F Hampton Carmine: 22 books

The wheeze of his own breathing was the only sound inside his spacesuit's helmet. The only sights were the cyclic views of stars, the moon, and the large blue ball of the Earth through his visor as he slowly tumbled in a rapidly decaying orbit. His eyes were fixed straight ahead, uncaring, empty of...

Sue wanted to go home, she always wanted to go home. The teachers and staff here were nice enough but it wasn't home. She did not feel that different. Not different enough to have to live here in this place. It seemed like a school some times and a prison at other times. Nothing was hers, she had...

The Life Science Research Group facility on Europa was silent. The drilling command center had become hushed as they reached and passed the depth of eighty kilos through the solid ice crust of Europa. They had been drilling for three long Terran years to reach this point, the transition to liquid....

Mariposa had been stillborn in the forest. Tomas had wrapped her in a foil blanket and laid her aside and tended to his wife uttering a cry of relief when she roused. “Oh, thank God! I thought I had lost both her and you.”“Lost! Her? No, no!” Maria had shouted then struggling to sit...

“Child's Femur Found in Memorial Park.” He read the headline and threw the paper down onto the table knocking his steaming cup of coffee into his crotch.   “Shit. Shit. Shit!” Spencer Grier jumped up and danced around flapping his robe like a giant angry butterfly. “Who the hell makes...

Tom Bradon had come a long way from his early years in an orphanage run by a fanatical religious order. He had often been accused of and punished for using magic and consorting with evil spirits throughout his stay there. Now, as an adult, he was an archeologist, a college professor, and the leader...

Alexander Browning looked in the mirror. Looking back at him was a zombie from a horror show. His hair had not been cut in a year and hung uncombed in a riot of brown and gray tangles. His beard grew wild and matted with bits of his latest meal. A Grateful Dead t-shirt with so many holes that the...

“But it's a primitive planet. The dominant species has barely conquered gravity enough to put satellites into orbit,” a scientist at the conference said. “They have no control over the weather and their world's oceans show high levels of toxicity. They are just too primitive.”“Still,”...

Three short stories exploring man's journey with and towards the machine. “Life is But a Dream” explores human intelligence and soul in a machine. “More Machine Than Human” explores the move towards Cyborgs and beyond. “An Arm and a Leg” explores what a society will give up to survive....

David Rheinbrücke has been different for all of his twenty-five years on this Earth. Even at birth, He was an FLK. That's medical slang for funny looking kid, used when they know something just not right. As he grew, he continued to look different. A throwback, people said many times, especially...

John had long ago found a philosophically neutral ground between his own christian upbringing and his chosen field of study; evolutionary biology. He had struggled for many years over the disparity between the Bible's explanations of the origins of life and the best theories derived from the collected...

"How bright her eyes had been." A solitary tear dripped from Mark Fields’ stoic chin onto the lifeless form below. He sighed heavily, his shoulders sagging as his strength flowed from him with his breath. His hand crept along the silky lining of the casket and fleetingly caressed each...

Moira stood unmoving on the highest prominence outside the cliff-side entrance to her cave home, a hundred long strides up the cliff in tier fifteen. She watched some of her friends as they leaped unfettered into the bright and clear air to hitch rides on the large broward leaves that drifted down...

Jon had never felt so utterly alone, so isolated. Tears blurred his vision as the absoluteness of that isolation finally became real to him. His fiancee had broken it off two hands of periods ago, telling him there was no point in continuing. He had made his choices. He had accepted the mission. After...