The Aliens of the Flaming Red Sun

''This story is fiction and is mostly for entertainment. It does have a serious message as well.  There is also a message about the harm that oppressive societies can cause.''
 * Don’t be prejudiced against those who are different from us. 
 * If real aliens ever contact us treat them responsibly as you would want them to treat us.
 * If real aliens ever contact us how they treat us may depend on how we were planning to treat them.

I'm Proxima Centauri, please help me. I'm nearer to the Solar System than any other star. And if you don't help me I don't know who else will. I'm only a little star. And I'm blushing all red because I'm so little. And I can't get yellow or blue like the bigger stars. I'm not a bright shiny star like Sirius. And I'm not a powerful luminous star like Rigel. And my nearest neighbours are Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B and they're both a quarter of a light year away. And I'm all alone in a big Galaxy. And I'm scared I'll get hurt.

I’ll tell you what my biggest problem is. You see most of my planets are well behaved. But there’s one orbiting quite close to me. It’s a turbulent one. And the Aliens there are really the weirdest. Do you feel like learning what those aliens are like and what they got up to? It's here in the story.


 * Chapter 1 The things that crawled out of the slime on the planet Porrila
 * Chapter 2 The First Human Spaceship hasn’t yet arrived on Porrila
 * Chapter 3 It's not altogether nice
 * Chapter 4 The Verdict
 * Chapter 5 He cried because….
 * Chapter 6 The prisoner knows he is judged
 * Chapter 7 Sadistic Guards
 * Chapter 8 Punishing Exercise
 * Chapter 9 Is this better of worse
 * Chapter 10 Prison Psychology
 * Chapter 11 Psychologists Decisions
 * Chapter 12 Free at last, perhaps
 * Chapter 13 The boy won’t like his dad’s plan
 * Chapter 14 Remembering
 * Chapter 15 Retuning home
 * Chapter 16 Home's horrid
 * Chapter 17 Sin and repentance
 * Chapter 18 Penitence and more
 * Chapter 19 Who will like the boy?
 * Chapter 20 The Priests who feel guilty
 * Chapter 21 What’s Aunt Violet’s plan?
 * Chapter 22 Aunt Violet warns about Marriage.
 * Chapter 23 Mistress and servant
 * Chapter 24 Family joy and Family problems
 * Chapter 25 Crisis Point
 * Chapter 26 Crisis Worsens
 * Chapter 27 All Alone?
 * Chapter 28 Perplexity
 * Chapter 29 Brothers in Servitude
 * Chapter 30 Freedom, the Hard Choice
 * Chapter 31 Fruitless hunt
 * Chapter 32 Rage and Aftermath
 * Chapter 33 Freedom and Danger
 * Chapter 34 They know about us!
 * Chapter 35 Escape to the Cave
 * Chapter 36 The Eerily Spectacular Cave

New Section

 * Introduction to new section
 * Chapter 1 They’re horrible snobs
 * Chapter 2 Crime and rescue
 * Chapter 3 They really respect me.
 * Chapter 4 The Start of a New Life

Could the aliens really exist?
That's uncertain. Serious scientists can't agree if life is possible round a star like Proxima Centauri. For serious science read Habitability of red dwarf systems. Provided life is possible there it is quite plausible that something like the Aliens of Porrila exist somewhere, either here or in a parallel universe. They probably are not round the star Proxima Centauri that astronomers see here with their telescopes though there could be other life round Proxima Centauri.

There could really be a parallel universe where the Aliens of Porrila are real and entities like humans live on a planet orbiting a different star about 4 light years away. I mean it. Two separate intelligent civilizations so close together and at roughly the same level of technical development are very improbable. Despite this in an infinite multiverse it will happen! The aliens could be here as well!

A different story about aliens
Here’s a different science fiction story about an alien called Xenu, I didn’t write it, someone called L. Ron Hubbard wrote it. Why is it important? All too often advertisements paid for by Scientology turn up on the Internet and some are obviously Scientology but most talk about Dianetics or just promise you ethical happiness etc without making the source clear. Scientology doesn’t look very ethical, well many reasonable people say they’re more likely to empty your bank balance and make you less happy and less healthy than before. So if you find advertisements pretending saying they’ll improve your life and it all looks too good to be true keep away.