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Diaspora
by Greg Egan
Genre: Science Fiction/Hard (FREE)
Total words: 100,000+
This is a mind altering story about a future in which
humans, that choose a biological existence and die, are a small minority.
Most choose either a virtual afterlife in one of many polises or choose to live in the physical world as androids. The virtual world is also populated with virtual intelligent life forms that also propagate through a process of generation through a genetic gene analogy in a digital mind seed.
July 2011 Deil's Chosen
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Mary Had a Little Dagnaserub
by Kalifer Deil
Genre: Science Fiction/Children (FREE)
Format: Most e-book formats
Total words: 2491
A very short children's science fiction story:
Seven year old Mary Johnson met up with a little creature that lost his spaceship. She just thought it was a cute little animal she could take home as a secret pet. Secret because grandma doesn't want pets in her house. When she realized who and what he really was she helped him retrieve his ship so he could return to his mother ship and from there to his home world in the stars.
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In Her Name - Empire
by Michael R. Hicks
Genre: Science Fiction/Epic
Format: Most e-book formats
Total words: 127,892
In the first book of an epic futuristic fantasy trilogy, this is the coming-of-age story of Reza Gard, a young boy of the Human Confederation who is swept up in the century-long war with the alien Kreelan Empire. Captured and enslaved, Reza must live like his enemies in a grand experiment to see if humans have souls, and if one may be the key to unlocking an ages old curse upon the Kreelan race.
February 2011 Deil's Chosen
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Tillian 5 - Return to Earth
by Kalifer Deil
Genre: Science Fiction/Epic
Format: Most e-book formats
Total words: 112,130
This is Vol. II of the Tillian 5 Epic. Maggie and Skip Rogers become quantum paired android twins of themselves to return to terraform Earth to back to what it was using the advanced technology of the Keepers. The Earth population has dwindled to approximately one-million since it was devastated by a gamma ray burst from star WR104 going supernova. Earth is now ruled by pockets of extremely dangerous criminals and religious fanatics in the US and the Middle East who believe Maggie is the AntiChrist. The religious fanatics have access to nuclear weapons and use them without mercy.
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Flight of the Soul
by Kalifer Deil
Genre: Play - Science Fiction (Free)
Format: Most e-book formats
Total words: 9027
The play "Flight of the Soul" contrasts several points of view about eternal life but features a "brain uploading" concept proffered by Ray Kurtzweil and others including the author. In the play Ray Kurtzweil is thinly disguised as Ray Kurtz. Others are archetypes of other points of view except Bob Mover (a Bill Moyers type) and Mrs. Altevine, a rich widow in search of eternal life.
This play was inspired by the contents of the book "The Age of Spiritual Machines" by Ray Kurtzweil, his own Socratic style, the play "Copenhagen" by Michael Frayn, and the movie "My Dinner with Andre" by Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory.
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Tillian 5 - A New Beginning
by Kalifer Deil
Genre: Science Fiction/Epic
Format: Most e-book formats
Total words: 99569
This epic is in three volumes of which this is the first "Tillian 5 - A New Beginning." It is a story of as told by the Captain Malcolm "Skip" Rogers of The Tillian Star. This starship was specifically designed to go to Tillian 5, a planet 60 light-years away from Earth. The Tillian Star was controlled by a computer called Maggie. Maggie became a key player in the survival of this small group of colonist on this very odd alien planet.
The follow on volumes of the trilogy are "Tillian 5 - Return to Earth" and "Tillian 5 - The Overseers" which will be coming out soon.
Now also available in print from Amazon.
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McCambrie's Army
by Kalifer Deil
Genre:A Science Fiction Novella/Space Opera
Format: Most e-book formats
Total words: 23390
McCambrie Corporation had a monopoly on off Earth mining of vital materials. Their armed space force dwarfed that of the UN so they where almost impervious to Earth law. U.S. President Thorton wanted to rein in MacC as it was called. Her spy, John Crowley, had a rough start but soon fell in with Barbara Makowitz who seem to have a penchant for sex, murder and mayhem.
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Well of Mirrors
by Kalifer Deil
Genre:A Science Fiction Novella
Format: Most e-book formats
Total words: 27946
A novella length book about a group of monks assigned to an old mission in the California desert. They decide to dig an old stone lined well a bit deeper in the hope of increasing their water supply. They hit a metallic surface that they at first think is a shield that someone dropped down the well. It turns out to be the ceiling of the most fantastic archeological find of all time but its about to set civilization back to the stone age. As the number of investigators grows so does the danger to humanity.
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End Times
by Kalifer Deil
Genre:Collection of four science fiction stories
Format: Most e-book formats
Total words: 10,900
Ex World Leader
These aliens were looking for the smartest man on Earth to help adjudicate the future history of Earth. They ended up with Henry Kissingweig who did a bang up job.
The Survivor
Global warming reached its apex with everything turning worst case then the unthinkable happened.
Corpus Deletum
He loved the three beautiful androids and they loved him. He would do anything for them, and he did.
The Picnic
Damien and Christy went on a picnic. Their objectives were quite different. The result, well, it was very different as well.
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The Possessor
by Kalifer Deil
Genre:Collection of three very short stories
Format: Most e-book formats
Total words: 4700
The first two stories, The Possessor and Thomas Messenger are short pieces that are in part an hommage to Rod Serling. The possessor is a short story about a collector of art objects. He finally got his prize possession, the Emerald Jay, but at a price he could ill afford. Thomas Messenger is a short story about a woman who was taught to stop talking and start hearing by an Angel. The method was straight forward but ... well, something only an angel can do. The last piece, The Jungle, is about a trip to the Amazon jungle. Such a trip can be dangerous but that may be more due to the guide.
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