Roads Between Worlds

My books can all be found at Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing Press.  They're all pdf ebooks, all free, and always will be.

See them at https://self.gutenberg.org/Authors/KevinWadeJohnson; this one is here.

When Einar and Agnethe discover that the mysterious treatment at "the Institute" has given them the ability to know things they shouldn't be able to, they have to make some decisions.  Should they go to the place Agnethe mysteriously knows of?  Should they leave their Earth behind?  What will they find once they depart?  What might parallel Earths and parallel civilizations be like?

And, knowing what they know, what should they do with their lives?  If they aren't going to stay put and be lab rats, where should they go?  What will they do?

And, knowing what they know...just what does it mean to be knowing?  What is the interplay between knowing, thinking, and feeling?  Does knowing make them superhuman?  Or inhuman?

Follow Einar and Agnethe as they seek their destinies and their humanity, searching for them on the roads between worlds.

Ice Cold and Other Stories

Updateed June 12, 2026

This was my first self-published ebook, back in 2013.  Since then, I've made it about twenty times longer, with dozens of stories in it now, and it's available for free (a downloadable pdf) from https://self.gutenberg.org/, in an expanded edition, here.  All my free ebooks are at https://self.gutenberg.org/Authors/KevinWadeJohnson.

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Why does the hunter have a crossbow instead of a gun?  Why do he and his people hate those on the other side of an interdimensional Gate?  Why do they feel they "got a pig in a poke"?  He's not hot with rage though; he's Ice Cold.

Hurt...damaged...trudging through snow, a banished soldier makes a surprising discovery.  Maybe there's hope.  Maybe there's no need to just fade away and die.  Maybe there's return from Exile.

A bustling multidimensional civilization; expansion based on Explorers, Experts, and Enforcers.  A man who is one of the foremost Experts takes his uncanny talents to a nexus of tremendous possibility.  But things go badly wrong at Majoros-Taff Vale.  Will he overcome the reasons the nexus and its development site are called Emptyville?

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Expanded Edition table of contents:

The Original Ice Cold

Ice Cold

Exile

Emptyville

Libertarian Worlds

Glamour Angel

Numb

Run

Cinnamon Girl

Love? I Can Get It for You Wholesale

Unauthorized Intrusion

Body Guard

You've Seen the Video, Now Read the Story

Parallel Worlds

The Only One in the World

Exit Ramp

A Friend in Need

Reflective Phase

Time Travel

About Time

One More Time

Time Change

Science Fiction

Warrior of Empire

Free! (Dark)

Free!

First Contact

The Alien Woman

Fantasy

A World of Dream and Nightmare

Devil of a Storm

North Woods Werewolf

Princess Katana

Invincible

Horror

Botnet

Half Seen

Surly Bonds

Vampire Country

If Psychic Powers Are Real, Where Are They?

Resistance

Doctor

A Door Closed

Hector

Superheroes

Nightwatch: Dusk and Dawn

The Environment

Knightside

Rising

+Blinded by the—

Humor

Another Friday Night in the Multiverse

Immortality at Last!

Roman in Time

Bugs

Suddenly Ninjas Came Through the Window

The Lost Heir of Generica

The Bureaucracy of the Rings

Early Efforts

Not…Human

Death of a Captain

Riven

City of the Dead

A Time to Remember

Young Adult

The Enchanted Treehouse

Sam's Tale: The Girl Who Fought

Pets/Tearjerkers

Old Abby

Percival's Thanksgiving

Mainstream/Holiday

Christmas Is Just Another Day

"Christmas Is All a Lie!"

Christmas Storm

The Christmas Sweater

Christmas Alone

Goblin Hound

Hosanna Hound

Et in Arcadia Ego