He didn't want to be invisible! It only happened that way! Tom Fenton was an unassuming chemistry professor at Millwood University, a sleepy little town in northern California. On a sleepy/rainy night, he accidentally comes upon a formula: a formula that rendered him invisible! He is elated, except, there is no remedy; no solution; no antidote to reverse the process! He is stuck in his invisible state! It becomes permanent! He wants to free himself...

An unstoppable extinction level event (ELE) approaches the Earth.This impending disaster emanates from within our own solar system, yet to be formally identified by astronomers, is the vast planet named Ark. The 3400 year orbital path of this colossal Earth-like celestial body maintains catastrophic potential which is capable of destroying human life as we know it. For a privileged few, preparations have been under way for many years to save their...

Set a few years ahead in an alternate future, The Last Bonjwa follows the tail end of the career of John "Heart" Wolanski, a professional Starcraft 2 player living in Korea. It is a sequel to the short story "The Stalker".Heart made a name for himself playing in Korea and then on the world stage, briefly becoming the best player in the world. However, he is now facing several problems: the decline of his skills, the fading popularity of the game itself,...

Two hundred years ago, Adela de Montgarde, the brilliant astrophysicist, conceived the centuries-long plan to forestall the death of Earth's sun, thus preserving the original genetic material of the Empire of the Hundred Worlds-and of the Emperors who enabled her visionary plan. Now Adela emerges from cold sleep to oversee the final stages of her great work. She awakens to an Empire transformed: her son Eric is Emporer, faster-than-light travel has...

The planet Alpha Prime is the Defender of the Universe. Alpha Prime attempts to rescue Earth from a series of crises. Political complications hinder their efforts, leading to the loss of billions of lives. General Miller emerges as a staunch advocate for the greater good and leads the charge against these challenges. However, just as things begin to stabilize, a resurgence of the menacing Eek threatens another planet, putting Alpha Prime's defenders...

I wrote The Ayin in the second half of 1995 and the beginning of 1996 while I was living in London, England. A number of mishaps over the ensuing years prevented me from further working on the book until the fall of 1999, and since then everything has moved at a rapid pace culminating with the publication of the book in May 2000 by Xlibris. The story could be considered a cyberpunk tale of sorts, but unlike many such books, it has a firm basis in...

In Mandated Happiness, automation and technology have eliminated all (real) jobs, made resources effectively infinite, and even cured death. In this brave new cybertarian world, bots control everything with an iron fist, using an all-in-one social media platform called Lifestream to control the masses. With "death tourism" all the rage, we find Rick working his one-day-a-year job as host for those recycling their lives over-and-over again. But when,...

Hal hates space. He worked for years in the deep cold blackness to save money so that he could return with his wife to Earth, buy an apartment, and start a family.But his wife loves living on the Titan Interstellar Launch Facility, and seems to have forgotten the shared dream that brought them there.When Hal's boss approaches him with a new contract, his wife implores Hal to take it. Returning to Earth looks like a shattered dream.But, if there is...

After thirteen months in space, the Aquila Mission's crew has returned safely to find Earth in peril. Rising sea levels have already claimed hundreds of the world's coastal communities, and now major cities-New York, Dubai, Shanghai-are being threatened. To make matters worse, Shiva, a hundred-kilometer-wide dwarf planet, has been knocked out of the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto and is headed toward the inner solar system. Astrophysicists estimate a one-in-fifty...

Alena has momentarily, escaped her world and its imminent gravitational collapse by cheating her way into the selection process of the Board of Cosmogamy. By passing this stringent exam, she may finally learn the secrets of building a universe from first principles. But, the competition is smarter and better prepared, and even Alena's cunning and mathematical talents may not be enough to uncover the answers she has been looking for. The appearance...