“The Most Powerful Man in the World and
other stories” is a collection of five of my short, scifi stories to provide a
sample of my writing.
A being from the distant future with
almost unlimited powers comes back to help Ian Steele make the world a better
place in “The Most Powerful Man in the World.” The bookstore customer has an
entirely different reason for wanting books in “Black Market Books.”
“Motherhood” tells the story of Thomas Gillespie, the surrogate mother for an
AI. “Storyteller” is about an author thinking his book into existence. And
“Deadworld” is about the alien world humans are reborn on – in alien bodies –
after they die.
For an example, here is an excerpt from
“The Most Powerful Man in the World”
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“What happened?” Ian asked from the floor.
“You fainted.”
Ian sat up and looked around the empty
room. It was maybe fifteen feet on a side and painted a dull grey. “Where am
I?”
“A dimensional intrusion located within
your living room wall.”
“Huh?”
Pulling him to his feet, she explained,
“Basically, it’s a space that can be as large,” here Karen threw her arms out
and the walls zoomed away beyond sight, “or as small as I want.” She then drew
her arms in and the two stood in a space the size of a phone booth. The room
returned to its original size and Karen stretched. “But I think this is a good
size.”
Ian spun around, trying to keep an eye on
each of the walls as if they might sneak up and squish him. “What the hell is
this?”
Karen put her arm around him. “Arthur C.
Clarke once said that ‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic.’” Shrugging, Karen stated, “This is magic.”
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