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May, 2025: Foxboro Senior Center moving to new location – the end of an era Pope Francis Has Passed Away — Rest In Peace Holy Father — “Well done, good and faithful servant.” Letter to the Editor / New Electronic Information Signs On Foxboro Common — Distracting and Dangerous Read My Book – “Nana, my grandmother Anne Gillis” Top 10 Reasons why Foxborough Founders Day 2024 is AWESOME!
My fiction (80s/90s)

2010: “Something Wonderful”

January 2, 1986 Robert Gillis

by Robert Gillis, 1985 Another vignette from “The Abucs Scenario.” Dr. Robert Gillis has a meeting with an old, omnipotent friend. Any resemblance to the same scene in “2010: Odyssey…

My fiction (80s/90s)

The Valinor and Ted Koppel

January 1, 1986 Robert Gillis

by Robert Gillis, 1985 An excerpt from one of my earliest stories, “The Abucs Scenario.” (1986) So if John Matthews really was, as he claimed, a member of an advanced…

My fiction (80s/90s)

The Dolphins of Persephone

January 1, 1986 Robert Gillis

By Robert Gillis Written 1987-1988 Historians note: Back in the 1980s my friends and I (especially David, JB and I) liked to write stories featuring ourselves in science fiction /…

My fiction (80s/90s)

Tripp and JB

January 1, 1986 Robert Gillis

by Robert Gillis, 1985 More excerpts from Abucs Scenario, as Tripp tries to unravel the mystery that is JB — and unravels in the process. Note that these are excerpts…

My fiction (80s/90s) Star Trek

Star Trek: Corel

January 1, 1986 Robert Gillis

STAR TREK: COREL by Robert Gillis (1996) “STAR TREK” is a registered trademark of and © CBS (or Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom Corp). This story is fan fiction…

My fiction (80s/90s)

JB’s robot and the lightsabre

January 1, 1986 Robert Gillis

Another vignette from “the Abucs Scenario.” Tripp encounters JB’s robot, and David gets a new toy. (1985) by Robert Gillis As he headed for the lab, Tripp was, for a…

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