Steve Szalai
Updated: 24 Jan 2015 09:32
Stories and Biography
Steve's photo and bio
I write Science Fiction and Fantasy stories.
Stories I have written or am writing:
Aythaxbin
- Trade mission to Earth - they want live sharks
- Aythaxbin - the ship
- Serrlayn - the pilot
- Vik - the trade emissary
- 8,900 words so far (Novelette)
- Work in progress
Bril - Human Pandemic
- Detectives investigate a homicide complicated by a deadly disease pandemic
- 4,700 words so far (Short story)
- Work in progress
Cats, Bats, and Frilligsnargers
- Boarding house residents — humans, a witch, fae, and a vampire — fight an interdimensional attack on New York
- 17,400 words (Novelette)
- Proofing
Committed
- Committed to a mental institution for attempting suicide by childbirth
- 14,200 words (Novelette)
- Submitted to publisher
Cure for the Common Cold
- Chemist/biologist cures the cold
- Military develops it into a weapon
- Very political
- 10,900 words (Novelette)
- Proofing
Dawn
- Dystopian future
- Political change in the wind
- 3,900 words so far (Short story)
- Way down on my pile of things to do
Dragons’ War — Gianna
- Gang war kills Gianna
- Gianna avenges with the help of a vampire
- 21,100 words (Novella)
- Proofing
Dreamer
- Uprising against alien occupation
- 30,000 words (Novella)
- Proofing
Eugenica
- Half the world’s population dies
- 500 words so far (Short story)
- Work in progress
Fate’s Adjustor
- An agent of Fate visits a village
- 4,700 words (Short story)
- Proofing
First Glance At Gerran
- Humans establish contact with Gerran’s two dominant species
- Jerrik are four-armed and somewhat humanoid
- The Jerrik see the quadrupedal, furred, Praysing as bloodthirsty animals
- The Praysing agree, but note the Jerrik murder rate dwarfs the Praysing rate
- 2,600 words so far (Short story)
- Work in progress
Glimpse
- Time travel, future society
- 12,800 words (Novelette)
- Reviewing critiques
Istvan and Meera
- Magic technology and “savages”
- 11,200 words so far (Novelette)
- Work in progress
The Last Androids
- A dark future after the 2009 Depression
- Androids hunted and destroyed
- A man who doesn’t age
- 5,700 words (Short story)
- Submitted to publisher
Livia
- More than 500 people suffocate in space research center near Houston, Texas
- Madison Evans, VP - Space Exploration, Mistral Corporation, investigates and meets a god
- 1,100 words (Short story)
- Work in progress
Marchak
- Misogynist world
- Trigger-happy woman fights back
- 9,400 words (Novelette)
- Submitted to publisher
Meduro
- Initial survey found no extant intelligent life
- Archeological Survey dispatched to catalog the only building on the planet
- 32,300 words (Novella)
- Proofing
Memories
- Sara wants four years of memories back
- Memories may help her, if she pays his price - food and sex
- 1,600 words (Short story)
- Publisher rejected and suggested expanding to a novella
Miriya
- Refugee aliens, now fearing discovery by humans, send their daughter home to Murrurra
- Earth is the only home Miriya knows
- 4,000 words so far (Short story)
- Work in progress
Objet d’Art
- An alien artifact and a wager about human genocide
- 3,000 words so far (Short story)
- Work in progress
Pointing Forward
- First encounter - aliens come to Earth
- 290,000 words (Novel)
- Reviewing critiques
Pointing Forward II
- 64,200 words so far (Novel)
- Work in progress
The Realtors
- Alien realtors want to take possession of Earth for their clients
- 5,600 words so far (Short story)
- Way down on my pile of things to do
Roy the Mugician
- Musician/magician in a modern world
- Dragon
- (A serial; so far 5 parts)
- 2,600, 1,100, 4,200, 5,500, 5,500 words (Short stories or novella)
- Reviewing critiques
Critique readers have asked me to write more chapters;
considering how to proceed
SeShen
- Natural-born cyborg
- 34,000 words so far (Novella)
- Work in progress
Shahinfar
- World ship rescues the last 30 survivors of a species
- 12,700 words so far (Novelette)
- Work in progress
Shel’lak
- Woman kidnapped by a space ship
- 24,500 words so far (Novella)
- Work in progress
Sparky
- Alien looking for recipe on Earth
- 4,000 words (Short story)
- Proofing
Suspension of Belief
- Space hero in tights saves the day, sort of
- 2,700 words (Short story)
- Submitted to publisher
Sword of Despair
- An insulting ferret, a farm boy, and a princess are pawns of the Fates
- An Era of the Sword begins a thousand years of Light or Despair
- Many take the Sword’s test and regret it
- 37,500 words so far (Novella)
- Work in progress
Szabay
Vulpes
- A lab-raised fox, stranded 20 light years from Earth, adapts
- Colonists arrive 50 years later
- 1,800 words (Short story)
- Submitted to publisher
Witch Trials
- Swift justice brings safety and prosperity to America
- 1,600 words (Short story)
- Published in Island Writer magazine (Volume 11, Issue 1, Summer 2013)
- Published online via Smashwords.com (2 August 2013 - Free download)
Yavun
- A woman, a male, and an asexual, kidnapped by a living space ship
- 14,800 words (Novelette)
- Proofing
Yetherel Chronicles - Ryal
- A demon elf follows prophesies to defend against a dragon
- 80,700 words so far (Novel)
- Work in progress
A little about me:
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