Steve Szalai

Updated: 06 May 2013 04:31

Reality skewed

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

Day Jobs

How did the famous philosophers support themselves?
1,500 words so far (Short story)
Work in progress

Dragons’ War — Gianna

Gang war kills Gianna
Gianna avenges with the help of a vampire
20,200 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 predominant species
Jerrik are four-armed and somewhat humanoid
Jerrik: The quadrupedal, furred, “Praysing are bloodthirsty animals”
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
30,400 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

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