David Downey: 4 books

Goddess is a collection of David Downey’s short stories.  The tales explore love, loss, and longing, against the quirky and psychedelic backdrops of one night stands, time travel, jilted gods, nuclear war, alien invasions, and junk mail hording.

A tachyon star appears outside of Terran Union space, approaching at impossible speeds.  The war-ravaged Union dispatches the destroyer Havok to determine if it’s a natural phenomenon, a desperately needed friend, or another genocidal foe.

- A lowly demon gains possession of a human. - The Garden of Eden is rediscovered on Earth. - An exploding star, bright enough to be seen in the daytime sky, heralds Christ's rebirth on our world. For ages, the Prince of Darkness has waited for three such events, to launch his catastrophic plan of final vengeance against God.

In 346 BC, a young Alexander the Great persuades his father to attack the military city-state of Sparta. That fateful event is the snowflake that triggers an avalanche of an alternative history spanning 2,300 years, marking the end of ancient Greece as we know it, and resulting in a Sparta...