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<\/a>Grizelda is a 14-year-old seamstress who\u2019s been accused by the revolutionary government of harboring magical tendencies. Her people have just thrown off centuries of magical oppression, so now they make people like her \u201cdisappear\u201d in the wee hours of the morning.<\/p>\nShe escapes, but now that she\u2019s wanted, she has to hide out in the city underneath the city. That means adapting to the ways of the goblins, a cheerless bunch who storm about muttering about the dictatorship of the proletariat. It\u2019s damp, dark, the goblins hate her, she hates her new job, she misses the sun, and she can\u2019t decide if the pixies are on her side or not. Soon enough she\u2019s tempted to do the one thing she\u2019s not supposed to do \u2013 get mixed up in events on the surface. She joins a group of young revolutionaries who think the new republic has gone too far. But they don\u2019t trust her connection to magic either\u2026<\/p>\n
Get it on Smashwords<\/a><\/p>\n Get it on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n In the wasteland she meets Oscar, a strange bird-sprite who claims to be her spirit-guide but can\u2019t quite prove it. He\u2019s up to something. For one thing, he gets her tangled up in the affairs of the city people, the rich ones who\u2019ve walled themselves in around the last remaining reservoirs.<\/p>\n There may be a chance to send one person to plead before the Stars to end the drought-curse that\u2019s sucking dry all life on Earth. The cities are at war with each other over who to send. If Nasan can avoid getting herself shot, or sucked into the heavenly conspiracy that\u2019s out to get her, she may just have to save the world.<\/p>\n Get it on Smashwords<\/a> Get it on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n Starting an evil scheme proves to be harder than it looks. Alec catches a break when a friend tips him off about the Eggbeater of Doom, a device that can summon a kiloton-sized elder god with a grudge against those puny hairless apes. If Alec blabs about the Eggbeater, gets a hero to go after him, then kicks the hero\u2019s ass, he can break the cycle of prophecy that dooms his side never to see the age of fifty. He doesn\u2019t mean to hurt anybody else. But when another overlord steals the Eggbeater with the intent to actually level a city, Alec knows what he and his gang of minions will have to do: save the day. He will never get to live this down.<\/p>\n Get it on Smashwords<\/a><\/p>\n Get it on Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n Review on Donovan\u2019s Bookshelf<\/a><\/p>\n University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences, March 2014 University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences, January 2014 University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences, July 2013 University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences, April 2013 University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences, March 2013 American Society of Plant Biology newsletter, November\/December 2012 Hampden Park Co-op newsletter, June\/July 2012 Hampden Park Co-op newsletter, April\/May 2011 Amazon and Smashwords The Colored Lens<\/em> e-zine, Autumn 2011 At Heidelberg University<\/a><\/p>\nThe Confederacy of Heaven<\/h2>\n
<\/a>Nasan, exiled warrior of the Rattlingbones clan, wanders alone in the wasteland that was once part of Canada. Two centuries ago, the Stars who rule the universe condemned our world to eternal drought.<\/p>\n
\n<\/em><\/p>\nCannon Fodder<\/h2>\n
<\/a>The good guys always win \u2013 and Alec Nightshade isn\u2019t going to take it anymore. Alec\u2019s a fifteen-year-old member of the Norgolian Society of Evil Overlords, which means not having much of a life expectancy. When a hero hunts down and kills his aunt, the Viper, he sets off on the first evil scheme of his life to set things straight.<\/p>\nNonfiction<\/h2>\n
\nAlien Encounters<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAquatic Biology Resurfaces at Cedar Creek<\/a><\/p>\n
\nHigh Marks<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAction Star<\/a><\/p>\n
\nGoing With the Gut<\/a><\/p>\n
\nInterview with Professor Bob Goldberg<\/a><\/p>\n
\nGetting Your Urban Farm Started<\/a><\/p>\n
\nHow GMOs Work<\/a><\/p>\nOther Fiction<\/h2>\n
\nJohn of the Rhine<\/a><\/p>\n
\nRavensdaughter\u2019s Tale<\/a><\/p>\n