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Collected Sci-Fi Stories: Pack 1
Collected Sci-Fi Stories - Pack 1 contains the following previously released Sci-Fi short stories and
01. Merry Christmas, Mr. Babbers! is a cute Christmas bauble, a little science fiction tale set on Christmas Day of a far future. Our protagonist is a meticulous accountant, Mr. Babbers, who, on the day everybody should rejoice and be happy, has lost something precious.He's sad and downcast, but he doesn't know yet he will soon find something... Something amazing that will change his life forever.
02. A Regrettable Oversight is the first crazy adventure of Re-Life Associates salesman James Cricket. After an unhappy wife sues the company for rejuvenating her old husband to a too younger age, Jimmy is sent over in the attempt to bring her to reason. It all becomes more complicated when she agrees to drop the suit on the one condition that her husband, now fallen in love with a beautiful alien, goes back to her.
03. Corporate Restructuring is the strange story of young Frank Rockett, brought back from death to try and save Rockett Spacemotive from both bankruptcy and the lead of an idiotic board of administrators.Through the survey of the corporate assets, Frank learns not only about his employees, but about his old self as well, a selfish and despicable being. Can he, by changing himself, change the fates of his corporation as well?
04. Alligator's Moat is the second adventure of Re-Life Associates salesman James Cricket. Big-game hunter and wealthy oilman Mr. Cross, beside himself with anger with Jimmy for turning his teen daughter Viridiana ten years older, wants to teach him a lesson. Unfortunately for Jimmy, he has a hard time to prove that Viridiana, who wanted early monetary as well as affective independence, counterfeited her identity card.
05. The Heart of the Beast. After a strategic spaceship carrying enough warheads to blow half the solar system to pieces disappears into nothing, Captain Mark Sanders is appointed with the suicide mission of tracking it down and destroy it. But as the hunt moves to the outer regions of the universe, the boundary between reason and madness becomes flimsy, and he starts to doubt his orders, wondering about the real purpose of the runaway pilot he's after.
06. Spider's Eyes Inc. tells of Daniel Wiederfeld, a private detective who uses non-conventional tools to nail cheating husbands and wives. When a wealthy producer hires him to spy on his unfaithful lady, Wiederfeld finds himself involved in a murder case. It all gets more complicated when, in the attempt to unravel the mystery, he falls in love with the woman he was supposed to check on, in spite of her possessive husband.
This collection is about 62,000 words.
01. Merry Christmas, Mr. Babbers! is a cute Christmas bauble, a little science fiction tale set on Christmas Day of a far future. Our protagonist is a meticulous accountant, Mr. Babbers, who, on the day everybody should rejoice and be happy, has lost something precious.He's sad and downcast, but he doesn't know yet he will soon find something... Something amazing that will change his life forever.
02. A Regrettable Oversight is the first crazy adventure of Re-Life Associates salesman James Cricket. After an unhappy wife sues the company for rejuvenating her old husband to a too younger age, Jimmy is sent over in the attempt to bring her to reason. It all becomes more complicated when she agrees to drop the suit on the one condition that her husband, now fallen in love with a beautiful alien, goes back to her.
03. Corporate Restructuring is the strange story of young Frank Rockett, brought back from death to try and save Rockett Spacemotive from both bankruptcy and the lead of an idiotic board of administrators.Through the survey of the corporate assets, Frank learns not only about his employees, but about his old self as well, a selfish and despicable being. Can he, by changing himself, change the fates of his corporation as well?
04. Alligator's Moat is the second adventure of Re-Life Associates salesman James Cricket. Big-game hunter and wealthy oilman Mr. Cross, beside himself with anger with Jimmy for turning his teen daughter Viridiana ten years older, wants to teach him a lesson. Unfortunately for Jimmy, he has a hard time to prove that Viridiana, who wanted early monetary as well as affective independence, counterfeited her identity card.
05. The Heart of the Beast. After a strategic spaceship carrying enough warheads to blow half the solar system to pieces disappears into nothing, Captain Mark Sanders is appointed with the suicide mission of tracking it down and destroy it. But as the hunt moves to the outer regions of the universe, the boundary between reason and madness becomes flimsy, and he starts to doubt his orders, wondering about the real purpose of the runaway pilot he's after.
06. Spider's Eyes Inc. tells of Daniel Wiederfeld, a private detective who uses non-conventional tools to nail cheating husbands and wives. When a wealthy producer hires him to spy on his unfaithful lady, Wiederfeld finds himself involved in a murder case. It all gets more complicated when, in the attempt to unravel the mystery, he falls in love with the woman he was supposed to check on, in spite of her possessive husband.
This collection is about 62,000 words.
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About the author
Marco Guarda
47 books7 followersI've been writing little things for myself and for my friends for ages, but it wasn't since 2006 that I started writing consistently.
Three of my screenplays have placed and even earned some prizes at various competitions. Credence Foundation, born as a screenplay, hence born visually, has been turned into a book. Hoping it sees the light as a Sci-Fi / Action movie one day, I've started expanding my stories in the many branches of Science Fiction.
Feel free to join me in this crazy journey through the mind, the subconscious, technology, and mankind's fears and hopes, of course.
Three of my screenplays have placed and even earned some prizes at various competitions. Credence Foundation, born as a screenplay, hence born visually, has been turned into a book. Hoping it sees the light as a Sci-Fi / Action movie one day, I've started expanding my stories in the many branches of Science Fiction.
Feel free to join me in this crazy journey through the mind, the subconscious, technology, and mankind's fears and hopes, of course.
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June 28, 2013
A collection of short building on the elements of the author's novel Credence. The Re-Life company is in several stories. They can bring someone back to life at whatever age wanted using the Credence technology, they can renew a living person to a younger age or even an older one if so chosen.
We have machinery with A. I.s, everything from the apartment mailbox to the toaster in the kitchen. Even a bit of humor in some stories.
A half dozen stories; in one a private eye uses spiders as "bugs" in pursuit of his cases, a man who wants his beloved wife back, two stories with Jimmy Cricket, a salesman for Re-Life who makes two mistakes that he must resolve if he wants to keep his job.
Had a lot of fun with these six longish tales.
We have machinery with A. I.s, everything from the apartment mailbox to the toaster in the kitchen. Even a bit of humor in some stories.
A half dozen stories; in one a private eye uses spiders as "bugs" in pursuit of his cases, a man who wants his beloved wife back, two stories with Jimmy Cricket, a salesman for Re-Life who makes two mistakes that he must resolve if he wants to keep his job.
Had a lot of fun with these six longish tales.
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