Charlie Marino

Science Fiction Anthology

9 stories on space travel and near futures awaiting the human race

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Produktbeschreibung

Stories of robots, aliens, and surprising futures just around the corner. Enjoy this anthology of scifi stories from scientist Charlie Marino. Mutant Escape - A few years from now, the next evolutionary step in humans are discovered to be appearing randomly in our population. In the midst of racism and tensions, a derelict alien spacecraft arrives, providing unexpected opportunities for competing interests. Tattoo World - On a moon of a distant star, humans are evolving to adapt with a side effect of naturally emerging tattoos upon maturity. A woman's struggle for identity. Seed Ship - A philanthropist issues an offer and a challenge to university professors and their students: design a spacecraft and mission to perform panspermia - the intentional seeding of worlds using our planetary organic materials A Little More Oxygen - At a time when Earths once high oxygen content had fallen causing insects to shrink from ten foot monsters & the only native intelligence faces its own extinction, they find a way using primitive primates. The Arvidson Legacy - The Arvidson Legacy chronicles events leading up to the intersection of our solar system with another, composed of a red dwarf and several small planets. Whether we will hit each other, or pass like ships in the night is unknown, but the people of Earth are in a panic and desperate measures must be taken. Veil of Dreams - A Lovecraft-style musing on what lies beyond the reality of our existence in this plane, as experience by three seemingly ordinary people. Demeter Unbound - Some time in the 21st century, after a world war is avoided between the USA and China, government officials of the many nuclear powers are nervous. A doomsday deterrent sets off a chain of events which quickly spiral out of control. Better Off Not Knowing - a comedy play wherein 2 little girls befriend a visiting alien. Not Yet Our World - told from the point of view of an evolved human appearing among Homo Sapiens.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Erudite First Editions
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 573g
• ISBN-13: 9798986489506
• Artikelnr.: 64952572

Autorenporträt

Charles J Marino was born in the Bronx and holds a BS and MS in nuclear engineering from Columbia University. His various occupations include as a federal employee, bond and commodity trading on Wall Street, founding several small computer companies, Wall Street portfolio manager, and as a published author. He has more robots than friends, but they're good ones. The author makes his home in the mountains of America, where he helped the nice folks at SETI before the great fall & carves his own wooden chess sets.