David Stier

David Stier

Turkey Shoot, fiction, issue 54, March 2021

David Stier is a Vietnam Era US Army veteran who served in Germany during the Cold War as a tank driver. In his informed opinion, the Soviet Union was our enemy then, as is the Russian Federation now.

As Abraham Lincoln once stated: “All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”

Stier graduated from UCSC in 1988 and worked for a major text book publisher for 24 years. He is currently restoring a 1944 Willys MB WWII Jeep. He is and has been an avid collector since the 3rd Grade. He also plans to move to Southern New Jersey in the summer.

Some of Dave’s short stories have appeared in, Fiction River #18 (Visions of the Apocalypse) Fiction River #24 (Pulse Pounders Adrenaline) Fiction River #25 (Feel the Fear) Fiction River #30 (Hard Choices), Fiction River #31 (Feel the Love), Fiction River Special Edition #3 (Spies) and Pulp House Issue #4. Dave was also a runner up in the University of North Georgia’s 2019 Military Science Fiction Symposium for “Prisoners of War.” “Rogue Entanglement” originally appeared in Spectra Magazine, Issue #3. His self-published short story collection, Final Solutions, Stories of the Holocaust is available on Amazon and his latest sale, The Tooth Fairy” https://books2read.com/obsessions

Get to know David...

Birthdate:

06/09/1952

When did you start writing?

1983

When and what and where did you first get published?

F Magazine, “Embracing the Suck,” Jan 2009

What themes do you like to write about?

Military Fiction, Historical Fiction, Military Science Fiction, Near Future Science Fiction, Dark Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Slipstream

What books and/or stories have most resonated with you as an author? Why? How do these stories and their characters find expression in your work?

Downbelow Station, by CJ Cherryh, War of the Worlds by HG Wells, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin, The Bernie Gunther Berlin Noir mystery series by Philip Kerr

All of these stories deal with humanity’s struggle with good and evil and how sometimes doing nothing is the greatest evil of all. They also display an amazing depth of character motivation and interaction. Lastly, the settings are all as real as can be allowed by the printed page.

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