Steve Szalai

Updated: 28 November 2020 17:08
Stories and Biography
Steve's photo and bio
I write Science Fiction and Fantasy stories.
Stories I have written or am writing:
Alien Welcome
- Alien spaceship hovers over the White House
- 1,250 words (Short story)
- Submitted to publisher
Aythaxbin
- Trade mission to Earth - they want live sharks
- Aythaxbin - the ship
- Serrlayn - the pilot
- Vik - the trade emissary
- 9,400 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
- 17,500 words (Novelette)
- Proofing
Committed
- Committed to a mental institution for parthenogenesis
- 16,400 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
Efendi
- Five females, and one of the oldest beings in the universe, on a space ship
- 5,300 words so far (Short story)
- Work in progress
Eugenica
- Two billion people disappear
- 500 words (Flash Fiction / Short story)
- Seeking publication
Eugenica (The Second Fifty Years)
- One billion people disappear
- 350 words (Flash Fiction / Short story)
- Seeking publication
Fate’s Adjuster
- An agent of Fate visits a village
- 5,200 words (Short story)
- Submitted to publisher
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
- 2,700 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
Keep Your Children Safe
- A gated community to keep families safe
- 1,800 words so far (Short story)
- Work in progress
The Last Androids
- A dark future after the 2019 Depression
- Androids hunted and destroyed
- A man who doesn’t age
- 5,800 words (Short story)
- Submitted to publisher
Livia
- More than 500 people suffocate in space research center in Florida
- Three women meet a god
- 3,600 words (Short story)
- Work in progress
Marchak
- Misogynist world
- Trigger-happy woman fights back
- 9,500 words (Novelette)
- Submitted to publisher
Meduro
- Initial survey found no extant intelligent life
- Archaeological Survey dispatched to catalog the only building on the planet
- The survey team includes a killer
- They find intelligent life, and it bites
- 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
- 2,000 words (Short story)
- Submitted to publisher
Miriya
- Refugee aliens, now fearing discovery by humans, send their daughter home to Murrurra
- Earth is the only home Miriya knows
- 4,100 words so far (Short story)
- Work in progress
Nightmare Star
- Are the nightmares real? Who's in control?
- She did sign the contract with blood.
- 1,300 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
Path of the Dragon
- Time loses continuity
- Three friends are chosen to find the Path
- Mishla becomes a witch
- 10,100 words (Short story)
- Submitted to publisher
Pointing Forward
- First encounter - aliens come to Earth
- 290,000 words (Novel)
- Reviewing critiques
Pointing Forward II
- 64,400 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
- 13,100 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
- 3,000 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
- Vampire and her teen night club
- 14,200 words (Novelette)
- Honourable mention in 2nd Quarter 2010 Writers of the Future contest
- Submitted to publisher
Vulpes
- A lab-raised fox, stranded 20 light years from Earth, adapts
- Colonists arrive 50 years later
- 3,400 words (Short story)
- Editing
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
- 15,600 words (Novelette)
- Proofing
Yetherel Chronicles - Ryal
- A demon elf follows prophesies to defend against a dragon
- 127,700 words so far (Novel)
- Work in progress
You Can't Have Our Magic
- Twin sisters given up to government agency
- Government wants magical weapons
- 1,500 words (Short story)
- Submitted to publisher

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