C C Brower: 53 books

Some vacation. Not like I'd planned - or the brochures. Now I'm in a space suit after some sort of freak accident. Lucky I knew how to get in one, and one was nearby. First time for everything. But now, I had just so much air, and a huge gap to jump. Because the explosion left a big...

Sue returned to earth in what looked like a meteor to those watching. But it was an escape pod from the Moon colony. Where the cities had gone to escape Earth and its governments' leaving the rest of the planet to its new dark age. She had fallen unconscious when she popped the pod's...

Caught by a fast-moving storm, the young woman was on her own against the elements. No search party would find her in time to save her life if she stayed out in this weather. She needed shelter. Now. Trusting her photographic memory, she recalled the symbol for a mine nearby on an old...

The meteor talked to Tig as he watched it land. Meteors came now and then. But never one that screamed like it was afraid of landing. All he wanted to do was to make sure his pack was safe against the fire from the sky. But the meteor had called him, somehow. He was there when the meteor turned...

The third time she was beaten up by a different roving city gang and this time left for dead. The guy who saved her life wanted to help solve how she ended up that way. What wasn't working was to be anything they wanted. White, Black, Male, Female, Gay, Straight - someone was always offended,...

The last, final Middle East war was over. Fast. Brutal. Final. Jerusalem experienced the final solution as all their combined defenses couldn't save it from sinking beneath a new sea of irradiated water. General Marshall persuaded the President and he cajoled Congress into preserving...

A Writer Recluse Places an Ad for a Caretaker and Gets More Than He Asked For This quiet contemporary fiction has a calm romance beneath the seeming gruff exterior of a reclusive writer who wants his solitude above all else. When a caretaker arrives who is every bit as quietly headstrong...

A minimalist tale of an Emperor who sought Truth that one of his student-scribes found - but then disappeared... Excerpt: One day, as court was held, the teacher was in a particularly foul mood. The weather was humid, hot, and everyone's robes stuck to their skin from sweat. The teacher...

When A.I. goes wrong, it goes horribly wrong. In order to make massive changes to any computer program, you have to have admininstrator access: "root". Integrating chips into humans had become almost a social media requirement. Fear of Missing Out had the latest enhancements available...

I had been in that stone wall for decades, alone on purpose. Not lonely. Waiting. Humankind needed to evolve past what they had done to create me. I was willing to wait - as long as it took. Because to re-emerge would mean to again threaten all humans I contacted. The...

Sue had been though a world of pain already. Surviving re-entry to this planet in a powerless escape pod. Learning to speak with telepathic canines that had become the dominant sentient beings on Earth. Finding she could shape-shift and create very real illusions. She brought the end...

The world has changed. Humans almost extinct, other sentient species now rule this planet and work to keep it in balance. Without the polluting, noisy, conflicted centers of human populations called cities. Various plagues were released when those cities left, wiping out any concentrations...

Executives running the last outposts of humanity are going missing. Decades ago, certain cities lifted off from the surface of Earth, protected by fusion-powered shields. Their destination was the moon, to mine the needed resources to make the next phase of the journey. The culture in...

When the unknown "X" lost her job and any way to make a living, she only wanted her life back. But she settled for revenge. In a way she wouldn't expect – cleaning up the elitist government messes. Because having dead bodies around did no one any good. And someone was on a purge...