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Collected Science Fiction Short Stories #1
Collected Science Fiction Short Stories: Volume One: A Science Fiction Short Story Collection
Short stories to entertain, frighten and Aliens. More than one parallel world. A manic, entertainment-driven civilisation. An automated hotel with a life-changing secret. And many more, Suite Peace Shallow Echoes Of A Dying Star Copper World Litters Clearance Other Lives Colony C Clean Teeth Of The Dispossessed The Demented Puppeteer Creeping Vines, Snagging Fangs Last One Alive Better Earth World BuilderTM Beyond The Edge Of The Horizon
278 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 4, 2013
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January 10, 2022
Very Interesting
This collection of science fiction stories is a great pleasure.
Know how you see some books on sale that looks interesting and you decide to purchase them? So glad that I did.
This doesn’t always happen, but it just happened, now. Each story is very enjoyable.
Hope you try this book from Amazon. Don’t know if it’s still on sale.
Worth the four stars ✨.
This collection of science fiction stories is a great pleasure.
Know how you see some books on sale that looks interesting and you decide to purchase them? So glad that I did.
This doesn’t always happen, but it just happened, now. Each story is very enjoyable.
Hope you try this book from Amazon. Don’t know if it’s still on sale.
Worth the four stars ✨.
November 17, 2024
This collection of short stories is, I think, Flex's first in a series of five or six such volumes. It is the second one that i have read and enjoyed.
The collection includes 13 short stories with various themes. One is either on another planet or in a dystopic period on Earth with a brother and sister looking for their mother's body to see if they can find a ring. Another is about a mother than has lied about how she gave birth, what the circumstance were, and suddenly everything comes out when she and her daughter go to dinner at a fairly fancy restaurant and the daughter's father is there with a date.
There is also an examination of corporations with one being on an a corporation that does research on dimensions and ends up sending part of a person to the twin Earth and then trying to kill the workers for trying to rescue the misplaced person. Another story includes a man who went to space, apparently went too far and came back uncommunative after the 5 year mission. His wife is at her wits end.
The 13 stories are all quite short, some more than others, and are a quick read. The scenarios are varied and interesting. I recommend it to short story readings but suggest enjoying them for what they are and while you are reading them. I, myself can not tell you what each and every story is about because it is so varied and some are just "a feeling" type situation.
The collection includes 13 short stories with various themes. One is either on another planet or in a dystopic period on Earth with a brother and sister looking for their mother's body to see if they can find a ring. Another is about a mother than has lied about how she gave birth, what the circumstance were, and suddenly everything comes out when she and her daughter go to dinner at a fairly fancy restaurant and the daughter's father is there with a date.
There is also an examination of corporations with one being on an a corporation that does research on dimensions and ends up sending part of a person to the twin Earth and then trying to kill the workers for trying to rescue the misplaced person. Another story includes a man who went to space, apparently went too far and came back uncommunative after the 5 year mission. His wife is at her wits end.
The 13 stories are all quite short, some more than others, and are a quick read. The scenarios are varied and interesting. I recommend it to short story readings but suggest enjoying them for what they are and while you are reading them. I, myself can not tell you what each and every story is about because it is so varied and some are just "a feeling" type situation.
February 9, 2022
Cosmic Showers
Overall, a captivating read. Good mix of length, with several stories bordering on flash fiction, and none overly long.
The reason it's not 5/5 for me is because some of the stories you could have supplemented, say, 'The Plains of Mars' with 'Wolverhampton' and it wouldn't have affected the story at all. The only thing sci-fi about them was the setting.
But they are the exception rather than the rule. What is constantly sharp and perhaps even harrowing is the way the author captures humanity, much of the time in long, dark teatimes of the soul.
Even in the overtly sci-fi stories, it's being able to relate to the characters and what they're going through that helps make those tales successful.
If you're looking for a zany take on sci-fi like Douglas Adams or Robert Sheckley, this isn't perhaps for you.
If you like the Weird Tales of early-mid 20th century but in a contemporary setting, I think you'll enjoy this anthology immensely.
I'd definitely buy more from this author; there wasn't a poor story in the book, with most being both most engaging and innovative.
Overall, a captivating read. Good mix of length, with several stories bordering on flash fiction, and none overly long.
The reason it's not 5/5 for me is because some of the stories you could have supplemented, say, 'The Plains of Mars' with 'Wolverhampton' and it wouldn't have affected the story at all. The only thing sci-fi about them was the setting.
But they are the exception rather than the rule. What is constantly sharp and perhaps even harrowing is the way the author captures humanity, much of the time in long, dark teatimes of the soul.
Even in the overtly sci-fi stories, it's being able to relate to the characters and what they're going through that helps make those tales successful.
If you're looking for a zany take on sci-fi like Douglas Adams or Robert Sheckley, this isn't perhaps for you.
If you like the Weird Tales of early-mid 20th century but in a contemporary setting, I think you'll enjoy this anthology immensely.
I'd definitely buy more from this author; there wasn't a poor story in the book, with most being both most engaging and innovative.
February 8, 2026
I don't often find myself saying this, but this was an absolutely terrible collection of short stories.
The majority of the stories are not actually Sci-Fi, and are more like really badly written speculative fiction that isn't a short story but is just incomplete. Some of it feels like lazy writing, but for the most part it is just lack of skill from someone trying, and failing miserably, to create intrigue.
In addition there appears to have been no proofreading or editing carried out, so incorrect phrases are used, a lot of incorrect spelling is present, and no one spoke to the author about claiming in chapter 4 that a character was so used to walking on the brick floor of a maze that other surfaces felt weird to them - the character in question had walked on every other surface than brick in the previous 3 chapters and much detail had been given to that fact????
I would suggest not wasting your reading time with this one. The only positive is that it is short and can now, finally, be removed from my Kindle
The majority of the stories are not actually Sci-Fi, and are more like really badly written speculative fiction that isn't a short story but is just incomplete. Some of it feels like lazy writing, but for the most part it is just lack of skill from someone trying, and failing miserably, to create intrigue.
In addition there appears to have been no proofreading or editing carried out, so incorrect phrases are used, a lot of incorrect spelling is present, and no one spoke to the author about claiming in chapter 4 that a character was so used to walking on the brick floor of a maze that other surfaces felt weird to them - the character in question had walked on every other surface than brick in the previous 3 chapters and much detail had been given to that fact????
I would suggest not wasting your reading time with this one. The only positive is that it is short and can now, finally, be removed from my Kindle
June 29, 2022
Very amateurish writing style
Interesting scenarios and most of them leave you thinking. However, this book reads like something that was self-published and had no editing. The style is like nothing so much as an eager high school writer. Definitely doesn’t seem like the work of a professional author.
Interesting scenarios and most of them leave you thinking. However, this book reads like something that was self-published and had no editing. The style is like nothing so much as an eager high school writer. Definitely doesn’t seem like the work of a professional author.
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