Before he suicidally blasts his spaceship into a star to confront a dangerous cosmic irregularity, Supreme Commander Jack Commer resigns his commission, elevating genius physician/engineer Laurie Lachrer to take his place as leader of the United System Space Force. But now, inexplicably transported along with him, forced to share his ship's doom, Laurie struggles to assert herself as the new supreme commander.The five crewmembers aboard ship deteriorate in the unbearable cosmic rad...

The UR Jack Commer consists of early and later experiments that never made it to the published Jack Commer, Supreme Commander series. Jack's first appearance in the fifth-grade "Voyage to Venus" electrified the author's nine-year-old self and sent him on his writing path. Kid consciousness unfolds in increasing maturity through the first few stories and the abandoned eighth-grade draft of The Martian Marauders. "The Martian Holes" then showcases the author's wild but somehow amusing post-c...

Inexplicable solar system disasters confound humanity as the outer planets explode and asteroids are thrown into the sun. These horrors force the development of the United System Space Force and a panicky acceleration of space technology and weaponry. But human conflict accelerates even after Mars exploration and the discovery of Star Drive, and the USSF renders the Earth uninhabitable when Captain Jack Commer drops the planet-wrecking Xon bomb to end the Final War.The remnants of ...

Berserk at missing his five hundredth point in a row, psychopathic Junior Dropout Basketball League star Billy Bolamme kills a taunting radio announcer with hand grenades, then blows up an entire sports arena to erase all witnesses to his crime. But his fame and luck can only grow as he joins shamanic forces with Guenevere "Universe" Ryder, fellow high school dropout, art gallery receptionist, and unwitting accomplice to thirty thousand murders.

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Jim Donne, a recent college graduate, comes to live in a small town after the death of his mother, only to discover that all his memories have been wiped out. Now living with what may or may not be his grandmother, he kills what he thinks is a gang leader invading her home. But he panics, wondering whether he's overreacted to a harmless student prank, and he cuts up and hides the body. Soon he finds himself under a ludicrously botched police investigation. Slipping into hallucinatory fever...

With the shocking suicide of Typhoon I, the most powerful military spaceship ever built, the four Commer brothers are reduced to two. After the horrors of the Final War, the evacuation of Earth, and an unexpected conflict with native Martian terrorists, is eldest brother Jack really fit to lead the United System Space Force? Yet despite stress bordering on hysteria he always seems to come up with the proper solution. Shy with women but easy with command as opposed to his passionat...

Eighteen-year-old Zeke longs to find a mythic university dedicated to the further evolution of the human race. He also seeks sanctuary from the decaying society of 2065, by which time the world has been conquered by the stagnant new religion of Carnationism. Zeke emigrates to Sydney, Australia to work in a Carnationist bookstore in an underground shopping center, and falls in love with Tansley, who owns a candle shop in the mall. After Tansley recovers from a serious car accident, Zeke con...

Artist Dave Raavenscorr picks up what he considers a neurotic college girl only to discover he's latched onto Dr. Marina Nunn, chair of the Lake University Music Department and a refugee from the Reunion brainwashing disaster hundreds of miles south.Fearing she's contaminated him, Dave flees to his quirky warehouse studio where his best friend, art maven Reva McKee, hosts a celebration of his first one-man show. But a hundred fifty partygoers can't admit that armies of the Reunion ...

Four surreal stories with bizarre underpinnings and uncanny twists. "Roadblock" features a feckless architectural school graduate who falls in with a sixteen-year-old's dubious trucking venture to the rural south, only to confront mystical construction strikers. In "Randy and Laura," drug-addled Randy bemoans his fate as a slave employee in New Fascist Australia, working a gas station night-shift with Laura, who longs to escape both his insane delusions and a trauma Randy isn't equipped to...

The CommWealth system, introduced just six months previously, has created a society in which there is no legal claim to any kind of private property. Any object from your house to the clothes you're wearing can be demanded by anyone, to be enjoyed for thirty days before anyone else can request it. As actors in the Forensic Squad theatrical troupe struggle to adapt to the resulting chaos, CommWealth probes their breaking of the Four Rules sustaining the system, and several members navigate ...

When a newly-hired programmer at the Trantor Group, Mindwiped by Sortmind abuse, proclaims himself an alien from the planet Cnzaar, Trantor Group CEO Peter Trantor scrambles to reassure his latest client, the lovely but unreadable bank executive Anna Winstead, that his telepathic Sortmind app really isn't as deadly as people assume.High school art students Oliver Perrine, traumatized by the terrorist bombing of the public library, and Sam Emersonn, coolly pragmatic and politically ...