C. C. Brower
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Sue had been though a world of pain already.
Surviving re-entry to this planet in a powerless escape pod. Learning to speak with telepathic canines that had become the dominant sentient beings on Earth. Finding she could shape-shift and cause illusions.
She brought the end to a civil war between their pack and those nearby. Peace on Earth - at least this little part.
By learning only a tiny bit of the unknown skills she possessed.
One warm summer's...
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How do you defend against a person who could kill you with a single touch?An unforseen bi-product of terrorists bombing a children's hospital, the Lazurai were deadly. A mere touch could spread that killer virus to others. Even downwind, without a sneeze or cough to start it.All that survived were babies. The government made it worse by their experiments. All those growing children wanted was to feel love like any child. When they grew older, their...
3) Totem
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The world has changed. Humans are almost extinct, other sentient species now rule this planet and work to keep it in balance. Without the polluting, noisy, conflicted centers of human populations called cities. Various plagues were released when those cities left, wiping out any concentrations of humans left.
All that is history now. Wolves and other species have achieved sentience. And, they tolerate humans among them as the dying species it is....
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TO DREAM OF TALKING WOLVES AND CROWS might be strange to some.
To act on what they tell you to save some wild pups in an abandoned building with an unknown menace threatening your life - well, that might be crazy.
Kelly liked to read. And she had an active imagination. So talking to coyotes and crows in her dreams wasn't too much for her.
Until they wanted her to risk her own life to save some abandoned wild pups.
Because if she didn't, the pups...
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The last, final Middle East war was over. Fast. Brutal. Final.
Jerusalem experienced the final solution as all their combined defenses couldn't save it from sinking beneath a new sea of irradiated water.
General Marshall persuaded the President and he cajoled Congress into preserving the site as an International Memorial.
But the secret plans were to test a new energy dome over the site to defend it against any future attacks - fueled by the very...
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When Sue crash-lands back on Earth, she didn't know what to expect. What she found was a telepathic wolf pack, capable of reasoning and the dominant life form on the planet. They were in a fight for survival with the feral species of wolves, as well as the remnants of humankind.
In the first part of this, Sue learns to communicate and to travel with the pack as they fight and escape from the hunting ferals. In doing so, she fights alongside Tig,...
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She was different, and could be mankind's savior, or it's worst enemy.
The third generation born after a freak accident, her kind were shunned by humanity. Because they meant walking death. Until one human showed her compassion. Then her gifts came to view. Her parents and their parents only knew death, could only give death. But, they only wanted to be understood.
Rochelle was searching. For the one thing that could save all of mankind from itself....
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Sue returned to earth in what looked like a meteor to those watching.
But it was an escape pod from the Moon colony. Where the cities had gone to escape Earth and its governments' leaving the rest of the planet to its new dark age.
She had fallen unconscious when she popped the pod's hatch to get fresh air.
And had been saved from the surrounding fire by the one witness who saw her land.
A sentient, telepathic wolf.
Now the dominant sentient...
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A first collection of short stories from C. C. Brower. Contemporary, Fantasy, Science Fiction, 13 wonderful worlds from a different view of life. New ways to look at the world you live in, and ask yourself "what if" things were different...
This anthology contains:
- The Caretaker
- When The Wild Calls
- Mind Timing
- Becoming Michelle
- When the Cities Died, I Danced
- Snow Gift
- Mr. Ben's Rail Road
- The War Bringeth
- Peace: Forever War
- Snow...
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Light, Seasonal Reading by New Author C. C. Brower
Contains three short stories to fill your holidays with cheer:
The house seemed so empty now with the children all grown up and on their own. Just [ ] and his masters. A view of the holidays through the eyes of the family dog.
But this holiday has surprises for all, and a heartwarming surprise ending.
A light read to cheer your heart.
A young apprentice teaches the Emperor truths found in recording...
11) Snow Gift
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A farmer out checking his cattle finds a newborn calf of many colors. Deep in fresh snow with no momma cow in sight. It is supposed to get well below freezing tonight and the sun is going down quickly.
What choice does he have but to pick the newborn up and get her to where it's warm and dry for the night?...And then come back in the dark to find its mother.
40-pounds of calf a quarter of a mile from anywhere. So, he wraps her up in his coat, picks...
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How Can You Save Your Own World When You're Stuck In Someone Else's Dream?
The sentient wolf-pack that had saved her when she crash-landed back on Earth was being torn apart by internal power-struggle, and a motley feral wolf pack invading its secret valley, to kill everyone in it as revenge.
She was the only one powerful enough to save them, but she was stuck in a dreamworld of someone else...
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The surest sign of civilization returning to an area is in the trading and barter.
Festivals had long been attended between the villages, using horse and oxen-pulled wagons along the old cracked and buckled paved roads. And caravans of these would travel back and forth and enrich the brave and adventurous - or that was the hope.
For others, it was simply the hope of news that humankind was again populating the open plains and new-forested lands...
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A minimalist tale of an Emperor who sought Truth that one of his student-scribes found - but then disappeared...
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One day, as court was held, the teacher was in a particularly foul mood. The weather was humid, hot, and everyone's robes stuck to their skin from sweat. The teacher strode up and down the ranks dispensing his cane strokes with rapidity.
The one student was receiving more than his share, and the teacher found himself gravitating...
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Sue had been though a world of pain already.
Surviving re-entry to this planet in a powerless escape pod. Learning to speak with telepathic canines that had become the dominant sentient beings on Earth. Finding she could shape-shift and create very real illusions.
She brought the end to a civil war between their pack and those nearby. Peace on Earth - at least this little part.
By learning only a tiny bit of the special skills she was capable of.
That...
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I had been in that stone wall for decades, alone on purpose.
Not lonely.
Waiting.
Humankind needed to evolve past what they had done to create me. I was willing to wait - as long as it took.
Because to re-emerge would mean to again threaten all humans I contacted.
The very reason all of my kind had submerged into hiding was to save humankind from ourselves, from the virus within us.
While that virus had saved us from certain death, and evolved...
18) Moon Queen
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Now that Malia of 'Cagga had her little city under perfect control, she was ready to export her efficiency plans to the rest of the moon cities. And, help them achieve a perfect society under her rule. Martial law, automated mining equipment to replace human workers, constant surveillance of everyone else.
Meaning that due to her improvements, they could lift off for their next target much sooner than expected. Because they didn't have to take anyone...
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A second collection of short stories from C. C. Brower
In addition to later earlier novellas and novels, Brower continues her prolific output with short stories - all full of wonder and high imagination.
Contemporary, Fantasy, Science Fiction - 14 wonderful stories from a different view of life. New ways to look at the world you live in, and ask yourself "what if" things were different...
For Brower fans, this includes the final installments of...
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I was Queen of the World. Until I wasn't. One moment I was in chains and bleeding, the next I was fine, but dressed in red. Someone had played a dirty trick on me. They'd dressed me in a red cartoon outfit, like a Queen. But, not my usual goth black. And I also couldn't get out of it. Buttons too high on my back. Hoops and petticoats I couldn't reach under to get free of.
Someone was going to pay for this.
That little Sue Reginald was the last person...