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Immortal Clay
Montague Portal
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“Imagine Gomer Pyle as a scathing indictment of the military patriarchal industrial complex but with way more aliens and laser-inflicted explosions than the sitcom managed to achieve. Starring Brad Pitt as Gomer, directed by Sam Raimi.” — ZZ Claybourne, author of “Breath, Warmth, and Dream”
Lance Powell wants his dad back. Instead, he finds an alien blaster in the California desert.
You can’t blame the GalactiCops. The senior officer spent his previous life as a burrito influencer. The junior is so green, he still thinks the cops are the heroes. No wonder they left an escaped convict’s makeshift weapon where a dumb Earth kid could find it.
Lance wants to be worthy of California dreaming. His whole dead-end town calls him a loser.
He’s spending his last high school summer thinking, and that’s not how we do things in Saint Reagan’s America. He knows there’s a better way but the valley library doesn’t fill its closet, the TV’s edgiest show is Leave It To Beaver, and the Reverend Mekratraeg’s radio station dedicates itself to praising Greedy Jesus. He’s got an awesome girlfriend, Katrina, but old John Wayne matinees don’t teach you a damn thing about how to treat a woman. Fortunately, that escaped alien convict still haunts Lance’s blaster and he’s got all kinds of advice.
Lance needs to be a hero in the worst way. The worst way waits with open arms.
If the GalactiCops don’t recover the blaster, the Swordian League for Responsible Human Ranching will have their hides. The Man In Black (just the one, government cutbacks after all) who deals with alien incursions knows that saving the world means that tomorrow is just like today. And if the school jerk doesn’t stop leaning on Katrina, Lance will teach him a lesson with more than fists…
Aliens! Explosions! The fate of the world, and the power of love.
“An inspiration, frankly. A great and terrible inspiration.” — Lilith Saintcrow, author of “Coyote Run”
Immortal Clay
Duplicate. Infiltrate. Exterminate.
Liberate?
The alien ate its way out of Antarctica, devouring and duplicating every living thing it found. Humanity turned continents to glass and oceans to poison in a desperate effort to stop it—and failed.
Nobody expected that once the alien copied everyone, once it owned the world, it would set the copies free.
Police detective Kevin Holtzmann fled with his family into the desert, and almost survived. Now a new Kevin must figure out the terrifying new world’s rules before the world eats him alive—again. His life teeters between the yesterday’s nightmares and tomorrow’s unknown horrors.
But humanity’s best and worst features survived. Life means hope, and terror, and joy, and fear. New life means new dangers. New threats. New crimes…
Good thing he’s a new Kevin.
Read the prologue on Lucas’ blog.
Kipuka Blues
Immortal Clay book 2
After extinction?
Politics.
Monsters.
Murder.
The alien Absolute eradicated Earth’s native life, replacing a fraction of it with alien duplicates. Kevin remembers the life of a police officer, but must find a new life in the bizarrely warped landscape of northern Michigan.
But even astonishingly resilient alien flesh breaks down, with enough effort.
Or enough electricity.
Absolute eradicated humanity. But his copies brought the worst parts of humanity with them…
Aidan Redding Against the Universe
Physics inconvenient?
Change it. Then watch it try to kill you.
Solve a murder in a universe without ground to stand on. Investigate inexplicable deaths a few million years after the Big Bang. Take too many breaths and never go home again. Let the antimatter trickle between your fingers, and visit five alien universes in this first Montague Portal omnibus.
Includes Forever Falls, Hydrogen Sleets, Drinking Heavy Water, Sticky Supersaturation, No More Lonesome Blue Rings
Forever Falls (free in ebook!)
There’s no grounds for murder. There’s no ground at all.
The people exploring and exploiting alien universes risk everything, including their lives. But Devin Gupper’s death makes no sense. And the more questions security officer Aidan Redding asks, the less rational it seems.
But in a bottomless universe full of impossibilities, one impossible murder begins everything…
Hydrogen Sleets
Meet the new universe, same as the old universe—but thirteen billion years younger.
Aidan Redding’s new assignment? A space station in a universe so young it’s barely invented hydrogen. Researchers study the cosmos’ earliest days, discover whole new realms of science…and go screaming insane.
The mathematicians claim this universe obeys the same natural laws as Redding’s own.
At the beginning of time, though, the universe writes its own rules…
Drinking Heavy Water
SECOND CONTACT
Aidan Redding’s entire goal for her time in this universe: behave. For once. Discovering seafaring aliens trashes that plan.
The aliens raise questions. Her co-workers raise more.
The answers explain it all. And ruin everything.
On a world where gravity changes every second, Redding finds herself involuntarily allied with a mathematician from Soviet Texas as she races to save not just herself but civilization.
Forget aliens. Nothing threatens Earth’s golden age so much as ordinary human beings.