentious tribes who surrender to lust and impulse. A strict advanced society on the Moon sends two astronauts, Archibald and Patrick, to collect Earth seeds needed for lunarian survival. In exchange, the incestuous tribes just want a fiery show,...

Not even the forest can hide you from the plague that will cause wide-scale appendicitis. As the world stocks up on morphine and black-market surgical kits, addiction rates soar. Society has just spat out Lee, a lanky thief who lives in his car and steals from everywhere else. Expelled from high school...

At the cusp of extinction, the last people alive learn to burrow deep. Their ties go deep too, as electric blizzards swirl around their shelters and the world. Wesley, a worn-down wrestler and loser at life, must become one of humanity’s last winners and lead. When his group must divide to protect...

From a lineup of millions, only a handful may enter the vault. Everyone else has a month to live before a gamma ray burst ravages the Earth. Byron, one of the vault’s dreaded Deciders, must single out the few applicants whom he deems talented enough to survive. In deciding, however, he also singles...

Enter the world’s first secretly built time machine, the timelock. But beware: it works like an airlock to keep out contaminants--namely, mankind. When Stewart, a dedicated pianist, takes a simple stroll in the future, he collapses all of civilization just by having the wrong personality. His conscientious...

First published in The Colored Lens, “How Many Angels?” brings man under the microscope as scientists make their first communication with God. A nascent technology provides proof of a divine dimension, but with eerie costs. Millet, a maltreated scientist, must sacrifice thousands of rats to witness...

All of Earth succumbs to hedonism and cradle-to-grave intoxication. When drug experimentation and pleasure-seeking reach all new highs, global technological collapse grows imminent. Only the long-silent Venusians can save Earth from her euphoric self via their space-age technology. Thankfully, a dedicated...

A meteor swarm threatens the world in an era nearly prepared for it. Earth’s missile-to-meteoroid defense system can only work under a global super-infrastructure, the most data-guzzling network ever built. Gillis, a steadfast but overworked government agent, must stomp down the most egregious wasters...

Every medical industry has a disturbing underbelly. A large group of inheritors stand to make tens of millions by selling off their body parts at random. Everyone wants to learn the game’s nightmarish purpose, but only one inheritor will do whatever it takes: Dominic, a man with too much skin in...

Jeremy wants the perfect woman and the perfect revenge against Earth’s bureaucracy. Sadly, the perfect woman, Catriona, already divorced him, and the divorce laws have become harsher than space itself. The galaxy, however, just doesn’t have enough breadth to keep Jeremy and Catriona apart. As...

We all hide something. With enough corruption from their builders, computers will start hiding things too. Gillis, a private investigator, has immured himself in a never-ending stakeout job for a billionaire boss he’ll never see. When he intuits that his helper robot, Connie, hides even more information,...