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Tales for the
New Millennium
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Tales for the New
Millennium is not a story universe as such, but a place I can
put tales that either stand alone, or for which I've not yet completed
a sequel. So far, there are four novels, all unrelated to each other. I
present them in chonological order, but you can, of course, read them
in any order you like.
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Truth Lives Here
Silvia McAllister writes
doomsday novels. Her first, called The
Long Dark, tells the story of an old woman who must find a way
to keep her family together in a post apocalyptic world. She discovers
to her surprise that this story has more legs than she expected, and
that it has attracted the attention of Terry Vandergrift, author of a
series of bodice ripping westerns. Their paths cross at the yearly
science fiction convention in Denver one cold October night with
hilarious results.
Before the tale ends, Silvia
has her world turned inside out and upside down--and she returns the
favor for Terry and all of his friends in high places.
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To read Truth Lives Here,
right click here
and select
"Save Target
As..." (in Firefox, "Save link target as...") to download the pdf file.
It could take awhile on a 56K modem so be patient.
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The Vacation
Kate
Relsing looks forward to the election of her friend Rosalind Harrington
as President so they can fix all the world's problems. Then she wakes
up in a beach house on a desert island in the middle of nowhere.
During her exploration of the island, she discovers her side has
resources, including a hidden viewing perch, and the other side
doesn't. Even more interesting is that the passage way between the two
sides is patrolled by sharks.
One morning, she discovers
Osama bin Laden, his buddy Al Zawahiri, and ten young men have been
plunked down on the bare sand with only a tent and the sort of supplies
one might expect to find in the 7th Century.
Over the next few days, she
watches from hiding as these men contend with their situation.
Determined to reach her side of the inlet, with its resources, they are
not afraid to lose men to the sharks. Worse, they finally manage to get
their last two survivors across the inlet.
What is a 50-something woman
armed only with a steak knife spear and a club to do against two men
who want everything she has?
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To read The Vacation,
right click here and
select "Save
Target
As..." (in Firefox, "Save link target as...") to download the pdf file.
It could take awhile on a 56K modem so be patient.
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Trial By Fire
Ever
wonder what would happen if all the swords in the Western World were
turned into plowshares at the behest of the man filling the Shoes of
the Fisherman--and a comet was discovered on a collision path with
Earth?
David Merolis and his family find out the hard way.
This is one of my longest tales, and is lavishly illustrated with color
portraits of the major characters, plus a variety of other
illustrations as appropriate. This tale shows in as much detail as I
could gather from a variety of sources what would actually happen if a
comet struck Earth. It also shows the second stage in the development
of the Village of Tomorrow concept (the first appears in Truth Lives Here). |
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To read Trial By Fire,
right click here and
select "Save
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It could take awhile on a 56K modem so be patient.
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The Hero Tree
A
planetologist of some note, Crandall Knight has been brought to a
lovely Earth double known as Novum Terra by Arlen Paddington to certify
it free of sapience so it can be colonized by Paddington's company.
Crandall knows this world is too perfect not to have its own sapience,
but before he can find it, it finds him. To his surprise, it is so far
beyond what humans call sapience that he can only submit in awe to its
desire that he become the Hero Tree. When the time is right, he must
work with the descendents of Arlen Paddington and Evelyn the Fay to
save Earth as well as Novum Terra from the rapacious claws of the
Family.
This story also has lavish color illustrations of the major characters.
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To read The Hero Tree,
right click here and
select "Save
Target
As..." (in Firefox, "Save link target as...") to download the pdf file.
It could take awhile on a 56K modem so be patient.
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If you like these tales,
please feel free to pass the link along, and let me know if you'd like
to see more of them. Just email me at tkholmes1951@hotmail.com
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