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Science Fiction And Alternate History: A Collection of Short Stories by David Scholes

Alien invasions, alternate realities, the Battle of Britain and a futuristic Los Angeles are just some of the subjects Scholes’ wicked imagination has tackled, with spellbinding twists.

In “The Day Nobody Died,” Scholes poses the question — what if no one ever died for one day? What would our world and culture be like if overpopulation were taken to the nth degree?

“Grey Power” is a chilling tale of senior adults having a disquieting power in Los Angeles.

Unless you’re very wealthy or very old, life is dreadfully unpleasant in “Life Wasn’t Meant to Be Easy.”

In “The Battle for London, the troubled youth of today are innocent and benevolent babes compared to Scholes’ characters — feral youth challenging authority in a decaying futuristic city.

Scholes expertly weaves tales of suspense, terror and unexplored “what if’s.” His characters come vividly to life and you’ll wonder if the alternate world you’re in while reading may be lurking at the fringes of reality. Travel from the Mediterranean to black holes across the Universe — this one is an impossible to put down read.

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Essential Reading in Science Fiction: A Collection of Short Stories by David Scholes

Essential Reading in Science Fiction contains some 24 short science fiction stories that cut across a broad range of the genre. In “Battle at Time’s End”, Times Guardian makes one last throw of the dice against Fate, calling on a great champion from the past. In “The Tribunal”, the Galactic War Tribunal operates under a quite different basis to Nuremburg. “The Safest Place” in the Universe is just that, though for different reasons than you might think.

The child of an alien shapeshifter father and Earth mother is of considerable importance to human history in “The Shifter Child”. In “Star Ravagers”, impossibly alien life forms seek to consume our Sun, while in “Final Revenge” the rape of future humanity is avenged. An extra-dimensional visitor seeks to help an Earth besieged by both aliens and alien gods in “A Long Way from Home”. While to the advanced inhabitants of Lhorran 4, “Visitor 51347″ is not at all what he seems to be. In “Internet Writer”, a reclusive writer achieves fame beyond his wildest dreams, without even knowing it. “Spitfires over Stalingrad” is a sort of alternate history story with the German attempt at a break out blocked in an unexpected way. And much more.

In general the stories are intended to be entertaining and easy to read.

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Samuel Todd has problems. He’s a divorced father of a teenager, he sings for very little money in a band that basically does frat parties and such, and his main job is as a paper delivery guy. Oh, and he lives in a world overrun by walking dead people whose sole aim is to eat anything or anyone living. And he writes about it, first on the Web, later in a notebook he keeps constantly at his side. This is the setup for this excellent novel by TW Brown. It appears to be self-published, as Mr. Brown appears to be the sole proprietor of May-December Publications. This makes it the best self-published book I’ve read to date.

Reminiscent of Z Day is Here, this tale follows our protagonist through all sorts of travails and troubles. First, of course, he has to figure out what’s going on and then get himself to believe it. This is always, for me, the most important part of any story that shows the beginning of the “zombie plague”. It would be a difficult thing to swallow but at some point even the most hardened skeptic has to buy into it—hopefully before their disbelief gets them killed. (Read the Full Review)

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Sam Christopher recently read the latest collection of short stories from Australian author David Scholes titled Essential Reading in Science Fiction.  Click on over to see what he thought of that book.  Also in Sam’s comic book reviews, he looked at two titles that have recently revived some well known characters from the Golden Age of the Pulp magazines.  He also shared his thoughts on Superman’s recent exploits in The Last Stand of Krypton and Action Comics.  Check out his reviews and feel free to share your thoughts as well.