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The Secret Sentinels of Gal Dabara

by Dave Draper  ©  2016mystery · science fiction · 5603 words

The Secret Sentinels of Gal Dabara

IT WAS IN THE SECOND SPRING of Gal Dabara’s mid-winter summers that the Demons came.

Why they chose this season to fly in, lord only knows.

Straight over the steamy marshes they did hover and glide, looking for objects that remained as mysterious as their movements. Their strange silvery bodies glinted in bursts of iridescence as they bobbed about, leathery wings shimmering peculiarly in the haze.

We watched spellbound, breath bated, from our place of cover beneath the huge spread of split-leaved rainforest philodendrons that Flynn said had been introduced here by an earlier expedition from Earth . . .

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Crater City

by Dave Draper  ©  2016science fiction · 1568 words

Crater City

PILOT SNORKI SNORKELMAS and Navigator Norris Numnutz approach their objective among the Cepheids, a class of giant luminous variable stars originally discovered in the constellation of Cepheus.

This particular Cepheid cluster is located in the Barnax region of the Sagittarius Arm, and boasts one truly vast orbiting asteroid cloud.

Wow, look-a-that! That’s a hell of a cloud, Norri. How are we gonna find one little asteroid in a swarm that size?

Don’t panic, Snork old boy – I’m calling up a chart sent to me earlier on my viewer. Once we get our astral bearings, We’ll soon locate its whereabouts.

Snorki frowns in puzzlement, narrowing his eyes beneath polarised pilot goggles at the vista confronting him.

Hmm. That’s very deceptive. Very deceptive indeed. Now we’re closer, you can see . . .

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Spaceman Dan and his Robot Sam

by Dave Draper  ©  2016science fiction · spoof · 1385 words

Spaceman Dan and his Robot Sam

SPACEMAN DAN AND HIS ASSIGNED ROBOT COMPANION set out from their wheel-shaped space station orbiting Saturn on an exploratory survey of the surrounding area.

“What do you think of the view, robot?”
“I wish you wouldn’t call me robot – it makes me feel like a kind of nonentity.”

“Oh – er. Okay. How’s about if I call you Tin ribs then?”
“Funny guy! How’s about if I call you Dan-Dan-the-Toilet-cleaner-man, instead of Spaceman-Dan?”

“No, I don’t think so. Too much of a mouthful for a start. Just remember, you’re only a metalloid construct, no need to get ideas above your station – ”

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Doctor Who and the Daleks

THE MOVIE

by Dave Draper  ©  2004science fiction · spoof · 2696 words

Doctor Who and the Daleks

IT IS THE YEAR 2150. In a run-down North London suburb, Dr Who and his granddaughter, Susan, have infiltrated Davros’ underground hideaway.

Almost breathlessly, they make their way down through a series of whispering tunnels, eerily lit by some strange green-tinged luminescence and ripe with the tang of something indescribably unearthly . . .

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Dimension It

The Dimwid Dossier

by Dave Draper  ©  2011science fiction · spoof · 2382 words

Dimension It

SOMETHING QUITE DREADFUL suddenly emerged from beyond.

It reached out with rabid sensors – probing intensely

Tendrils uncoiling – seeking fervently

Dimwid stared in abject terror at what confronted him. Too horror-struck to move, too scared not to run for his life. But who on Earth, or indeed anywhere in all Creation, wants to stand by while their mind is sucked completely dry?

Not Dimwid, he’s a sworn coward! It’s an excellent survival trait!

He needed his mind – it’s what gave him identity, made him who he was. Such as it was; it took him a long time to develop. Without it, his brain would be empty. He’d just be a zombie.

It was too terrible to contemplate.

But what could he do? The Lurgi was coming to get him . . .

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Speaking with Aliens

by Professor of UFOs

by Dave Draper  ©  2014biographical · science fiction · spoof · 1381 words

Speaking with Aliens

I VOS SPEAKING MIT ZIS ALIEN TODAY und he vos speaking perfect English, like me. But he spoke it in furry strange gargling singsongy voice, “I know you, you know me, one thing guy can tell you iss youf got to be freee.”

I marvelled at his astute command of der Bohemian vernacular when he told me that he learned this on der way to Earth from broadcasts out in space of what he termed, ‘beetles songs’. I was utterly amazed zat beetles could sing und compose und told him so. But he just laughed in furry alien sort of way . . .

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Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future

The Nutwood Affair

by Dave Draper  ©  1990science fiction · spoof · 1795 words

Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future

THE MEKON’S FLAGSHIP DROPS SILENTLY through Earth’s cloud layer towards a corner of countryside somewhere in Southern England. It slows its descent through clear blue skies on a sunny day in mid-spring. On board with the Mekon in his control cabin, are Dan Dare and Digby, under Treen guard.

MEKON: Observe – we are coming in to land now, Earthlings. For my purpose, I have chosen a particular area and you, Colonel Dare, will be an integral part of my plan.

DAN DARE: Hey, Dig! I recognise some of the landmarks, and if I’m not mistaken, this is . . .

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Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future

the prime minister syndrome

by Dave Draper  ©  1990science fiction · spoof · 4680 words

Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future

DAN DARE AND DIGBY are returning from a long tour of duty out in deep Space.

Oh, well, Dig! We’ve been away in space for a long spell – more than two years, Earth-time. But it’s back to dear old Earth now, at last – eh?

Aye! An’ Ah’m lookin’ forward to a reet neece spot o’ leave, too. Not t’ mention a long overdue payrise wi’ soom back pay!

Let’s watch the news, now we’re back in the Solar System and can receive it on sub-ether more or less as it happens. See what’s been going on while we’ve been away.

Good grief! Dig! Do you remember that peculiar . . .

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Rest or Rant

by Dave Draper  ©  2011science fiction · 1087 words

Rest or Rant

FOR A MOMENT HE WAS NOT QUITE SURE who or where he was.

He looked up from the pavement and suddenly realized that he was standing in front of a very posh looking restaurant. It was evening, he noted and all the city lights shone and winked in a dazzling array of colours.

For no apparent reason he found himself walking in to the restaurant. Like a man in a dream, he selected a table and seated himself, looking about the place in a daze. Before he had time to collect his wits and even begin to wonder what he was doing or indeed, who he was . . .

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The Tomb of Tutan Cosmo

by Dave Draper  ©  1991science fiction · 3825 words

The Tomb of Tutan Cosmo

“HOW’S THE DIGGING GOING, UNCLE?”

“Oh, not bad, Ben. Not bad, at all!”

Professor Oscar Ryan’s bespectacled gaze was riveted to the floodlit slope ahead as it sped by beneath their vehicle, his gloved fingers tight around the grips of the steering column . . .

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Orangoid

by Dave Draper  ©  1991science fiction · 6835 words

Orangoid

“OH WELL, HERE WE GO AGAIN,” thought James Entwhistle, brushing his palms together and sending a spray of crumbs to the floor beneath his desk. “Another working afternoon in this age of uncertainty and foreboding.”

Leaning forward and whistling cheerfully beneath his breath, he replaced his plastic lunch carton in the centre drawer of his desk and rummaged through the filing trays on top.

He plucked a Job Vacancies sheet from the mass of paperwork and leaned back in his seat with a sigh, studying it absently. Then peering through his spectacles across the sheet, he stole a lingering glance at the area in front of . . .

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Mug In Your Eye

by Dave Draper  ©  2004science fiction · spoof · star trek · 4397 words

Mug In Your Eye

ON A MISSION THROUGH FEDERATION SPACE, the Starship Enterprise encounters a huge stationary object, directly in its path.

“What’s that up ahead on our sensors, Spock – some sort of monstrous Klingon Battle-Cruiser?”

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