AuthorsDen.com   Join | Login    
Where Authors and Readers come together!

SIGNED BOOKS    AUTHORS    BOOKS    SAMPLE CHAPTERS    AUDIOBOOKS    eBOOKS    STORIES    ARTICLES    POETRY    BLOGS    NEWS    VIDEOS    SUCCESS    TESTIMONIALS

Featured Authors:  Dadfire, iGwendolyn Thomas Gath, iPaul Lonardo, iMr. Ed, iLinda Alexander, iAlexander Shaumyan, iBetty Jo Tucker, iMargaret Evans, iShannon MacLeod, iEdie Batstone, i

  Home > Literary Fiction > Books Popular: Books, Stories, Articles, Poetry      Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z     

webname Archullus

 Follow Me  

· Contact Me
· Books
· 4 Titles
· Add to My Library
· Share with Friends!
·
Member Since: Sep, 2009

webname Archullus, click here to update your pages on AuthorsDen.


Master of the Universe
by webname Archullus   
Books by webname Archullus
· Ice Made and Other Stories
· Ice Made
· An Empty Bucket    >> View all

See larger image

Kindle Edition
Master of the Universe

Category:  Literary Fiction
Pages: 89

Copyright: 
31/01/2013

Short stories: a city trader, non-paternity events, dark matter galaxies and a deal to clean up the planet. Plus heroic fantasy... what could go wrong?

Master of the Universe and other stories

 

Master of the Universe

 

Genre Fiction

How near have you been to the halls of power? What was it like? Were you seduced? Do you find yourself attracted by a life of affluence, collecting the rare and the unique simply in order to deny others the chance to do the same? What would it take to change your point of view? And if you did, would you look at your collection of pointless plenty the same way?

Master of the Universe tells of a city trader (who else?) with a big secret. He’s done well for himself, yet his life is full of worthless trivia. A twist at the end.


 

Derelict

 

Science Fiction

At great expense an exploration and survey vessel is commissioned and is investigating VIRGOHI121. If you’re into astronomy you’ll know that this is a place where the proportion of dark matter to normal matter is abnormally high. Dark matter galaxies can be risky and if you find a space derelict there, you can bet the risk factor goes up. Just to make things interesting UK-WorldGov (the British Empire in all but name) is sponsoring this mission.


 

Night of Life

 

Science Fiction / Romance

Humanity are putting a lot of effort into cleaning up the planet. That’s the deal or they won’t get access to star drive technology. You see the earth has just been discovered by aliens – the epheleri. By day Eddy works the Mississippi levees; after dark he hooks into shared dream world – Night of Life. By the way, nobody knows what an epheleri looks like. Take it from there Eddy…


 

Cuckoo

 

Science Fiction / Bildungsroman

…is the sequel to Night of Life. Naturally it has aliens in, but it also deals with Gene-Capture – adultery for those who prefer straight talking. An eye-opener on the whole male-female relationship.

Check out http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/axhsk5/nonpaternity.htm

What a can of worms. Will you ever look at your partner the same?


 

Joe

 

Science Fiction

The Earth has been overrun by xenophids – giant sized creatures from outer-space. Joe is trying to contact survivors and he’s looking for them in the Appalachians. Humanity is on the brink of extinction, yet not everyone he meets is pulling the same way. First Contact with a vengeance. Shades of Orson Welles!


 

Flower to Tree

 

Science Fiction

Flower to Tree is a human colony. Scratch that – was a human colony.

A prequel to Joe with a twist at the end.


 

City

 

Fantasy

“The Colera drifted on, an endless flow from mountain… …to Turalam, a jewel in the dusty canvas of the plains.”

City - a darker underside to fantasy.


 

Orby

 

Heroic Fantasy

Brant is a knight errant and he’s off to Orby to buy one of the famed Brychon ponies. His work is risk, adventure and doomed quests. Orby is a township in the troubled kingdom of Elinor. It also happens to be the place where Princess Aralie, the rightful heir, is held captive. What could go wrong?


 

Where Wild Things Play

 

Mythic Fantasy

Brant is in a bleak mood. He has left Orby and is in Brychon Woods. These woods are supposed to be the haunt of Soul Bleeds and Night Frights, creatures that feed off emotions. Where Brant comes from, such creatures are considered superstitious nonsense. What could go wrong?

 



     



Excerpt

excerpt from 'Flower to Tree'

Fszzt. Fszzt.
Aellyn shrugged aside the bitter wind. Her parents were here. They'd been here many days, well over a week. Here in Flower to Tree.
Flower to Tree.
Beware its honour guard of wired fencing tangled into thickets of mesh, held tight by the serrated tears to its fabric. A deadly trap of tangled wire. Razor edged. Not to be approached.
Look at the control tower. Gaping sections made the edifice ragged. Three stories high - topped by a mast that drooped at a doleful angle.
Fszzt. Fszzt.
The sound echoed dully through fresh ruins. The little still standing hadn't had time to fall down.
A recent depredation. No new signs. Yet.
In places partly fallen masonry gave the illusion of shelter. A bitter comfort in these left over shreds of a former settlement.
Flower to Tree was become ruin.

Beyond this ruin, fields already showed signs of returning to their native biology. Alien biology. No longer kept at bay.
And at the edges of those fields, a mile or so distant, were the static forms that constituted life on this planet. Immobile. Twisted strangely. Weirdly shaped.
Fszzt, fszzt.
That sound from before. But what?


Want to review or comment on this book?


Need a FREE Reader Membership?

Popular Literary Fiction Books
  1. Raji, Book One: Octavia Pompeii
  2. Ten Tales, a short story collection
  3. Missa Solemnis
  4. Autumn Run
  5. The Length of the World: Cian
  6. Daze Gone Bye
  7. The Apple Tree Blossoms in the Fall
  8. Dreamer On The Mountain; Pine Valley;
  9. Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Musi
  10. Coruscated Confabulations: Oh! The Hum
  11. In the Shadows: A Final Twist Antholog
  12. ECHOSIS
  13. 3 WAY MIRROR
  14. He Was Weird
  15. Helios
  16. Celts and Kings
  17. Montana Mu (Book 3 of the Mu Series)
  18. Breaking Out
  19. Restless Waves
  20. Pieces of Eight
  21. A God Named Joe
  22. First the Raven
  23. The Way It Was: Short Stories and Tall
  24. I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
  25. Drifting and Floating Toward Mu

Free Book Review Program
Select a book to read and review today!

Dreamer On The Mountain; Pine Valley; Book Four by Corrine Ardoin

Book Four in my Pine Valley Series continues the story about the quirky residents of a fictitious rural community somewhere in California.  
Member BookAds

Montana Mu (Book 3 of the Mu Series) by Laura Cavanaugh

Part Three in the Mu Series - Sarah Thompson reluctantly abandons her desperate search for her soul mate on Maui and returns to her Montana hometown. Her brother has had a terrible accident...  
Member BookAds

A God Named Joe by Peter Jessop

It's the Devil who runs heaven and God is actually a vagrant called Joe.  
Member BookAds