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Claire and Amelia wake from cryo aboard a small escape shuttle, find themselves adrift eighty years in deep space.

This is the story of their journey home.

This volume contains all seven episodes of the serial.

Note:
The screenplay adaptation of Episode One – “Awakening” was a top Finalist in a recent webseries screenwriting competition.

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Planet of Stones Feb 18, 2017

by David R. Beshears

( 3 )

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Novella (86 print pages) adapted from the screenplay.
Screenplay placed Finalist in a recent screenwriting competition.
Novella adaptation placed Finalist in a recent literary competition.

Lieutenant Connelly is one of six Monitors sent 100,000 years into the past to study the tribes of two recently discovered humanoid species. Each Monitor lives alone in isolated outposts located far apart from one another around Alpha Valley.

Connelly’s only companion is Box, a small A-I device that he carries about with him in his pocket.

Two years into his three year mission, he is unexpectedly recalled to Central, an underground facility in the heart of Alpha Valley and from where he will be returning to Point Zero… home to the year 2058.

His journey back to Central includes several unplanned detours, having to deal with both the Littles and the Alphas, the two species he has been unobtrusively observing.

Reaching Central at last, Connelly and Box find that their mission wasn’t at all what they had thought it was...

... and that he won’t be going home quite yet.

Feedback regarding the screenplay adaptation:
“An immersive, entertaining sci-fi experience.”
“Successfully transplants a nearly human-like arc onto a non-human character, which is a difficult task to pull off.”
“In a film culture where so many filmmakers put dialog over visual storytelling, your script immediately sets itself apart as something concerned with the tools of cinema. More than anything else, this quality helps to make your script memorable.”
“You create a real sense of not only discovery, but also adventure.”
“You have a strong talent for writing scene description in a way that highlights the specific elements that make screenwriting unique.”
“You capture the sense of a stranger in a strange land wonderfully.”

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The Shylmahn Trilogy: All three volumes Mar 22, 2018

by David R. Beshears

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Three full length novels in one omnibus volume.

The Shylmahn Trilogy
Book 1: The Shylmahn Migration
Book 2: The Occupation
Book 3: Genesis

The Shylmahn Migration
For the Shylmahn, it was a wonderful adventure...

The Shylmahn Migration brings gritty realism to the nightmare of an overwhelming alien invasion of earth.

The Occupation
The invasion had ended long ago. The remnants of humanity survived as best they could on reservations or in tiny communities out of sight of the masters of the planet. Most had never known a world not dominated by the Shylmahn, content now to live out their lives in the shadows.

Some were not content.

The Britton Family, legends from an all-but-forgotten war long since lost, fading into the obscurity of a human history soon to vanish, they now fought a war that no one knew was being waged.

Genesis
A tenuous truce between Shylmahn and Human had kept the peace for more than five years, but there was never a doubt as to who were the masters of the planet. Earth belonged to the Shylmahn.

But the Britton Family, waging a clandestine war with the invaders for thirty years, had one last desperate, insane plan to get their world back. Succeed or fail, it would change the face of the planet forever.

Praise for “The Shylmahn Migration”:

"Intelligent science fiction"
William C. Brown, Ph.D.
Author of 'The Evolutionary Science of Extraterrestrial Life'

"Outstanding writing in a fine story"
"Very well designed and very well executed"
David L. Powell, Ph.D.
English and American Literature

The miniseries screenplay adaptation of The Shylmahn Migration won the Pacific Northwest Screenwriters Competition.

Note:
The three titles in the above trilogy are also available individually in print, large print, ebook and audiobook.

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The Black Tower: The Complete Series Dec 4, 2014

by David R. Beshears

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The screenplay adaptation of Ep 1 of the series placed semi-finalist in the LA International Screenwriting completion, TV pilot category, coming in ahead of 2000 other screenplays.

A team of scientists travels the eighty floors of a strange black tower, where each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger, striving to reach the top floor and the dark force behind the creation of the looming monolith.

"I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes their sci-fi with a bit of intrigue, adventure, suspense and a splash of creepy horror." – 5 stars

"The most interesting SF I've read in years. Well done! Will there be a sequel?" - five stars

Based on the eleven one hour screenplays of the television miniseries “The Black Tower”. This omnibus edition contains all eleven novellas in the serial, with each novella a direct adaptation of one of the episodes in the miniseries. They are structured and formatted exactly as the one hour screenplays from which they have been adapted.

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KHDZ Jan 16, 2014

by David R. Beshears

( 2 )

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Novella (76 print pages) adapted from the screenplay

a dark satire…

John Smith is the first person ever sent downstairs due to a mix-up in the paperwork. While this is sorted out, he is assigned to work at Hades’ local television station, where he must deal with strange characters and stranger programming.

All the more bizarre, he arrived just in time for Founder's Day.

You’ll be recommending this book to your friends before you are even halfway through it. A+ all the way – highly recommend
-- top 500 reviewer

If you like Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett you will enjoy this short book. I was chuckling along from the first couple of pages and the whole book kept me entertained.
-- goodreads reviewer

Industry feedback re: the screenplay:
"The concept is brilliant and eye-catching."
"The situation is entertaining, the shows are fun, and life at the station with all its quirky characters is easy to become invested in… a fun script and a very talented writer.”
"The author has come up with a very inventive concept and gives us a very sympathetic protagonist. Not only that, the author understands how to balance the wit of the set-up with the real emotional issues faced by the characters."

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Climb the Mountain Jan 8, 2012

by David R. Beshears

( 17 )

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On October 12, 2007, a young soldier is injured in Afghanistan. For the next two years, as he is moved from Bagram to Germany to Walter Reed to Palo Alto and finally home to Washington State, his family never leaves his side. And throughout those years, his father writes daily emails to family and friends, chronicling the journey from a dusty road in Afghanistan to the snowy northwest summits.

Memoir chronicling a family’s struggle to bring their son back from the depths of severe traumatic brain injury.

NOTE:
All royalties from Climb the Mountain are donated to the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) organization.

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The Caravan Feb 5, 2014

by David R. Beshears

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Novella (66 print pages) adapted from the post-apocalyptic scifi/horror screenplay.
Novella placed finalist in a recent literary competition.
Screenplay placed short-list finalist in a recent screenwriting competition.

The Caravan is just one more tribe traveling a post-apocalyptic landscape, foraging through the dead cities of the past. The tribe is friendly and well-adapted to the nomadic life. But there is something unsettlingly dark underlying the pleasantness.

After months on the trail, they settle outside an abandoned city for the winter. Foraging teams go in, looking to fill their wagons with supplies. Meanwhile, a band of marauders watches. They have their own way of getting what they want.

And they want everything.

This time, however, they are in for a bit of a surprise.

Industry feedback of the screenplay:
“Character descriptions are vivid… the dialog is excellent.”
“The concept is a very clever one, immediately calls to mind the tropes and conventions of a classic western while also mixing in the high concept of a science fiction story.”

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The Christmas Cave Oct 11, 2012

by David R. Beshears

( 9 )

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Novella (98 print pages) adapted from the screenplay

December 1960…

Thirteen year old Jenny Harper is exploring the caves with her brother Bill and their best friend Mike. They see a strange shimmering light up ahead. Bill rushes ahead, disappears around the bend.

Fade to present day…

Thirteen year old Jack and his twelve year old sister Amanda visit their Grandma Jenny in the mountains over the Christmas holiday.

They hear the story of a mythical cavern that Grandma went searching for fifty years earlier with her little brother Bill and their best friend Mike. Her brother was lost, never to be seen again.

Drawn to the mystery, Jack and Amanda meet up with Daniel Madsen, a local boy diagnosed with Leukemia and only months to live. He tells them of a boy who went into the caves a few days before Christmas, 1910 and came out three years later telling of "The Christmas Cave", a world of amazing colors and lights.

They find their way to the Christmas Cave and discover much more than they expected.

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Gryphen (Sutherland House Book 2) Jan 7, 2020

by David R. Beshears

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Sutherland House Episode Two...

Sutherland House
A five episode series...
Matthew and Jennifer Sutherland, father and daughter, wage a secret war against a hidden society of immortals with extraordinary abilities, a society that Sutherland House once dominated. Now estranged from the other Primary Families, they are all that stands between humanity and the mysterious, terrifying agenda of the Society.

Episode Two – “Gryphen”
Gryphen, second of the five episode series…

The decades-long relationship between Matthew Sutherland and Phillip Gryphen is threatened by a violent crime that sits at the foot of Gryphen House. This as Matthew meets with Victor, Father of the Society, only weeks after the incident at Andover.

All set against the backdrop of the growing truths underlying the shadowy, ethereal web of the Agenda, and of Mary’s flowering evolution, the growth of her six Abilities, and of what this means to the future of the Society.

10K story adapted from the one hour second episode screenplay of the scifi/fantasy miniseries “Sutherland House”.

Coming soon...
Sutherland House Episode Three - "The Summit"

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Next Exit Oct 27, 2019

by David R. Beshears

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Novella (76 print pages) adapted from the screenplay

The eight-room motel sits isolated on a lonely desert highway, a never-traveled secondary ribbon of road crossing a barren landscape.

Half the rooms are occupied, permanent residents choosing for their own reasons to live in this ethereal world that is untouched, unseen by the outside world.

This world is threatened by a powerful research facility seeking to retrieve their property: several of the residents of the motel, including “Mother”, an elderly woman living in the upstairs apartment of the motel/café owners Lee and Jan.

Mother forever stands watch...

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At Variance 3: Short Story & Novella Collection Jul 28, 2019

by David R. Beshears

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Flash fiction, short stories and novellas, many of them adapted directly from short scripts, webseries scripts and pilot episode screenplays.

Under an Alien Sky
flash fiction adapted from short script

Family Alone - "An Awfully Quiet Morning"
flash fiction adapted from webseries episode

The Bench
flash fiction adapted from short script

Annie's Plan - "Comes the Dawn"
flash fiction adapted from webseries episode

The Black Tower - "The First Floor"
novella adapted from miniseries episode

The Bridge Crew - "Trial Run"
flash fiction adapted from webseries episode

Sisters in Space - "Awakening"
short story adapted from webseries episode

Sutherland House - "Andover"
short story adapted from miniseries episode

Shadows from the Past
five short stories from long ago

Several of the titles in this collection have appeared previously in other collections and publications