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

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