Immortal Clay
Montague Portal
Chapbooks
Immortal Clay series
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.
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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…
Montague Portal series (stories/novels)
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.
Contains Forever Falls, Hydrogen Sleets, Drinking Heavy Water, Sticky Supersaturation, No More Lonesome Blue Rings
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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.
Chapbooks
Drums with Delusions of Godhood
Crash the Genetic Code
As civilization staggers, hardened veteran Frances Young plays euchre with her team and slashes throats. The new kid can’t play cards worth a damn, and he’s probably no better at cutting throats.
The Choreomania Response Squad. It’s a living.
Or not.
(Originally appeared in “Boundary Shock Quarterly: Apocalypse Descending”)
Calling Control
Every experiment needs untouched subjects for comparison – controls. Even routine genetic repairs on human beings.Genetic engineering fixed Kevin’s teeth and eyes, but couldn’t save his disastrous marriage.
Then he meets Fell, a woman with bad teeth and poor vision. A rare Control. Who turns his life inside out with simple phone calls.
Sometimes, the best change is no change at all.
Waking up Yesterday
He fell asleep a successful forty-six year and woke in his parents’ ramshackle home, decades earlier — eighteen years old again, with alcoholic parents and a violent brother.A chance for a better life? Or just another trip through the nightmare?
Sometimes, knowing then what you know now doesn’t help.