Author: Paul Washburn
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1638856311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Everyone is sleeping through the night except Skipper, whose mind is still engaged in chasing alien invaders in his video game. He notices some strange lights in the distance outside his bedroom window and goes outside to investigate. He has just entered a clearing in the woods behind his house when he is zapped by a paralyzing ray gun and carried aboard a spaceship by alien invaders, along with sample plants other things the invaders are collecting. Although he can’t move, Skipper carefully observes the controls used by the aliens to operate the spaceship. By the time they reach another planet, the ray gun’s power has worn off. Skipper doesn’t move until the aliens leave the spaceship to collect more samples. Then Skipper presses the button to close the ramp and begins to pilot the spaceship up and away, leaving behind the now-frantic aliens. Now his goal is to get back to Earth and home. But he finds himself having to stop at an Earthlike planet where he makes new young friends. He and his new friends have some delightful, good times, swinging on a rope out, over, and dropping into a lake full of colorful creatures. But the alien Argons are tracking and following Skipper’s spaceship and give chase. Skipper puts the safety of his friends first and risks his own life to save them. When the lead alien warrior grabs Skipper by his pajamas, Skipper only barely escapes by slipping out of half of them. After coming very close to being captured, the children learn some lessons about looking out for each other. On the next leg of his voyage home, Skipper again uses his skills of observation and listening to locate and rescue a young farmer. He learns that people come in all sizes and colors and that the opportunity to do good for others can be more rewarding than self-serving pursuits. Sometimes, helping others can be even more engaging than his video game.
Skipper Takes the Spaceship
Author: Paul Washburn
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1638856311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Everyone is sleeping through the night except Skipper, whose mind is still engaged in chasing alien invaders in his video game. He notices some strange lights in the distance outside his bedroom window and goes outside to investigate. He has just entered a clearing in the woods behind his house when he is zapped by a paralyzing ray gun and carried aboard a spaceship by alien invaders, along with sample plants other things the invaders are collecting. Although he can’t move, Skipper carefully observes the controls used by the aliens to operate the spaceship. By the time they reach another planet, the ray gun’s power has worn off. Skipper doesn’t move until the aliens leave the spaceship to collect more samples. Then Skipper presses the button to close the ramp and begins to pilot the spaceship up and away, leaving behind the now-frantic aliens. Now his goal is to get back to Earth and home. But he finds himself having to stop at an Earthlike planet where he makes new young friends. He and his new friends have some delightful, good times, swinging on a rope out, over, and dropping into a lake full of colorful creatures. But the alien Argons are tracking and following Skipper’s spaceship and give chase. Skipper puts the safety of his friends first and risks his own life to save them. When the lead alien warrior grabs Skipper by his pajamas, Skipper only barely escapes by slipping out of half of them. After coming very close to being captured, the children learn some lessons about looking out for each other. On the next leg of his voyage home, Skipper again uses his skills of observation and listening to locate and rescue a young farmer. He learns that people come in all sizes and colors and that the opportunity to do good for others can be more rewarding than self-serving pursuits. Sometimes, helping others can be even more engaging than his video game.
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1638856311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Everyone is sleeping through the night except Skipper, whose mind is still engaged in chasing alien invaders in his video game. He notices some strange lights in the distance outside his bedroom window and goes outside to investigate. He has just entered a clearing in the woods behind his house when he is zapped by a paralyzing ray gun and carried aboard a spaceship by alien invaders, along with sample plants other things the invaders are collecting. Although he can’t move, Skipper carefully observes the controls used by the aliens to operate the spaceship. By the time they reach another planet, the ray gun’s power has worn off. Skipper doesn’t move until the aliens leave the spaceship to collect more samples. Then Skipper presses the button to close the ramp and begins to pilot the spaceship up and away, leaving behind the now-frantic aliens. Now his goal is to get back to Earth and home. But he finds himself having to stop at an Earthlike planet where he makes new young friends. He and his new friends have some delightful, good times, swinging on a rope out, over, and dropping into a lake full of colorful creatures. But the alien Argons are tracking and following Skipper’s spaceship and give chase. Skipper puts the safety of his friends first and risks his own life to save them. When the lead alien warrior grabs Skipper by his pajamas, Skipper only barely escapes by slipping out of half of them. After coming very close to being captured, the children learn some lessons about looking out for each other. On the next leg of his voyage home, Skipper again uses his skills of observation and listening to locate and rescue a young farmer. He learns that people come in all sizes and colors and that the opportunity to do good for others can be more rewarding than self-serving pursuits. Sometimes, helping others can be even more engaging than his video game.
SCI-FI AND SUPERNATURAL SHORT STORIES - for A.M. Research
Author: Bugs2writes
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244646600
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Whatever your mood, you will find something within these pages to entice and enthral you. The science fiction narratives include adventures involving space travel, motherships, aliens and master races. Within these extra-terrestrial settings, human minds are pitted against superior intellects from other worlds and other galaxies. The supernatural stories are also other-worldly, but this time more contemplative, spiritual and mystical. The pace is slower, the atmosphere more eerie, more contemplative. The narratives are both thought-provoking and mysterious. They draw the reader into worlds slightly off-kilter, slightly less certain and definitely enigmatic. All the narratives are highly readable: some are adventurous, some enchanting, some cryptic, some inexplicable, but all are hugely thrilling and entertaining.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244646600
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Whatever your mood, you will find something within these pages to entice and enthral you. The science fiction narratives include adventures involving space travel, motherships, aliens and master races. Within these extra-terrestrial settings, human minds are pitted against superior intellects from other worlds and other galaxies. The supernatural stories are also other-worldly, but this time more contemplative, spiritual and mystical. The pace is slower, the atmosphere more eerie, more contemplative. The narratives are both thought-provoking and mysterious. They draw the reader into worlds slightly off-kilter, slightly less certain and definitely enigmatic. All the narratives are highly readable: some are adventurous, some enchanting, some cryptic, some inexplicable, but all are hugely thrilling and entertaining.
The Space Barbarians
Author: Mack Reynolds
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575102896
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
John of the Hawks was a proud, young man, proud of his people, proud of his heritage, and proud of his ability to count coup on his clann's traditional enemies. He knew what was right and what was wrong - the four great books had laid down the way things had to be. Which is why the uncouth ways of the clannless drifters from space outraged him so. Not only did these peddlers know nothing of the finesse of proper combat, they knew nothing of the respect due to such things as the coup stick, the right way to capture a wife, and the sanctity of the clann's elders. Worse still, they had some idiotic notion that that cheap silvery metal so commonly used for plumbing and horse-bits, known as platinum, was somehow of special merit. Well, one could excuse an outrage or two on the grounds of ignorance, but there came a time when any good clannsman, such as John certainly was, must decide to teach these barbarians from space a lesson!
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 0575102896
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
John of the Hawks was a proud, young man, proud of his people, proud of his heritage, and proud of his ability to count coup on his clann's traditional enemies. He knew what was right and what was wrong - the four great books had laid down the way things had to be. Which is why the uncouth ways of the clannless drifters from space outraged him so. Not only did these peddlers know nothing of the finesse of proper combat, they knew nothing of the respect due to such things as the coup stick, the right way to capture a wife, and the sanctity of the clann's elders. Worse still, they had some idiotic notion that that cheap silvery metal so commonly used for plumbing and horse-bits, known as platinum, was somehow of special merit. Well, one could excuse an outrage or two on the grounds of ignorance, but there came a time when any good clannsman, such as John certainly was, must decide to teach these barbarians from space a lesson!
6Tom Swift: Galactic Ambassador (HB)
Author: Victor Appleton II
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304538427
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This hardbound edition of the 6th novel in the series brings back some of Tom's old friend: his Space Friends. Since their first interaction Tom has tried to get them to provide details about themselves so he can assist them in their mission to visit the Earth. Until he makes a surprise advancement in how he ""reads"" their symbol messages, he has had frustration after disappointment. Now that he has an understanding he is horrified to find that their ""masters"" have declared their mission a failure and will be recalling them, forever, in just a few short weeks. Now he races against time trying to develop both a vehicle and an environment capable of supporting them. Just when he thinks he has succeeded, disaster strikes. Not only is his new flying environment destroyed, but now the Masters insist the Space Friends won't be the ones coming for a visit, it will be them! Tom knows that can't be allowed and so he must work overtime to complete a new environment, be a diplomat and get ready for the visit.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304538427
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This hardbound edition of the 6th novel in the series brings back some of Tom's old friend: his Space Friends. Since their first interaction Tom has tried to get them to provide details about themselves so he can assist them in their mission to visit the Earth. Until he makes a surprise advancement in how he ""reads"" their symbol messages, he has had frustration after disappointment. Now that he has an understanding he is horrified to find that their ""masters"" have declared their mission a failure and will be recalling them, forever, in just a few short weeks. Now he races against time trying to develop both a vehicle and an environment capable of supporting them. Just when he thinks he has succeeded, disaster strikes. Not only is his new flying environment destroyed, but now the Masters insist the Space Friends won't be the ones coming for a visit, it will be them! Tom knows that can't be allowed and so he must work overtime to complete a new environment, be a diplomat and get ready for the visit.
Pirates and Spaceships
Author: James R. Tucker
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469164337
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Follow the exploits of Bartholomew Jackson, an immigrant from the planet Earth to the stars. His journey from being an unknown, to wealth beyond belief is only the first step. For not only has he become one of the wealthiest men in the known universe, he has also became a target for pirates. Only one thing is wrong with this. Pirates don’t exist! Bart has to prove that not only do they exist, but that they intend to control the wealth of the galaxy. His only help in the coming conflict is a twenty inch tall synthoflesh woman that melds into his body at will, a smartass computer that has become self aware, and three of the most dangerous warriors the galaxy has ever seen. Oh, and an unsane computer hologram that . . . well, you’ll find out. Read the book!
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469164337
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Follow the exploits of Bartholomew Jackson, an immigrant from the planet Earth to the stars. His journey from being an unknown, to wealth beyond belief is only the first step. For not only has he become one of the wealthiest men in the known universe, he has also became a target for pirates. Only one thing is wrong with this. Pirates don’t exist! Bart has to prove that not only do they exist, but that they intend to control the wealth of the galaxy. His only help in the coming conflict is a twenty inch tall synthoflesh woman that melds into his body at will, a smartass computer that has become self aware, and three of the most dangerous warriors the galaxy has ever seen. Oh, and an unsane computer hologram that . . . well, you’ll find out. Read the book!
How to Avoid Huge Ships
Author: John W. Trimmer
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
You are the owner-captain of a luxury fifty-foot trawler motoring across the bay with your family and a few friends one balmy summer evening. Off in the distance, beyond the bridge spanning the waterway, you can make out the lights and shape of a containership moving down the channel. Have you ever wondered what action you must take to keep clear of that fast-approaching ship? This book will tell you how to do so quickly. Conscientious skippers are wise to read this book and discover if a ship's radar will pick up a small boat at night. It is fascinating to learn what is taking place on the bridge or down in the engine room of one of these leviathans as it heads your way. Can it be stopped before it hits you? Learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones by reading this book written for the private boat owner/captain.
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
You are the owner-captain of a luxury fifty-foot trawler motoring across the bay with your family and a few friends one balmy summer evening. Off in the distance, beyond the bridge spanning the waterway, you can make out the lights and shape of a containership moving down the channel. Have you ever wondered what action you must take to keep clear of that fast-approaching ship? This book will tell you how to do so quickly. Conscientious skippers are wise to read this book and discover if a ship's radar will pick up a small boat at night. It is fascinating to learn what is taking place on the bridge or down in the engine room of one of these leviathans as it heads your way. Can it be stopped before it hits you? Learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones by reading this book written for the private boat owner/captain.
Starship-101
Author: Rik de Mora
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1035859327
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
Starship-101 successfully landed on Proxima Centauri-b about twenty years ago, marking humanity’s first interstellar settlement. But with radio messages taking over four years to traverse the vast darkness of space, this fledgling colony has been isolated from Earth. Enter the Clason twins – Tarvin and Harden – the galaxy’s preeminent Superposition Navigators. These brothers can bend the quantum space-time continuum to their will, instantaneously transporting people and cargo across the stars. To revive supply lines and reintegrate Proxima Centauri b into humanity’s network of trade, the Clasons have been contracted to lead a modern resupply mission. Their quantum technology will provide the colony with the latest gadgets and gizmos from home. And the Navigators have another task – returning Starship-101 itself. That aging relic is now a valuable antique, the first testimony that humans can thrive beyond our solar cradle. Join the Clason twins as they quantum-jump across the cosmos on this historic mission of reconnection!
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1035859327
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
Starship-101 successfully landed on Proxima Centauri-b about twenty years ago, marking humanity’s first interstellar settlement. But with radio messages taking over four years to traverse the vast darkness of space, this fledgling colony has been isolated from Earth. Enter the Clason twins – Tarvin and Harden – the galaxy’s preeminent Superposition Navigators. These brothers can bend the quantum space-time continuum to their will, instantaneously transporting people and cargo across the stars. To revive supply lines and reintegrate Proxima Centauri b into humanity’s network of trade, the Clasons have been contracted to lead a modern resupply mission. Their quantum technology will provide the colony with the latest gadgets and gizmos from home. And the Navigators have another task – returning Starship-101 itself. That aging relic is now a valuable antique, the first testimony that humans can thrive beyond our solar cradle. Join the Clason twins as they quantum-jump across the cosmos on this historic mission of reconnection!
Ship Repair Yards
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Production in Shipbuilding Plants
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipbuilding
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Natasha and the Tree
Author: Sherwood Moody
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483426882
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
In the sterile suburb of Smile Valley-feeling as if her neighborhood is blaming her for her mother's death-including her father, brother, and stepmother-eleven-year-old Natasha embarks on a journey into the mouth of a talking tree growing outside her house, a tree that promises Natasha a magical future in becoming a Druid. Inside this world, Natasha discovers an evil company run by an old woman named Mom; the Skinless Man; Rex, a big-nosed midget who carries a whip at all times; and a winged, horned lady named Demola. This company, Natasha quickly discovers, kidnaps children in a UFO and transports them to Alien Headquarters where it forces them onto a conveyor belt machine and turns them into mindless, working adults, all the while unleashing giant bats destroying entire forests planning to flood the entire world with a sea of dragon blood.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483426882
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
In the sterile suburb of Smile Valley-feeling as if her neighborhood is blaming her for her mother's death-including her father, brother, and stepmother-eleven-year-old Natasha embarks on a journey into the mouth of a talking tree growing outside her house, a tree that promises Natasha a magical future in becoming a Druid. Inside this world, Natasha discovers an evil company run by an old woman named Mom; the Skinless Man; Rex, a big-nosed midget who carries a whip at all times; and a winged, horned lady named Demola. This company, Natasha quickly discovers, kidnaps children in a UFO and transports them to Alien Headquarters where it forces them onto a conveyor belt machine and turns them into mindless, working adults, all the while unleashing giant bats destroying entire forests planning to flood the entire world with a sea of dragon blood.
For Treasure Bound
Author: Harry Collingwood
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465511105
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The weather, for some days previous, had been unusually boisterous for the time of year, and had culminated, on the morning on which my story opens, in a “November gale” from the south-west, exceeding in violence any previous gale within the memory of “the oldest inhabitant” of the locality. This is saying a great deal, for I was at the time living in Weymouth, a most delightful summer resort, where, however, the feelings are likely to be more or less harrowed every winter by fearful wrecks on the far-famed and much-dreaded Chesil Beach, which connects the mis- named island of Portland with the mainland. We had dined, as usual, at the primitive hour of one o’clock; and with Bob Trunnion—about whom I shall have more to say anon—I had turned out under the verandah to enjoy our post-prandial smoke, according to invariable usage. My sister Ada would not permit us the indulgence of that luxury indoors, and no conceivable disturbance of the elements could compel us to forego it altogether. We were pacing the verandah side by side, quarter-deck fashion, with our hands behind our backs and our weeds between our teeth, making an occasional remark about the weather as the sheeted rain swept past us, and the trees in the distance and the leaf-denuded shrubs in the garden bowed before the fury of the blast, when a coastguard-man, whom I had occasionally encountered and spoken to in my rambles, came running past, enveloped in oilskins and topped by a sou’-wester. As he went by, seeing us, he shouted, “Ship coming ashore in the West Bay, sir!” and was the next minute at the bottom of the hill, en route, as fast as his legs could carry him, for the town. Our house was situated in a pleasant suburb called Rodwell; the high- road which passed our door led direct to the Smallmouth Sands, at the farther extremity of which was the Chesil Beach; and we conjectured that the coastguard-man had come from the beach along this road to give notice to the chief officer stationed in the town.
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465511105
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The weather, for some days previous, had been unusually boisterous for the time of year, and had culminated, on the morning on which my story opens, in a “November gale” from the south-west, exceeding in violence any previous gale within the memory of “the oldest inhabitant” of the locality. This is saying a great deal, for I was at the time living in Weymouth, a most delightful summer resort, where, however, the feelings are likely to be more or less harrowed every winter by fearful wrecks on the far-famed and much-dreaded Chesil Beach, which connects the mis- named island of Portland with the mainland. We had dined, as usual, at the primitive hour of one o’clock; and with Bob Trunnion—about whom I shall have more to say anon—I had turned out under the verandah to enjoy our post-prandial smoke, according to invariable usage. My sister Ada would not permit us the indulgence of that luxury indoors, and no conceivable disturbance of the elements could compel us to forego it altogether. We were pacing the verandah side by side, quarter-deck fashion, with our hands behind our backs and our weeds between our teeth, making an occasional remark about the weather as the sheeted rain swept past us, and the trees in the distance and the leaf-denuded shrubs in the garden bowed before the fury of the blast, when a coastguard-man, whom I had occasionally encountered and spoken to in my rambles, came running past, enveloped in oilskins and topped by a sou’-wester. As he went by, seeing us, he shouted, “Ship coming ashore in the West Bay, sir!” and was the next minute at the bottom of the hill, en route, as fast as his legs could carry him, for the town. Our house was situated in a pleasant suburb called Rodwell; the high- road which passed our door led direct to the Smallmouth Sands, at the farther extremity of which was the Chesil Beach; and we conjectured that the coastguard-man had come from the beach along this road to give notice to the chief officer stationed in the town.