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CONSIDER FOR a MOMENT... IF YOUR WORLD WAS A HUGE SPACESHIP, 230 YEARS OLD AND FALLING APART, WOULD YOU KILL MILLIONS IN ORDER TO SAVE IT?
IF YOU WERE THE LEADER OF A FEW HUMAN-INHABITED PLANETS, SURROUNDED BY HOSTILE ALIEN SPECIES, WHAT SACRIFICES WOULD YOU MAKE TO PROTECT THOSE WORLDS? WHO WOULD BE EXPENDABLE?
WOULD YOU BETRAY THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON FROM YOUR PAST TO RESCUE THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN YOUR FUTURE?
IMAGINE..... Your
long-range scout vessel TAYLOR encounters a humanoid species, and attempts to
make contact. What you discover,
though, is a race which wants no contact,
and is willing to kill to prevent it. The
new race, the Bryce, is very effective at avoiding others, because the touch of
the Bryce brings excruciating pain and quick death! Even being in the same room with them is
fatal. You could decide to leave
this new race, the Bryce, alone -- but now that’s impossible because the Bryce
are coming after you!
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 15TH
So many science-fiction
readers began their love of the genre by reading short stories, either in the
latest pulp digest or a reprint paperback picked up at the local used bookstore. Something about the short story has
always appealed to the science-fiction reader.
I think it’s because the focus is not on characterization, or plot, or
setting, or style. These are terrific things, but take time. The short story starts and ends with an idea.
If all the other parts are done well, so much the better, but when the
short story ends, if the idea is planted in your head, something you never
thought of before, or something you never thought of quite that way, it was worth your time.
Every short story must entertain, and in science-fiction it must do one more thing: A good short story leaves you wanting, not because the story that was told wasn’t finished, but because the ideas and how they were developed held your interest, and you want to experience just a little more. I hope that THE UNIVERSE –AN OUTSIDER’S PERSPECTIVE does that for you.
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