Robert P Hansen: 27 books

Story Sampler is a free sampling of stories found in my other collections. Five of the stories come from Have You Seen My Cat and Other Stories (a collection of mystery, science fiction, and cross-genre stories); seven come from Worms and Other Alien Encounters (science fiction stories about alien...

The majority of the poems in this collection were written during 2014. The rest are either visual poems that were not included in my other collections or were still under consideration for publication when I posted my other collections. The sections are loosely organized around themes that are reflective of my other collections.

When I began organizing my poetry, I intended to have the last collection be called “Mediocrity” and include the poems that weren’t bad enough to throw away and weren’t good enough to make the cut for the other collections. I had thought that I could make up with quantity what might be lacking...

“A Bard Out of Time” is a long poem that centers on a bard singing songs and traveling from one village to another in a fantasy world. Spells, magical creatures, kings and queens, werewolves, and the like all make an appearance in this poem as he regales his audiences with the ballads he sings....

Angus wakes up one day with a problem, a very BIG problem: his memory is gone. He doesn't know who he is or what he does. Voltari tells him he is his apprentice, but Angus knows nothing about magic. Still, Voltari is a Master Wizard, so he would know, wouldn't he? Voltari knows other things about...

Although The Drunken Wizard’s Playmates loosely fits in with the world of the Angus the Mage series, it is a much different type of story, both in style and content. The events in it occur centuries earlier and have only an indirect relationship to the Angus series. In brief, it is a humorous light...

This collection of poetry contains about 500 poems that were written during 2015, many of which are short poems inspired by the poetry of David Malone and Adriana Dascalu, or the activities promoted by Karen O'Leary for her online poetry magazine, Whispers.... The poems range from the humorous to...

Why would aliens visit earth? I asked myself that question early in my writing career and rejected the more benign responses like “They want to be our friends!” or “They want to help us progress toward a new age of Enlightenment!” because, well, an advanced alien species encountering us would...

Wintering in Hellsbreath's Wizard's School has been good for Angus. He has mastered some new spells, come to accept his situation, and even made a friend. But spring is approaching and Hobart has planned a brief excursion for the Banner of the Wounded Hand, one that ends up being much longer than he anticipated....

The Banner of the Wounded Hand is in disarray. Giorge has succumbed to the curse and his body has disappeared. Angus and Typhus were carried away by Sardach and are missing. Hobart and Ortis are running low on supplies. Will they find Angus before they have to return to civilization? Or will they...

The last three books of the Angus the Mage Series: The Viper's Fangs, The Golden Key, and Angst. For more, read the first book in the series (The Tiger's Eye) and see the descriptions for books 2-4.

The Aftermath series is essentially Book 5 of my Angus the Mage series and assumes readers are familiar with the events and characters from that series. The first book in particular, Aftermath, is heavily reliant upon such knowledge and takes place between the last section of Angst (“An End of Things”)...

The stories in this collection are primarily mystery, science fiction, soft horror/dark fantasy, and cross-genre pieces. Most of the stories are down-to-earth ones set in today's world (particularly the mysteries), or begin that way and take a speculative turn into the possible. With the exception of one fantasy mystery, the rest of the stories are set in the near future or in space.

It is 2136, and Earth has survived an environmental catastrophe and is colonizing the solar system. Mars and Luna have growing populations. Ceres is a long-standing outpost. It is time to go further, and The Snodgrass is the ship that will make that possible. It has a new engine design, and its mission...