Steve Szalai
Updated: 27 Jul 2010 20:48
Aspiring Author
I write Science Fiction and Fantasy short stories, novelettes, novellas, and novels.
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
- 8,200 words so far (Novelette)
- Work in progress
Cats, Bats, and Frilligsnargers
- Boarding house residents — humans, fae, and a vampire — fight an interdimensional attack on New York
- 7,200 words (Short story)
- Proofing
Committed
- Committed to a mental institution for attempting suicide by childbirth
- 4,400 words so far (Short story)
- Work in progress
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
Fate’s Adjustor
- An agent of Fate visits a village
- 4,400 words (Short story)
- Proofing
Glimpse
- Time travel, future society
- 12,800 words (Novelette)
- Reviewing critiques
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
Marchak
- Misogynist world
- Trigger-happy woman fights back
- 9,400 words (Novelette)
- Submitted to publisher
Memories
- Sara wants four years of memories back
- Memories may help her, if she pays his price
- They barter for canned food and sex
- 1,500 words (Short story or flash fiction)
- 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
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
- Sword seeks its fated master
- 11,100 words so far (Novelette)
- 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
Yavun
- A woman, a male, and an asexual, kidnapped by a living space ship
- 14,900 words (Novelette)
- Proofing
Yetherel Chronicles - Ryal
- A demon elf follows prophesies to defend against a dragon
- 24,000 words so far (Novella)
- Work in progress
A little about me:
Contact Steve
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