Henry Melton: 26 books

From the dusty tracks of the Moon to the volcanoes beneath the sea, with a few side trips to alien planets and alternate reality, these short fiction stories from Henry Melton’s collection will give your imagination a good stretch. Here are a variety of tales, from whimsy to adventures to...

A girl plays a video game and gets more than she bargained for.  A talking wristwatch leads a man on a search for forgetfulness.   Henry Melton’s short fiction has been gracing magazines and anthologies since the 70’s. Beginning in 2011, he has begun an on-line magazine to collect...

Captain Pearce never intended to be a teacher, but the only way she could escape her early retirement on Earth and get back out into the vacuum was to share the human side of the great Terraforming Project to young political appointees hoping to become Fleet cadets. Hiding her old secrets had given...

It all starts here... The plan always worked for the bloodthirsty Cerik, whose battle-bred claws and muscles made them the uncontested top predator on scores of planets the radiation pulse from the supernova would turn civilization on the blue-white globe below into chaos within days, making for easy...

Henry Melton, author of the award winning Emperor Dad brings a tale of the wonders that just might be waiting under your feet. Jerry Ingram never wanted to be an interstellar explorer, just a bit more special than a sixth-generation farmer in South Dakota, and that's why he spent hours after...

Jenny Quinn's life was on course for her advanced physics degree until a lab experiment in vacuum decay turned her life upside down.  With career hopes destroyed and her professor dead in an unexplained fall, she is forced to cope with a strange change in her own body.  With nothing but...

Mars was terraformed, and the biotech engineers could walk on Luna without breathing gear. Earth had three moons and hundreds of orbiting habitats in the Clusters. The great Terraforming Project was hitting its stride, but there were conflicts over which nations would get favored colonization sites...

Dot Comal loved her home town, although the Utah ranching community of Ranch Exit was too small to call a 'town'.  She had her horse, Pokey, and her father to care for, and Ned from the next ranch over was comfortable to be around when he showed up on his motorcycle.  But things were changing....

Rule 1: We'll always be Brother and Sister... A mysterious metal cylinder falling out of the sky was the perfect excuse to take a vacation when sixteen year old Seth Parmer and Biz, his older sister and sometimes 'parent' found their Fresno lives upended by her unexpected layoff.  With Seth's...

Henry Melton, who brought you the award-winning Emperor Dad, crafts a tale of invasive nanobots with an alien agenda in the dark towering redwood forests of far northern California. High school senior Deena Brooke struggled to make sense of the impossible changes to her body, grateful for...

Henry Melton, author of the award winning Emperor Dad, brings you a Small Towns, Big Ideas science fiction adventure from Upper Peninsula Michigan. It could be the best prank in the history of Munising High School's unofficial Prank Day. Working for a next door neighbor inventor had left Jon...

James Hill saw the theft of the British Crown Jewels live on CNN during high school French class, and had the uneasy suspicion that his father's secret project in the backyard shed was more than he'd been pretending.  Could Dad have invented teleportation? Henry Melton presents a different...

The Cerik raid on supernova-damaged Earth was a failure, but with a pair of humans in his claws, the leader hoped to breed a new race of slaves to replace the Builders, their technologists, that they had wiped out in a fit of revenge. Born of necessity, this pact between Abe and Sharon of Texas and...

The only other race that had rebelled against the Cerik, the Delense, had been totally exterminated, but they had left a legacy—their technology and a hydroelectric plant that had allowed the Free U’tanse to live and flourish. But when it was damaged, Joshua’s people were without a source of...