Thomas P Hanna: 59 books

They wanted them; They got them; They used them. Airhead college guys Carlton Achey, Ned Brakey, and Larry Hart live together in Brest House, a private off-campus residence at Logelife College. Their guiding principle is to always take advantage of whatever opportunities come their way. They are fixated...

When two convicts who were “volunteered” to do a messy clean-up in the home of a tycoon a state senator wants to cultivate are annoyingly mistreated they pretend to escape from a work detail to panic all those involved in illegally using and abusing them with the fear of official investigations...

Young Everett Daniels discovers that his inventor friend Mr. Applepie’s new device doesn’t destroy things like the raincoat he used to test its effects as it seemed to, rather it makes them permanently invisible. The complication for Everett is 18 year old ne’er-do-well Thigamus Wumpkus who...

These eight light-hearted stories feature dreamers, schemers, minor league con men, and a variety of determined characters doing their thing, trying to do their thing, or wondering what the thing is that they should be doing. In Squirrel Bait and The Never-Ready-Good-For-Nothing Gadget characters...

More than a quarter of a mile down in the the perpetual darkness of the deep ocean a creature humans have never encountered before stirs in response to a intruder into its dark space – a man in a minisub called Antsy. The sub’s controls go haywire and the radio link to the surface becomes garbled....

These stories introduce thirteen new high-tech heroes, not superheroes but scientific ones. Each has a high-tech system that uses state of the art and beyond science to give him or her a limited and specific enhanced ability to deal with problems. Three chemists use wide arrays of glues, lubricants,...

Young Adam Archer gets stuck in a shabby circus space alien costume and in the rush to move on the costume is loaded on a circus truck with him still inside it. Later he falls off the truck by a farm with no idea where he is. As his dad searches for him miles away, Adam walks into the town of Somewhere...

We live in an ever more complex world. On a daily basis we must make more decisions about more kinds of things than people ever had to before in the history of the world so now more than ever we need to sort out the facts from the fantasies, the b.s. from the bullion. The book aims to prompt you to...

In the Italian alpine village of St. Ebans, named for the patron saint of the local church, a main local industry, such as it is, involves a somewhat elaborate scam to shake down tourists in his name. The ploy uses guilt to loosen the purse strings of foreigners who would never return there anyway...

Revelations about slews of huckster and vast armies of foreign and domestic hackers out to use our inattention, prejudices, and ignorance of the facts to manipulate and sucker us appropriately angers and frustrates us. If you read a newspaper or magazines, have a radio, a TV, or a computer or even...

Reluctant seer Adrian Barakat foresees the Titanic rising and sailing for New York, then is called on to suggest why this happened and how to prevent a possible disaster. The lead theory is that the spirit of a strong-willed woman who went down with the ship is causing this in an attempt to reunite...

Elderly Miss Miriam Marston leads the opposition to a highway construction project that would destroy her house and the others on Oakview Avenues that the Mayor and others with finanical interests in the matter are trying to push through. When it is learned that she claims to share her house with...

Nerber is a contestant on the the Far-Out Show, the first intergalactic reality TV show of his planet Ormelex. He is the first of his kind to secretly visit Earth since he is the only one of the several who traveled here for the purpose to safely reach Earth’s surface (although he doesn’t know...

Due to his family’s donations Saskatchewan Indianapolis Smithe (Polie to friends and foes), is an honorary curator of the Thyemaster Museum of Science and Man-made Arts where he often accidentally causes chaos. Polie learns of, tracks down, and interacts with three ceramic shards that together form...