Nomad

Let your mind wander into the unknown with this collection of sci-fi and paranormal stories

from award-winning author Charles A Cornell.

An alien morphs into human form to witness the darkest days of human history in Crystal Night and The Orchid Man.

In the middle of the Cuban missile crisis, a ten-year-old boy enlists extra-terrestrial help to get even with the class bully in Andromeda Calling.

A salvager of space junk hopes to profit from a rare artifact but the laws of the universe have something else in store for this space cowboy in SOD's Law.

In Children of the Stars, a medical researcher discovers the secret behind an eighty-year-old woman's superhuman fertility, a secret that threatens mankind.

Haunted by weird dreams and psychic visions, a former mental patient provides the key to the recovery of Norway's stolen masterpiece in The Scream.

And in a BONUS SECTION which pays homage to Victorian science fiction, two steampunk short stories from The Most Peculiar Tales:

Professor Atticus Carr is accused of murdering a rich aristocrat. The evidence against him is overwhelming. As The Reversible Man commits more high crimes, can Professor Carr exonerate himself before he's hung for murder?

Jeremiah Boone revisits a personal tragedy in the hunt for an assassin. The Theatre Macabre is a tale of intrigue and espionage, a tale of ghostly wanderings and magical interventions, rooted in a tale of lost love.