Kate Rauner: 12 books

When robots provide all their necessities, colonists are safe inside their stone bays, free to pursue leisure vocations. Zeker, from the northern ice mine, isn't so content. He plans to change Mars, and as soon as he adult-qualifies, he joins the elite Tower Guilds. But his neuroplasticity treatments...

Two brothers find misery in California's Gold Rush until a Chinese doctor promises them riches. They should have asked, at what price? A short story by Kate Rauner, a reader's choice Best Scifi Writer at Ooorahs! webzine. Set in California's Trinity Mountains, this short story of 5,400 words is perfect for a break during your busy day.

Travel to two fantastic worlds. A trio of physics students find that theory is safer than practice. A lonely woman on a deadly mission receives a second chance, if she can seize it before it's too late. Two short stories by Kate Rauner, a reader's choice Best Scifi Writer at Ooorahs! webzine. Each under 4,000 words. Perfect for a break during your busy day.

Travel to three fantastic worlds. Burritos and his daughter's birthday party keep a computer developer from his Artificial Intelligence project, but he'll never succeed without them. A painter ensnared in his master's Renaissance studio discovers a deadly escape. For this micro...

Bliss is certain this is the best time to be Mars-born. The colony has grown - no disaster could possibly wipe them out now. She's leaving her little burg and childhood sweetheart behind to move to Kamp Kans, the largest city on Mars with six hundred eighty-two people. There's a dark side to Kamp...

A call for help sends Sig into the Tartarus Mountains of Mars. Delivering repair parts to his mother offers a temporary escape from his miserable life in the colony, but there are dangers in her cavern and on the surface of the hostile Red Planet he hadn't expected. The Big Project is conquering...

From NASA to the Mars Society, real-life visionaries plan to send settlers to Mars. Go today in science fiction, starting with a fragile foothold and reading on into the future. From the first twelve colonists struggling with a strange illness through the generations, follow one settler in each book...

What does the 21st century hold for us? Find out here, with Kate's predictions surrounding a story of one fantastic discovery. Stretching from advances within our grasp, like self-driving cars and a private space industry, to rewilding a depopulated prairie with cloned mammoths, you'll glimpse...

Poetry that favors rhyme; Inspired all by science; Outward to the edge of time; Or tied to earthly cadence. Light and written all for fun, There is no angst to hide. You're invited now to sample one Of my poems inside. Over forty fun poems of science and nature. Read the popular Desert Watermelon,...

Contacting recent settlers half a planet away may be the only hope for a rebellious young man's failing colony, though the conflicts they bring from Earth could be deadly. Jake is born into a dying colony, abandoned by Earth. Sickness plagues his family, and Mars yields none of the minerals...

Join an international crew as they ferry their commercial space station to an enigmatic anomaly in Mars' orbit. Here our solar system touches the Helios star system, a portal that was discovered decades ago and may be lost.Harry joined the mission to escape loneliness on Earth and to indulge...

Something is terribly wrong on Mars. The colony's psychologist just walked out an airlock to her death, but that doesn't stop roboticist Emma Winters. She leaves Earth forever for cold stone bays on the vast Tharsis Plain. Settlers who greet her are oddly hostile, and despite an advanced...