Dead Ends and Other Escapes

by Nick Zentor

Overview

A collection of science-fiction and fantasy short-stories covering space travel, time travel, advanced computers, alien technology, alternate dimensions, mysterious phenomena, astral projection, and sentences in purgatory. The Tour is about a man who experiences a near-death experience and is suspended in limbo, until some spiritual friends help him out. Ghosts of Our Past is a time-tripper back to the early days of America to visit some of the founders who tried to amend the Constitution to prevent capital corruption. Reality Man is about a strange visitor who seeks to solve a serious problem with humanity in the 21st century. Ice on the Moon is about independent explorers who manage to build their own rocket to the Moon, to discover more than they ever expected. Ghost Wing Five is about an advanced computerized vehicle that goes haywire. The Refracted Man is about a man who is transported to another reality by a mysterious vortex. The Quarantine involves alien contact which exposes a serious problem for Earth. Report for the Defense is about a man who has been confined to a sentence in purgatory and has to work really hard if he ever expects to escape.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940155820932
Publisher:	Nick Zentor
Publication date:	09/19/2018
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	816,800
File size:	289 KB

About the Author

I was born in another parallel of Earth just a few years before John Kennedy was assassinated and I was transferred to this parallel after a motorcycle accident in late 1982. After 3 years of homelessness, I was inspired to become a science-fiction writer and committed myself to the task once I had managed to find a job and a place to plug in a typewriter. I worked on the job like a good robot for 10 years while writing science-fiction on my free time. After failing to get any books published due to a low demand (every publisher explained how they were selling less books every year), I decided to get into small-publishing and accessed the local copy-outlet to publish my own books. But I didn't have enough money to print more than a handful at a time, and almost no one was interested in buying any of it. It wasn't until 2004, after I managed to save enough money for a new computer, that I began to make some real progress. I was able to do a much better job with book-making and the quality of my books improved. But still they did not sell, so I simply small-published them at my own website online and offered them for free through the website. The website was up until 2008, when I lost my apartment and spent some time homeless again. Aside from writing science-fiction, I started working with 2d computer graphics and animation in late 2004, and got into 3d computer graphics and animation in 2009, after finding another apartment. I've been working with 3d computer graphics, trying to go somewhere there, but I've had problems paying for the software. I wrote "Fool's Errand: Redemption" as the last book in the Temspace-Variant Series in 2015 and turned it into an ebook in 2017. Because I am also a 3d computer graphics artist, I decided to try my hands at my first ebook cover and produced the cover for "Fool's Errand: Redemption" to go with it.