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Book Synopsis Tha Angry Astronaut Affair by : Leigh Kimmel
Download or read book Tha Angry Astronaut Affair written by Leigh Kimmel and published by Starship Cat Press. This book was released on 2023-02-20 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It only takes a spark to start a raging inferno. One sharply-worded post online, and now Reginald Waite has a flamewar on his hands. A welcome distraction from the frustrations of preparing for a technically demanding spac emission -- or so he thought. The conflict just kept spiraling, until it attracted the attention of higher-ups. Now Reggie's looking at serious trouble. A short story of the Grissom timeline, originally published at Liberty Island Magazine. This edition includes a bonus essay on the Space Race in the Grissom timeline.
Download or read book Once a Chekist written by Leigh Kimmel and published by Starship Cat Press. This book was released on 2023-02-20 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katya Burinskaya carries a deadly secret. So when she is summoned to the Lubyanka for a personal meeting with the head of Imperial Security, she fears the worst. However, this meeting does not concern her, but her daughter. Tasha has become entangled with a troublesome genomic prince of the Imperial House, and both mother and daughter may suffer if Katya does not assist Security Minister Chalkov in investigating a family affair of his own, which also involves Prince Yevgenny Yakovlevich. Politics makes strange bedfellows in the new Russian Empire born of human cloning and Cold War genetic experiments. Chalkov was once an officer of the old Soviet KGB. And as Katya's husband often warns, once a Chekist, always a Chekist. A short story of the Grissom timeline. Originally published in the anthology Mortis Operandi.
Book Synopsis Lunar Surface Blues by : Leigh Kimmel
Download or read book Lunar Surface Blues written by Leigh Kimmel and published by Starship Cat Press. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The High Frontier is no place for foolishness, but nature can always make a better idiot. Four years ago, Molly's parents brought her up here to the Moon when their work brought them to Shepardsport. In the time since that move, she's earned her place here and a seat on this field trip. Only one problem -- she's been given the worst possible EVA partner. A pencil-necked dweeb with an attitude, Benji wants to be one of the guys. But his stunts keep putting them both in danger, and the adults keep blaming Molly. When Benji gets in over his head, can Molly save him before it costs both their lives? A short story of the Grissom timeline.
Book Synopsis A Hymn for Those Who Fall Forever by : Leigh Kimmel
Download or read book A Hymn for Those Who Fall Forever written by Leigh Kimmel and published by Starship Cat Press. This book was released on 2023-02-27 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Endings always hurt, but Vitali Grigorenko never expected a nightmare in orbit. Assigned to command the last flight of the orbiter Baikal, Vitali had started the mission in a nostalgic mood. That went out the airlock when he saw the body tumbling through space just beyond the flight deck windows. A body in NASA blue, not Russian tan. Now he's trying to get to the bottom of a murder in space, and his own country's space program as much a hindrance as a help. It's becoming clear that politics is involved, on both sides of what used to be the Iron Curtain, and he's going to need to go clear to the top. A short story of the Grissom timeline.
Book Synopsis Beach House on the Moon by : Leigh Kimmel
Download or read book Beach House on the Moon written by Leigh Kimmel and published by Starship Cat Press. This book was released on with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moon is a dead world, airless and desolate. Emmaline Waite has known this fact since childhood, when she watched the Apollo landings. But here she sits on the shores of the Sea of Tranquillity, looking up at the gibbous Earth as the waves roll in. What madness can this be? She gets no time to contemplate that question, for she is not alone. She is about to enter a realm of love and fear, of mindbending secrets that change her understanding of human history, and of self-sacrifice. Her life will never be the same.
Book Synopsis Phoenix in the Machine by : Leigh Kimmel
Download or read book Phoenix in the Machine written by Leigh Kimmel and published by Starship Cat Press. This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams come true in cyberspace -- but so do nightmares. Roger remembers dying in a fire on the launchpad. He's reconciled it with being alive again. However, being an infomorph in a simulated environment has been a difficult adjustment. Toni tells him he went mad the first time he awoke, and she had to crash the computer. Now he helps her playtest the games her employer designs. But cyberspace outside Toni's local area network is a dangerous place. A disastrous experiment in Bangladesh left the world in a moral panic about AI and machine consciousness. When a careless connection betrays him to those who cannot distinguish between an AI and a post-biological human being, he and Toni must flee. Their cross-country journey will either destroy him or deliver him the spaceflight he's awaited for a century.
Download or read book Vengeance Is Mine written by Leigh Kimmel and published by Starship Cat Press. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chance spared Bina when the Sand Locusts destroyed the village of her birth. Determination kept her alive in the years that followed. But survival has come at a price. Each day she lives among her captors, she must ignore the signs that their nameless god is not a force of law and justice. Will she continue to turn a blind eye? Or will she put an end to the scourge that is the Unspeakable, once and for all?
Download or read book The Moon Mirror written by Leigh Kimmel and published by Starship Cat Press. This book was released on with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chelsea Ayles dreamed of going to the Moon since she was a child. Now her dream job at NASA has turned into a nightmare, thanks to those many blood-sucking arachnids. Yeah, politics, as in a Senator accusing her of destroying America's priceless heritage because she chose the moonrocks that were used to make a proof-of-concept mirror segment for a lunar telescope project. Now the mirror sits in her office like a bitter mockery of what might have been -- until the day her reflection turns into a handsome stranger who calls himself the Man in the Moon and offers her visions of a world that might have been. Visions that ignite a longing of an intensity she hasn't known since she was in grade school and watched videos of the Apollo lunar missions in science class.
Book Synopsis The Baying of the Hounds by : Leigh Kimmel
Download or read book The Baying of the Hounds written by Leigh Kimmel and published by Starship Cat Press. This book was released on with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the world we know, Nikola Tesla's Wardencliffe experiment proved a costly failure and was ultimately torn down for scrap. But what if things had gone differently and he pressed his work to completion? In a world similar to but unlike our own, Tesla completes his transmission tower. But when he turns it on, he discovers his calculations were incomplete. Some unknown factor has created a connection with another world with physical laws unlike our own. The commingling of curved and angular space has led to catastrophe. Now his greatest rival, Thomas Alva Edison, compels him to repair the damage. To do so, Tesla must make his way through a ruined city to the locus of the damage. And through his mind echoes the baying of unseen hounds. A short story originally published in the anthology Steampunk Cthulhu
Book Synopsis City of Blinding Light by : Leigh Kimmel
Download or read book City of Blinding Light written by Leigh Kimmel and published by Starship Cat Press. This book was released on with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Columbian Exposition has transformed Chicago into a vision of the bright shining future. However, the electric lights that turn night to day bring no joy to Kitty Hawthorne, and not just because they are the work of her employer's chief rival. Now Edison wants her to abandon her investigation of Tesla's alternating current system and look into a mysterious newcomer. Who is Samuel Gillian, who devises calculating machinery as easily as he builds flying machines?
Download or read book Tell Me a Story written by Leigh Kimmel and published by Starship Cat Press. This book was released on 2023-02-20 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storytelling is as old as humanity. Given the importance of reading to children in their intellectual development, it is certain that we will take the storytelling tradition with us into space as we build permanent settlements beyond Earth. As one generation after another take a beloved childhood story further from Earth, it is seen in new ways by children for whom the pre-spaceflight view of the Moon is increasingly alien. Originally published in the anthology Rocket Science, edited by Ian Sales.
Book Synopsis The Margins of Mundania by : Leigh Kimmel
Download or read book The Margins of Mundania written by Leigh Kimmel and published by Starship Cat Press. This book was released on 2023-02-12 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tween boy's Christmas gift opens a world of wonder and brings joy to a whole town fallen on hard times. A young New Englander in the early Twentieth Century discovers that some parts of human history don't bear too close examination. A literary critic in the old Soviet Union must confront his own moral cowardice. These stories, along with a multitude of bite-sized works of flash fiction, carry you from the most prosaic of events to the moments of awe that offer glimpses of matters larger than ourselves.
Download or read book The Stirge written by Leigh Kimmel and published by Starship Cat Press. This book was released on with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Liphrel's family fell too far on their debts, he was sold to the priests of the death god. But his family were followers of the birth goddess, which left him in a difficult position.
Book Synopsis The Space Race Trilogy Omnibus by : Leigh Kimmel
Download or read book The Space Race Trilogy Omnibus written by Leigh Kimmel and published by Starship Cat Press. This book was released on with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All three books of the Space Race Trilogy, now together with two exclusive new essays. Time Slips What if our most treasured verities were in fact wrong? To be selected for Project Mercury and be one of America's first astronauts was a dream come true for test pilot Deke Slayton. But fellow Mercury astronaut Al Shepard kept telling old stories from his native New England, tales of monstrous entities like Cthulhu and Yog Sothoth. Earlier generations had viewed them as demons, but might they in fact be aliens, here long before humanity? Soon Deke discovers evidence that something is watching the US space program. Something that begrudges humanity the stars and would put a ceiling on human attainment. Something that can manipulate time itself. HP Lovecraft wrote that we dwell on a placid island of ignorance amidst the dark ocean of infinity, and that we were not meant to travel far. What might the US space program have looked like in a cosmos filled with hostile eldritch entities? Would they notice us as playthings? Or as a nuisance to be dealt with? The Secret of Pad 34 Who would put a ceiling on humanity's expansion into space? That's what Gus Grissom wants to know. While fishing offshore from Cape Canaveral, he glimpses a mysterious undersea city of unearthly geometries, marked with a strange three-armed cross symbol. His efforts to research it bring him veiled threats from strangers at his door. Trouble blights an exemplary career. However, Gus refuses to be cowed into silence, and pursues every lead he can find. HP Lovecraft wrote that we live on a placid island of ignorance and were not meant to travel far. This is the Space Race in a world where the Soviet Union is not our only adversary. Beach House on the Moon The Moon is a dead world, airless and desolate. Emmaline Waite has known this fact since childhood, when she watched the Apollo landings. But here she sits on the shores of the Sea of Tranquillity, looking up at the gibbous Earth as the waves roll in. What madness can this be? She gets no time to contemplate that question, for she is not alone. She is about to enter a realm of love and fear, of mind-bending secrets that change her understanding of human history, and of self-sacrifice. Her life will never be the same. Miskatonic University in the Cold War and Contemporary Era How would H.P. Lovecraft's famous fictional institution of higher education have developed through the second half of the Twentieth Century and into the Twenty-first? Space: Gernsbeck vs. Lovecraft A look at the fundamental worldviews underlying the approaches of Hugo Gernsbeck and H.P. Lovecraft to the portrayal of outer space, aliens, and space travel.
Download or read book Perry Mason written by Thomas M. Leitch and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the enduring popularity of the television series Perry Mason and its universal reputation as the most formulaic program in the history of broadcast television. Perry Mason was one of the most successful television programs from the 1950s and remains one of the most influential crime melodramas from any period. The show's influence goes far beyond its nine-year tenure (1957-66), the millions of dollars it generated for its creators and for CBS, and the definitive identification it provided its star, Raymond Burr. Perry Mason has become a true piece of Americana, evolving through a formulaic approach that law professors continue to use today as a teaching tool. In his examination of Perry Mason, author Thomas Leitch looks at why this series has appealed to so many for so long and what the continued appeal tells us about Americans' attitudes toward lawyers and the law, then and now. Beginning with its roots in earlier detective fiction, stories of fictional attorneys, and the work of Erle Stanley Gardner (the show's creator), Leitch lays out the circumstances under which Perry Mason was conceived and marketed as a distinct franchise. The evolution of Perry Mason is charted here in an inclusive manner, discussing the show's broadcast history (ending with the series of two-hour telemovies that aired nearly twenty years after the original series ended) alongside its generic nature and place within popular culture, the show's ideological dynamic, and issues of authorship in the context of television. This concise study is an excellent tool for television and media scholars as well as fans of the Perry Mason series.
Download or read book Perfect Darkness written by Leigh Kimmel and published by Starship Cat Press. This book was released on with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would perfect darkness look like? And what would happen if you saw it? When Pavlik becomes obsessed with the idea of seeing perfect darkness, it becomes a distraction from the pod's duty as asteroid miners. Little does he know that danger lies in opening one's mind to the things that lurk in perfect darkness. Things that endanger his pod-brothers, even all of Briar's Children.
Download or read book A Gift of Koi written by Leigh Kimmel and published by Starship Cat Press. This book was released on with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient and wise, the grandfather Koi knows at first sight that this human bears a hidden wound. But how can a mere fish, even one as old as himself, be of any aid to a human? Astronaut Tyler Lanham had come to Grissom City, first and oldest lunar settlement, in search of the medical expertise he couldn't find on the far side of the Moon. When he sees the scar on the ancient koi's side, he knows he's found a kindred spirit. But an enemy is stalking these lovely gardens. A danger that will change both man and fish. A short story of the Grissom timeline.
