Hello World (First Contact common theme quasi-series) - Peter Cawdron

Category: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Language: English
Keywords: Action Adventure Aliens Alternate History Anomaly Anthology Artificial Intelligence Bounty Hunter Colony Dystopia Extraterrestrial Intelligence First Contact Groundhog Day Hard Sci-Fi Invasion Literary Morality Oort Cloud Psychology Short Stories Space Exploration Spaceship Telepathy

Written by Peter Cawdron
Read by A Man with a Cat
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 18h 03m

‘Hello World’ represents a decade of science fiction by author Peter Cawdron. This collection of 16 short stories and novellas, including 4 previously unpublished stories, will take you out of this world.

● Hello World

Liz is attending a lecture by her professor, Franco Corelli, who believes aliens are studying humanity through Twitter. But when an extremist pulls a gun, will she survive to find out whether his theories are true?

● The Man Who Remembered Today

This is a story about a paramedic who knows the immediate future, doesn’t know how he knows what he knows but tries to use this new-found ability to prevent a series of terrorist attacks and save lives. As he learns more about how this power works, he still trying to prevent these attacks while being chased by the police, who believe he’s the prime suspect!

● Mirror, Mirror

Jenny, Lisa, and Deon are kids living underground, trying to survive a world changed after an alien invasion. As we learn the story of the aliens and this conflict, the kids venture out in the world unattended in search of candy. What will they find?

● Butch & Sundance

Manning is a veteran bounty hunter pursuing his quarry in Moscow, a geneticist named Popov. Being paid to pull him out of Russia, they run into many complications and soon there are unknown forces chasing them? But Popov knows something revolutionary that could change the world. How will Manning escape the people chasing him?

● Killer

Jac delicately pilots the ship stealthily, struggling to keep it from being discovered in a training exercise that deteriorates rapidly. Maintaining a battlefield advantage, her options eventually run out and a crucial decision must be made!

● Revolution

Alexander is on a plane from Russia to New York City about to land when a beautiful woman, Sveta, starts paying attention to him. After they share a passionate kiss, the plane lands, all hell breaks loose in the airport and Sveta is being chased.

● Lost Stars

In this steampunk adventure, Ava is a teenager traveling through the clouds on a ship powered by steam, she talks with a starcaster, Bartholomew. As they are discussing astronomy, pirates arrive to plunder their ship. As Ava tries to survive the assault, will she be clever enough to turn the tide against the pirates?

● Natural

Lincoln and his wife have lost another child to disease in the year 2026. Lincoln, a doctor who works for the government, discovers something incredible that will change the course of society forever and prevent people from dying as his children did. But because it is so controversial, he decides he must make a stand in the name of science. Giving a press conference, his revelation is so startling that the naturalists are fearful! With a momentous and stirring conclusion, Lincoln’s realization that a better future can only be had if he goes against societal norms and does what he thinks is right.

● Heil Hitler

Our story starts with Suzanne talking with her husband’s shrink about his seemingly schizophrenic episodes. When she wakes up two days later with no memory of what happened, we experience a truly out of left field, over-the-top deranged story as Suzanne has little clue as to what is really going on.

● The End

In a DARPA research facility hidden in a missile silo researching A.I. as a potential weapon, two researchers talk about SALLY the A.I. in an astute discourse of the nature of human intelligence, its evolution and how A.I. can be hard to replicate. Over the course of this scientific discussion, they deduce that they need to change the parameters of the A.I.’s learning. This way, it can develop in a more natural way without the limitations of thinking like a human, leading to them enlarging the scope of their testing.

● Don’t Tell

When a celebrity reporter is chosen for an interview of a lifetime with Subject X, a telepath, we slowly learn about the Telepathy Act before Congress, brought about due to a fearful public. Using telepathy as a prism to explore what it’s like for minorities in society, we see first-hand from Subject X during the secret interview how afraid they are of this act coming to pass and how it’s meant to imprison them without any rights.

● Abraham

Abraham lives in the Amish Protection Zone on Earth. His son Jed, now being of age, wants to go to a faraway colony to live in another galaxy. Attending to larger matters, Abraham must travel to a meeting with the Amish Elders, who have found a serious threat to their community and way of life.

● More to Learn

When NASA detects an alien spacecraft slowly approaching Earth, the population is thrown into chaos as it scrambles to figure out how to respond. But the spacecraft takes a long time to come to Earth and when it finally arrives, it does the unthinkable.

● Suffer the Children

Billy and Dakota are humans in an exhibition on an alien planet called Arctrixmatria for its entire population to see. The Arcs exhibit these humans in a giant bubble-like a zoo and are treated kindly. But these aliens don’t live time in a linear fashion, as they live in the past, present, and future all at once.

● Deja Vu

In orbit above Earth, Jess and her crew are preparing to set out to explore the outer reaches of the galaxy in a day or so. But calamity strikes and their ship explodes! And then Jess realizes she’s lived through this moment before. What is happening to her and why?

● The Darkness Between the Stars

Onboard an exploration ship from Earth, Jane and Dario examine the Oort Cloud through their instruments when Jane detects an unusual anomaly. But she is psychically attacked! The author drops each breadcrumb of science, leading readers along an intriguing trail to a ground-breaking discovery of high magnitude.

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First Contact is a series of standalone novels that explore humanity’s first interactions with extraterrestrial life.

2011 Anomaly (2011)
2012 Galactic Exploration (2012)
2013 Little Green Men (2013) ● short stories
2013 Xenophobia (2013)
2014 Feedback (2014)
2014 My Sweet Satan (2014)
2015 Alien Space Tentacle Porn (2015)
2016 Starship Mine (2016)
2016 Welcome to the Occupied States of America (2016)
2017 Maelstrom (2017) 3 novellas, Colliding Worlds 1-3
2018 Losing Mars (2018)
2019 3zekiel (2019)
2019 Hello World (2019) ● 16 short stories & novellas
2020 But the Stars (2020)
2021 Cold Eyes (2021)
2021 Deja Vu (2021)
2021 Dispatches from the War (2021)
2021 Jury Duty (2021)
2021 Wherever Seeds May Fall (2021)
2022 Clowns (2022)
2022 Generation of Vipers (2022)