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Essential Reading in Science Fiction
The book contains a huge variety of short science fiction stories running almost the full gamut of the genre. In Battle at Time's End Fate clashes with the successor to Time's Guardian. The child of an alien shapeshifter father and Earth mother is of considerable importance to human history in The Shifter Child. In Star Ravagers impossibly alien life forms seek to consume our Sun, while in Final Revenge the rape of future humanity is avenged. An extradimensional visitor seeks to help an Earth besieged by both aliens and alien gods in A Long Way From Home. While to the advanced inhabitants of Drandor, Visitor 51347 is not at all what he seems to be. And much more.
- GenresScience Fiction
249 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 14, 2012
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About the author
David K. Scholes
11 books30 followersI’ve been writing speculative fiction about 9 years.
My Amazon Author Page URL is: https://www.amazon.com/author/davidks...
It currently shows eight collections of short science fiction stories and two science fiction novellas.
I’ve been a regular contributor to the Antipodean SF, Beam Me Up Pod Cast and Farther Stars Than These siteS. I have also been published on the Bewildering Stories, the 365 Tommorrows, The WiFiles, and the former Golden Visions sites. .
I've written three sci-fi series: the 12 part “Alien Hunter” series for then Golden Visions Magazine in 2011/12, the “Trathh” series for the Beam Me Up Pod Cast site in 2012/13 and the "Human Hunter" series also for Beam Me Up Pod Cast in 2014/15.
My latest publication was published in January 2017: "A Collection of Science Fiction Gems"
I'm currently working on a new sci-fi novella as yet unnamed.
My Amazon Author Page URL is: https://www.amazon.com/author/davidks...
It currently shows eight collections of short science fiction stories and two science fiction novellas.
I’ve been a regular contributor to the Antipodean SF, Beam Me Up Pod Cast and Farther Stars Than These siteS. I have also been published on the Bewildering Stories, the 365 Tommorrows, The WiFiles, and the former Golden Visions sites. .
I've written three sci-fi series: the 12 part “Alien Hunter” series for then Golden Visions Magazine in 2011/12, the “Trathh” series for the Beam Me Up Pod Cast site in 2012/13 and the "Human Hunter" series also for Beam Me Up Pod Cast in 2014/15.
My latest publication was published in January 2017: "A Collection of Science Fiction Gems"
I'm currently working on a new sci-fi novella as yet unnamed.
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May 17, 2019
Essential Reading in Science Fiction by David Scholes seems to be neither of these.
I purchased this e-book and I read these all straight through to the very end.
This appears to be a collection of 24 stories that could very well stand alone. Yet there is this convoluted thread that runs through them all to make it look like a disjointed effort to make a novel.
I say this because the first story has a character named Urrle who at one place gets miss named as Earle. Earle seems to be a recurring character through out. And there are threads of Asgard myth's with Odin and Thor in prominence. And there is some almost faceless benevolent but non interfering alien race called the Brell. So, it becomes difficult at best to divorce these from one another. There are some other names recurring but often with disturbing conflicted time lines - such as Chris and Jenny.
This is what creates the rather disjointed whole at best.
It's not that these might not be good stories its just that my limited intelligence kept having me say "Huh" straight through to the end. I tried in my mind to break them up into their separate selves but that was just worse.
Maybe one of the people with glowing recommendations could help me out here.
I purchased this e-book and I read these all straight through to the very end.
This appears to be a collection of 24 stories that could very well stand alone. Yet there is this convoluted thread that runs through them all to make it look like a disjointed effort to make a novel.
I say this because the first story has a character named Urrle who at one place gets miss named as Earle. Earle seems to be a recurring character through out. And there are threads of Asgard myth's with Odin and Thor in prominence. And there is some almost faceless benevolent but non interfering alien race called the Brell. So, it becomes difficult at best to divorce these from one another. There are some other names recurring but often with disturbing conflicted time lines - such as Chris and Jenny.
This is what creates the rather disjointed whole at best.
It's not that these might not be good stories its just that my limited intelligence kept having me say "Huh" straight through to the end. I tried in my mind to break them up into their separate selves but that was just worse.
Maybe one of the people with glowing recommendations could help me out here.
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