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featured fiction

In addition to Fiction Fridays, Dr. Phil will be posting some current
stories for your enjoyment.

featured fiction II · "Le Grand Bazar" by Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon

(Coming shortly...)


featured fiction I · "Lines West X4334-W" by Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon

Originally written for The National Fantasy Fan Federation 2002 N3F Short Story Contest, 
where it took 2nd Prize, this expanded version of my "29th century railroad story" 
was written in 2007.

(Click here to read · Posted 03 March 2008 Monday, until 21 March 2008 Friday)
   

fiction fridays

Dr. Phil will be putting up some stories every Friday starting 8 February 2008.

fiction fridays 12 · "Priority Driver" by Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon

"Priority Driver" is the second half of my 2002 "transportation series", along 
with the prize-winning "Lines West X433-W".  This time it's a 29th 
century trucking story.  It was also an experiment to try having an unlikeable
protagonist -- for that reason alone it is interesting enough to include in 
these webpages. (grin)

Read the story here.

fiction fridays 8-11 · "Command Prologue" by Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon

If "Home Front" is a series of stories that I've mined for years, then "Command
Prologue" is the mother lode.  I decided to start writing a SF novel in October
1990, without any plan other that writing a story.  This is the opening to this
unfinished novel -- and I've been writing stories in this same 29th century
universe ever since.  "Home Front" may lay out the War and show how it affected
those away from the battles, but "Command Prologue" drops you right into the 
beginning of the War.

Read the First... Second... Third... Fourth Installment.

fiction fridays 7 · "Atrophy" by Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon

"Atrophy" is a story I've been working on in the last year. One editor called it 
"Meeting with Medusa"-esque. With the passing this week of legendary SF writer 
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, it's hard not to feel a little bit honored that my story 
has been compared with Clarke's short story "A Meeting With Medusa". (grin) 
Of course Clarke was telling a different story -- "Atrophy" came about really 
as the result of simply trying to reduce the mass and consumable supplies of 
manned missions.

Read the story here.

fiction fridays 1-6 · "Home Front" by Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon

   When is a story, not a story?  Turns out that several of the first
stories I sent out were "slice of life" stories or vignettes.  Not stories
full of action and conflict, which is what many editors want.  I've
promised stories for 03.03.2008, so instead of jumping the gun, I thought
I'd share with you "Home Front".  It's a series of vingettes spanning
The War which shows up in a lot of my 29th century SF.  This isn't the
original version of "Home Front" -- I've been mining it for stories, 
taking out some of the vignettes and turning them into short stories
of their own for a couple of years now. (grin)

   If you like, "Home Front" was necessary for me to write -- it puts
book ends or parentheses around the timeline of The War.  It also allowed
me to investigate what was happening away from the battles... i.e., back 
at the Home Front.

kids

kidlets

Little stories for kids of all (most) ages. (grin)

               more stories coming 08.08.2008...

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