Neil Dabb: 18 books

Lew Dabb always wanted to see his stories in print in the public domain, but passed away before that could become a reality. Space Age Blacksmith Bill Hades made notes on his clipboard. Unlike most clipboards, this one had a digital display in the upper right corner, and its electronic clock was ticking...

Stephen Alphonzo was an arbitrator on Altron until an accident left him blind. After the accident he learned the art of blacksmithing in a remote village, and lived there happily with his daughter until a young visitor from the space port arrived and asked him for help. What begins as a simple visit...

Meserplunkt is a pirate captain of a ship called the Silver Raven. While on the Pole, a planet used by pirates for carnal pleasures, Meserplunkt finds a map to the Dragonworld, and the treasures hidden there. Before he can steal the treasure he must thwart the plans of his mutinous first mate and then avoid the intrigue of a civil war taking place on the Dragonworld.

It is difficult to write a stage play in a science fiction setting, but with a bit of creative back stage work these two one act plays should satisfy some of the fans out there. The Astro Repair Shop. When space travel becomes commonplace the need for shops to repair these space vessels...

I once read the preface to a book of short stories, where the author told of making a fair amount on each of his stories individually, but not enough to justify the time he spent on each story, and then how he made up for it on the stories as an anthology. I have made precious little on the stories...

Stephen Alphonso was a blind blacksmith who had been given his sight back after forging a treaty with the knifewriaths, a nocturnal savage race on his home world of Altron. In this new adventure the treaty is strained to the breaking point as his son and nephew come home for a visit, and what is worse,...

On a distant planet a time machine is waking from several millennia of slumber while Jefferson Hayes seeks it’s secrets. In the mean time Cal Wheams is taking time away from his writing to pursue one of his other hobbies, that of a toy maker. With the awakening of the machine a mysterious visitor...

On the planet Tortuga, the owner of the bar, Condo Martin, has apparently died. As pirates from around the sector come to pay their respects Condo's nephew, CC arrives with his mothers remains and takes over the bar. While CC is learning the ropes, Meserplunkt and Griff learn of another legendary...

A mysterious box and a disappearing tattoo are the keys to unlimited treasure, as well as the final nail in the coffin for the Trading Company, the bane of Meserplunkt and the other Pirates of Orion's Belt. Percy was stranded on the cursed planet and lost most of his 21 lives. Now he is free...

The presses had behaved themselves for several years, until the terrorists blew up an inhabited planet, the first of a three pronged attack that would pit Cal Wheams against an old enemy and leave the common man wondering how much of the war had been the starving presses begging for attention.

As a young boy, Meserplunkt learned of the location of the second legendary treasure. A planet where jewel fountains provide all the treasure a pirate could desire, if they can keep the planet from eating them, ship and all. Now Meserplunt must figure out how to keep his ship and crew from being eaten, by negotiating a peace between the planet and the trees that live there.

A simple stop at the Hangman’s Noose for a drink leads Sherri on an adventure to help a new found race in the gray mists of subspace end a war between the other two groups that live there. She will work with the owner of the Hangman’s Noose and with the help of four other customers defeat an arms dealer and bring peace to the creatures of subspace.

25 years ago, Cal Wheams worked on a time machine. Now a timeship captain is asking for his help to move a planet that has been pulled into the past back to it’s appropriate place in the present. Meanwhile, Angela, his wife, must keep a group of rebel rodents from destroying the planet when it returns.

When The Press Wars break out, they leave Calvin Wheams, an investigative reporter is trapped on a small world where a possible solution to the two presses differences lies. In order to survive till help arrives he takes cover with a beautiful local reporter. Help arrives in the form of his...