Sami Salkosuo

Biography

Sami Salkosuo is an indie author and IBM Client Technical Professional. He is the author of several science fiction stories, including The Kaitian War and Truths,Half-Truths and Lies, and the author of DWR Java Ajax Applications and many articles at IBM developerWorks. He's also written poetry.

Besides writing, he enjoys programming.

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Books

Brief are the Stories II
Price: Free! Words: 840. Language: English. Published: October 26, 2019 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry, Fiction » Anthologies » Flash fiction
(3.00 from 1 review)
A collection of ten poems/stories: The Watch, In The Forest, The Siege, The Curtain, Torn by the Thorn, The Border, Ad Victoriam, The Cross, Touch of Wings and After the Watch. The first and the last are related. Others are unrelated and independent.
Brief are the Stories
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 1,070. Language: English. Published: August 11, 2019 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry, Fiction » Anthologies » Flash fiction
A collection of ten brief, unrelated and independent stories: The Passenger, Up The Stairs, Twin Angels, The Unwelcome Companion, Unbearable Weight, God Riddle, Immortal Choice, The Refinery, The Riders and End of Song.
2016 - 2013
Price: $14.99 USD. Words: 3,750. Language: English. Published: September 24, 2018 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
A collection of nearly three hundred poems, written during a time of personal crisis. When I look back at the words... Some of the words are quite good, some too embarrassing to read, but all reflect what I saw, heard, felt, thought, imagined or otherwise experienced at the time of writing.
The Angel
Price: Free! Words: 650. Language: English. Published: February 2, 2018 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
The shepherds in the field… they were told that the child was born. It was told by an angel. That same angel… is in this story.
The Vampire
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 1,280. Language: English. Published: December 15, 2017 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
Under the cloudy skies / We hunt... the elixir of life / The blood… we hunt
Sleeping, a Dreamer
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 1,400. Language: English. Published: November 29, 2017 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
A story of war / Tale of heroes, of villains / A dreamer, sleeping.
The Kaitian War
Series: The Strangers' Universe. Price: Free! Words: 82,460. Language: English. Published: February 16, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
(4.50 from 2 reviews)
For a thousand years, Commander William Johnson has guided the humans toward joining the Coalition, an alliance of advanced civilizations in the galaxy. Soon after they finally do, the Kaitians--the servant species of the long-extinct Hwzeenn--launch an all-out assault against other species in the galaxy with only one goal: extermination.
Truths, Half-Truths and Lies
Series: The Strangers' Universe. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 61,550. Language: English. Published: December 1, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
In early 1947, a long-awaited message finally comes and the meeting between Commander Johnson and aliens, the Greys, is scheduled in Roswell, New Mexico. The meeting, and the deal made there, are the first steps on a journey that takes the Commander through the great conspiracy, over a thousand years to unified Earth, to distant worlds and through the first portents of a great war.
Stories from the Strangers' Universe
Series: The Strangers' Universe. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 35,120. Language: English. Published: December 3, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
This is a collection of three stories, in chronological order, from the Strangers' Universe: End of an Era, Dawn to Dawn and Just Another Scout. End of an Era tells a story of a vast battle long ago, Dawn to Dawn follows a miner named Nick during a single day and night when everything changes and Just Another Scout tells about Alex who is on a scout mission five years after the Revelation.