One Minute to Midnight

26 more short stories that will amaze you. In Stranger in a Strange Land, Jared Talbert, the Marine commander of a deep space mission, is searching for Celestine, a cargo ship loaded with precious metals that never returned to earth. When he and his crew find the cargo vessel it is derelict and orbiting an uncharted planet, with evidence that it had been attacked before losing communication with home. Jared and his crew are soon attacked by weaponized satellites as their ship the USS Rapier is destroyed and his crew killed. Jared becomes stranded on the planet when his escape craft crash lands. He will have to flee from human eating ice giants, and navigate an abandoned human city to make it to a seven mile high black tower in the city's center. There he will confront the image of his own self as an astronaut from this planet thousands of years in the past, and realize that he was a rescuer of the Atlantis continent inhabitants when it began to sink into the ocean on earth. As maintenance robots battle the ice giants far below him Jared finds a ship in the black tower hangar that can get him home but will he escape certain doom? In Let's Do The Time Warp! A young computer hacker steals a time travel device from a secret underground government facility and uses it to open a bubble in time. He is transported to a planet of undead, where he meets Shannon Dolby-a stranded pilot-and discovers that her sister Lyric has been captured by the undead and he must decide whether to use his time travel device to save Shannon's sister, or leave them there and save himself?