SOD's Law: The Light Fantastic

Mack Lancaster earns a meagre living in orbit, recovering space junk to sell as souvenirs at the gift shop of the Galaxy Eye, a research station and hotel tethered to Earth by a space elevator. He hopes his latest find—the wreckage of a spacecraft that appeared out of nowhere—will make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But the Laws of the Universe have a surprise for our space cowboy. His adventures have only just begun.A short humor story in The Light Fantastic..INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHORQ - What is The Light Fantastic?A - In The Light Fantastic, nine authors unite to bring laughter, chuckles, giggles, guffaws, and amusement to the masses amidst speculative twists and turns. Literary comedic geniuses like Kurt Vonnegut, Jonathan Swift, Helen Fielding, Samuel Beckett, Terry Pratchett, Gail Carriger, Mark Twain, and Oscar Wilde inspired the authors of the Alvarium Experiment in their quest for comedic gold, exploring every facet from dark humor to slapstick, deadpan to satire, dry humor to parody, and anything else we might consider a tickler of funny bones. The featured stories fall into fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres, but they do get up again and brush themselves off. This is the sixth project by the Alvarium Experiment, a consortium of accomplished and award-winning authors.Q - Where should a reader start when selecting a short story to read in The Light Fantastic?A - Each story is self-contained and can be read in any order. The reader is free to select any of the stories at random to begin their experience. The book description will explain the premise for each particular story.About the AuthorCHARLES A CORNELL lives in a small village in rural Lincolnshire, England with his wife and a ginger tabby. When Charles isn’t trying to survive the chaos of everyday life, he’s dreaming up speculative fiction ranging from the mysterious to the macabre, often by blending science fiction with fantasy and alternative history. He’s a regular contributor to podcasts, seminars and conferences, and conducts webinars and workshops on his specialty, retro-punk fiction (Steampunk, Dieselpunk).His first published novel, Tiger Paw, won the 2012 Royal Palm Literary Award for Best Thriller from the Florida Writers Association.His illustrated dieselpunk work, DragonFly is a retro-futuristic collision of science fiction and fantasy that reimagines World War II. DragonFly was a 2014 Royal Palm Literary Award Finalist in Science Fiction, has received numerous Amazon and GoodReads Five-Star reviews, two prestigious Reader’s Favorite Five Star Reviews, and won the 2018 Reader’s Favorite Silver Medal in the Young Adult - Action category.Charles’s short stories and novellas have appeared in the anthologies, The Prometheus Saga, Return To Earth, The Masters Reimagined Vol 2, and In Shadows Written. His Prometheus Saga science fiction stories Crystal Night and The Orchid Man have both won FWA Royal Palm Literary Award Gold Medals for short fiction (2016, 2018).You can visit Charles at CharlesACornell.com for news on his latest publications and writing projects, and for musings on dieselpunk and retrofuturism. Check out his world of Steampunk at SteampunkNovels.com and also DragonFly at DragonFly-Novels.com which features galleries of retro-futuristic aircraft and other illustrations specially commissioned for DragonFly.