Short Fiction:
Night Lights
An Anthology of Short Fiction: First Contact, Conspiracy, & Space Opera
By Daniel P. Douglas and 20 other authors
Night Lights are populated with aliens, high and low technology, spaceships...
...including one with divine aspirations and one helmed by an otter— humans and not-so-human artificial intelligences, Earth locales, and far-off new worlds.
There’s more too, and in each tale, the characters’ struggles will stretch your imagination and sense of reality, while posing profound questions about morality, society and justice, and raising uncertainties of the unknown and unchecked technological evolution.
With 21 original stories from talented, new authors about extraterrestrials, conspiracies, and space exploration, Night Lights is full of moments that will make you gasp, shudder, laugh, and wonder.
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“But just then, a strange thing happened. The easy chair floated off the floor and jettisoned across the room. The Nazi gunman froze, which was perfectly fine with me. I aimed just below his slick blond hair, right at his pretty Aryan face. Without going into the details, it wasn’t so pretty anymore…”
From Well, Haruki, Looks Like It’s Just You and Me, Kid, by Daniel P. Douglas
“My characters are often what we call ordinary people. They just happen to find themselves on a collision course with destiny and taking courageous, extraordinary action.”
Daniel P. Douglas
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Daniel P. Douglas
More than a Mystery & Suspense Author
Daniel P. Douglas enjoys writing pulse-pounding, edge-of-your seat science fiction, conspiracy, mystery, suspense, and thriller books and screenplays.
Born and raised in Southern California, Phillip moved to Arizona to attend college, and Paul moved to Virginia to further pursue his museum career. Both have travelled extensively across the United States and around the world. They now reside in New Mexico with their families and many pets.
About The Author
Daniel P. Douglas is the pen name for identical twins Phillip and Paul Garver.
Phillip is a U.S. Army veteran who also served as a senior analyst in the U.S. Intelligence Community. He retired from federal service in 2023.
Paul’s career includes over 30 years in the museum profession. He has worked for cultural and historic sites in California and Virginia, as well as for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He currently works as a mental health counselor.
Phillip and Paul enjoy writing science fiction, conspiracy, mystery, suspense, and thriller books and short stories. Their characters are often ordinary people who tread into a collision course with destiny, where survival means confronting personal flaws and fighting for good in the eternal battle against evil.
Daniel P. Douglas has been named a Foreword Reviews 2014 IndieFab Book-of-the-Year Awards Science Fiction Finalist and is a Readers’ Favorite Award winner.
They explore this theme in a number of published works. Their first novel, Truth Insurrected: The Saint Mary Project, centered on a decades-old government cover-up of contact with extraterrestrial life. Coming in 2025, the first two books of their Space Western series, Wild Frontier Chronicles, will be released. Also arriving in 2025 will be the first volume of Tales from the Noir Side, an anthology of noir tales involving different characters, places, time periods, and even genres.
Their Richter’s War series blends sci-fi with hard-boiled intrigue in Los Angeles during World War II. Their first non-fiction endeavor, Six-Shooters and Starships: A Comprehensive Guide to Crafting Space Western Stories, explores the rich history of the Space Western genre in fiction and entertainment media.