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Selected Short Fiction

Nano cover Story:My Room
in Nano Meets Macro, 2010
What would you do if your every move was being watched?


"The Dog that Broke the Camel's Back", with David E. Hughes, in www.electricspec.com.


"The Quantum Mechanic, er, Psychic" in www.electricspec.com.


Analog coverStory: Anything Would be Worth It
in Analog Science Fiction and Fact
December 2007
A physicist uses quantum mechanics to save her family.



Featured Novel: Kat Cubed
    tokamak with multiple earths

When portals open up between universes three versions of the same woman and their worlds are changed forever.


       On Kat Garcia's world in the twenty-second century only the Rocky Mountains are above sea-level, and going outside puts you at risk from heat stroke. Kat isn't going to let any more of her friends and family die if she can help it. When everyone is put in danger by some mysterious windows, Kat convinces them to fight for their survival. When they're successful they build a new society where the sky's the limit.
        On Kaitlin Garcia's world much of the Unified States has been flooded by the rising seas, and what's left is constantly bombarded by severe storms. Kaitlin helps repair a fusion machine to close the portals and save the multiverse. In the end, Kaitlin uses her climate change expertise to save planet earth from global warming.
        On Katherine Garcia's world only draconian control over the citizens has kept the coastal flooding, droughts, floods, and diseases from killing them. Katherine's trying to achieve controlled nuclear fusion to provide a clean energy source and solve humanity's problems when the portals appear in her lab. She must use all her scientific knowledge to close the portals and save the multiverse, ushering in a new era of freedom.


Featured Novel: Control Reality
        boulder colorado aerial view

A physicist masters quantum possibilities and makes all her dreams come true.

        Reality splits into two possibilities for physicist Madison Martin on the first day of her fabulous new professor job. One Madison is flattened by a car and one Madison is left standing on the side of the road. Madison discovers she can use quantum mechanics to pick possibilities and affect reality. Things only get more complicated from there as Madison's students use quantum mechanical possibilities to commit crimes and people start dying. Madison steps up and risks her life, her relationship with a smokin' hot colleague, and incidentally, reality itself, to stop the quantum criminals. In the end, Madison foils the bad guys and the positive possibilities are endless...




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