Science Fiction Books

 

After seeing Star Trek and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, I have a special love for adventuring out into space.  There weren’t many women in the science fiction books I read growing up, so I have lots of women having adventures.  Links to pages with blurbs coming soon.

[image error]This was for an anthology call and provided the opening sentence.  Everyone was going to do first person or dialogue, so I wanted to be different and started with a tweet.
[image error]This is a dark science fiction story, a legacy of my Desert Storm days.  I knew a person like the character’s friend in the story.
[image error]A sampler of 5 of my short stories.  All of these feature women having adventures.
[image error]People creating cat traps (a box) went viral on the Internet, so I thought why not alien traps?
[image error]A woman actor ages out of roles much faster than men.  So my character takes to space travel to continue doing what she loves.
[image error]This started with a writing workshop prompt from a fuzzy blue pillow.  When your military leadership gets eaten and you’re only a private, what do you do?
[image error]This was for an anthology call involving disability and steampunk.  I thought about what it was like for the Hawaiians when the first missionaries came to the island and what they might have offered.
[image error]I looked out the window and saw a woman in a bright red coat towing a cooler.  What’s in that cooler?  Read the story to find out.

 

[image error]I attended an art exhibit at the Smithsonian’s American Indian Museum.  Wonderful exhibit, and I thought about the stories art tells us, even when we don’t realize it.
[image error]I ran across a very old book at the library that mentioned a cursed painting of a cat that had caused all its owners to die.  Oddly, the sketch of the cat looked like one I had growing up, Dum-Dum (my mother named the cat).