Science Fiction

After writing Alchemy, and having a very rewarding feeling with how it turned out, I started work on Predators of the Meadow. I should point out that I did start Predators before alchemy, but the one-page synopsis was put on the back burner for a couple years. Predators comes from two very different trains of thought. First, I wrote a set of poems by the same name when I was on a USMC training exercise in the desert. Second, I wanted to write a story about a weapon manufacturer (don't ask why :)).

Ludd Baker is a senior officer at Lans Corp. Lans Corp. is a premiere biotech company that makes organ transplats for the masses possible. But Ludd knows a secret, and that secret is about to get out.

Allan Hale is a terrible man who did terrible things. He was so bad that the digital prison was invented to punish him. Three hundred years later, some people decided it was time for Allan to be paroled.

Jan Christopherson is a reporter who is tasked with the unpleasant assignment of reporting on the Analytical Engine pollution predictions for that year. As he scratches the surface, he finds out a conspiracy is afoot that challenges the Jung-Freud religion ruling his way of life.

In the midst of a war between human and machine, Scout Seran inherits the viral programming of a starship captain that brings true AI to her kind.

A long time ago, Diotitus was a Greek god. At least for about a month until his worshipper-base of eight converted. Now, Diotitus lives in an apartment in the afterlife of the generally unsaved. One neighbor is the enigmatic Brangot, and another neighbor is the vivacious Tif Brown. Unfortunately, as much as Diotitus wants Tif, Tif wants nothing to do with him. In fact, Tif wants nothing to do with anything, and that's why she's completely given up and is now a Drooler. But at the moment concious thought left her mind, she had a burst of insight that is now the most sought after piece of information. Many gods from many afterworlds want to know the full scope of Tif's thought, and they expect Diotitus and Brangot to find out.

Oblivion is slated for publication in A Clear Horizon. This document only contains a limited portion of the story. To read the full story, please buy the book.

Chance Holly is a fact-checker for the Century Information Galactic Industrial Exchange. One day he finds that two very simple facts don't add up. And, on the other side of the known universe, two scruffy entrepreneurs make a similar discovery. Either Earth was destroyed last week, or it was destroyed several hundred years ago. And the answer is written on a cocktail napkin, locked away in their Jolly Cat's trunk.

Reflections is published in 'Boxer Shorts Redux. This document only contains a limited portion of the story. To read the full story, please buy the book.

Manuel deFol has traveled the Universe in search of paradise, and he believes that he's found it. It's not exactly the kind of paradise deFol was expecting. Then his unnerving robot assistant, Argentice, tells him they can never leave.

Janus Franko was the best professional baseball pitcher from Cascadia, until his last pitch caused his team to lose the game. The outcome of that particular game settled an economic dispute, and with his errant pitch went his superstar status. Eight months after that loss, and three days before the settlement is finalized, he finds himself with one unlikely chance to discover what really happened in the game. But he'll have to take a robot date to a super-swinging party to find out.

The Autumn Engagement is published in 'Boxer Shorts. This document only contains a limited portion of the story. To read the full story, please buy the book.

Julian is a member of a Latino band in Seattle, Washington. His neighbor, Lee, is a wheelchair-bound robot-scientist from India. When a strange, angel-like robot saves him and his band from a rival gang, he becomes intrigued. Then he finds out Lee designed the robot, and Lee wants to marry him.