Everyone dreams of being a hero but very few actually do anything about it. Enter Nathaniel Hawkins, a university janitor who plays a few too many video games, drinks a little too much beer, and desperately needs to get his life in order. That is, until he discovers how to travel in time and be a hero to those in the past. His adventures will pit him against a flesh-hungry robot monster, intergalactic space lords vying for power, and an evil emperor bent on destroying the planet Earth. This is the campy tongue-in-cheek tale of how a super-hero is born, the mistakes he makes along the way and...

Understanding chemical reactivity has been the permanent concern of chemists from time immemorial. If we were able to understand it and express it quantitatively there would practically remain no unsolved mystery, and reactions would be fully predictable, with their products and rates and even side reactions. The beautiful developments of thermodynamics through the 19th century supplied us with the knowledge of the way a reactions progresses, and the statistical view initiated by Gibbs has progressively led to an unders tanding closer to the microscopic phenomena. But is was always evident to...

In the time of the Federated Worlds combat and commerce are the domain of a rough and tumble group of rocketmen known as the Service. These brave souls form the backbone of the interstellar economy, riding rockets to all corners of the Milky Way and her neighboring galaxies. Another part of that economic system is Interplanetary Holdings and their newest installation is Aelous Station, a secure facility located deep within an area of space known as The Crux where faster than light travel is impossible. Being one of the Service's most formidable commanders Captain Tarsik of the R.S. Honshu...

The last thing the crew remembers they were in deep space, running for their lives from an enemy warship that had them clearly outmatched. Suddenly they find themselves spiralling in towards an unknown planet. Their pilot tries her best but cannot prevent the ship from crashing. Now the crew of the R.S. Honshu finds themselves stranded on a strange world with no idea how they got there. The moon hanging above them in the sky is eerily familiar and when they pop the hatch something dreadful, and by all logic impossible, is waiting to greet them. Tempers flare as Captain Tarsik and his crew...

Scotch does little to keep the chill of winter at bay. The freezing apartment that doubles as both the inspector's home and his office serves only as a reminder of better times, times when work was plentiful and his partner was still alive. Sinking into a deep depression he fears that the days in which his talents were of any use are long behind him. Then, without warning, a letter from the country requesting his presence. Leaving the city for the first time in many years he travels across England to Larchwood Manor at the behest of its owner's daughter who claims that her lover, the lowly...

Sherlock Holmes is a timeless character, beloved by many. This is not that Holmes. The year is 1880, 11 years prior to the classic stories that we know, and we step into an alternate universe where monsters are not just under the bed but around every corner. Holmes must use all of his intellectual prowess to sort through this strange underworld of creatures once believed to be only the stuff of lore and children's nightmares. Having abandoned his career as a private investigator the quintessential sleuth is about to make the acquaintance of Dr. John Watson, and with the help of his peculiar...

What would an alien invasion of Earth seem like from the perspective of the aliens, especially if the plan was never to actually kill any humans at all? Written as a first-person recounting of their unplanned landing on Earth, Call me Ogi is the story of an alien being who wanted none of the responsibility of leading his own people let alone presiding over the attempt at unifying two very different species in order to create a peaceful world that endures for all time.