Scott R Parkin: 16 books

Future wars will be fought with new technologies and even on new planets, but one military constant will remain: the need for human valor. Eleven skilled authors explore science fiction’s military dimension as they rocket toward a doomed interplanetary invasion, grapple with cold-hearted...

Dragons are creatures of legend. Of magic. Of wisdom, nature, and the power of creation. They have been in every culture and mythology since the beginning of time. Writers are creatures of legend. With magic, wisdom, and the power of creation at their fingertips. They, too, are in every culture...

Rex Williams has seen the anger and violence in society escalate in his forty years as a cop, and the weight of that increasing ugliness weighs on his soul. In this science fiction novella of the recent past and near future, Rex discovers a terrifying possibility--that the world's descent into anger...

The Hunt family reunion was an annual event with a cast of hundreds and a budget of not inconsiderable proportions. It's all fun and games until Uncle Burt believes he's been wronged by Aunt Myrna in the bean count contest--an old rift that threatens to break the family apart. When a young man visits...

A modern short tale of one of the lesser creatures of the night set in the story universe of Regency Software Incorporated. Jack Wolf had felt lousy for two days before yet another layoff at Regency Educational Software pushed him over the edge. Though he had survived the semi-annual blood-letting...

Lou Hantz has a secret vice--he loves short Romance novels with a…well…passion. So when he's pulled over for speeding with a passenger seat full of lurid pink paperbacks to be exchanged at his favorite used bookstore, he's primed for the humiliation he is about to endure. But instead of the...

A science fiction short set in the Planetary Assessment Corporation story universe. Joseph Abrams can hear the thistles' constant moaning, as if in deep, incessant pain--but no one else can. When he tries to hack the weeds down, they scream with such penetrating power that he is forced to stop...

In this short story of the near future, beauty isn't skin deep. It's not in the skin at all, but in the cells and the DNA--in the heart of the flesh where the eye cannot see and the mind can only imagine. At least that's how beauty came to be defined after Everett's Virus made appearance irrelevant....

An absurdist fantasy short that explores modern corporate politics through the forms and practices of medieval heraldry. Intrigue is afoot in the royal suites of Regency Software. Newly knighted Davis McKey finds himself embroiled in a territorial dispute between fiefdoms within the Barony of Documentation...

Dieter sacrificed everything to escape over the Berlin Wall into the West—only to have it torn down by political processes a few months after he paid a terrible price for freedom. In the aftermath he is left broken, both physically and emotionally, as he struggles to regain the hope that he lost the day he escaped over die Mauer. A contemporary short story.

A short story that incorporates traditional African lore in a new tale of Man's relationship to the Earth, the animals, and the gods. There was a time when Man and Animal lived together as equals, and shared the vast abundance of Central Africa in common. But that was long ago, before the great rift...

A thud-and-blunder fantasy spoof, featuring the mighty Thews Thongrin, Norse warrior, in his debut short story. When mild-mannered Arlin Anderssen pisses in the magic Pot of Tiergaard, he is transformed into the mighty Thews Thongrin, Norse Warrior, defender of good and scourge of evil....