Running Wild

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Unfettered Stories of Imagination, Volume 1

Acclaimed science fiction and fantasy writer Joseph Green offers startling revelations, surprising twists, and unexpected ends in this, the first book in the eclectic four-volume short story collection, Unfettered Stories of Imagination, that ranges far and wide along the spectrum of high imagination.

A newly-married couple on a camping trip awaken to an eerie dawn, one of them inexplicably blinded overnight… A detective on an Earth-orbiting factory investigates a dangerous employee who’s counting on a very exceptional pay day… On a faraway planet where Earth colonists are barely surviving, two rivals for the same woman join forces to rescue her from ravening savages… On the dark side of the moon, an astronomer leaves footprints on the perfect mirror of the most powerful and expensive telescope ever built… Can an artificial intelligence in an occupied body know love? Feel fear, hate, dread? And what if the body so occupied is that of your beloved son?… An awkward young genius creates a key to a new Renaissance—now he just needs to live long enough to use it… All one young woman wants is a baby that’s, well, just out of this world… A spaceship crew longing for shore leave gets more than they bargained for on a decidedly peculiar planet…