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Contingency Nine and Other Science Fiction Stories
A collection of action packed, fast paced and entertaining science fiction and science fantasy short stories.
In the lead story, Contingency Nine, a very dangerous and unpredictable prisoner is brought back up from a down time penal colony by the Urban Pacifiers. Earth’s only remaining vestige of law and order. Fighting to maintain control in Earth’s remaining megalopolises the Pacifiers are faced with a threat of such enormity that they must resort to a previously unthinkable course of action implementing Contingency Nine.
In Grand Master a mere human chess player defeats a Grand Master from Earth’s dominant Artificial Intelligences with consequences. In Disposable World everything is disposable while in Qantas Flight 2134 a passenger plane finally lands years after it took off with some alien assistance. In Reality Rider an entity surfs between alternate realities risking the wrath of the Coordinator of Realities while in Mesozoic Overcrowding a small slice of the Mesozoic period becomes a dumping ground for all sorts of things. In Future View Function a new Face Book function is tested out by an elite while in Ancestral Home some of the descendants of the human race return to Earth to investigate the cessation of all communication from the home world. And much more.
In the lead story, Contingency Nine, a very dangerous and unpredictable prisoner is brought back up from a down time penal colony by the Urban Pacifiers. Earth’s only remaining vestige of law and order. Fighting to maintain control in Earth’s remaining megalopolises the Pacifiers are faced with a threat of such enormity that they must resort to a previously unthinkable course of action implementing Contingency Nine.
In Grand Master a mere human chess player defeats a Grand Master from Earth’s dominant Artificial Intelligences with consequences. In Disposable World everything is disposable while in Qantas Flight 2134 a passenger plane finally lands years after it took off with some alien assistance. In Reality Rider an entity surfs between alternate realities risking the wrath of the Coordinator of Realities while in Mesozoic Overcrowding a small slice of the Mesozoic period becomes a dumping ground for all sorts of things. In Future View Function a new Face Book function is tested out by an elite while in Ancestral Home some of the descendants of the human race return to Earth to investigate the cessation of all communication from the home world. And much more.
- GenresScience Fiction
133 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2019
About the author
David K. Scholes
11 books30 followersI’ve been writing speculative fiction about 9 years.
My Amazon Author Page URL is: https://www.amazon.com/author/davidks...
It currently shows eight collections of short science fiction stories and two science fiction novellas.
I’ve been a regular contributor to the Antipodean SF, Beam Me Up Pod Cast and Farther Stars Than These siteS. I have also been published on the Bewildering Stories, the 365 Tommorrows, The WiFiles, and the former Golden Visions sites. .
I've written three sci-fi series: the 12 part “Alien Hunter” series for then Golden Visions Magazine in 2011/12, the “Trathh” series for the Beam Me Up Pod Cast site in 2012/13 and the "Human Hunter" series also for Beam Me Up Pod Cast in 2014/15.
My latest publication was published in January 2017: "A Collection of Science Fiction Gems"
I'm currently working on a new sci-fi novella as yet unnamed.
My Amazon Author Page URL is: https://www.amazon.com/author/davidks...
It currently shows eight collections of short science fiction stories and two science fiction novellas.
I’ve been a regular contributor to the Antipodean SF, Beam Me Up Pod Cast and Farther Stars Than These siteS. I have also been published on the Bewildering Stories, the 365 Tommorrows, The WiFiles, and the former Golden Visions sites. .
I've written three sci-fi series: the 12 part “Alien Hunter” series for then Golden Visions Magazine in 2011/12, the “Trathh” series for the Beam Me Up Pod Cast site in 2012/13 and the "Human Hunter" series also for Beam Me Up Pod Cast in 2014/15.
My latest publication was published in January 2017: "A Collection of Science Fiction Gems"
I'm currently working on a new sci-fi novella as yet unnamed.
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November 26, 2019
Consistent use of actual sentences is not a bad thing. There are so many dependent clauses used as sentences that the stories simply do not flow. One star because I didn't finish the book.
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