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Kalifer Deil


Biography

Kalifer Deil is the pen name of Gary Feierbach a Silicon Valley computer software and hardware engineer. His technical publications are under Gary Feierbach. All others are under Kalifer Deil. He has a BA in Physics and Mathematics and an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
He has worked on computer architecture, design, engineering management, and systems and application software for NASA, Intergraph, Sun and Apple.

He has only recently devoted most of his time to writing. Most of his works would be classified as hard science fiction. Hopefully it is in the spirit of Issac Asimov but generally a bit more gritty and less inhibited. Please visit his website http://www.kaliferdeil.com for some free stories, poems and other oddities or go to http://www.speculativescience.com for more information

Where to find Kalifer Deil online

Website: http://www.kaliferdeil.com
Twitter: kaliferdeil
    Facebook: Facebook profile
    LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/feierbach
    MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/kaliferdeil
    Blog: http://kaliferdeil.wordpress.com

    Where to buy in print

    http://www.amazon.com

    Books

    Tillian 5 - The Overseer    by Kalifer Deil
    Price: $6.99 USD. 79700 words. Published on May 29, 2012. Fiction.
    In this Volume III, Maggie faces many powerful potential enemies and the possible end of the Universe. At first the Clicker's, an insectoid race of beings, try to take over the Earth's and Tillian 5's android population. Next, the Overseer decides he wants Maggie to himself. That event is followed by the Assemblers, an emotionless race, who want to reform all planets in their path to their purpose
    The Diary of Professor Gilbert Rasher    by Kalifer Deil
    Price: Free! 33300 words. Published on May 11, 2011. Fiction.
    This book, in the form of a diary, is a complement to the Tillian 5 Trilogy. The diary starts out as a prequel to “Tillian 5 - A New Beginning.” It continues on the same time line as “Tillian 5 - A New Beginning” but on Earth with no knowledge of the events unfolding on Tillian 5. The diary then merges with the beginning of “Tillian 5 - Return to Earth.”
    Mary Had a Little Dagnaserub    by Kalifer Deil
    Price: Free! 2450 words. Published on March 27, 2011. Fiction.
    A very short children's science fiction story: Seven year old Mary Johnson met up with a little creature that lost his spaceship. She just thought it was a cute little animal she could take home as a secret pet. Secret because grandma doesn't want pets in her house. When she realized who and what he really was she helped him retrieve his ship so he could return to his mother ship.
    Tillian 5 - Return to Earth    by Kalifer Deil
    Price: $6.99 USD. 111160 words. Published on January 9, 2011. Fiction.
    Maggie and Skip Rogers become android twins of themselves to return to terraform Earth to back to what it was using the advanced technology of the Keepers. The Earth population has dwindled to approximately one-million and is ruled by pockets of extremely dangerous criminals and religious fanatics who believe Maggie is the antiChrist. The religious fanatics have access to nuclear weapons.
    Flight of the Soul    by Kalifer Deil
    Price: Free! 9020 words. Published on December 4, 2010. Screenplays.
    The play “Flight of the Soul” contrasts several points of view about eternal life but features a “brain uploading” concept proffered by Ray Kurtzweil and others including the author. In the play Ray Kurtzweil is thinly disguised as Ray Kurtz. Others are archetypes of other points of view except Bob Mover (a Bill Moyers type) and Mrs. Altevine, a rich widow in search of eternal life.
    Tillian 5 - A New Beginning    by Kalifer Deil
    Price: $6.99 USD. 98640 words. Published on November 13, 2010. Fiction.
    (5.00 from 1 review)
    This epic is in three volumes of which this is the first. It is a story of love and adventure as told by the Captain of The Tillian Star. This starship was specifically designed to go to Tillian 5, a planet 60 light years away from Earth. Tillian Star was controlled by a computer called Maggie who became a key player in the survival of this small group of colonists on this very odd alien planet.
    Editor's Notebook    by Kalifer Deil
    Price: Free! 6880 words. Published on November 2, 2010. Nonfiction.
    This is a guide to help writers edit their own works. It is often very difficult to find many of your own errors. This guide will provide a systematic approach that if followed diligently will get most of them, prepare for e-publishing and improve style as well. Editors are expensive for self publishers to use so I developed this guide to help me do my own editing. Version 062412
    McCambrie's Army    by Kalifer Deil
    Price: $2.99 USD. 23040 words. Published on October 27, 2010. Fiction.
    McCambrie Corporation had a monopoly on off Earth mining of vital materials. Their armed space force dwarfed that of the UN so they where almost impervious to Earth law. U.S. President Thorton wanted to rein in MacC as it was called. Her spy, John Crowley, had a rough start but soon fell in with Barbara Makowitz who seem to have a penchant for sex, murder and mayhem.
    Well of Mirrors    by Kalifer Deil
    Price: $2.99 USD. 27690 words. Published on October 26, 2010. Fiction.
    (4.00 from 1 review)
    A novella length book about a group of monks assigned to an old mission in the California desert. They decide to dig an old stone lined well a bit deeper in the hope of increasing their water supply. What they discover is a fantastic archeological find of all time but its about to set civilization back to the stone age. As the number of researchers grows so does the danger.
    Transcendent Epoch    by Kalifer Deil
    Price: $0.99 USD. 16320 words. Published on October 16, 2010. Fiction.
    Two long short stories 'Eternal M' and 'Big Al' dealing with brain downloading. In 'Eternal M' a Mafia Don finds a professor that he believes is his ticket to immortality. The professor has no idea what's in store for him. In 'Big Al' a multimillionaire used car salesman is enticed to join a group of very cerebral virtual people needing the money for their existence. A very bad idea.
    End Times    by Kalifer Deil
    Price: $0.99 USD. 10970 words. Published on October 15, 2010. Fiction.
    End Times is a collection of four scifi short stories. Ex World Leader (meets an alien judge), The Survivor (In the aftermath of global warming), Corpus Deletum (The androids loved him to death) and The Picnic (An incidental meeting with The Universe's programmers). There is some sex in Corpus Deletum but it is not graphically described.
    The Possessor    by Kalifer Deil
    Price: $0.99 USD. 4730 words. Published on September 22, 2010. Fiction.
    Three short stories. The Possessor and Thomas Messenger are short Serlingesque pieces. The possessor is a short story about a collector who finally got his prize possession, the Emerald Jay, but at a price he could ill afford. Thomas Messenger is about a woman who was taught to stop talking and start listening by an Angel. The Jungle teaches that the guide may be the most dangerous animal.

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    Smashwords book reviews by Kalifer Deil

    • Mission to Edia-Prime: A Short Novella on Feb. 20, 2011
      (no rating)
      This is a well crafted story that pulls you in . More typos than there should be. I felt a bit cheated since the "dark secret" remains a dark secret. Either that or I missed something that I was supposed to get that the characters in the story didn't get.