TLDorian

***A Wattpad Featured Collection of Short Sci-Fi Stories*** Strange sentinels, forgotten Gods, regenerated aliens, frozen predators, tele- kinetic chess sets - all this and more in this collection of short SciFi stories. Each tale carries a devilish little twist at its end. Like a box of chocolates some are sweet ,some sour and some dark. All perhaps little allegories on the vagaries of human nature... From Readers on various stories- "WOW! I know its my second comment but it's the forth time I have visited it." "It's very sad to see this end, all be it an extraordinary end." "Bravo for such an uplifting, optimistic Finale" "This was awesome! I thoroughly enjoyed it, didn't want it to end." "Great twist, from a sinister beginning to a cheerful ending. It echoes the style of HG Wells." "Dude... just holy... !"…

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Pawser Bingham, Intelligence Officer, attempts to find a Russian mole within MI5, the British Secret Service. Ranged against him are an array of desperate criminals, deranged politicians, riotous women, a demonic horse and a fat chap who makes pies.'A wildly comical tale of intrigue, passion, political wrangling and unfortunate encounters with cats and dogs!'Readers comments- 'This was just what I needed ! I loved this and read it over two nights, addicted, that's what, couldn't stop!''I don't understand why more people aren't reading this story, as good as it is. Hilarious!''I almost died laughing'…

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From Readers-''Amazing story, it was truly captivating, enthralling and a wonderful read.''"Awesome read.""..a really wonderful and ultimately uplifting story.""Well rounded and complex characters, I felt I know them as people.""Just feels epic reading it." "This is an exceptionally good Sci-Fi tale......"During excavations in a deserted temple on the planet moon of Ax an archaeological team unleash a slumbering entity with terrible consequences for its leader. Now awoken, the Nergalrhod, an age old being, forms a strange affinity with the youngest member of the team, shy, studious, Lydia Powell.The last human star fleet, badly mauled in its encounter with a mysterious life form known as The Swarm falls back on Ax and resolves to make its final stand against The Swarms relentless advance across the Universe.When the Nergalrhod tells Lydia of the Aephren, an ancient artefact that can raise the Hammer of the Gods, a weapon powerful enough to crush The Swarm, Lydia joins forces with Faulke, an Empathe and sets out to retrieve the Aephren on a voyage of danger and self awakening.Want to read a really uplifting story of a young girl's coming of age? This is it ! :0)***Thanks to BobJan70 for another great cover and the rest of the designs.***…

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Body parts growing down in the local woods, scary encounters in a deserted escape pod, something odd lurking in the ocean at Dulgots Trench, aliens who have no feet......further tales of the unexpected.A sequel to Setting Suns-a collection of short sci-fi stories. Two of the first seven stories are a couple of my favourites from the original collection.I'll be adding more as time goes by.A usual it's lucky dip, some sweet, some sour and some downright strange !…

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After the death of her aunt during the assassination of the President of New Europa, young Investigator Cheyenne Styx finds herself thrust into a conspiracy originating from sinister forces at work within Earths colonies on Mars and an extinct Martian civilization. Cheyenne joins with Charisa, a shape shifting Synthiod and Lazarus, a re-animated scientist from the Old World in a race to uncover the darker side of Mars' secrets. Visiting Mars she encounters strange cults, a dark beast held in the Labyrinth's, the ethereal Jörmungandr and the strange space-time 'Extensivity' portal- all bound together in an eternities old plot of revenge. Ultimately her search will lead to discovering her own, as yet unrealised powers and a pivotal role in determining the survival of all of humanity.A traditional old style Sci-Fi story! *** Thanks to BobJan70 for the really wonderful cover design ***…

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For the first time in two hundred years the River Thames has frozen over.In the city an Ice Fair has sprung up bringing the wonders of the old Frost Fairs back to London. Its centrepiece is a circus with a Dragon in it. Audiences are captived, the press at odds -is it real or a clever piece of deception.At an old house in Snowfields, Martin Warr is working his apprenticeship at Warr and Pinkel, his father's Undertakers firm when the body of a young girl cut out from the ice of the frozen river arrives to be prepared for burial. When the ghost of Dr Craw, the Southwark Strangler who haunts the Undertakers house suggests that the girl may have been murdered, Martin decides to investigate.The Ice Fair is a curate's egg of a story. A gothic tale of majicians, angels and ghosts, dragons and gods, of murders and the thing that lurks in the dark, twisting currents of the River Thames. And about an Undertaker who thaws the heart of the Frost Queen.Wonderful Artwork by Shirokibo / DeviantArt…

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After five years exile in high in the mountains of Nepal, Doctor Daedalus Krane, engineer, master craftsman, polymath and member of the fabled secret society 'X', returns.Traversing India in his workshop the airship Helios with his latest commission a fantastical clockwork automata he barely recognises the world he left. The Indian subcontinent is succumbing to the advances of sweeping desert sands, huge electrical storms rage over Europe, and vast swathes of the Pacific Ocean have disappeared under pack ice. Following an audacious attack on the Helios, Krane, his pilot Florence 'Flo' Braithwaite and unruly bulldog Mayhem are drawn into a sinister plot that takes them to the four corners of the globe in search of an evil cult and the shadowy criminal, the mysterious Minos.But soon Flo begins to question the investigation. Who is the enigmatic Krane? Why does he seem to know so much about their enemies plans? What is the strange design emblazoned across his chest that exerts such a hold over her?Cover design-'Moar Airship'. Image by Cara Packwood.…