Thursday, May 8, 2014

T-Man (Free e-book)

Cover by Garrett W. Vance

His own mother hasn't been willing to look at him since he was five years old.  He and his twin sister have a connection that seems almost psychic.  He realizes that close physical contact can let him know what others are thinking as well.  His sister's different from most.  He's different.  But how?  And why?

He and his sister never knew their father, and their mother won't talk about the man.  What they first learn only deepens the mystery.  Could that have anything to do with how they're different?  Maybe.  But how?  And why?

They live in a more bureaucratic world.  Mandatory service.  Rules.  Licenses.  Their world is different.  Could the difference be connected with theirs?  Seems tenuous, but possible.  Is so...how?  And why?

Trooper McInnes finds his talents lend themselves well to soldiering.  Investigator McInnes becomes so good at detection that he gets a reputation for being practically telepathic.  But he has to overcome the doubts his mother unwittingly saddled him with.  He has to overcome the mystery that surrounds his and his sister's birth.  He has to overcome the obstacles the world puts in his way.

And he has to overcome the temptations that close physical contact can lead a young man into.

How will he make his way to adulthood?  How will he make his way in his world?  Find out, and find out why he's called—

T-Man

Note: He isn't called T-Man as short for transman, because he isn't one.  There is, however, a transwoman in the story, among other gender issues. 

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

See my entry Ebooks Update for a full list, or on Gutenberg at https://self.gutenberg.org/Authors/KevinWadeJohnson

Friday, November 22, 2013

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.

Friday, August 16, 2013

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