Lynda Williams wrote the Okal Rel Saga over thirty years of creative invention while pursuing a career in applied technology, teaching part-time, and raising a family. During the decade the saga was in progress with the independent Canadian Press, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy, an additional 10 titles set in the universe of the saga were published as the Legacies series, with titles by Craig Bowlsby, Krysia Anderson, Lynda Williams and many other authors included in the Opus anthologies. In 2013, Lynda made the decision to buy back her IP in order to continue her adventure as a publisher, starting with an original Okal Rel novella by Hal J. Friesen. Reality Skimming Press continues to expand the Okal Rel Universe as well as other projects. For questions about Reality Skimming Press you can contact Managing Editor Ellen Michelle Koehler at ellen_michelle@outlook.com.
Two years after crash-landing on the planet Mega, the colonists from Earth struggle to expand their base. When paleontologist Benjamin Bota searches for ground water, far from the main colony, he finds himself stranded and defenseless during the annual outbreak of the most dangerous creatures on the planet.
Hanako longs to find her place within the small group of survivors on the planet Mega, but is rejected as an outcast. So she leaves the colony to clear her head, as she often does. This time, though, she witnesses a geological event that will impact the entire ecosystem. If she can survive, she hopes to make it back in time to warn the colonists. And that they’ll believe an outcast.
Laine is a former farm girl who joins the Mega expedition along with her big brother. After the crash most of the colonists are busy trying to figure out how they are going to survive. Laine on the other hand, is busy trying to catch a bird.
Or rather something that looks like a bird. She knows it will be useful in its own way; she just needs to get it, and herself, back to camp in one piece firs
Sandra has more than survivor's guilt and personal grief to deal with in her early days on Mega in the shadow of a cracked and looming ship. There's cold. And predatory beasts like those her group dubbed Hexes. Desperate to prove useful, she dares to discover more.
After crash landing on a hostile jungle planet, rebel-scientist Izumi sets out against orders on a hunch that may ultimately save her fellow survivors but risk everything. Still haunted by the meaningless death of her family, Izumi’s intrepid search for life becomes an existential journey of the heart that explores how we connect and communicate—with one another and the universe—a journey intimate
When an up-and-coming young scientist emigrates to the moon and lands a job at the powerful corporation Moontech, events occur which make him wonder if he's jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire.
After a powerful STD turns sexual activity into a certain death sentence, humanity creates a third sex to combat the reproductive crisis, inadvertently creating an outcast sexual underclass in the process. Two couples on opposite sides of the schism between tradition and necessity struggle to have a child in a world where no one is making babies the old-fashioned way.
So much depends on a lost cat. In a future where unlucky people like Hector can't shut out the distress of others, Hector has to learn why. Even though he's miserable himself.
Optimistic sci-fi anthology about the survival on planet Mega. Each of the six stories relays different stories of how the people who crash landed on Mega are managing to survive on their new home planet.
SF is an arena where ideas collide. The Collidor series features authors who came together to take part in an experiment combining very different stories through the illustrations of artist Jeff Doten and commentaries connecting them to resonances in the world. Because every reading experience is a collision of author and reader. Of individual innovation and traditions of literature. Of subject matter and history. Initially web-published with commentaries, the series will be collected into a print anthlogy as the first example of the web-to-print production model by Reality Skimming Press.