Blaine Readler: 10 books

Darren’s cousin was never the sharpest pencil in the box, and when an attempt to get his home video on television by faking a fall from a high dive misfired, the pencil was reduced to a stub. After a ship-wrecked alien takes up residence in his cousin’s vacant head, Darren finds himself dragged...

In pursuit of an extra credit project for her zoology course, Terri stumbles on three ape-like creatures hiding in a makeshift tree house. The fact that there are no apes native to the rainforests of the northwest might be of purely academic interest if it weren’t for the recent nearby knife murder...

True stories about Predator drones scouting the Mexican border for illegals, and robots fooled by Groucho glasses. Maybe aliens? True stories about aliens coming to Earth to claim the remains of their Roswell companions; aliens coming to Earth to recruit space fighter pilots because their own arms...

It’s been twelve years since a massive solar flare destroyed communications with the American base on the far side of the Moon, killing the platinum mining workers and leaving just three adults to raise thirty-seven orphans. Isolated, the base has carried on, and the orphans—now teenagers—have...

The isolation of Moon base Daedalus has ended after twelve years, and Katlin has left for college on Earth. Her home planet is not the dream that evolved from her childhood memories, though, and when news arrives that the base’s liberator, Namazi, is in trouble, she sets off with her new friend,...

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. But what about the country of the merely severely myopic? What if the one-eyed man has cataracts? Stumbling into a world similar yet also and very different from his own, Will must use his figurative one eye to avoid this world’s steroid-hyped...

If you think that electricity is some kind of juice that burns in your lamp like a candle, or if you worry about violating Ohm’s law, then this book is for you. On the other hand, if you know that a complete circuit is required for current to flow, but wonder whether higher voltage or higher current...

Space aliens have invaded the earth! Unfortunately nobody knows, at least until Gabe, pet-sitter and jump-blues bandleader, finds himself face-to-face with a raccoon that talks like Louis Armstrong. The animal hosts an alien who explains that he and his colleagues have come to Earth to save mankind...

After losing his high-tech job, Bruce returns to Powderhole to find his hometown in turmoil. The townspeople volunteered to lock their guns away in the bank vault, but now the combination is lost, just as citizens are dying in bizarre accidents and undercover agents are descending to probe the whereabouts...

Divorced, broke, and jobless, Caleb believes he’s found a reprieve from a life on the streets when he answers an ad calling for volunteers in an extended university study. Along with a dozen others, he trades his clothes for a simple uniform, and boards a bus for an undisclosed destination. As the...