Collected Stories: Science Fiction 3

By Seth Giolle

This is Volume 3 for my Science Fiction stories. These stories bring in space travel, genetic manipulation, and other fun science fiction elements.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Dec 23, 2013
• ISBN: 9781304741288

Seth Giolle

Seth Giolle was born on a small, rural farm in southeast Ontario. After Travelling throughout Canada in all its splendour, he once again makes Ontario his home.

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Collected Stories

Science Fiction

By Seth Giolle

Volume 3

Other Works by the Author:

The Bonds that Bind

Book 1 of the Legacy of Auk Tria Yus

The Foundations of Power

Book 2 of the Legacy of Auk Tria Yus

Breadth of Legend

Book 3 of the Legacy of Auk Tria Yus

Heart, Soul, and Steel

Book 4 of the Legacy of Auk Tria Yus

Collected Stories

Science Fiction

(Volumes 1 and 2)

Drama - Adult

Drama – Youth, Teen

Youth Adventure

(Volumes 1, 2, and 3)

Adult Adventure

The Amulets of Aazlim

A How-To Guide to Making your Own

Player-based, group run, inPerson

RPG Game

Collected Poems

Grun’s Tales

A Note from the Author,

Hello, this collection of stories involves more than one sub-genre. In the table of contents, stories are listed by Page Number; Protagonist, Genre; Word Count, and Story Title. The Page Number and Story Title are self-explanatory. The Word Count is a drawback to writing classes and magazine submittal guidelines. In each case, stories are defined by how many words they possess, not how many pages they might involve.

What may of most importance is the individual Protagonist, Genre listing.

This is the gauge of how old the protagonist in the individual story is. Accordingly, this also works as a suggestion of the target audience for that same story - Child, Youth, Teen, Adult, or other. The genre is primarily that of the given volume, but a Science Fiction story might also be a Mystery or a Horror as sub-genre.

The genre listing is an important part of the story make-up.

This collection is presented and designed to appeal to a wide audience. I entreat you to explore and enjoy. I look forward to feedback. Let me know what think. There are some interesting anecdotes about the stories included before the stories begin. I’ve added these because in more cases, I feel they enrich the story.

To the reading.

Science Fiction

Volume Three

Batch 43512      Adult, Sci-Fi        2015 Words

Call Calvin          Adult, Sci-Fi      12129 Words

Canthloosh         Senior, Drama      2958 Words

Waiting on a Ride     Youth, Drama       1108 Words

Lasting Love       Senior, Drama   7431 Words

Anecdotal:

Batch 43512 is a simple story. It’s a science fiction story to the core about two people who are studying a world frozen at the time of its tumultuous end. This story suggests a different theory of creation. Just like in Phenomenon and Slim to None (published in a different volume of Collected Stories), I play with the suggestion of how life began and where it’s going. Yes, I’ll divulge the plot a little. These scientists are studying Earth as it has just ended.

Call Calvin is a neat story. I wanted a plot that involved a mechanic, and I wanted a science fiction story, so I wrote both. This mechanic is blasted off into space to fix an alien device.

I’ll admit that this plot and the general simplicity of the action in this story were inspired the Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet. I hope I got that title right. It’s a great book I read when I was, oh, wow, young. It follows a youth who responds to a newspaper ad. He’s then given instructions on how to build a spaceship. He does, and they fly off to an alien world and help the aliens out. It involves some complex theories and neat concepts, but it’s simple and straight forward.

I liked the book a lot, and this story is designed to be simple and straight forward but involving some pretty complex concepts at the same time. I hope I did the style justice.

Another character I hadn’t used in a story before was an architect, so I wrote a story with an architect. Canthloosh is the story of that old man being walked through the city he’s designed on it final completion.

Waiting on a Ride is the story of two protagonists who are, well waiting on a ride. I don’t want to give up too much in this section. I don’t introduce these characters too quickly, but if I’ve written the story well enough, you should know exactly who and what these personalities are by the second page. It’s a neat plot too.

Lasting Love has its roots in animals. In realizing I don’t use animals much in my stories, I decided to make it a point to write stories with animals as something close to protagonists if not at least main story elements. I figured I could write a story about rabbits. I need some science fiction stories, so it became a science fiction story involving rabbits, and it took slowly took shape into what it is now. There is a romantic subplot to this story however oddly the protagonist couple define and show affection after so many years living with one another. But love is love, and survival is as eternal as the tools at hand.

Batch 43512

(2012 Words)

Why are we here, Giars? Vash groaned. What’s the point? Grimacing with distaste, he turned and shook his head.

There was ice as far as the eye could see. Vehicles, building tops, and lifted sails stuck out from smooth, glazed surface each covered in their own frozen layers. A soft dusting of snow gathered around those uneven spots. They marked waves upon a world that was otherwise now pure ice.

It’s all waste of time, Vash grumbled on. It’s not like we’re learning anything useful from the savages, is it? It’s just one failed batch after another. We’d do better to raise gerbils, and you know it.

He adjusted his furred jacket and raised hood an inch. His face was barely visible from inside that tightened wind block, and the wind was blowing. It whipped around his feet and played with the edges of his coat and billowed sleeves. Words were muffled but well enough understood.

Giars was dressed much the same, but he knelt with a more careful lean. The elder’s right hand trembled as he reached forward and pressed the metal sensor deep into and against the chiselled hole he’d dug out. Vash remained standing above him frowning behind his cloth mouth covering.

We’re learning many truths about our own history and potential, Vash, Giars suggested. A thin orange line rose in dots along the metal sensor. By studying them, we’ve already isolated quite a few genetic traits in our own diseases. We’ve avoided two plagues by our count, have we not?

Yes, Vash conceded, but we could learn as much through manipulating mice with a lot less trouble. We’d likely learn our lessons more quickly at that. I’ve got a lot of lab time in with rodent time-delay, reflexes, impulse controls, et cetera.

Vash took a few steps before stopping and peering down into the face frozen mere feet from the ice’s reflective surface.

What is it these things give us a test tube won’t do? Eh?

Giars smiled and nodded. You’re frustrated, the older scientist mused.

Of course I’m frustrated. Aren’t you?

Not really. Giars considered the orange dotted line again. It became solid and turned red, then blue. "I’ve dedicated my life to exploration, Vash. This is another patient step in a long line of patient steps. They’re like breathing to a contemplative soul.

Any act of discovery that’s too quick and shocking is tantamount to hyperventilation after a while. Why, if we uncovered anything really earth-shattering as it were, I just wouldn’t know what to do, he joked. I know I wouldn’t trust it. It would be too easy.

You’re an odd one, Vash mumbled. He took a few more steps and opened his arms wide. "Where do you see any crumb of gain in all this? Really? Patient or