Alternate Realities: A Scifi Book Club discussion

A collection of interwoven SF and fantasy tales told in chronological order. We open in Kansas in the year 1936 and conclude 200 years later at the Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital in NYC.


DUST - An eight year old boy, living in Kansas during the Great Depression, has visions in the middle of a dust storm.

POLARIS – An inventor builds a troubled robot assistant.

THE DARLING CHAIR – A female scientist experiments with a flying force bubble.

KING JON AND THE SHEPHERD – A government agent captures a lost alien king.

GENEVIEVE – A 16 year old girl, kidnapped and turned into a ruthless killing machine, makes her way back home.

GLASS – A soldier volunteers for a suicide mission on a distant planet.

CAPTAIN ANDREWS CAME HOME – An astronaut, lost in space for 40 years, finally returns to Earth.

STILL – A woman and a soldier interact in the midst of an interdimensional alien invasion.

THERMAL - A man, starving and freezing in the Alaskan outback, stumbles upon an abandoned research lab.

BROTHER NIGHT – A drug addled psychiatrist is introduced to a strange young woman.