Arthur Helman, an egomaniac businessman, is founder and majority stockholder of Lunarcom, the world's largest electric power company. Lunarcom's source of electric power is space solar power satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit. Lunarcom's biggest competitor, Hydroteck, is about to test an innovative power production device called an IPT ( interdimentional Power Transmitter ). The IPT transmits power from the newly discovered Interdimension. Helman believes that the success of Hydrotck...

Understanding Humor through Communication explores theories of humor origin as well as humor functions in human groups and societies through communication. A model of humor decision by individuals is detailed, followed by humor’s emergence in communication. Elements of humor sources (incongruity, superiority, and relief), humor intent (comic or tragic perspectives), and humor perception (ego-involvement, script awareness, bona-fide messages, and non-bona-fide messages) are incorporated. Pe...

A very engaging, imaginative, and descriptive story that draws you into the action from the start. It has parallels to life and is an enjoyable read.In this fast-moving, science fiction fantasy, an everyday kid of our Earth finds himself abruptly immersed in a conflict raging in an unsuspected alternative universe. His personal limitations, the pressure of war, his trial for love in an alien world, and the overwhelming new Reality, confront him with the ve...

His android is the perfect woman. Making her human could destroy his life…Brad Barkley has never been lucky in love. Tired of searching for the girl of his dreams, the robotics student engineers her instead. His obsession not only makes her beautiful and innocent but artificially intelligent as well…Tricia is learning all she can to be human, but understanding the irrational human mind can overload her circuits. When her creator volunteers for a sh...

A pirate fantasy & fairy tale retelling for readers who love adventure on the high seas.Neverland is a wondrous isle of adventure.Neverland is a cruel lie.Children follow Peter Pan believing their dreams will come true—to never grow up.Surprise, surprise… they never will. The children Peter Pan abducts are murdered or meet a grimmer fate.I’m the child who escaped Peter’s treachery. ...

Drawn kicking and screaming into a centuries-old war, can a woman on the brink of madness fulfill the realm's bloodiest prophecy?Crystalyn Creek is a tenacious survivor in her fading, hi-tech birth world. So when she spots a tome full of strange symbols at her otherwise mind-numbing job, she's grateful for the distraction. But after her odd affinity for the book's designs inadvertently opens a portal, she's shocked when her carefree younger sister tumbles through.

A disability becomes a superpowerChase Madison’s struggles with mental illness have turned jail cells into a revolving door. His latest arrest seems like just another spin in the cycle—until he uncovers a shocking conspiracy that offers him a chance at redemption.While in custody, he discovers a clandestine group with the power to manipulate people and events using a mysterious mental force called Psy. They take an interest in Chase because of his unique re...

What if your entire life passed by in just seven days?16-year-old Delaney Archer is always chasing the last minute. Even so, she's the top student in her class and is about to graduate as valedictorian . . . until one morning, when she wakes up in a strange place.Suddenly, she finds herself in graduate school. Seven years of her life have disappeared without a trace since she went to bed last night . . . but how?It takes a while fo...

Book One in the Denver Moon SeriesEarth is dying. Luna is uninhabitable. Mars is our last chance.Once considered humanity’s future home, Mars hasn’t worked out like anybody hoped. Plagued by crime and a terraforming project that's centuries from completion, Mars is a red hell.Denver Moon, P.I., works the dark underbelly of Mars City. While investigating a series of violent crimes linked to red fever—a Martian disorder that turns its victims into bloodthirsty killers...

"He wasn't human. You've discovered the existence of a new enemy combatant, Captain. Since you saw him—he saw you."• 150 years after the last war, humanity has united in exploring space with colonies on Mars and the moon Luna. But the Europa Mission has just failed and 152 people died in space. Nobody knows why.• When military bioscientist Capt. Warren's hidden research installation gets attacked, he joins forces with armored assault Sgt. Von Radach. They b...

2018 Dragon Award Finalist for Alternate HistoryEvelyn Adamsen grew up knowing she had to hide her psychic abilities, lest she be labeled a witch. However, when the U.S. Army Air Corps came calling in 1943, looking for psychic women to help their beleaguered bomber force, Evelyn answered, hoping to use her powers to integrate the bomber crews and save American lives.She was extremely successful at it…until her aircraft got shot down.Now, Evelyn is o...

A barren world. A crashed colony ship. A saboteur at work.After a tarnished military record leaves her unable to find work on Earth, Margo is hunting for a fresh start. A colonizing mission heading to a new world creates the perfect opportunity—or at least that’s what she thinks.Strapped into a crashing colony ship, she realizes how wrong she is.On the ground of their destination planet, the straight forward colonizing mission becomes a scramble for...