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The Diary of Professor Gilbert Rasher by Kalifer Deil Genre: Science Fiction/General(FREE) Format: Most e-book formats Total words: 32981 Tillian 5 Trilogy. The diary starts out as a prequel to "Tillian 5 - A New Beginning." It continues on the same time line as "Tillian 5 - A New Beginning" but on Earth with no knowledge of the events unfolding on Tillian 5. The diary then merges with the beginning of "Tillian 5 - Return to Earth." It covers a period of time when Earth's population is decimated by a natural event well beyond the control any human or android to stop. |
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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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Tillian 5 - Return to Earth by Kalifer Deil Genre: Science Fiction/Epic Format: Most e-book formats Total words: 112130 This is Vol. II of the 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 in print at Amazon. |
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Editor's Notebook by Kalifer Deil Genre: Writing in English/Manual (FREE) Format: Most e-book formats Total words: 4750 This is a free ebook to aid writers by helping them edit their own works. It can be very difficult to see your own errors so this ebook provides a systematic way of finding your problems before others do. Editors are expensive and more often than not they will cost you more money than you will make on your book. I use the hints in this books to clean up my stories then I give them to friends (that know English well) to read. If a book is interesting and errors are sparce they will look forward to your next book and help pick out the few errors that are left. Don't be too alarmed if they find more than you anticipate; I just picked up a best seller and found two errors on the first page. |
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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: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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Transcendental Epoch by Kalifer Deil Genre:Collection of two science fiction stories Format: Most e-book formats Total words: 16450 These two rather long short stories deal with brain downloading a real possibility in the not too distant future. Eternal M This is a tale about a Mafia Don that hears about a professor's experiment in brain downloading that got him fired from his university professorship. He wanted eternal life and this looked like his ticket to immortality. The professor worried that his life wouldn't be worth a nickel after his work was completed. He had no idea what was in store for him. Big Al A community of brain downloaded people were running into financial trouble due to the high cost of running their virtual existence. A multimillionaire used car salesman with severe health issues was invited to join their cerebral group in the hopes of improving their operational capital. From the start this appeared to be a very bad idea. |
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