Vaughan Stanger – författare

The Last Moonshot and Other Stories collects seven of Vaughan Stanger's previously published science fiction and fantasy tales and five pieces of nano-length fiction. These original and imaginative stories encompass a wide range of themes relevant to our lives now. From encounters with dead people in a virtual forest to a meme that triggers an apocalypse. From a space mission mounted by a street gang to a desperate attempt to save our planet from climate disaster. Some can be read and digested in a minute, others will keep you thinking for a long time.Some of these stories are currently free to read online. Please visit Vaughan Stanger's website for links to them.

Alternate Apollos collects three short stories by Vaughan Stanger on the theme of counterfactual moon-landing missions.Rather than focus on the details of Apollo missions that never happened or turned out differently to those described in our history books, these stories show how the participants might have felt when recalling those momentous events many years later.Alternate Apollos is dedicated to the brave men who really did fly to the Moon between 1969 and 1972. Twelve sets of boot-prints remain in place, testimony to events that actually occurred.

'Reeves Indeed!' collects a short series of humorous, all-dialogue science fiction stories that present the adventures of robot butler Reeves, who serves (after a fashion) his master in a linked sequence of ever-more bizarre and apocalyptic situations.This collection includes the final, previously unpublished 'Reeves' story. None of the others in the series have been published in ebook format until now.Contents of the Second Edition (2021):- Well Met (New to this edition. Previously only available in a limited edition to the supporters of a Kickstarter)- Writing on the Wall (first published in Daily Science Fiction, 2011)- Warbling Their Way to War (first published in Plasma Frequency Magazine, 2013)- Supply and Demand in the Post-War Economy (first published in Daily Science Fiction, 2014)- Delicious Served Cold (first published in Space Squid, 2017)- Speak for Yourself (first published in this ebook, 2017).

The English Dead is a science fiction short story that explores the abiding mystery of whether George Mallory and "e;Sandy"e; Irvine could have reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1924, twenty-nine years before the first successful ascent by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.From the review of The English Dead in The Fix (14/1/08): "e;'The English Dead' is an excellent story and fundamentally good SF... The climbing lingo reads authentically to a layman like myself. The obsessions of the tale's central characters are well-portrayed, informing their decisions and actions as they move towards a convincing conclusion."e; The English Dead was originally published in Issue 36 of Hub (December 2007).This story will appeal to anyone who likes thought-provoking SF combined with high adventure and an intriguing mystery.

This collection brings together seventeen of Vaughan Stanger's innovative, imaginative, and thought-provoking science fiction and fantasy stories, also his first ever published poem. Here you will learn how it feels to be a virtual human being downloaded into a smart brick, or to participate in the Soviet Union's first moon-landing while all hell breaks loose back on Earth, or to midwife an industrial revolution for aliens who communicate using colour and texture. Some of these pieces can be read in a minute or two. Others might transport you to a fascinating elsewhere for the duration of your regular commute. But all of them will make you think about the futures that might await us, or the traps set for us in the present day that we haven't noticed yet.Two of the stories in this collection – Skin Deep and Second and Seventh (the sequel to First and Third) – have not been published before.