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Nonprofit Ladies,
2008
Ranna Kikken creates The Committee to End Bullshit on Planet Earth at her nonprofit Cat Farm, but its first conference in 2020 is destroyed when intruder
Joe Commer time travels from 2036 to lecture CTEBSOPE on the coming breakdown of the solar system and the destruction of the Earth itself in 2033.
Book Three of The Jack Commer Trilogy which includes
The Martian Marauders
and
Jack Commer, Supreme
Commander, USSF.
Ocean Singe Horror,
2008
Billy Bolamme, sixteen year-old star Junior Dropout Basketball League player, transmogrifies into avenging avatar Ocean Singe Horror after missing his 500th point in a row. In a temper tantrum he kills a taunting radio announcer with hand grenades, then blows
up an entire sports arena along with the ten thousand witnesses to his crime. From here on out his fame and luck can only grow.
The Sortmind
Trilogy, 2008
Should tiny triangles be removed from city of Drulgoorijk
buildings? A bitter architectural controversy leads the city into political
chaos and gang warfare. The public library’s Telepathic Database inadvertently
causes a growing number of cases of Mindwipe as it begins acquiring random data
which may indicate alien contact. Oliver and Sam, two high school art students
whose fathers head the reviled, fascist Citizens Against Triangles, struggle to
define themselves in the face of urban terrorism and the malfunctioning,
reality-altering Database.
The three books of the trilogy are:
1. The World is an Art Supply
Albert Snuck's Mindwipe through the forest preserve incident
TWIAAS painting2. Awaken the Sleep Within
The telepathic tablets party through the disastrous NOT ANNA command
ATSW painting3. A Tour of Raw Architectural Space
Suzanne's kidnapping through Sam's journey to Cuxlacjs
ATORAS painting
Jack Commer, Supreme Commander, USSF,
2005
Jack Commer brings poor negotiating skills to the war with the
fascist Alpha Centaurian Empire, losing his crew to Centaurian brainwashing as he and his wife are sent to be tortured on a barren planet.
Book Two of The Jack Commer Trilogy which includes
The Martian
Marauders and
Nonprofit Ladies.
Jack Commer pastel
| Jack Commer drawing
The Martian Marauders,
2005
After the evacuation of the Earth's population to Mars, the crew of
the Typhoon I spaceship must fight native Martian terrorists led by
their new human Emperor, the evil socialist Sam Hergs. But Captain Jack
Commer threatens the mission when he kidnaps the Emperor's consort
and falls in love with her. Book One of The Jack Commer Trilogy which
includes Jack Commer, Supreme
Commander, USSF and Nonprofit Ladies.
Akard Drearstone,
2005
A twelve year-old girl living at a rock commune near Austin, Texas in the summer
of 1975 observes the rise and fall of the Akard Drearstone Group as she falls
disastrously in love with the group's severely disturbed bass player.
The Soul Institute,
1999
Himal Steina realizes his recurring dream of a mythic return to
the sanctuary of a vast foggy university of Soul when he's
appointed Writer in Residence at The Soul Institute and falls in love with one
of its numerous faculty goddesses. But the Soul Institute is splintering under
the weight of its unhinged Director and his secret society of Overcrons. The Director's teenage son
consolidates command of the Paint Sniffing Gang as panic and violence build in
the small South Texas college town.
Soul
Institute Images
CommWealth,
1992
In the society of CommWealth there is no legal claim to property; your house or your clothes can be demanded by anyone to be enjoyed for thirty days.
As members of a theatrical troupe called Forensic Squad adapt to this giddy, chaotic society, CommWealth probes their breaking of the Four Rules, and several actors find themselves leading a suicidal revolution.
Property, or, the Cup of
Fog painting
Parts I and II/Notice
and Dream Topology, 1992
In Part I a naive and disconnected artist gives a party to celebrate
his career, only
to find himself drafted that same night into a mindless war; in Part II he
becomes a sergeant leading frightened yuppies against an unstoppable Army
of Evil. A partial 1992 second draft,
Notice and Dream Topology, was revised into a play titled Linstar,
which unfortunately proved to be a bombastic failure. However, NADT,
in cutting out Part II, the interminable war itself, has some promise and may
be revised.
The University of
Mars, 1984
Bill and Karen, college students in the early twenty-first century,
long to become part of a new evolution of humanity but find themselves trapped
at a fraudulent University of Mars as alien Transcendatrons
manipulate the hallucinating populace of West Texas.
Zarreich/The Galaxies Groan
Within, 1983
An adolescent comes to live in a small town with his grandmother, only to
discover that all his memories have been wiped out. He panics and commits a
murder, then finds himself a member of a secret commune remembered only in
dreams.
Zarreich Characters - images.
Nova Scotia, 1974
Two boys drive a 350 m.p.h. Corvette to Nova Scotia in one night in a demented quest to
save the world.
The Fifty-First State of Consciousness,
1973
The Governor of the Fifty-First State, in despair over a failed love
affair, begins the Apocalypse at a shopping mall.
The
Fifty-First State of Consciousness painting
The First Twenty Steps, 1996
Odd Planetary Beauty, 1983
Ninety-seven percent of the earth's population
inexplicably commits suicide, ending civilization and leaving scattered refugees struggling to resist their own
deaths.
The Adventures of Tree Leopard, 1985
Leopards build a flying saucer underneath the Municipal Ping Pong Stadium, kidnapping and reprogramming humans to act as their slave technicians.The Story of Lester Quartz's Fantastic Journey, Volume 1, 1976
A youngster finds himself physically inside the city of another person's brain, links up with urban terrorists trying to destroy that mind, and finally takes control of the mind himself in order to become a rock star.
Starvation Levels of the Infinite, 2008
Perpetual Starlit Night, 2008
33, 1985 (precursor of Parts I and II)
Chapter 32, 1985 (continuation of New Akard 1979 and later incorporated into the 1994 version of Akard Drearstone)
Oliver, 1984 (became part of Sortmind)
Damage Patrol, 1984
The Roadblock, 1981-1984 (from The Galaxies Groan Within)Zorexians, 1981-1982
The Selector, 1981-1982
Where Eagles Have Unfortunately Landed, 1980 (became part of University of Mars)
Tollhouse, 1979-1980 (became part of Sortmind)
January 1st, 1976-1984 (from Akard Drearstone)
The 66,000 M.P.H. Bicycle, 1975
The Highland Park Cadillac Races, 1975
Man Against the Horses!, 1975
Space, Time and Tania, 1974-1975 (published in PigIron, 1977)
The Martian Holes, 1974-1975
Alan Ice on Morningcide Drive, 1974
Norman, 1974
Holy/Unholy, 1973-1974 (from The 51st State of Consciousness)
Five-Pointed Stars, 1973-1974
Emerson's Vast Hotel, 1972
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