End Times

By Kalifer Deil

End Times is a collection of four scifi short stories. Ex World Leader (meets an alien judge), The Survivor (In the aftermath of global warming), Corpus Deletum (The androids loved him to death) and The Picnic (An incidental meeting with The Universe's programmers). There is some sex in Corpus Deletum but it is not graphically described.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kalifer Deil
• Release date: Oct 15, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452325958

Kalifer Deil

Kalifer Deil is the pen name of Gary Feierbach a Silicon Valley computer software and hardware engineer. His technical publications are under Gary Feierbach. All others are under Kalifer Deil. He has a BA in Physics and Mathematics and an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.He has worked on computer architecture, design, engineering management, and systems and application software for NASA, Intergraph, Sun and Apple.He has only recently devoted most of his time to writing. Most of his works would be classified as hard science fiction. Hopefully it is in the spirit of Issac Asimov but generally a bit more gritty and less inhibited. Please visit his website http://www.kaliferdeil.com for some free stories, poems and other oddities or go to http://www.speculativescience.com for more information

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End Times

by Kalifer Deil

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Copyright 2010 Kalifer Deil

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With the exception of the first story, a light parody of Henry Kissinger, the characters and their portrayal are the products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to people living or dead is coincidental.

Second Edition, Revised 8/31/2012

Table of contents

Ex-World Leader

These aliens were looking for the smartest man on Earth to help adjudicate the future history of Earth. They ended up with Henry Kissingweig who did a bang-up job.

The Survivor

Global warming reached its apex with everything turning worst case then the unthinkable happened.

Corpus Deletum

He loved the three beautiful androids and they loved him. He would do anything for them, and he did.

The Picnic

Damien and Christy went on a picnic. Their objectives were quite different. The result, well, it was very different as well.

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Ex-World Leader

Bz Ptfarker (he will call himself Busy) was Almosian by birth but lived on Outpost 3 most of his 380 years (about 200 Earth Years). He studied the ice bars in his glass of three-way life tonic (Outpost 3’s recipe for daily nutrient dose and life extender.) This was his first role as an alien adjudicator and though this was clearly a cut-and-dried situation, he wanted to make sure all the formal requirements were met, precisely and explicitly. He didn’t want to repeat the mistake Chork made 103 years ago. That’s the last time this had happened in this part of the Galaxy and it cost Chork his life not to mention receiving a dishonorable place in Galactic history. How that could have happened to Chork was still beyond him. Intellectually he understood, but emotionally, well, it may take some time yet. Inferior involvement is not an Almosian trait.

Busy mentally charted a series of instructions to the three Tanders (a subservient race of entertainment and service value.) They responded quickly, synchronously, with a rhythm that, although unnecessary for efficient operation, was pleasing to Busy. He had affection for them and, dispensable though they may be, he would miss them if he had to sacrifice them in the line of duty. Of course, he would if he had to; he would not sacrifice his mission or his rightful place in history over such a petty issue as having company on the way back to Outpost Three.

Quickly he scanned a deluge of Earth television broadcasts to assess and reassess. Mostly reruns anyway, not much new information. The radar gave them away, then the TV broadcasts. No caution,