A Visit from the Graduphant: The Official Coloring and Activity Book

I'm delighted to announce the advent of the Graduphant celebration books!

Now out in paperback, A Visit from the Graduphant: The Official Coloring and Activity Book

On the eve of graduation, who should set out on his merry visit to achievers of all ages and levels but the jaunty Graduphant, soaring through the starry night sky in his trusty Model G! Follow the Graduphant on his jolly adventures as he helps spread good cheer and celebrate the special day, delivering gifts, certificates, ribbons, and a huge “Congratula-TONS!” to graduates across the globe. Whether he’s wearing a mortarboard, sporting a tam, or dropping off a teddy bear, the Graduphant is there to applaud hard workers and honor their achievements . . . and maybe enjoy an elephant-sized nibble of milk and cookies or microwave noodles along the way.

Designed to inspire, motivate, and encourage, this vibrant coloring and activity book makes a sweet, fun addition to all kinds of celebratory occasions and graduation settings. A Visit from the Graduphant: The Official Coloring and Activity Book features a variety of Graduphant coloring pages, puzzles, and art activities for kids and kids at heart. Anyone celebrating a milestone or successfully reaching a big goal can appreciate the Graduphant’s positive message of “Hooray, you did it!” Share a grin, reward hard work, reinforce personal improvement, or simply relish the happiness of overcoming an obstacle as you follow along on the delightful journey of the Graduphant. Happy Graduation!

And stay tuned for the full-color storybook, coming soon: A Visit from the Graduphant

Coming in 2027: Lucian and the Multiverse?

I’m excited to announce my upcoming book Sailing Close to the Clouds: Selected Worlds of Lucian of Samosata, arriving in 2027 from the University of Chicago Press!

Featuring eight new translations of Lucian's most world-bending works along with a reader-friendly introduction and short discussions, this volume tackles Lucian and the multiverse with appeal to layreaders, students, and seasoned scholars. We live in an age that is fascinated with alternative worlds, multi-dimensionality, constructs of “what if” and “what would have been.” The MCU and DCEU comic-book universes, The Matrix series, Stranger Things, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 3 Body Problem. The list goes on and on. What do all of these have to do with Lucian of Samosata from the second century? And where do classical or traditional readings of Lucian and the Second Sophistic meet virtual reality, narrative theory, fan fiction? I’m looking forward to helping readers take their own journeys to find out.

Thanks for reading! More to come.

The Thirteenth Moon Update

Vol. 13, The Thirteenth Moon, joins the rest of the Ifscapes series in paperback and on Kindle! Thanks for reading!

Now Out in Paperback: Ifscapes 11 and 12

In paperback and in Kindle. Thanks for reading!

Vol. 11 - Hercules Under Contract

Vol. 12 - Decades Are Decades, Time Is Money

And coming soon in paperback and now on Kindle: Vol. 13 - The Thirteenth Moon

Ifscapes 8-10 Now in Paperback

On the heels of the newest Ifscapes collection, The Thirteenth Moon, Volumes 8-10 of the Ifscapes series are now out in paperback as well as on Kindle:

Vol. 8, On the Cybernetic Circuit 

Vol. 9, Battle at the Forks

Vol. 10, Something Earthlings Notice

Thanks for reading!

Announcing Ifscapes 13, The Thirteenth Moon!

Out on Kindle and Soon to Come in Paperback

The Ifscapes saga of senators, centurions, Artificial Intelligence, and realities recharted continues to unfold in the multiversal adventures of Volume 13, The Thirteenth Moon. Will the combined forces of Antonius 16 at last penetrate the inner sanctum of the Multiversal Authority, and what measures will the Chronosphere take to protect its ever-expansive world-systems? Can Cicero, Octavian, and Theocritus co-exist with Non-Enhantics and Artificial Intelligence? Does the Dread Country really exist, and what frightening mystery lies behind the moons of Tela?

In this volume of Ifscapes:

- follow in the footsteps of plasmatic space-farers

- cross temporal thresholds into distant Macedonian and Roman realms

- tunnel through time under the Chronocommute Portals

- enter the recesses of Futuro-Archaicized realms

- uncover secrets of vanished ships in non-terraformed terrorities

- witness intragalactic conspiracies of bots, androids, and legionnaires

Desperate legates’ military escapades, freelancing space explorers, advanced gravitic drives, and obsessed robots come together with Homer’s Odyssey, Darius and the Peloponnesian contingents, Cyrus’s Babylon, and worlds beyond in this collection of classic science fiction and meta-myth short stories.

Ifscapes 6 and 7 Now in Paperback - and Coming Soon: Ifscapes 13!

Now Available in paperback:

Ifscapes 6, Perennials of Paradox

In a multiverse filled with universes, there’s plenty of space and outer space for multiples, contingents, and alternates. Where does alter ego meet alternate ego? How many repeated extraterrestrial invasions does it take to stir Earth’s defenses to action? Can a man full of life really investigate his own murder? The sixth Ifscapes installment, Perennials of Paradox explores these questions over and over in this collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories.

Ifscapes 7, Spurious Passages

The multiverse of the Ifscapes series continues to expand with Volume 7, Spurious Passages. What’s real and what’s fake in the range of many universes at once? Can the casting company find a proper Odyssean actor with suitable knowledge of the Bronze Age and Homer’s Cretan Lie? Is interplanetary warfare an empire’s endgame in the age of hover technology, upgraded centurions, and legions from the edge of a known universe? It might take bureaucrats in a conference call or soldiers on a military campaign to find out.

. . . and coming soon to the Ifscapes multiverse: Volume 13!

Thanks for reading!