Vincent Miskell: 9 books

Godspeed Inc. owns the sweeper ship Naomi uses to mend the spacetime rifts that Godspeed’s faster-than-light Q-drive ships rip open as they smash out of the solar system. Now Naomi wakes with something really big bearing down on her—something that’s come through a rift, threatening Earth. Time...

Suppose you could travel in time to see Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine, Socrates, or W. C. Fields. Or you could revisit your teen years through the power of Beatles music to alter your present—or accompany a time traveler from the future. Wouldn't you leap at the chance? In Time...

Calder is normally a kick-ass hype comm tech, but because she's too afraid to transport via interstellar body faxing, she's spending time and credits to travel home the old-fashioned way by space ship. Then she discovers through her Paradise Operating Interface (in the form of a Red Messenger devil,...

“You do not sound happy, Herr Carson,” a voice behind me said with a marked German accent. Startled, I jerked around to see Sigmund Freud in the prime of his life. After being astounded by how holographic technology's resurrected scores of celebrities and historical figures, Professor Alex...

Yob the Giant keeps waking up in the middle of the night. Clunk, clunk, clunk, he walks on his large wooden shoes down the dark stone stairs to the kitchen. He hears all sorts of scary night noises. Then he is surprised by a voice. Enjoyable for both toddlers and older children who can read,...

"To Ignite a Fire on Enceladus" is an imaginative science fiction variation or update on Jack London's "To Build a Fire," a 1908 classic story for survival in the frozen terrain of the Yukon. Except now, a space miner is struggling to stay alive on an icy moon of Saturn where he...

Thomas cannot help dreaming of faraway adventures, magic trees, treasures, and scary dragons. But his daydreaming keeps getting him into trouble. His older brothers laugh at him and keep calling him "Dreaming Thomas." Then one day, he gets the chance to help the old King and the King's beautiful...

This book of funny and clever parodies will have you laughing, smiling, and nodding your head. It pokes fun at Whitman with "I Sing the Body Bubonic," at Poe with "The Raving," at Dante with "Declined Comedy," at Coleridge with "Rime of the Ancient Maintenance Man,"—and...

Naomi Kinder’s saving the solar system from a black hole incursion makes her the most-celebrated hero of 2097, but a capsule from 2313, teeming with new technologies and warning of the future nanobot invasion of the Earth, challenges Naomi, her Russian-Belgium lover Leo, and her friend Bonnie to...