After the events of The Second Omnibus, Mags and her hard-rocking, space-pirate crew confront new enemies, old rivals, and the final fate of the interspecies band, Small Flowers. Contains six episodes totaling 57,000 words. Literary Titan Silver Award Winner.Permanent Crescent: The Moon is about to die, and it's all Mags' fault. Join a hell-raising space pirate and her indestructible calico cat as they confront a lunar death cult whose alien leader plans to take his revenge on huma...

Part I of Virtually Yours tells the story of how the author's experiences in a virtual reality inspired and shaped the fiction series, The Adventures of Meteor Mags and Patches. The short essays in Part II give an authorial perspective and critical analysis of the series' characters, influences, content, and intent. Part III continues the exploration of fiction and its personal meaning by reflecting on the writing of new stories, and Part IV collects a few odds and ends.

This academic literature review illuminates the numerous political and social effects of the federal government's current approach to staffing leadership positions in its agencies with short-term political appointees rather than career administrators. This scholarly work delves into the historical causes for the appointee system, its current detrimental effects on America's government and its people, and the potential solutions for reforming this flawed approach to governmental leadership....

Municipalities can revitalize their communities and improve their finances by taking the future of broadband into their own hands. This book will help them understand how to do it. Drawing on case studies from public administrators and peer-reviewed literature, this book identifies the factors that determine success or failure for a publicly owned broadband network.The political dimension of municipal broadband largely defines whether public networks are legally possible to build i...

My Life as an Armadillo collects my thoughts from 2016 to 2021 about writing and becoming a better writer by workshopping with others. It is not a complete guide to style nor a manifesto on how to run your own critique group, but I share it in hopes that you can learn from my experience and apply the ideas you find most helpful.Essays are grouped into four main sections: Group Participation and Leadership, Starting a Major Work, Basic Revisions for Style, and Style and Substance. Y...

In the months after "Hunted to Extinction", Alonso's interspecies band gets a name and performs its first concert during the reconstruction of Ceres, with Meteor Mags on the mic to fuel the fires of revolution.Kaufman and Anton move into their new home in an old friend's strip club, Dr. Plutonian gets more than his mind blown, and Mags disregards safety regulations to plug in her free-energy system for the first time.Plus, Dekarna kills an asteroid full of miners to make a ...

Four Action-Packed Stories Full of Anarchy, Asteroids, and Excessive Ammunition Continue The Adventures of Meteor Mags and Patches! Hoist the Jolly Roger and Get Ready to Rock!Rings of Ceres: A hell-raising space pirate and her indestructible calico cat return to a decimated asteroid civilization to rescue friends and kick ass, but they get caught up in violent riots between the desperate citizens of Ceres and the mercenary security forces guarding the mining corporations.J...

Presenting fifty original free-verse poems in an ebook companion to the audiobook Inner Planets, featuring a selection of works from in Animal Inside You, Anything Sounds Like a Symphony, and Never See the Night, plus two previously uncollected poems. From the creator of The Adventures of Meteor Mags and Patches.

Two lucid dreamers meet in recurring dreams, fall in love, and conceive a dream baby; but the unreality of the dream world leads them to distrust each other—with nightmarish results.A paranoid exploration of two minds dreaming the same dream, and fighting to control it.

On the asteroid mining frontier of the near future, a hell-raising space pirate and her indestructible calico cat rage against the forces of law and order, "liberating" cargo and racking up a massive body count—until they come face-to-face with an alien invasion!Join Meteor Mags and her criminal crew, the hard-rocking Psycho 78s, in fifteen tales of interplanetary piracy and total destruction. Run for your life in the tornado that wipes out Ceres! Thrill to the savage mating ritual...

From cyberspace to outer space, public policy shapes our lives, our planet, and our future. The ten essays collected in Laws That Shape Our Lives examine such controversial policy measures as net neutrality, tobacco packaging, water fluoridation, same-sex marriage, and the patenting of biological & genetic material.Written in an academic style based on research and primary source documents, Laws That Shape Our Lives presents a comprehensive analysis of the history, major points of ...

Three Years Dreaming may be the only book of its kind: a three-year memoir told entirely in dreams. Dreams follow their own logic, creating unusual narratives where the impossible becomes commonplace.The dream journal is a candid, intimate record of events that never happened. Dive into the forgotten life we live when we are not awake. Experience the unconscious. Dream. And when it ends the only way a dream really can, you will have survived the journey.This book holds thre...