Constable Jennifer McLean has been sent on a routine mission to investigate an honest gun seller in her precinct in Mars City. But when she gets there she soon discovers that he might be dealing in technology not allowed on Mars.
Where is he getting the spacer stuff from? What has happened to the missing 47 residents? And will Jen be able to arrest her suspect before he escapes?
Find out more in Phase Shift. #33 in the Science Fiction Weekly Short Reads Series.
On the 28th November 2015, the BBC
broadcast an episode of Doctor Who called Heaven Sent, starring
Peter Capaldi. It was a very different kind of Doctor Who story in that it
was almost completely carried by Capaldi, apart from a wraith-like creature
that silently chased him the entire episode. Not only was it a mystery, a horror,
a convoluted time conundrum tied up in a shifting puzzle box maze, it was well
shot, well executed with amazing detail that kept you not only guessing while watching
it, but rewatching it in your head long after the episode had finished.
So taken with this story, I not only watched it about twenty times, (on ABC iView, among other places), but I also wrote a short story as a homage to it about the underlying cycles across time that we sometimes end up in. I released this in issue two of Alien Dimensions in November 2016. I don’t know whether it was this story, or simply a coincidence of timing, but that issue shot to the bestseller list on Amazon for two weeks.
But I didn’t want to stop there.
Once the creative bug had been born, I wanted to do other things in relation to Heaven Sent, so I then downloaded and rewrote Stephen Moffat’s script and put together a short video starring myself, emulating as much as I could. I also hired Genelyn Javier, who did many of the illustrations for my Alien Characters series, to create an animated theme tune and a wraith-like image for my character to run away from. It’s called Tutor Who Heaven Cent, and you can watch it online here:
For the full effect, you should watch Doctor
Who: Heaven Sent first before watching my embarrassing fan video.
When watching Tutor Who Heaven Cent, please use headphones and have your hand on the sound control. As it took me two years to make, each time I added a scene in Movie Maker I had trouble getting the previous sound levels to match, so apologies in advance.
In 2019, I reviewed the written Tutor Who Heaven Cent story and realized that an almost completely new story was needed. One based on the video. The new version is now available from Amazon, and closely follows my script, the final video being a cut down version.
And, if you’re a Doctor Who fan, then I challenge you to find over 37 Easter eggs that I wove into the video, and over 50 that I included in the new written version.
Several scientists are mysteriously called to a meeting to discuss the idea of mining the moon. But they soon discover that this is not a simple market research event.
With the CEO’s revelation too shocking to ignore, can the team of scientists put aside their differences and find a solution?
Find out more in Moon Mine. #28 in the Science Fiction Weekly Short Reads Series. A short story of about 6700 words.
When Raj Kumar investigates Pluto for possible life signs – standard procedure before adding a manned space station – he is surprised to find them. He’s even more surprised that they want to communicate with him.
What do they want? Why him? And what does Doctor John Patel of Space Station X-1a have to do with all this?
Find out more in Splinter. #26 in the Science Fiction Short Reads Series, and a prequel to the introduction of a character at the end of the Stellar Flash novel The Andromeda Effect. Splinter is a short story of about 4600 words.
When Rosa hires Jacob to help her discover alternate realities not detectable from this universe, she hardly expects him to find a way so quickly.
But then she discovers that Jacob has been one step ahead of her the whole time. And his solution to the experiment may affect the entire human race across all of space and time.
Cosmic Joke is #23 in the Science Fiction Weekly Series. A short reads story of about 4900 words.
When Julie sees the Guider striding towards her, she knows something is up.
And when he invites her to a safe house to reveal that he had already known about her discovery, long before she had made it, she soon discovers that all is not as it seems.
With the dark matter having left the Oort Cloud, and now heading towards the inner Solar System, it is up to Julie to decide what to do next.
But she has absolutely no idea what that could be.
Could this mean the end of the human race?
A Little Matter is #20 in the Science Fiction Weekly short reads series. A short story of approximately 4600 words.
The pod members on the inside of their bubble world roll back and forth in fear as the strange triangular shape breaks into their universe, and reveals something horrifying inside.
What is this long creature made of lines?
Why is it frozen in the air above them?
And what will happen if it touches the energy skin of their world?
First Interdimensional Contact is #19 in the Science Fiction Weekly short reads series. A short story of about 4500 words.
Maisee has a plan to disrupt the zomboid working tradition in the tea plantations of the South, and enlists her dead husband to help. She wants the townsfolk to believe that selling their dead relatives to be reanimated as workers in the picking industry is a really bad idea.
But there is a bigger underlying plan that Maisee is unaware of.
Can she escape an A.I. that is always one step ahead?
Work After Death is #18 in the Science Fiction Weekly short reads series. A short story of approximately 5300 words.
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