Being a human being is hard enough without Mother Nature making things even worse. Follow the stories of various people at war with nature.

Ponk Vonsydow's Alien Handbook was created in 1992 after Vonsydow was visited by NEFTU, a race of advanced extra-terrestrial beings who have been connected to humanity since the dawn of time. NEFTU injected Vonsydow with micro-robotic-neurotransmitters and then inserted all the ideas found in the Handbook directly into his brain. After the implant, Vonsydow was compelled to drop anything else he was doing and devote all his time and energy to the creation of the Handbook, which was to be NEFTU'S message to humanity. However, the text of the handbook is written in NEFTU'S language so humans...

After the second coming of Christ, the human race is extinct due to a genetic experiment that causes every man, woman and child to mutate into living, breathing, funny looking clowns. Now, 2000 years later, Satano, the devil clown, introduces hard candy, which when ingested by clowns, causes them to get serious. This results in a new development in clown civilization because clowns everywhere are starting to go bad. Sicko, the worst clown gone bad, starts the clown supremacy movement declaring that "All mimes must die " The always hysterical World Circus is converted into the serious Carnival...

Sicko the clown wasn't always "a clown gone bad." He had a life. Growing up in a world populated with clowns, Sicko was at first confused with what to do with himself because he couldn't juggle nor ride a unicycle or be in the circus. He tried being a Hobo but it didn't suit him. And he didn't fit in with the Bumpkins in the hot chocolate houses. But he could play the bongos and found a new calling as a musician. At the peak of his success, he got drafted into the Clown Kingdom's Royal Fighting Fools, where he trained as a deadly Nincompoop before shipping off to Nam. But after his best...

This example of modern literature is a tragic character study of a noticeably weird male who is having a hard time making relationships. He instead has a life-long attachment to a full-size, little girl doll named Matilda that was left to him by his grandmother when he was age six. In the beginning, the boy considers the doll to be his secret friend. But as he matures, he starts to think of her as his one true love. He can sometimes hear Matilda speaking to him and he communicates his feelings and thoughts to her in weekly letters that he reads to her out loud. Along the way this character...

Fate often causes certain people's paths to cross for unknown reasons. So it was in the case of a man named Elmer Shanklin and a woman named Marcy Keener. Both were a pair of oddballs that met in extraordinary circumstances while they were committed to a mental hospital. The pair vowed to continue their friendship after getting released. However, while Elmer recovered his sanity and his life became stable and normal, Marcy failed to recover and continued in a pattern that landed her back in the hospital over and over again. Along the way, other behaviors on her part worried Elmer, who feared...

After a solar event annihilates the Earth, civilization's future depends on the inhabitants of underground survival pods. One survivor, Retarzan, began life with three strikes against him, (1.) being born on 9/11/2001, (2.) he was a crack baby, (3.) he had weird orange hair. Retarzan is rescued by a billionaire. His new family is part of a select group that gets to live the survival pods. The rest of the world is destroyed. The 1500 pods are run by an Artificially Intelligent Mechanized Entity (AIME), the sentient computer, who invents a new team sport, in which, Retarzan excels. He becomes...

The Hendersons are modern day Tennessee Smokey Mountain hillbillies. Matriarch of the family, Virginia has a dream to become a Mary Kay cosmetics representative but they won't give her the job because she talks like a hick. Virginia takes elocution classes while her husband, Cletus, legitimizes his moonshine business and becomes wealthy. With their new found wealth, Virginia tries to improve the social status of her family. Will she be successful or will no amount of money and elocution fix the Hendersons?

Sentient robots discover a human baby in the wreckage of a space ship that crashed on their planet. The baby is the sole survivor. The robots are then faced with the conundrum of figuring out how to care for and raise an organic creature in a world filled only with mechanical robots. As Zeldar 1.0 grows into a man, having no human counterparts he can only identify with his robot friends. Nevertheless the single human living in a world full of robots influences the robots as much as the robots influence him.