Bøger udgivet af George S Conklin

In 2020, after a highly contested Presidential Election, the then-current President fomented a new Civil War, CW 2. At the end of the war between the "liberals" and the "conservatives" most of the USA was dark. Enemies of the President were rounded up and sent to gulag-like prison camps to toil on one or another of the President's special projects, like the wall with Latin America. From time to time, prisoners in these camps were taken away, some never to be see again. This is the story of two of those people who escaped to lead a revolt and to help return the USA to its people.

Many of these short stories were written as exercises in a class. Figurehead was one that the teacher was taken with and said it should be expanded and published. The same about Miel. The stories range from straight science fiction to horror and dystopian fiction. The heroes win out because I am fundamentally an optimist, at least for this type of fiction. Our reality is another story, for another time.

Claire McGinnis is a young, law student who''s always been way ahead of her class. She graduated early from both high school and college and went on to law school with the idea that she was going to become the very best pro bono attorney ever seen. Her early success went to her head and when she went to visit her boyfriend during COVID quarantine in a Caribbean island country she thought she could pass on the rules she''d agreed to abide by. She got caught and then spent years in prison, victim of a cascade of consequences of her behavior.

Imprisoned by robot overlords, Caila Rogier has only 49 years of sense-deprived existence at backbreaking labor to look forward to. Less than a third of the way through her sentence, the robots wipe out her existence and force her into a warrior training program where they develop her physically and mentally to be a solitary killer and a member of a new robot force. Before the robots can realize their plans, a force of humans, cyborgs, and fantastic warriors from humankind's past, strike, destroying the robot army. Trapped in a robot body with her robot master, Caila learns to survive and flourish in this new form in a hard world.

A young park ranger, just doing her job, runs afoul of a local rich kid and his more psychopathic buddy. Trying to stop them from abusing animals and shooting near a public campsite, she ends up shooting one and prosecuted for aggravated assault. The men continue to attack her after she leaves prison, but a man comes looking for a dog and changes her life.

After a new Civil War and, on its heels, the collapse of the environment, the US descends into violence , depravity and anarchy.Morning Glory Wilson, Moonflower, is a young orphan struggling to survive on the margins in this dark world. She and a band of survivors fight to live amidst the carnage and in doing that discover technology, friends, and wells of strength and power that allow them to do that and to expand beyond the planet Earth.

The world as we know it comes crashing down, mostly because of our stupidity and cupidity. A hardy band of human, super human and extraterrestrial survivors fights against huge odds to live on and eventually spread the human seed across the galaxy.