Novels

The Elsewhere Gate
Words: 92,000 (344 pages)
Published: August 1, 2018
Categories: Fiction / Science fiction / Adventure / Portal

For Tom, tending the grounds of a private estate in Florida is just another part-time job to earn money for college until Amanda, the sensible daughter of a quirky inventor, invites him into her father’s laboratory to shelter from a storm. Then, everything changes. One moment, she is explaining her father’s experiment to Tom; a lightning strike later, they are both… Elsewhere.

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 Brane Child (Adventures of the Brane Child #1)
Words: 75,380 (296 pages)
Published: December 21, 2014
Categories: Fiction / Science fiction / Adventure / Themes & motifs / Technological

The Brane Skip device may allow a spaceship to skip between layers of reality, bypass normal space, and avoid the universal speed limit—the speed of light. Lisa Chang, mission commander for its first crewed test, doesn’t trust it. It seems like magic to her, and she doesn’t believe in magic, not even after the ship skips to a fantasy version of Earth, complete with dragons, orcs, and wizards.

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 The Scarecrow’s Brane (Adventures of the Brane Child #2)
Words: 79,940 (328 pages)
Published: July 3, 2015
Categories: Fiction / Science fiction / Adventure

The spaceship Brane Child emerges from skip-space into a whirlwind and accidentally squashes the only effective protection Emerald City had against the tyrannical Red Witch of the South. Now, Lisa Chang and her crew must make their way through the Wild Lands of Oddz to convince the Blue Wizards to create a new protector for the Republic of Emerald.

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 The Brane of the Space Pirates (Adventures of the Brane Child #3)
Words: 110,000 (415 pages)
Published: May 16, 2016
Categories: Fiction / Science fiction / Space opera, Fiction / Themes & motifs / Political

When the spaceship Brane Child emerges from skip-space near an unfamiliar space station, Lisa Chang thinks she and her crew may have finally found their way home. That is until the station’s weapons turn toward them, and a man dressed like a pirate appears on their view screen and demands their surrender. Lost, unarmed, and with nowhere to run, it’s not as if she has much choice. Not yet, anyway.

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 An Android Dog’s Tale (Stories of the Warden’s World – Prequel)
Words: 74,640 (286 pages)
Published: November 15, 2013 / Revised October 2018
Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General

The Corporation made him to observe humans and make sure they weren’t up dangerous things like inventing, exploring, or learning to read. But as the years go by and he works with them day after day, century after century, he grows to like them. Is it right to keep them happy but ignorant? Shouldn’t this be a choice they make for themselves?

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 The Warden Threat (Stories of the Warden’s World #1)
Words: 84,320 (334 pages)
Published: September 10, 2011
Categories: Fiction / Science fiction / General,  Fiction / Fantasy / Epic

A different kind of lighthearted science fiction story for epic fantasy fans. On a not so distant planet, a young, naive prince encounters reality and tries to prevent a war.

 

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 The Warden War (Stories of the Warden’s World #2)
Words: 86,480 (315 pages)
Published: September 13, 2011
Categories: Fiction / Science fiction / General,  Fiction / Fantasy / Epic

The Warden War continues the adventures of Prince Donald of Westgrove and completes the lighthearted tale of looming war, subversion, and a terrible magical weapon begun in The Warden Threat. The Warden books are a delight. They are sure to appeal to readers of fantasy and science fiction who may be looking for something fresh and different.

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 Amy’s Pendant (Stories of the Warden’s World #3)
Words: 77,250 (296 pages)
Published: March 11, 2013
Categories: Fiction / Science fiction / Adventure,  Fiction / Young adult or teen / Sci-Fi & fantasy

The antique pendant Amy receives for her fourteenth birthday unlocks an ancient mystery and traps her inside an alien labyrinth populated with strange robots, android animals, and a central intelligence that does not want her to leave.

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 Disturbing Clockwork (Stories of the Warden’s World #4)
Words: 107,520 (431 pages)
Published: April 21, 2013
Categories: Fiction / Science fiction / Steampunk & retropunk,  Fiction / Fantasy / Epic

Benkin, a brilliant but quirky inventor, stumbles upon something extraordinary—clockwork automatons. All he wants is to understand them. Snyde, a fugitive from the king’s justice, has other plans.