David R. Beshears

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About David R. Beshears

Award-winning screenwriter and author of science fiction, fantasy and adventure. David's work has been praised by literary professors and by PhDs in science, by fans and by book reviewers around the world. His miniseries screenplay adaptation of his popular novel "The Shylmahn Migration" won the Pacific Northwest Screenwriting Competition in 2007.

David lives on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State with his wife Sylvia. When not writing, he can usually be found on any one of a dozen northwest mountains.

Visit his author page at www.davidrbeshears.com

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The Caravan Feb 5, 2014

by David R. Beshears

$2.45

Novella adaptation of the post-apocalyptic scifi/horror screenplay "The Caravan".

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.”

Other Formats: Audible Audiobook , Paperback

Sisters in Space: The Complete Series May 12, 2016

by David R Beshears

$2.45

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.

Other Formats: Paperback

The Black Tower: The Complete Series Dec 4, 2014

by David R. Beshears

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$3.95

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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Planet of Stones Feb 18, 2017

by David R. Beshears

( 2 )

$2.45

Novella adaptation of the screenplay.
Screenplay placed Finalist in a recent screenwriting 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 Migration (The Shylmahn Trilogy Book 1) Feb 9, 2012

by David R. Beshears

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The Shylmahn Migration brings gritty realism to the nightmare of an overwhelming alien invasion of earth. Intelligent, award-winning science fiction...

Prior to the arrival of the Shylmahn, a blanket of normalcy lay comfortably over the Britton family, a quiet ordinariness that would stand in sharp contrast to what their lives would become.

Their individual stories play out across the epic landscape of the invasion, plots intertwining as each narrative progresses toward the inevitable climax at which all paths converge for one final confrontation.

From the perspective of the Shylmahn, it is not an invasion at all but a grand adventure, an exciting journey to a new world. The epic interweaves the stories of EsJen, TohPeht and NehLoc through the stories of the human characters, providing a shocking contrast to the overall conflict.

This is not ‘slam, bam, welcome to earth’ stuff. There will be no fairy dust sprinkled into the atmosphere to miraculously kill off the bad guys.

This really could happen.

Book One of the Shylmahn Trilogy

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

"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

Other Formats: Audible Audiobook , Paperback

Broken Sky Dec 5, 2013

by David R. Beshears

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$2.45

Novella adaptation of the science fiction screenplay “Broken Sky”...

A quiet, desolate setting: a cluster of old buildings isolated out on an empty plain. Overhead, the alien sky is a smear of reds and purples; a shell enclosing the world.

Living in this collection of broken down buildings are ten people, once strangers to one another, all taken from their past lives and transported to this barren world. They survive by gathering supplies that mysteriously materialize and are left out on the landscape, seemingly coming from out of nowhere. These materializations can be anything, and can come from any time in history. It might be a crate of oranges, a grove of trees, the interior of someone’s office; or a person...

But supplies have grown increasingly scarce, and the group decides to strike out across the plain toward a range of mountains that has materialized on the horizon.

Industry feedback re screenplay:
“Great visuals and a really effective atmosphere of foreboding.”
“Inventive script with an inspired world…unique and highly visual.”

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Ravenhill Court Jan 9, 2014

by David R. Beshears

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Recipient of the Readers' Favorite Five Stars award

Novella based on the screenplay "Ravenhill Court"

Present day...

A man returns to a long-abandoned neighborhood. Doors stand ajar, shutters hang open, lawns and landscaping are unkempt. The man sits on the curb and opens a leather-bound journal. Through the journal, he recalls the events that took place in Ravenhill decades earlier.

Journey back to 1964…

The man is just a boy. He and his friends find that their neighborhood, a cul-de-sac set into the foothills along the California coast, is not all that it appears. There are strange happenings; some amazing, some terrifying, and all pointing to the fact that this little community of families might just be something other than what the rest of the world perceives it to be.

Thirteen year-old Ben Foster, along with his friends Peter and Louis, and his older sister Julie, set out to find the secret behind the peculiar events that the outside world doesn’t see and that those living in the neighborhood either choose to ignore or are conspiring to keep hidden.

Young Peter will set the tales down in his journal, which years later a grown Ben Foster will clasp to as the last surviving corroboration of their adventures and of their astonishing discovery.

“This is an excellent science fiction/fantasy story, particularly suitable for the young adult market, but equally applicable to all ages. Clever, witty, and sometimes dark humor will always have a place on our bookshelves. Five stars.” – Readers Favorite reviewer

Other Formats: Audible Audiobook , Paperback

The Shylmahn Trilogy: All three volumes Mar 22, 2018

by David R. Beshears

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$4.35

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.

At Variance: Movie Novella Collection Dec 16, 2016

by David R. Beshears

$3.95

Movie Novella Series Collection
5 two-hour books adapted directly from screenplays.

The five novellas included in At Variance are based on screenplays written over several years. Each has previously been published as an individual novella.

The narratives follow as closely as possible the original screenplays. The results of this very painstaking balancing act are five films flickering before the eyes of the reader.

And these five stories couldn’t be more different from one another: family sci-fi adventure, dark satire fantasy, science fiction, holiday family fantasy, and post-apocalyptic scifi/horror.

Welcome to the multiplex...
Choose your screen and enjoy the movie...

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Genesis (The Shylmahn Trilogy Book 3) Sep 23, 2015

by David R. Beshears

$3.25

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.

Genesis is the final book in the Shylmahn trilogy.

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The Occupation (The Shylmahn Trilogy Book 2) Mar 30, 2012

by David R. Beshears

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$3.25

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.

Book Two of the Shylmahn Trilogy.

Other Formats: Audible Audiobook , Paperback

KHDZ Jan 16, 2014

by David R. Beshears

( 2 )

$2.45

Novella adapted from the screenplay "KHDZ"

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."

Other Formats: Audible Audiobook , Paperback

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