science fiction

Invulnerability is a pretty useless superpower if you've only got a one-hundred-pound frame to back it up. That's what Quinton West's life became when he went from small guy who got beat up to a to a small guy who can't get hurt after the meteor shower dubbed 'The Event' gifted him the power of invulnerability but no other powers to compliment it. But there's more to Quin than meets the eye, and Quin realizes that he can use his quirky hobby of creating Rube Goldberg devices to outsmart the opposition.

A collection of short speculative fiction that spans centuries, continents, and features a diverse set of characters.

The time: Some thirty-five years hence. The place: AutoAmerica; governed by 'Aunt Nettie,' an iBurrito of AI algorithms and the Internet, in a land half under water. The people: Divided into the angelfair 'Netted,' whose fate it is to have jobs and live on high ground, and the mostly coppertoned 'Surplus,' whose jobs have been stripped and whose sole duty now is to consume, living in plastic houses that talk and multi-colored houseboats at the water's edge. The story: A Surplus family; he was once a professor, she is still a lawyer; has a girl child, Gwen, who's born with a golden arm. By two she can throw her toy animals straight to the same spot every time. When AutoAmerica and ChinRussia decide to revive the Olympics, suddenly Gwen, who's been playing in the Resisters League her parents have organized, is in great demand.

Three years after a plague has wiped out the male population, twelve-year-old Miles is one of the last boys alive, and his mother, Cole, will protect him at all costs. On the run after a horrific act of violence, and pursued by Cole's own ruthless sister, Billie; all Cole wants is to raise her kid somewhere he won't be preyed on as a reproductive resource or a sex object or a stand-in son. Someplace like home.

2084: Global warming has proven worse than even the direst predictions scientists had made at the turn of the century. No country, and no one, has remained unscathed. Through interviews with scientists, political leaders, and citizens around the globe, this riveting oral history describes in graphic detail the irreversible effects the Great Warming has had on humankind and the planet.

Searching for a cure to Alzheimer's disease, a group of scientists on an isolated research facility become the prey, as a trio of intelligent sharks fight back.

A series of gruesome murders. A killer who disappears without a trace. Laura and Gabby are on the hunt. But when X-23 comes face-to-face with the mysterous X-Assassin, nothing is as it seems! And when Lara and Gabby find the X-Assassin's creators, they might not agree on what to do about this barely human executioner. As Laura investigates its origins and Gabby does her best to find its soul, they quickly discover that this isn't the only threat facing them! What will they do when they encounter an army of genetically altered assassins? And what are the secrets of the shadowy organization called Harvest that threaten to drive a wedge between these two sisters? Is this the end for Laura and Gabby Kinney?.

Laura Kinney has gone through hell and come out the other side a hero. Now, after a stint following in the footsteps of her 'father' as the All-new Wolverine, Laura returns to her roots to make sure no one else ever has to go through the horrors she did! With her sister, Gabby, and their pet Wolverine, Jonathan, in tow, Laura forges her own destiny as X-23!.

Mentor. Savior. Enemy of the State. Seeking to protect other vulnerable super-powered psiots like herself, Livewire plunged the United States into a nationwide blackout with her technopathic abilities, causing untold devastation. After choosing the few over the many, she must now outrun the government she served and those she once called allies. With the whole world hunting her, what kind of hero will Livewire be; or will she be one at all?.

When the notorious I.A. Cocha is captured by the Olympus Commonwealth and revealed to be a sixteen-year-old girl, she is sentenced to correctional rehabilitation at a training ground for the elite Star Force where she forms unlikely alliances.