Stories Starting with A

A Giant Robot. Nuclear Reactor. And a cat.

A story in the Damsels In Distress Universe
Professor Edwin Jackson taught history, for the simple reason that he had a desire to live in historical times. Although offered many times to go to Chaos, he had always refused. He knew that the suggestion of a medieval world with Damsels in Distress was a result of the misguided imaginings of his good friend Gerald Jones. Better late than never.

The most dangerous of weapons is the one you don't know is loaded.

A story in the Damsels In Distress Universe
It was a typical domestic violence call that sent him to the home of Sid Jones. Officer Mike Radford had no idea that there was nothing standard about it until he stepped into an empty closet. Travel along with Mike Radford as he becomes one of the small cadre of Earth Heroes rescuing Damsels in Distress on Chaos.

Not all of the stories from the Families War are big and glorious. Sometimes they involve heartache and loss, and a desperate desire to make things right. As well as cold-blooded calculation. Liz Elia found her missing sib, but was a few minutes too late, and the guilt, the feeling of failure has lived with her ever since. And then Captain Macquarrie shows up with a chance, a faint one, to redeem herself.

The starways' Lone Watcher had expected some odd developments in his singular, nerve-fraught job on the asteroid. But nothing like the weird twenty-one-day liquid test devised by the invading Steel-Blues.

Being a superhero really isn't all it's cracked up to be. Especially with 'powers' like this! Adam is a normal 15 year old with normal 15 year olds' problems... along with a few problems that aren't so normal. And soon he will need to use those odd problems to save millions of lives. The first book of a four-part trilogy.

When a man has a great deal of knowledge, it becomes extremely easy for him to confuse "knowledge" with "wisdom". and forget that the antonym of "wisdom" is not "ignorance" but "folly."

Wives always try to cure husbands of bad habits, even on lonely asteroids!

Earth was too perfect for these extraordinary exiles--to belong to it, they had to flee it!