Derek: 1655 books

A doctor, a banker, a professor and a man of nefarious origins gather together in the house of a scientist over dinner. The scientist's big announcement? He's invented a time machine that will send his essence into the future. After a successful five-minute test, the scientist executes his greatest...

I was watching the Hallmark Channel and found that most every Christmas movie had some serious clichés in common. I thought to myself that I could do just as well or, at the very least come up with a decent parody of the genre. So, I wrote a parody of a Christmas story.In it, we find Holly Clause,...

The door between our world and shadow has been opened.When he is saved at the last moment from a monstrous attack, Malcolm, a homeless teenager, follows his savior into a foreign, new world of soldiers and monsters, of masters and mad men, where good and evil clash over the fate of the world.“An...

Who decides who lives and dies? Dr. Viktor Gottlieb goes to work in a German hospital only to discover that he and his fellow doctors decide. As his internal conflicts grow, he comes to realize that all those silly religious sentiments he had discarded when he became a man merited more serious consideration....

Robert is a husband and father of two who just wants peace in his life. To this end, he's adopted the mantra, "If that's what makes you happy..."But is striving for the happiness of his wife and children really making Robert's life easier or does it bring a whole new set of problems to his existence?

Three waves decimated the earth. In the First Wave: Snow Day, they came with the snow to destroy as many of us as possible. During the Second Wave: A Trip to the Zoo, they took over our government, our armies and our own bodies. And finally, in the Final Wave: A Hike in the Mountains, one of the last...

After years of deception have finally caught up with Ray, he takes his family to the woods to end it all. But someone or something has other plans.Ray is a stock trader who's been skimming a little off the top for years. After being caught and fired, Ray grabs his wife and kids and heads off...

What happens when a Christian and an Atheist wash up on a deserted island? Can they stomach each other enough to learn to survive together? Or will their differences doom them both? When their plane crashes in the middle of an endless ocean, only two men survive, washing up on the closest land...

There's an old saying that a PhD in Philosophy is really only good for two things: teaching and digging ditches. Eddie, a guy with a PhD in Philosophy finds out just how apt that old saying can be, finding that his mind consistently betrays him as he attempts the most menial of labors.Intelligence can be a good thing if its used in the right place at the right time.

The siblings have their lives turned inside out when an overweight fairy appears and shoots them to a different world: a world of underwear trees, rivers of lard, and into the pages of The Trouble with Bricks. Once there, they are befriended by a leprechaun hunter named Frank, a sasquatch named Melvin,...

The Tallest Tale is a parody of tall tales and legends, such as the tales of Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan or Ross Perot. An old man, desperate for whiskey, hobbles into a bar and reveals the tallest tale ever heard about the evils of Pecos Bill and Paul Bunyan, a woman who thought she was a pirate,...

An autistic boy is taken in the middle of the night by something made from blackness that drags him into the attic and through a portal to a different world. His father is not two steps behind, struggling through an alien landscape where every thought, every whim can be turned into reality. As he...

The writer of alternate history asks “what if?” What if one historical event were different, what would the world look like today? In a similar way, the postmodern philosopher of history suggests that history is literature, or that if we read certain historical details differently we would get...

Following scholarship on gender in science fiction, this book explores the limits of considering age as a social construction, positing that an acknowledgement of aged bodies necessarily changes the way we read both age and science fiction. The volume employs contemporary clinical psychology, the...