The Progression Anthology

     This collection of short stories includes pilots for the novels. Each story is listed individually to make it easy for you to access.

The Rek Tales
     The three short stories Mt. Iron Ordeal, Ilnictor Met and Venzorball are the pilot stories for the Rek character in the novel Reign of the Gray-Eyed Kings. This was the light side of Rek's adventurous nature.

Author's notes:

Genre: Fantasy
Year completed: 1985
Size: 14,000 words or 80k download in text format
Rating: PG

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Time Walk
     A short story written the night the space shuttle Challenger exploded.

Author's notes:

Genre: Science Fiction
Year completed: 1986
Size: 330 words or 2k download in text format
Rating: G

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Loyalty
     Robots now have loyalty circuits to help keep them faithful servants of their buyer. But, what if the loyalty programming is too good?

Author's notes:

Genre: Science Fiction
Year completed: 1987
Size: 4,200 words or 25k download in text format
Rating: PG

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Monroe's Demise
     This murder mystery features the Martin Irza and Bernin Vant characters from Prophesy of a Memory. Many of the aliens in this story were borrowed from an old TRS-80 adventure game Ambrose' Arena © Charles E. Weindorf 1984.

Author's notes:

Genre: Science Fiction
Year completed: 1988
Size: 8,300 words or 50k download in text format
Rating: PG-13

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The ServiceGroup
     This serial was published in six parts in the ADP News and Views automation newsletter. The story combines virtual reality with customer service in the real world. But, what would an automation story be without a good virus?

Author's notes:

Genre: Science Fiction
Year completed: 1991
Size: 14,000 words or 83k download in text format
Rating: PG-13

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Creating the Majority
     Do laws change the next generation of voters?

Author's notes:

Genre: Science Fiction
Year completed: 1991
Size: 1,300 words or 8k download in text format
Rating: PG-13

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Designed by the People, without the People, for the People...
     Electronic publishing not only becomes common, it is the only way to publish. How does history survive without the audit trail?

Author's notes:

Genre: Science Fiction
Year completed: 1993
Size: 8,600 words or 53k download in text format
Rating: PG

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Pessimistic Anticipation
     Explorers discover a world with a gigantic land predator - that has no sense of sight, hearing or sound. Yet, each time it rises to hunt it makes a kill. A scientist struggles to solve the riddle before the captured monster decides to eat again. This story is a prelude to a feature length novel that will be completed in 1997.

Author's notes:

Genre: Science Fiction
Year completed: 1993
Size: 19,600 words or 118k download in text format
Rating: PG-13

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