Bruce Corbett: 19 books

My stories cover time travel to space opera, shootouts to alien invaders. This book is a collection of my short stories, written over many years. Several have been published previously, and some are available individually.

How can a small band of alien rebels take on the galaxy's greatest military power and win? This story introduces Timm Bruce, a Terran who betrays his own kind for the love of an alien princess.

The Great Army of the Danes invades Wessex, and, after two sieges, Alfred forces King Guthrum to agree to withdraw. When the leader of the GreatArmy breaks his word and invades Wessex in early winter, he nearly succeeds in Capturing Alfred and destroying the last independent Saxon kingdom in Britain....

Ambrose, Prince of Wessex; Emissary to Byzantium,is a story set during the time of the Viking invasions of much of Europe and Russia.This story chronicles the life of Ambrose, a bastard Saxon prince of England, and elder brother to Alfred the Great. Forced to flee into the vast Russian wilderness,...

The mysterious ship came from the stars. Invulnerable to human weapons, the metal creatures swarmed across Africa. Could anything stop them? Could Earth be saved? This story first appeared in the September 2001 edition of ALTERNATE REALITIES.

Ambrose and his friends flee for their lives from imperial Constantinople. The Grand Chamberlain wants them dead, and has dispatched an admiral and a fleet to dispose of them. The prince hopes to return to his native Wessex. Caught by pirates, they are enslaved on Crete, but manage to cause a slave...

This short story is the reciprocal of The Hunters. Carnivorous dinosaurs find time-travelling humans whose electronic defenses are inadvertently shut down. This is the story of what happens - from the dinosaurs' point-of-view. This short story was first published in SPACEWAY magazine in February of 2000.

Our hero from a post-apocalyptic age manages to overcome City's defenses, and see altogether more than he is supposed to. Only the intervention of a beautiful woman saves his life.

Ambrose and his comrades have been marked for death by the emperor of Byzantium. Having being chased from Alexandria and crossing North Africa, they flee north through Italy, doggedly pursued by the Byzantine Admiral Demetrious. The Church attempts to help them, but the Byzantine Emperor has a very...

In this short story, alien monsters come from outer space. Man fights a magnificent fight, but the aliens use the greatest weapons of all against man - other men!

Wealthy humans travel to the Cretaceous Age, only to meet a primitive mammal that manages to shut down the electronic defenses. This is the story of what happens when dinosaurs first meet humans.

Ambrose, Prince of Wessex; Trader of Kiev, is a story set during the time of the Viking invasions of Europe and Russia. The story chronicles the life of Ambrose, a bastard Saxon Prince of England, and elder brother to Alfred the Great. Ambrose and his companion, Phillip, are caught and enslaved during...

After seven years of hard-won peace, a Viking army lands in Wessex and attacks Rochester. Alfred the Great has traitors within the Empire, and two powerful Viking Kings to his north. Nevertheless, he manages to drive out the invaders. He hits back at their sanctuary, and enrages Guthrum of East Anglia....

An unholy alliance of Viking raiders and kings sends the largest Viking armies seen in Alfred the Great's time into the last remaining Saxon kingdom. Can Christian Wessex survive the barbarian onslaught? With Alfred away in the west fighting two invading forces, His son, young Edward, must face a...