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|  | | Akard Drearstone
A cinder block falls on Akard Drearstone’s head and he trades his print shop job for lead guitar. Months later, as the four members of the Akard Drearstone Group face the onslaught of national fame at their rural Texas commune, twelve-year-old Jan Pace nurses her crush for the narcissistic, paranoid bassist Jim Piston, growing up way too fast in a surreal summer between seventh and eighth grade.
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A naïve and disconnected artist gives a party to celebrate his success, only to find himself drafted that same night into a mindless war against the Reunion, an unstoppable army of hallucinatory consciousness.
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w | |  | | Balloon Ship Armageddon
Jack Commer’s murdered son Jonathan James finds himself recreated as a bio-robot of the Wounded, a race that destroys stars for kicks. Eight hundred years later he rises to captain Balloon Ship Armageddon on a toxic waterworld in the Large Magellanic Cloud, but he’s terrified by the ancient, inexplicable star map in his cargo hold that warns of an abrupt termination of the universe.
p style="margin:0in;text-indent:0in">span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Physician Amy Nortel recreates Jack Commer’s murdered son Jonathan James as a robot of the Wounded, a race that destroys stars for kicks. Jack and his wife Amav arrest the Wounded doctor, but she kidnaps the Commers’ robot dog and escapes in lovestruck pursuit of Jonathan James. Jack readies the untested i>Typhoon VII/i> to chase both son and doctor, but finds himself saddled with cheeky, flirtatious robot Laurie Lachrer 283, now certified as superior to the human engineer she’s mod | |  | | Collapse and Delusion
As former Typhoon II ship’s engineer Phil Sperry struggles with his decades-long treason to the human race, Supreme Commander Jack Commer and his wife Amav journey to the paradise planet Andertwin for a painful visit with their reclusive son Jonathan James, survivor of an abduction by Alpha Centaurian security forces and now the author of a bestselling novel about the collapse of the Centaurian empire.
Kidnapped by Alpha Centaurians to 2049 along with Jack Commer’s infant son Jonathan James, former Typhoon II ship’s engineer Phil Sperry struggles with his reversion to Centaurian brainwashing and his treason to the human race. His lover Hedrona Bhlon, who resists Conversion to the Centaurian Grid, is considered an Animal and must fight as a Gladiator of the Sled for four years. In May 2053, when the Emperor dies and the Grid collapses, the two rescue Jonathan James and his robot attendant, John Root, an irritating recreation of the youngest Commer brother John, who died ramming | |  | | CommWealth
Members of a theatrical troupe find themselves leading a suicidal revolution against the CommWealth system, which has outlawed all private property.
Introduced six months ago, the CommWealth system has outlawed private property. Playwright Allan Larson has adjusted well to this new society, easily claiming umbrellas, mansions, and Porsches from fellow citizens. 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. In order to make this society workable, CommWealth has implemented its Four Rules governing the transfer of property:
1. I have thirty days enjoyment of this object.br />
2. You may not ask me for anything for thirty | |  | | Jack Commer, Supreme Commander
Jack Commer leads a peace mission to the fascist Alpha Centaurian Empire, but his marriage to Planetary Engineer Amav Frankston unravels under the pressures of his new command. He loses his crew to Centaurian brainwashing, and he and Amav are sent to be tortured on a barren planet.
strong>span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: normal;">A series of inexplicable solar system disasters in the near future of the late 2020's, including exploding gas giants and asteroids hurled into the sun, forces a panicky acceleration of space technology, including the discovery of Star Drive which accidentally sparks a war between the remnants of Sol and the fascist, insane Alpha Centaurian Empire./span>/strong>
div style="margin: 0in 5.65pt 10pt 0in;">strong>span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: normal;">After the destruction of the Earth in 2033, human | |  | | Jump Grenade
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.
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in;line-height:normal">Art gallery receptionist and high school dropout Guenevere "Universe" Ryder watches her sixteen-year-old boyfriend, star center Billy Bolamme, curse out fellow players, commit dozens of fouls, and punch out referees who challenge him.span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> /span>Dan Ryder, Uni’s father and the Bolammes main announcer, and Frank Chester, Dan’s younger sidekick, playfully discuss their prejudice for the home team, the Billy Bolammes, over the public address system.
p class=" | |  | | Man Against the Horses! Four Theater of the Absurd Novelettes
Four absurdist novelettes explore revolution, espionage, social strife, cars, motorcycles, and horses.
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w | |  | | Nonprofit Chronowar
Ranna Kikken creates The Committee to End Suffering on Planet Earth at her nonprofit Cat Farm, but its first conference in 2028 is destroyed when intruder Joe Commer time travels from 2036 to lecture CTESOPE on the destruction of the Earth in 2033 and the resulting evacuation of the remnants of humanity to Mars.
span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ranna Kikken creates The Committee to End Suffering on Planet Earth, but its first conference in 2028 is ruined when ex-astronaut Joe Commer time travels from 2036 to lecture Ranna’s nonprofit ladies on the coming breakdown of the solar system. Tormented by his role in dropping the superbomb that ended the Final War but rendered Earth uninhabitable, Joe has quit the Space Force, much to the disgust of his older brother Jack, Supreme Commander of the USSF. In the audience, feckless young Urside Charmouth is horrified by the revelations from the | |  | | Sortmind
Amid escalating political chaos and gang warfare, a startup company’s telepathic Sortmind app inadvertently Mindwipes countless citizens in its quest to acquire endless, unfathomable data. Oliver and Sam, two high school art students whose fathers head the reviled, fascist Citizens Against Telepathy, struggle to define themselves in the face of urban terrorism and the malfunctioning, reality-altering Sortmind.
An answer to any question is delivered in a telepathic instant, and our queries track the progress of a coming apocalypse.span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> /span>Amid escalating political chaos and gang warfare, a startup tech company’s Sortmind app inadvertently Mindwipes countless citizens in its quest to acquire endless, unfathomable data.span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> /span>Oliver and Sam, two high school art students whose fathers head the reviled, fascist Citizens Against Telepathy, struggle to define themselves in the face of urban terrorism and the malfunctioning, | |  | | Supreme Commander Laurie
Inexplicably transported onto Jack Commer’s doomed spaceship, Laurie struggles to assert herself as the new supreme commander.
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w | |  | | The Balloon Ship Interviews
In the early stages of developing plot and characters for the novel Balloon Ship Armageddon, the seventh and final Jack Commer, Supreme Commander adventure, the author interviewed twelve characters from the previous six books, wanting to know what energies they could bring to the project.
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in;mso-pagination:none">span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">In the early stages of developing plot and characters for the novel /span>i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Balloon Ship Armageddon/i>span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">, the seventh and final Jack Commer, Supreme Commander adventure, the author interviewed twelve characters from the previous six books, wanting to know what energies they could bring to the project. Each character got a post on the author’s blog over a four-week period, by turns musing, argu | |  | | The Damage Patrol Quartet: Four Stories
A feckless young architect falls in with a sixteen-year-old’s dubious trucking venture. Drug-addled Randy bemoans his fate as a slave employee in New Fascist Australia. An archeologist arrives on a tiny artificial gravity platform to give a scholarly lecture to barbarian colonists. And the Conscious Reach Corporation sets out to cure an entire city’s mental illness.
span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">Four surreal stories with /span>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.
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in">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 t | |  | | The First Twenty Steps
An ex-convict finds himself mixed up in a motorcycle gang’s plan to heist a hyperspatial supercomputer.
p class="MsoBodyTextIndent3" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;">Just released from six years in prison and unsure how to meet basic needs, Harry finds a kindred spirit in Roberta, in thrall to a depraved motorcycle gang. The two decide to infiltrate Harry into the gang so that he can eventually free her from it. But Alexander, the passive-aggressive leader of the Cerberean Knights, leads them into a major crime this evening as he seeks to pay back favors from the corrupt city council of One-West. As the motorcycle attack on the Dataflux computer building turns | |  | | The Martian Marauders
In 2033 the United System Space Force not only wrecks the earth with the planet-destabilizing Xon bomb, but in evacuating the survivors to Mars, also discovers an indigenous race quite displeased by the arrival of two billion shellshocked humans.
i>span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The Martian Marauders/span>/i>span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> is the first novel in the Jack Commer science fiction series, available as an eBook and in paperback from Double Dragon Publishing. eBook and paperback versions are carried by amazon.com and Barnes and Noble./span>
span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Inexplicable solar system disasters begin as early as 2028: the gas giants explode, asteroids are thrown into the sun, and nobody can figure out why. This forces the development of the United System Space Force an | |  | | The SolGrid Rebellion
When the solar system adopts the buggy SolGrid telepathic network designed by former Space Force officer Patrick James, Jack Commer’s charismatic but impudent son Jonathan James instigates a rebellion against fascist brainwashing.
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in">When the solar system adopts the buggy SolGrid telepathic network designed by former Space Force officer span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Patrick James/span>, Jack Commer’s charismatic but impudent son span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Jonathan James/span> instigates a rebellion against fascist brainwashing. His followers include his lover span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Suzette Borman/span>, a hard-bitten nightclub owner who’s been rejuvenated to look nineteen; Patrick’s girlfriend span styl | |  | | The Soul Institute
Computer technician Himal Steina realizes his dream of a mythic return to the sanctuary of a vast foggy university of Soul when he’s appointed writer in residence at the Soul Institute and falls in love with one of its numerous faculty goddesses, unaware that he’s blundering into a catastrophic jumble of power lust, romantic chaos, drug abuse, and gang violence.
span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">At Moolka Waxtor’s farewell party in the English Department offices, Derrick Dexter recoils in dismay at their out of control lovemaking in a closet minutes earlier. How can he handle an affair with his flirty cousin? Should he try to escape the oppressive Soul Institute with her? How can he deal with his wife Jipo, TSI’s ruthless administrator? But Moolka, now fully in love with Derrick, tearfully declares she’s decided to stay at the Institute even as Director Alfred Burlcron hires a midlevel computer technician fr | |  | | The University of Mars
In a dysfunctional 2065 where religious zealots restrict the world to obsolete technology, eighteen-year-old Zeke Venan seeks comrades dedicated to the further evolution of humanity.
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w | |  | | The UR Jack Commer
With the shocking suicide of spaceship Typhoon I, the four Commer brothers are reduced to two. After the Final War, the evacuation of Earth, and battle with Martian terrorists, is eldest brother Jack fit to lead the United System Space Force? A look at the childhood beginnings of the Jack Commer saga.
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0in">i>The UR Jack Commer/i> 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 a name="_Hlk67255085">and the abandoned eighth-grade draft of i>The Martian Marauders/i>. /a>“The Martian Holes” then showcases the author&rs | |  | | The Wounded Frontier
Supreme Commander Jack Commer pushes for expanded exploration far beyond Sol when a star thirty-four light-years away abruptly vanishes, leaving the infrared signature of a Dyson sphere 967 miles wide, built in one week by a race that kills suns to create spectacular quasar artworks.
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0in;margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;mso-pagination:none">After the 2075 restoration of a benign telepathic Grid to Alpha Centauri, Supreme Commander Jack Commer returns home beset by bad news: his son’s housekeeper K’ufunb just suicided in a spaceship via a failed Warp Transfer, Mars is panicked by the renewal of the Grid, ship’s engineer Draka Sortie is resigning to marry Martian Empress Mandy, and Navigator Will Connors announces he’s retiring. To top it, the star Iota Per | |  | | Zarreich
An adolescent sent to live with his grandmother finds his memory wiped out. He panics and commits a murder, then becomes a member of a mystical commune beneath the ruined city of Zarreich.
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