Wire Rim Books: 23 books

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...

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...

Debra Barr was barely awake when she found herself thrust into a pivotal role in the future of the human race.  Hey, she wanted to be more than just a small town girl, but this was ridiculous! Plucked out of her bedroom in small town Oquawka, Illinois to a future Earth destroyed and poisoned...

Teenager Joe Ferris was raised to help guests--he was third generation in his family's motel business--but once he connected with mute Judith, they were off on a thousand-mile road trip through the Southwest to help out the most unique guests of all--the aliens stranded far from home since 1947.  With...

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...

Jerry had the greatest study aid ever -- a copper room where time could be adjusted faster or slower, which he had helped his inventor uncle build. But being able to cram a fifteen hour study marathon into five minutes paled to the notion of spending some quality time with his new girlfriend Lil....

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...

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...

For eleven years, the Earth has been recovering from the supernova flare, but in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, a new threat has arisen, a bandit horde brutal enough to send Helen Black, the independent minded horse doctor and rugged survivor of the Star Time to seek help from the Austin City...

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....

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...

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...