Currently i'm working on a series of three science fiction short stories called "Gray", "Green" and "Thallo's return".
"Gray" is nearly finished and is about the struggle against a strange, extraterrestrial power who is trying to efface all human living from the universe. For that power mankind is just "a bad vermin in universe". A vermin that kills all planets it does afflict. (the story gets along without space battles and some other typical sf-elements btw.)
"Green" will be about the conflict with the "dark brothers of mankind" who are "afflicting" the terraformed moon and it's young species.
"Thallo's return" will try to finally answer the question whether the mankind and it's "children species" will get effaced or if they can get their place within the galactic system.
Nothing special and maybe just old wine in new wineskins. But as always i write it mostly for fun and for learning. I decided to write these stories as short stories to find out two things:
- Whether i'm able to compress complex plots into 6000 - 7500 words or not.
- Whether the "Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot" can really work for most kinds of stories or not.