A dazzling collection of science fiction and fantasy tales ranging from the horrific, and pulse racing, to laugh out loud funny. These stories tell tales of end of the world, war on the moon, cheerleaders for knights battling dragons, travels in deep space, and meet a man who fixes alien spacecraft. Want to buy a slightly used planet, meet a shipwreck survivor stranded with two unusual women, or travel to the far future where fast food companies control the economics of the galaxy? Then these 10 stories are for you. “The best of fantastic fiction.” Rita Schulz, author of Ten Tempting Tales
A dazzling collection of science fiction and fantasy tales ranging from the horrific, and pulse racing, to laugh out loud funny. These stories tell tales of end of the world, war on the moon, cheerleaders for knights battling dragons, travels in deep space, and meet a man who fixes alien spacecraft. Want to buy a slightly used planet, meet a shipwreck survivor stranded with two unusual women, or travel to the far future where fast food companies control the economics of the galaxy? Then these 10 stories are for you. “The best of fantastic fiction.” Rita Schulz, author of Ten Tempting Tales
In the future cloning becomes child's play. When his father brings home a science e kit from an alien world when he was ten years old, young Bernie Culpepper clones a Bigfoot which he names Shakespeare. Now forty years later Shakespeare may hold the secret to change lives and save a father's life. But before he can Bernie and Shakespear must find a man presumed missing long ago. A tale of the future where the galaxy itself is smaller than ever.
It's 1971. A bloody war rages in Vietnam. Young American men die in putrid, rotting jungles far from home. A young man named Johnny returns form Vietnam a changed man. A Man determined to stop the senseless slaughter, no matter the cost. But no one listens to his pleas to stop the war. Today he is holed up in a room over a darkened street with a sniper rifle prepared to die if necessary so the pain of war is ended. A shattered man cries for the dead and single handed will stop the war.
Saffron Smythe is rich. Saffron Smythe is spoiled. Saffron Smythe is a daddy's girl. Saffron Smythe is dead. She's been murdered. When Saffron finds herself at a heavenly way station and discovers she's been murdered she realizes she needs to discover the reason she died and who killed her. She immediately enlists the aid of paranormal investigator Amanda Dark to solve the crime. Amanda begins the investigation and discovers the identity of the killer is not who Saffron expected and a dark family secret too terrible to face. An Amanda Dark story designed to make you hold your breath.
I'm very pleased to offer you a collection of space related stories. I have been a fan of science fiction since I was a child watching the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs in the 1960's. I began, like most children, reading comic books mostly related to science fiction. Super heroes, UFO's, aliens, anything that smacked of science fiction I would read it. And any movie or television show with science fiction elements were my staple of entertainment viewing, and believe me the special effects weren't what they are today. What was common about science fiction stories then was the stories often had uplifting endings and the good guys won. They always won. Or if they didn't win the story told how they survived their terrible circumstances. Don't misunderstand me I really still love science fiction today, even without endings where the hero clearly wins.I hope you enjoy this collection of my tales from space and hope they will become your favorites as they are mine.In the collection you will find stories with impossible odds, satire where the fast food companies run the future, AI robots locked in a civil war, and space travelers with very human problems.Feel free to contact me on twitter or facebook. I'd love to hear from you.
In this thrilling, adventure-laden, grease-stained, booze-soaked comedy spanning the galaxy of tomorrow, two unlikely heroes find each other as they struggle to save addiction for all human and alien kind.Join fast food junkie, Jalapeno Popover, and booze-hound Bud Wiser, as their two cultures clash in a titanic meeting of two inter-galactic species so different it's just plain goofy.Attack of the Lushites tells the harrowing story of mail clerk, Jal Popover who, at risk of losing his fat-and-sassy job forever, must deliver the first mail received in six hundred years. It must be bad news.The Lushites are coming! The Lushites are coming! What should we do? Where should we hide? Aw, screw it. Let's have lunch...
It's 1944 in France, over a month after the bloody D-Day landings. Allied armies are engaged in a life and death struggle against a determined German army. The outcome of the war hangs in the balance. In the middle of the hellish fighting a bomb disposal unit of the Royal Canadian Army Engineers is assigned to disarm a tall boy, or earthquake bomb, the largest bomb in the British arsenal. The unexploded bomb is buried in the centre of a road critical to the allied armies advance and the German's are determined to stop them. Lieutenant Gus Aimes must decide which of his remaining men will defuse this deadly bomb or die trying. The problem is no one has successfully disarmed a tall boy bomb before.
Amanda Dark has an unusual gift. She sees and communicates with the spirits of the dead. Not just any spirits, those who are unable to cross over to their final destination.Amanda greatest challenge is to discover why these spirits have been unable to cross over and must solve the mystery so the spirit is freed of their earthly existence.Too often the solution leads to the unexpected and the darkest corners of people's lives to reveal truths some people don't want known.In these stories Amanda also discovers truths about herself that often cause old wounds to be opened. Accompanying her is Phillip Swann a Boston lawyer who goes from skeptic to believer when he meets one of his own ancestors.
This is the complete story of Blaster Squad versus the Master originally published in seven volumes.In the 42nd Century mercenaries Blaster Squad are hired by the Chair of the Galactic Alliance to confront a deadly threat to galactic peace. A being calling itself the Master is scheming to conquer the galaxy to establish an empire ruled by terror and fear. Nick Justice and his squad of mercenaries must stop the Master before this monstrous evil engulfs and destroys the Alliance forever. The seven books in this galaxy spanning action adventure will thrill space opera fans of all ages.So strap on your blaster and come along for a ride you will never forget.
Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman once said, “War is hell.” yet he is viewed by many historians as an advocate for total war. Total war is war not only against an enemy army but also includes a civilian population as a military target. The idea is to crush morale and support for the war being fought so the enemy army will capitulate thus saving lives. Of course such tactics have never met with much success, at least that I can see. Think about the London blitz or the German assault of Leningrad during the early days of World War Two, these actions didn’t encourage surrender in fact they stiffened resolve. A less known quote from General Sherman reveals how he truly felt about total war. “I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting - its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies...” General Sherman understood the impact of total war on people. The five stories in this collection are about ordinary people who have suffered during war or who experience small victories magnified by the bloody conflicts they are asked to face head on. I hope you enjoy these stories and that they make you think about war and the people who fought them.
It's 1971. A bloody war rages in Vietnam. Young American men die in putrid, rotting jungles far from home. A young man named Johnny returns form Vietnam a changed man. A Man determined to stop the senseless slaughter, no matter the cost. But no one listens to his pleas to stop the war. Today he is holed up in a room over a darkened street with a sniper rifle prepared to die if necessary so the pain of war is ended. A shattered man cries for the dead and single handed will stop the war.
It's 1944 in France, over a month after the bloody D-Day landings. Allied armies are engaged in a life and death struggle against a determined German army. The outcome of the war hangs in the balance. In the middle of the hellish fighting a bomb disposal unit of the Royal Canadian Army Engineers is assigned to disarm a tall boy, or earthquake bomb, the largest bomb in the British arsenal. The unexploded bomb is buried in the centre of a road critical to the allied armies advance and the German's are determined to stop them. Lieutenant Gus Aimes must decide which of his remaining men will defuse this deadly bomb or die trying. The problem is no one has successfully disarmed a tall boy bomb before.
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