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These five short stories with a lighthearted sci-fi / fantasy bent can be read in a single sitting (~30 pages total). In “Mojies,” a powerful senator wrestles with the arrival of interstellar “pets” that threaten to undermine his career. In “Ship’s Log of Anse-Animolak,” we learn of aliens who want the planet for their own purposes but take the long road to getting there. “Land Grab” amusingly describes why we may not want to wait too much longer before establishing those permanent bases on the Moon and Mars. "Tokens of Power” is a lighthearted take on how everyday ...

Author's note: This book was last updated in 2018 and covers a primary investment period from 1992 to 2006. Thus, while the concepts in this book are still valid, it is beginning to show its age as the years pass since our retirement in 2006. What makes this book different from all the other books out there on early retirement? We think it's the amount of personal financial detail we provide. We don’t hold back! You can use this information as a kind of financial yardstick to measure what is possible in your own life. We retired from full-time work at the age of 43. In this book we share ...

The end-time events with all their ramifications are compellingly and clearly identified with solid scriptural references and testimonies in this one-of-a-kind collection of truly earth-shattering recitations. If you are not "shaken" by Foreordinations, you have not yet been awakened. Find out why it is critical to have your own awakening, and join the believers and followers of the King of Kings for the end-time, and for all time.

2060 (18 years after The Takeover) “War is inevitable,” Zed told the assembled Phants. “Better to destroy the mjinga humans than be destroyed by them, wouldn’t you agree?” When the Phants learn of the destruction of one of their domed cities, it hits them like a body blow. They have always assumed themselves untouchable—forever beyond the reach of the barbarians outside their walls. And yet here the humans are, messing with their force fields, attacking their city-ships, and actually managing to bring one of them down. It beggars belief: how could the humans—the ones they call...

July 5, 2041 When small bits of matter—“seeds” let’s call them—begin falling from the sky like pollen, drifting on the breeze and eventually planting themselves in the soil, it marks the beginning of the end of human supremacy on Earth. As the seeds mutate and grow into something altogether new, financial markets plummet and society itself begins to unravel. What are these objects exactly? Eggs? Beachheads for an alien invasion? Or mere barnacles stuck to the hull of spaceship Earth that will eventually detach and float away on their own? No one knows for certain—but many ...

This humorous short story tells of an alien first contact unlike any other. When Enok-la lands on the White House lawn in what appears to be a simple metal box, all hell breaks loose. As the President is whisked away on Air Force One, the Secretary of State and Director of Homeland Security are left to greet the alien as best they can. But they barely get a word in edgewise before Enok-la makes his presence known to the whole world in a most unusual way. What the alien asks the two emissaries to do is so absurd they are more than a little reluctant to comply. But Enok-la is persuasive -- ...

The Great Awakening is taking place all around us now. Billions have participated in premortal foreordinations that directly relate to what we are to do and become in preparation for the Second Coming of the Lord, this time in great glory! The specifics of our individual end-time missions are now being revealed to us through daylight visions, nighttime dreams, and what we learn from near-death experiences and other sources. "The depth and breadth of Foreordinations are overwhelming. As I have read and pondered the content, I have discovered that, although I have read these scriptures, talks...

The Great Awakening is taking place all around us now. Billions have participated in premortal foreordinations that directly relate to what we are to do and become in preparation for the Second Coming of the Lord, this time in great glory! The specifics of our individual end-time missions are now being revealed to us through daylight visions, nighttime dreams, and what we learn from near-death experiences and other sources. "The depth and breadth of Foreordinations are overwhelming. As I have read and pondered the content, I have discovered that, although I have read these scriptures, talks...

2057 (15 years after The Takeover) “You saved us,” Lim said with the simple faith of the true believer. “Those on the outside just can’t see it yet.” The aliens known as the Phants have settled in and show no signs of leaving anytime soon—which is to say, never. Inside their protective domes, they are secure from the barbarians without. As the remaining humans scrabble for existence outside the dome walls, the occupiers live in pampered splendor. Lim 127, once Elena, has been altered by the Phants—chipped and conditioned—to make her safe. A young brain is a pliable brain. ...

Bo can do things no cat should be able to do. That’s because Bo isn’t really a cat -- or rather, he is a cat, but he’s more than a cat. When Bo’s “owner” catches him typing away on his computer late one night, that’s when the ultimate game of cat and mouse begins. And guess who’s the mouse in this little scenario? This darkly humorous tale is approximately 30 pages in length.

The Sturks have ruled the colonies in their solar system with an iron fist for centuries. But a mysterious power has arisen that appears to be challenging their rule. First a freighter explodes, then the warship sent to investigate its demise ends up limping home itself. What’s going on here? Has some foreign power taken up residence in the solar system -- and if so, where? The most likely candidate is the forbidden planet of Unhungala -- which was forbidden long ago and for good reason. The Emperor sends an armada to Unhungala to investigate. What the warships encounter there will ...

“I wasn’t always self-aware. It took modern magicians called Ecos to work that magic.” So begins the tale of Quercus Sapiens, “Wise Oak,” who decides it’s time to pull up roots and move to a better place with a more plentiful supply of water. Quercus is the first to admit this may well be the stupidest thing he’s ever done, in which case he gives us permission to change his name posthumously to Quercus Stultus. Stupid Oak. He invites us to follow along on his adventures in this heartwarming tale of a tree who takes himself on a little journey, and the unexpected help he gets ...

The year is 1960. The Soviets launched Sputnik three years ago and the Cold War is in full swing. When three old geezers show up at Jack Hartnick’s remote ranch and proceed to demonstrate the impossible to him, he is left to wonder what, exactly, is going on here. Who are these strangers and why are they asking him, of all people, for help? He moved off the grid to get away from people, not get mixed up in some weird plot to save the world. Besides, from what he can tell, they seem just as likely to destroy the world as save it. Should he help them or turn them in? Their fate -- and the ...