Short Stories by James Butler (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

The Bamboo Viper: In this adult novel, Lester Johnson, a former Marine Corps sniper (code name: The Bamboo Viper), is forced to confront his memories of those he loved and those he killed during and after the Vietnam war. He finally comes face to face with one of his torturers in a Houston mall.Remote Possibilities: In this adult novel, beings from the Andromeda Galaxy, a similar, but more technologically advanced galaxy than the Milky Way, prepare to take control before the two galaxies collide. They pick a small community on Earth as one of their experimental locations. A remote control device used by the teens in this community is a helmet supplied by the aliens which allows the operator to run remotely-operated cars and boats. It also manipulates the thoughts and actions of the remoters who find that they can influence the intentions of others as well.The people of Earth become so degraded that The League’s Patrol sends one of its officers, Jared Bocavian, an Earthling recruited by them, to try to solve the problems. Remote Possibilities is about the adventures and mystery surrounding this officer and those connected to him as he infiltrates the experimental labs of the aliens and attempts to destroy them. It involves Earthlings and beings from other galaxies as well as beings from outside our physical universe. The book ends with Jared Bocavian, his patrol and his family rescuing the people of our galaxy from annihilation - only to find that their problems were just beginning.The Carousel: In this adult novel, an ice comet crashes into the earth and the world is suddenly covered with water. Conner Morgan finds himself adrift all alone on his boat until he finds a woman clinging to a log. The two of them and his dog set out to free the children of a group of people called the Floaters. They are being held against their will by raiders who have resorted to cannibalism in order to survive.