Dark Chariot
& other Science Fiction Tales
by
Book Details
About the Book
These four novelets cover the adventures of ordinary people caught up in weird adventures that bring them into contact with alien beings and powerful entities exercising unseen control of our destiny. There are the voyages of a scratch crew aboard a Space Shuttle cocooned in Solid Dark Matter, who revive an ancient species of Plant People on Mars. The publishing Agent who visits a friend in Spain and gets involved with shape shifters and a terrible plot to spread a plague on Earth. The girl who follows an Army career as a communicator not knowing she shares her body with an alien Guardian. She is posted to a special communication mission to the States and after being pursued by the C.I.A. in America becomes involved in piloting the Guardian's spaceship and fighting off an alien race, the Kurendara. In the last story a former Ranger who edits a New Age Magazine is contacted by Satan, because of his knowledge of the occult, and made to carry out a series of dangerous missions involving assassinations on behalf of the FBI, who find his lethal ability very useful.
About the Author
Apart from an interval from 1940 to 1946 in the Armed Forces the author worked for 40 years in the Ministry of Defence, mainly on weapon production and design, and feels well qualified to write about such matters. After retirement in 1978 he spent further time working in electronics at Surrey University until 1986. Retirement was spent in lecturing and developing systems of Mind Development, also writing on various philosophical and scientific matters. Book titles are The Individual Universe, Understanding Eternity, The Morphism of the Void, Biofeedback and the Human Energy Field, How to Open Channels and Read the Muse.