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Member Since: May 15, 2009
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Cliff Ball


Biography

I am 39, a Christian, live in Texas, have 2 BA's, and a Technical Writing Certificate. I won 3rd in a youth magazine for a short story I wrote through Creative Writing class in high school back in 1992, called "Role Reversal."

Novels/short stories in order of publication:
Out of Time - 2008
Don't Mess With Earth - 2009
The Usurper - 2010
Shattered Earth - 2010
Voyager and the Aliens - 2011
Dust Storm - 2011
New Frontier - 2011
Times of Trouble - 2012
Times of Trial - 2012
Final Frontier - 2012
Beyond the New Frontier - 2012
Times of Turmoil - 2013

Author website: http://www.cliffball.net
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Where to find Cliff Ball online

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    Where to buy in print

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    Books

    Final Frontier (alternate history)    by Cliff Ball
    Price: $3.99 USD. 31050 words. Published on October 9, 2012. Fiction.
    Sequel to New Frontier. The USS Lewis & Clark search for the Yuri Gagarin, end up in the past, and try to correct historical events. Unfortunately, unintended consequences result as the timeline ends up with multiple branches.
    Times of Trial (Christian fiction)    by Cliff Ball
    Price: $3.99 USD. 56650 words. Published on May 10, 2012. Fiction.
    0.75 star(2.67 from 3 reviews)
    Three Christian families suffer from persecution as the President declares himself dictator, implements something called Order 21, and begins targeting his political and spiritual enemies. Meanwhile, tensions between Israel and Iran intensifies as the End Times approach. Can be read as a stand-alone novel.
    Times of Trouble (Christian fiction)    by Cliff Ball
    Price: $3.99 USD. 45430 words. Published on February 3, 2012. Fiction.
    (3.00 from 2 reviews)
    Brian Atwood works for the FBI. His work involves potential cases of terrorism. Recruited to become personal bodyguard for the President. His faith as a Christian is tested daily working for the President who has no morals from what Brian can see. We follow Brian as the U.S. slowly disintegrates around hm.
    New Frontier (alternate history)    by Cliff Ball
    Price: $3.99 USD. 54170 words. Published on December 20, 2011. Fiction.
    (4.00 from 2 reviews)
    In this alternate history novel, Reagan became President in 1976 instead, continues with the moon landings, declaring that a moon base would be established, followed by a Mars Base by 1989. Terrorism rears its ugly head, which will forever change American politics, but not the Space Race. We follow America's progress from Moon to Mars to an eventual starship mission out of the solar system.
    Dust Storm: a western short story    by Cliff Ball
    Price: $0.99 USD. 3630 words. Published on December 10, 2011. Fiction.
    In this western short story, 15 years after the Civil War, Matt comes through Tucson, where he stops at the local Cafe, meets a woman he instantly falls in love with, only for her father to order him to leave town. He doesn't, the daughter ends up kidnapped by Bandidos, and Matt and the father have to lay aside their differences to rescue the daughter. Can they? Find out what happens.
    Voyager and the Aliens    by Cliff Ball
    Price: $0.99 USD. 4560 words. Published on September 8, 2011. Fiction.
    In this short story, aliens come across television broadcasts from an unknown planet to them. Then, they come across a probe from same planet that tells them everything they need to know about this planet and its people. They decide to visit the planet, but when they arrive, not everything is as it seems.
    Shattered Earth: an alternate history science fiction novel    by Cliff Ball
    Price: $3.99 USD. 75420 words. Published on October 27, 2010. Fiction.
    Advanced humans leave Earth when its threatened by a massive meteor. The remaining humans on Earth fall back into primitiveness. The advanced humans, and a group of aliens involve Earth in an interstellar war. Thousands of years later, the humans of Earth decide to do something about this. Interstellar politics will never be the same again once Earth is done with their revenge.
    The Usurper: a political suspense thriller    by Cliff Ball
    Price: $0.99 USD. 56750 words. Published on July 11, 2010. Fiction.
    0.25 star(4.33 from 3 reviews)
    Gary Jackson is raised to hate. Hate the United States, and everything it has ever stood for. His mission is to destroy the United States from within, allying himself with America's enemies to accomplish the deed. He stops at nothing, and a small group of Americans decide they need to stop him. Will they succeed or will the US be relegated to the dustbin of history?
    Out of Time: a time travel novella    by Cliff Ball
    Price: $1.99 USD. 31440 words. Published on April 7, 2010. Fiction.
    In the future, scientists discover that all time is fluid. Past, present, and future all exist at once, but time can still be changed. The US government decides to go to the past and right what once went wrong. The story takes place mostly in the 20th century, where our heroes meet Anne Frank, John F. Kennedy, just to name a few. Find out what happens when they return to their present.
    Don't Mess With Earth    by Cliff Ball
    Price: $2.99 USD. 51050 words. Published on May 15, 2009. Fiction.
    Some humans leave Earth when a massive flood threatens the planet. Eventually they return to manipulate human history. An alien species follows them, and experiments on the humans. Eventually, the humans of Earth discover this, and President Truman sets the planet on a path that will forever change history.

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    Smashwords book reviews by Cliff Ball

    • The Sword and the Dragon (The Wardstone Trilogy One) on Aug. 28, 2010
      star star star star star
      When I started reading this novel, and saw it was 700 pages, I was thinking it would suffer from burn out somewhere in the middle. Boy, was I wrong! The novel has a steady flow throughout, and the descriptions of various scenes throughout the novel are imaginative. The story is told from the points of view of quite a few different characters, from the good guys to the bad guys, and a couple of their animal friends. It has elements from every fantasy novel out there, including the classic tragic hero journey. It kept me interested. I would recommend this to anyone who has read such novels as Lord of the Rings or the Eragon series of books.