Venus Probe! and Other Stories

by Robert James Warner


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 08/10/2001

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 168
ISBN : 9780759624283

About the Book

Venus Probe! and Other Stories is a collection of 16 short stories on a verity of subjects and ideas. They are what is called "short" stories, and "short short" stories because some of them are quite short, which Mr. Warner delights in writing.

Mr. Warner wrote these stories over the past several years whenever he thought of them. They cover a rather wide range of science-fiction-fantasy; space travel; humor; time travel; speculations; Fiddlin' Fool is a Krong the Watcher story; wonderings; crime; and a confrontation with the devil!

Below is a list of the stories, which will give the reader some idea of each plot. Keep your wits about you, Mr. Warner is a prose magician!

1. In the Beginning!

2. China Syndrome Two

3. Her Day in Court!

4. A Dirty Old Man

5. The Missing Link Safari.

6. Mint Condition!

7. The Pool of Life!

8. The Rape Victims!

9. The Long and the Short of it!

10. The Fastest Gun in Space!

11. Venus Probe!

12. The Worth of a Man!

13. Dream Bike!

14. No Hands!

15. Fiddlin' Fool!

16. Cagey Brown


About the Author

Robert James Warner was born and raised in Long Beach, California. He went to the local schools. He was drafted in to the Navy on March 9th, 1944, during the 2nd World War as soon as he finished his last semester in High School. He was discharged from the Navy on June 16, 1946.

Mr. Warner went back to school at Long Beach City College on the GI Bill, taking Mechanical Engineering and then switching to journalism. After about a year and a half at City College, he quit.

Mr. Warner had always been interested in writing, but he had huge handicaps to overcome: he couldn't spell (he still can't); and grammar was then and is now a mystery to him.

Mr. Warner first began to write when he was about 20.

During the next few years he wrote some songs, poetry, and a few short stories, but his output was quite low.

From 1947, after Mr. Warner left City College, to 1950, he had a number of different inconsequential jobs, the longest at Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach where he worked in the blueprint department for eight months before quitting to loaf awhile.

In 1950, he enlisted in the Active Naval Reserve as a Weekend Warrior, so he could learn seamanship and get paid doing it. He has had a life-long love affair with boats (building his own) and fishing.

About three months later, the Korean War started and Mr. Warner was called back to active duty in the Navy Aircorp for a year, getting discharged in August 1951, serving on three aircraft carriers, operating off of Korea in the China Sea, bombing and strafing the communists!

After Korea, Mr. Warner went back to City College for awhile, then got a job on a freighter as a deckhand and made two trips to the Hawaiian Islands, about 30 days round trip, hauling bulk sugar for C&H Sugar in Crocket California on the Sacramento River.

Leaving the ship in Crocket he went to Santa Rosa, California, where he washed dishes in some restaurants and got a poem published in the local newspaper, a big day in his life.

Next, he went to Yosemite and washed some more dishes, then he went home.

Mr. Warner has cleaned chicken dung from under the pens; he owned and operated his own auto wrecking yard; owned his own 2nd Store; was half owner of a Yacht Landing; speculated in Real Estate; and worked at some other odd jobs, going to work for the Long Beach Fire Department in 1953 for the next 26 years, retiring in October 1979.

Mr. Warner got married in 1961, had his son in 1963, and then got divorced in 1973.

In 1974, Mr. Warner and his son, Jeff, drove to Alaska during the summer. On his return, Mr. Warner wrote his first novel.

Since 1974, Mr. Warner has written 31 novels, about 125 short stories, two Civil War books, and two poetry collections.