The Glass Weaver’s Tale and Other Stories blends near and far futures, time travel and parallel Universes, generation ships and bio-engineered post-humans, sprinkling unintentional alien invasions into a heady mix of hard science fiction.
Café Arabica — Pippa is a hard-working homemaker and wife with two beautiful children. Their new, prosperous neighborhood is close to the underground path of a massive synchrotron. She worked there once but chose a different career path. However, with the synchrotron's lighting, she has become troubled by visions from a dark period in her life, which, as they solidify around her, threaten to rob her of the things she loves most: her family…
The Boy Who Built a Rocket Ship — Josh worships his older brother Jim. But Jim has a secret: he is desperate to find his real family. Jim hates the cylinder world they are trapped in with its militia soldiers and commune thugs. He secretly builds a rocket ship with Josh’s help. However, Jim’s journey of discovery to the other side of the cylinder takes him away from Josh and those who love him and turns him into the very thing he hates.
Needle and Groove — Dr Richard McGill, time travel inventor, must flee into the past, only to become entangled in a perpetual time loop. He must break free by persuading his younger self to commit a murder they both know will break Time. Yet McGill has sworn to preserve the integrity of history. This task becomes all the more impossible when his younger self balks at committing the crime. However, history balances on chance moments, and Molly, their Labrador...
The Glass Weaver’s Tale — Mica was birthed as a sterile Worker on the Reef. He works under the the Overseer caste, who are commanded by Guards. That is, until the Black Sphere is budded from the Reef and a caste of females appears. Females only consort with reproductive males. For Mica and all the other sterile castes, females are strictly off-limits. But Mica has fallen in love and strikes a bargain with Marsubi, a corrupt Overseer, to be surgically made fertile and spend a night with a mate and be made a man…only to discover there is something much worse in store for the Reef than the disruption caused by the female caste.
Holiday Home — Desimone and his partner for life, Mathilda, had eloped to cruise the Galaxy together when they stumbled upon the perfect holiday home, a little nook where they could ensconce themselves away from the judgmental eye of family and the social mores of the Galactic Core. It was a lovely little place in a quite stellar system, far away in the boondocks. The third planet seemed a perfect location to share their illicit love together. However, the little rocky planet seemed to have other ideas, thwarting Desimone’s plans at every step until his patience finally snapped and he took drastic measures, only for the planet to bite back…hard.
The Other David Kindlebach — There had been a terrible accident. And yet here he was, David Kindlebach, the man Nikki loved with all her heart and the father of her two children. It was a miracle. But a miracle they would both have to work at, to bring back their former life. Because the past for David was missing, and he would not discover why until too late.
The Patter of Tiny Feet — There are so many humans on the face of the Earth that there just isn’t room for anything else. Gillian Wilbert decides to bring back one of the closest friends of the human race, the one that scuttles around in the kitchen after lights out, little knowing what he is unleashing…
The Glass Weaver’s Tale and Other Stories — two novellas (Café Arabica, The Glass Weaver’s Tale), a novelette (The Boy Who Built A Rocket Ship), three short stories (Needle and Groove, The Other David Kindlebach, Holiday Home), and flash fiction (The Patter of Tiny Feet).
