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Crashed Landings: Stories of First Contact, Strange Arrivals & Cosmic Adventure
Paperback
Series: Raconteur Press Anthologies, Book 75
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ISBN13: 9798259459946
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ten writers. Ten crashed landings. Zero warnings.
In Crashed Landings, editor David Badurina has assembled ten all-new stories inspired by the group-adventure films of the 1980s and '90s -The Goonies, Explorers, Stand by Me, The Sandlot--where a strange event throws mismatched kids together and nothing is ever quite the same afterward.
In Crashed Landings, editor David Badurina has assembled ten all-new stories inspired by the group-adventure films of the 1980s and '90s -The Goonies, Explorers, Stand by Me, The Sandlot--where a strange event throws mismatched kids together and nothing is ever quite the same afterward.
A boy and his bully chase a fallen meteorite through the woods - only to find out it belongs to someone else. Three friends on prom night stumble onto a robot that fell out of the sky, and have to put it back together before the town pays the price. A fungal alien heart crash-lands in the forest and starts rewriting the wildlife. A teen grief camp gets an unexpected visitor from a crashing seed-pod. A space trucker with a time-traveling rig and a trunk full of contraband coffee recruits a girl with a slingshot and a very good reason to disappear. A boy in Kansas realizes the thing living in his skin isn't quite him anymore. Bird-like aliens help a crash-landed human pilot evade an enemy patrol on a planet that isn't Earth. And more.
These stories share a DNA: emotion, banter, wide-eyed wonder, and the kind of friendship that only happens when the world gets weird enough to need it. Good guys and bad situations. Stakes that feel real. Characters you'll root for. Endings you'll remember.
If you grew up watching kids on bikes outrun something impossible, and you've been waiting for that feeling in prose, Crashed Landings is for you.
Ten stories. One anthology. Infinite crash sites.
These stories share a DNA: emotion, banter, wide-eyed wonder, and the kind of friendship that only happens when the world gets weird enough to need it. Good guys and bad situations. Stakes that feel real. Characters you'll root for. Endings you'll remember.
If you grew up watching kids on bikes outrun something impossible, and you've been waiting for that feeling in prose, Crashed Landings is for you.
Ten stories. One anthology. Infinite crash sites.
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