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From L. Ron Hubbard Golden Pen winner Desmond Astaire comes fourteen short stories spanning time travel to parallel universes to artificial intelligence and beyond, collected in one book for the first time-including new stories never seen before.
A cop can stop time, but at an irreversible cost. A bartender with a vendetta against the future must determine if his customer is a time traveling tourist. Two angels discuss the meaning of life in a godless universe over lattes. An FBI agent and his witch confidential informant hunt for an interstate killer using magic bullets. An Air Force staff sergeant vanished for nine days but was years older when found. Do you believe the government's story or the Otherworld Theory?
Get lost in a labyrinth of imagination in this first collection of speculative fiction stories by award-winning, best-selling author Desmond Astaire.
Stories featured in Epoch-1:
Cherenkov Time
Don't Speak to the Children
Gale's Universal Escape Plan
Gallows
It's a Nash Equilibrium, Then
Just a Latte
Laurel Leaves' Message
Love, Hate, and Dog Brain
Obsidian Grackle
Old Dean
Paranorm
Peacemaker Awakens
The Otherworld Theory
You are the Mother of Doomsday
Astaire
Desmond Astaire is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and paranormal fiction. He was first published by Galaxy Press in 2022 and has since published stories in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. In his other life, Astaire is a superintendent for a military public relations unit, where he supervises the training and operations of multimedia content creators. Astaire lives in Central Illinois with his wife and son. He is the recipient of awards including the L. Ron Hubbard Golden Pen, the Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Medal, and the Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for Science Fiction.
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