Vaughan Stanger: 13 books

The Ultimate Show brings together four of Vaughan Stanger's published SF and fantasy stories, this time on theme of entertainment. Each of these tales pokes a probing finger into a favourite leisure-time activity,mining them for fun and horror, sometimes simultaneously. So, if you've ever stared in...

Sons of the Earth collects thirteen of Vaughan Stanger's published science fiction, fantasy and mystery stories in a single volume. Four of these stories have not previously appeared in e-book form**. A Walk in the Woods ** Invisible Touch ** Dying of the Light The Peace Criminal Bee Futures...

First and Third is a rollicking SF romp featuring hijacked robots, uploaded personalities, a digital afterlife and nuclear-powered motorbikes--set on a partially terraformed Mars. All this in a short story of 7000 words. This is what Sam Tomaino has to say about it in his review of Postscripts...

Human Nature collects three science fiction stories written by Vaughan Stanger, which were originally published in the "Futures" column of the prestigious science research journals Nature and Nature Physics during 2008-2010. "Dark They Were, and Strange Inside" was rated...

Alternate Apollos collects three short stories by Vaughan Stanger on the theme of counterfactual moon-landing missions.Rather than focus on the details of Apollo missions that never happened or turned out differently to those described in our history books, these stories show how the participants...

Moondust Memories brings together eleven of Vaughan Stanger's personal favourites from his published science fiction. Ten of these short stories have previously appeared in Kindle editions, while the eleventh is the seed for his novel-in-progress. Stories included in this collection: -...

Originally published in Stillwaters Journal (2002), In Deep with Janine is a short story that might just send you diving into the deep end. So, hold your breath and take the plunge. But be careful down there... In a review of this story, Marshall Payne wrote: "Most of Vaughan Stanger's...

On a near-future Earth, a teacher who had lost everything that matters to her--her husband and her job--faces an agonising decision. Can she let go of the past and grasp the future that is being offered to her?Family Tree is an intriguing and moving science fiction story that explores an alternate...

Touching Distance is a tense and disturbing short story about a blind man participating in an innovative virtual reality experiment that aims to equip people like him with a tactile map of their surroundings. As the experiment proceeds, he realises that a harrowing incident from his recent past is...

The English Dead is a science fiction short story that explores the abiding mystery of whether George Mallory and "Sandy" Irvine could have reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1924, twenty-nine years before the first successful ascent by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.From the review...

'Reeves Indeed!' collects a short series of humorous, all-dialogue science fiction stories that present the adventures of robot butler Reeves, who serves (after a fashion) his master in a linked sequence of ever-more bizarre and apocalyptic situations.This collection includes the...

This ebook collects two of my war-themed alternative history stories: The Peace Criminal and The Eye Patch Protocol. Both stories explore the great "what ifs" of Twentieth Century history, and will appeal to lovers of thought-provoking, character-based fiction. The Peace Criminal...

Stars in Her Eyes is an exciting SF short story that presents an unusual First Contact scenario, in which an obsessive young woman tries to communicate with aliens through the medium of a consensus dream. Jerome Dalton must decide whether to help or hinder Lenora's project, which holds out the prospect...