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Dark Tomorrows
The world of tomorrow is the world of the unknown.
This collection of eight stories includes:
"Spectrum" - A highly adaptable alien crashes into a Shoney's in Tennessee.
"The Fortune Teller's Lament" - A psychic finds his life slowly ruined by a coin-operated fortune-telling machine.
"The Officefrau" - A strange invasive species is moving into Dave's office.
"The Fixer" - At first, Norton thought he'd found an accounting error. Now he's spending Christmas Eve with a special security agent from his company, and learning he found much more.
"Bad Code" - Donald lost himself deep inside the company network, and now he's trying to put himself back together.
"The Long Night" - A spaceship crew is taking a few hundred million tons of radioactive waste away from civilized space. But there's another kind of evil inside the cargo bay, and it wants out.
Plus two bonus stories by Amanda Hocking - "The Second Coming of Pippykins" and "Of Shoes and Doom"
This collection of eight stories includes:
"Spectrum" - A highly adaptable alien crashes into a Shoney's in Tennessee.
"The Fortune Teller's Lament" - A psychic finds his life slowly ruined by a coin-operated fortune-telling machine.
"The Officefrau" - A strange invasive species is moving into Dave's office.
"The Fixer" - At first, Norton thought he'd found an accounting error. Now he's spending Christmas Eve with a special security agent from his company, and learning he found much more.
"Bad Code" - Donald lost himself deep inside the company network, and now he's trying to put himself back together.
"The Long Night" - A spaceship crew is taking a few hundred million tons of radioactive waste away from civilized space. But there's another kind of evil inside the cargo bay, and it wants out.
Plus two bonus stories by Amanda Hocking - "The Second Coming of Pippykins" and "Of Shoes and Doom"
473 pages, Nook
First published December 23, 2010
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About the author
J.L. Bryan
53 books1,036 followersJ.L. Bryan studied English literature at the University of Georgia and at Oxford, with a focus on English Renaissance and Romantic literature. He also studied screenwriting at UCLA. He lives in the metro Atlanta sprawl with his wife and son. He is the author of the Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper books and some other assorted novels like Inferno Park, The Unseen, Jenny Pox, and basically a lot of supernatural stories, some of it dark, some of it very dark, some of it less dark than that.
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September 8, 2011
Psychics , aliens , the occult, vampires , angels..... This collection (updated to include some new gems) is blooming fantastic, really enjoyed it, so much so I am going to seek out more stories by the contributors to read. Can highly recommend this collection
October 14, 2011
Great book of short stories. Some of them made me laugh and some of them made me think a great deal. More than one of them made me want to drop what I was doing and start writing as soon as I was done reading it. There were a few that I wasn't real fond of, but out of the dozen or so stories in here I would say that there are at least nine serious winners and that the collection is worth far more than the $0.99 I picked it up for on the Nook. If you have a Nook and you like the genres of Horror and Science Fiction check this out.
June 29, 2018
Read only Amanda Hocking's stories...
The Second Coming of Pippykins and Of Shoes and Doom.
Too Short for me!
The Second Coming of Pippykins and Of Shoes and Doom.
Too Short for me!
August 3, 2011
The world of tomorrow is the world of the unknown.
This collection of eight stories includes:
"Spectrum" - A highly adaptable alien crashes into a Shoney's in Tennessee.
"The Fortune Teller's Lament" - A psychic finds his life slowly ruined by a coin-operated fortune-telling machine.
"The Officefrau" - A strange invasive species is moving into Dave's office.
"The Fixer" - At first, Norton thought he'd found an accounting error. Now he's spending Christmas Eve with a special security agent from his company, and learning he found much more.
"Bad Code" - Donald lost himself deep inside the company network, and now he's trying to put himself back together.
"The Long Night" - A spaceship crew is taking a few hundred million tons of radioactive waste away from civilized space. But there's another kind of evil inside the cargo bay, and it wants out.
Plus two bonus stories by Amanda Hocking - "The Second Coming of Pippykins" and "Of Shoes and Doom"
07/23/11 - I'll write a review later...
08/02/11 - I didn't write a review until now because I went on vacation. But now I'm back and here's the review. This book was just okay to me. It was weird in areas and honestly some of the stories I didn't read because I just couldn't get into them. The good part about this book was that the stories were easy reads...
This collection of eight stories includes:
"Spectrum" - A highly adaptable alien crashes into a Shoney's in Tennessee.
"The Fortune Teller's Lament" - A psychic finds his life slowly ruined by a coin-operated fortune-telling machine.
"The Officefrau" - A strange invasive species is moving into Dave's office.
"The Fixer" - At first, Norton thought he'd found an accounting error. Now he's spending Christmas Eve with a special security agent from his company, and learning he found much more.
"Bad Code" - Donald lost himself deep inside the company network, and now he's trying to put himself back together.
"The Long Night" - A spaceship crew is taking a few hundred million tons of radioactive waste away from civilized space. But there's another kind of evil inside the cargo bay, and it wants out.
Plus two bonus stories by Amanda Hocking - "The Second Coming of Pippykins" and "Of Shoes and Doom"
07/23/11 - I'll write a review later...
08/02/11 - I didn't write a review until now because I went on vacation. But now I'm back and here's the review. This book was just okay to me. It was weird in areas and honestly some of the stories I didn't read because I just couldn't get into them. The good part about this book was that the stories were easy reads...
October 12, 2011
I can't say there was a single clunker in this entire anthology. The three that really stood out for me were "The Fortune Teller's Lament" by JL Bryan, "Day of Sacrifice" by SW Benefiel, and "Bad Code" again by JL Bryan. I think I'll remember the first two for decades to come, the same way I still remember Ray Bradbury's "The City."
The anthology is grouped into two collections, "The Present" (contemporary settings) and "The Future" (sci-fi or at least futuristic settings).
The only story that didn't really fit was "The Second Coming of Pippykins" by Amanda Hocking. I don't have anything against the story itself, it's just that it didn't seem dark at all to me. Her other contribution, "Of Shoes and Doom," was funny even with a dark ending.
Formatting and editing were good, nothing to complain about.
I'd have paid for this if it wasn't free. I'm not sure why other reviewers on Amazon are dinging it so hard.
The anthology is grouped into two collections, "The Present" (contemporary settings) and "The Future" (sci-fi or at least futuristic settings).
The only story that didn't really fit was "The Second Coming of Pippykins" by Amanda Hocking. I don't have anything against the story itself, it's just that it didn't seem dark at all to me. Her other contribution, "Of Shoes and Doom," was funny even with a dark ending.
Formatting and editing were good, nothing to complain about.
I'd have paid for this if it wasn't free. I'm not sure why other reviewers on Amazon are dinging it so hard.
April 23, 2011
Entertaining collection of short stories.
May 6, 2011
Book had some good short stories in it, but some of the stories could have went on a little, they just kinda left you hanging
May 30, 2011
Nice collection of short stories
October 30, 2011
Reminded me of tales from the crypt, and the twilight zone, and tales from the dark side.
December 2, 2015
I enjoyed it. Especially the Day of Sacrifice. I went and bought the omnibus.
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