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CommWealth,
2010-
The CommWealth system, introduced just six months previously, has
outlawed private property. Your house or your clothes can be demanded by anyone to be enjoyed for thirty days.
As actors in the Forensic Squad theatrical troupe adapt to this giddy, chaotic society, CommWealth probes their breaking of the Four Rules, and several
members find themselves leading a suicidal revolution.
Property, or, the Cup of
Fog painting
The Soul Institute,
2010
A major revision
of this 1999 work is underway. Draft 4 has been completed.
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 coastal Texas college town.
Soul
Institute Images
Nonprofit Ladies,
2010
Ranna Kikken creates The Committee to End Suffering 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 CTESOPE 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.
Jack Commer, Supreme Commander, USSF,
2010
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,
2010
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, political agitator and traitor 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.
, 2009
In a dysfunctional 2065 where religious zealots restrict the world to outdated twentieth century technology, eighteen year-old Bill North seeks comrades dedicated to the further evolution of humanity. But is the impoverished university he finds in a bombed-out city just a satire of his urge for transcendence? And are alien beings using the university to research their own psychological flaw?
University of Mars Images |
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The Sortmind Trilogy, 2009
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Executed Beauty,
1984
Leopards build a flying saucer underneath the Municipal Ping Pong Stadium, kidnapping and reprogramming humans to act as their slave technicians.The Adventures of Tree Leopard, 1985
The Story of Lester
Quartz's Fantastic Journey, Volume 1,
1976
Starvation Levels of the Infinite, 2008
Perpetual Starlit Night, 2008
33, 1985 (precursor of Parts I and II and "Starvation Levels of the Infinite")
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 Zarreich/The Galaxies Groan Within)Zorexians, 1981-1982
The Selector, 1981-1982
Where Eagles Have Unfortunately Landed, 1980 (became part of The 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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