Some Other Novels and Short Stories

by Mark L Casper

FLOWERS AND BEYOND

My fascination and love of Astronomy, and the sciences, acted as the catalyst to inspire me to write this 79,750 word novel, FLOWERS AND BEYOND. The amazing strides that will be made in the area of future space travel, without the common "space war mentality", and bizarre looking extra terrestrials, presents a much more realistic approach. I somehow found myself being just a spectator, given the opportunity of witnessing the sights, smells, and the sounds, of the horror of the melanoma plague that consumes much of the population of Earth, only to be overtaken by mankind's ongoing will to invent, explore, and colonize.

The visualization I have of the detailed construction of the space stations, spacecraft, and star ship, and the breathtaking celestial bodies that encompass our universe, exhorted me on to display it graphically in my book. I want the readers to feel a connection with the characters who are brought to life, through their personal hardships and triumphs, while tapping their most inner fears and wide range of emotions. In addition, my goal is to energize a wide audience, especially teenagers and senior adults, via my descriptions of the magnificent galaxies with all of it's treasures, in a novel that is not overly lengthy.

In FLOWERS AND BEYOND, the subplots, begin in the year 2093, from the threat of nuclear annihilation, to the race to deploy faster spacecraft for the mass exodus from Earth to the moon, Europa. Ultimately, six astronauts make contact with other planetary Homo-sapiens who have answers to questions that humankind has always pondered.

DISTRAUGHT MINDS

In Distraught Minds, the mind games that are employed to generate the hatred displayed by two genetically engineered scientists, in order that they carry out the insane dreams of several power hungry subversives, renders itself at the core of the story. Though the two young, brainwashed geniuses succeed, by causing the death of a multitude of innocent people, they are ultimately seen as the victims of the deep secrets, that are conceived at the hands of the KGB. In the end, the third secretly cloned human, is the only one left, who can bring some form of justice to prevail in a world overwhelmed with high-technology, yet overshadowed with a mix of love and deceit. This novel brings to light the acts of what nourishes both the violent and the propaganda wars that fall into a genre that intertwines itself, into a Sci-Fi thriller, reshaped, with "what if?" plausible happenings, factored in.

Shorts stories such as

  THE RADIO IN THE ROOM

and

THE PILOT

are just some of my new mind-bending science fiction thrillers similar to the Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits episodes.