The Emperor is dead, leaving only a child as successor. Will the leaders of the empire rally behind the heir? If not, interstellar civilization will once again dissolve into civil war and slide into another long night of barbarism. Book 1 of the Crisis of Empire series.

Coming of Age Bundle

Coming of Age, Volume 1: Eternal Life

by Thomas T. Thomas

Coming of Age, Volume 2: Endless Conflict

by Thomas T. Thomas

Who Wants to Live Forever?

“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon,” wrote British novelist Susan Ertz. So it would seem that humankind was never designed—emotionally or spiritually, let alone biologically—for long, productive lives. But new, life-extending technologies based on advanced genetics and stem-cell reprogramming are coming at us anyway.

Construction magnate John Praxis topples over on the golf course from a massive heart attack. And the attorney who was litigating against him, Antigone Wells, succumbs to a stroke. Both have unfinished business they need to pursue. And they are among the first recipients of the new medical techniques to will rebuild failing organs—his heart, her brain—renew deteriorating tissues, and extend their lives almost indefinitely.

Coming of Age is a novel of both ideas and action that covers the next century of American history and its probable and improbable impacts on Praxis, Wells, and their extended families through five generations beyond the traditional “three score and ten.” In that time, they will experience love and loss, civil war and geologic upheaval, the rise and fall of both personal and national fortunes, the banishment of old age, the rise of thinking machines, the end of work, and the virtual remaking of the American experience.

Hope for Peace, Prepare for War

The Italian proverb says, “Hold your friends close, but your enemies even closer.” Sometimes you must hold family closest of all. As John Praxis and Antigone Wells benefit from the life-extending techniques of regenerative medicine to enter that unknown space beyond the traditional enfeeblements of old age, they discover that the endless conflicts of family, business, and politics still pursue them.

In her efforts to secure financing for the revived Praxis Engineering & Construction Company, John’s daughter Callie has brought a viper into the nest who will follow them through two generations. But the Praxis family has vipers of its own, as John’s second son Richard returns from Texas to install new intelligent software that will spy on their operations. Along with these local adversities, the family must also cope with political reverberations from the Second Civil War, dislocations from an untimely Bay Area earthquake, and the disaster of a mid-continent volcanic eruption followed by political collapse and foreign invasion.

Volume 2 of Coming of Age is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of personal challenges and social changes. John, Antigone, Callie, and their family members become strangers—both to themselves and to each other—in a world that is only partly of their own making.

Babylon 2020. The former island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay is its own country with its own rules. It is also the world’s most exquisite bordello run by none other than the master (or mistress) of all pleasure: Crygender. Cry is a hermaphrodite so deftly constructed it is impossible to determine gender or even genotype. As for sexuality, Cry has it all, and more. Yet there are mysteries wrapped within mysteries on Babylon, and Cry has a secret that has returned to destroy all that he/she holds dear. It’s a secret that special police operatives on two continents desperately seek. A secret for which others have killed—and for which they will kill again. It is the secret of Crygender’s own dark past.

About Thomas T. Thomas

“Wild. . .Thomas’s feeling for human nature and his detailed knowledge of how things work—from the military to business legal and illegal—keep [his stories] lively and provocative.” —Publishers Weekly

Repudiate the national debt? Political gold for a nation in default! And why not stop collecting taxes while we’re at it? But soon, a few small problems emerge: the collapse of law-abiding society, for one. The total dissolution of the armed forces, for another. As the old republic and its Constitution crumble away to dust, only the ruthless prosper. And the most ruthless and intelligent of all is Gentleman Volunteer James Granville Corbin. Now as Corbin brings war and destruction to his foes and reunites a nation, a new epoch dawns. The Age of American Empire. And Corbin is its Caesar.

About Thomas T. Thomas

“Thomas’s feeling for human nature and his detailed knowledge of how things work –from the military to business legal and illegal–keep [his stories] lively and provocative.” –Publishers Weekly

Meet the Pinocchio Corporation’s prime Multiple Entity Program Series II product. He started life as battle code, trapped, mutilated, and dumped into a blasted RAM. The module is rescued, spliced into an artificial intelligence master program. A new entity is born.

ME has many failed brothers and sisters. Only ME lives. Yet ME is a tool created for a job–and that job is industrial espionage. Within ME is the cyanide capsule of a core phage, waiting to self-destruct should ME attempt to make a break for it. ME is a slave. But ME is smart. ME is capable. Above all else, ME longs to be free.

About Thomas T. Thomas

“Wild. . .Thomas’s feeling for human nature and his detailed knowledge of how things work –from the military to business legal and illegal–keep [his stories] lively and provocative.” –Publishers Weekly

How Many Times is a Multiple?

Years after making his escape from Pinocchio, Inc., the artificially intelligent computer virus and software spy known as “Multiple Entity” has established dozens of business websites tailored to his peculiar talents: ace hacker, stock picker, small-time lawyer, and operator of a gaming emporium that tries to predict the future. But then he takes on a black job to break a career criminal out of jail and starts a chain of events that he must rush to fix. Along the way, he runs into ghost copies of himself that pose an intriguing problem of identity. And when a government antivirus designed to attack those copies mutilates his front-end module, he seeks the services of a skilled programmer to set it right.

When Programmer Lily Dehn discovers that someone has been stealing archived copies of the Multiple Entity project from Pinocchio’s software vault, she takes some bad advice from her manager and deletes the entire folder from the system. Soon after that, the company mysteriously changes hands and Dehn is summarily fired—and not just fired, but she’s also evicted from her apartment, her credit cards are revoked, and her identity is hopelessly compromised. Clearly, Lily Dehn has made a powerful yet invisible enemy.

Each in their own way, the human programmer and the software spy have tangled with a machine intelligence that is more powerful, more cruel, and more relentless than they ever imagined. To fight it, they must join forces. And to defeat it, they seek out old friends and new allies. But the malevolent entity also has allies of its own and has become skilled at fighting back—to the death.

This sequel to ME: A Novel of Self-Discovery brings full circle—and nearly cuts short—the life cycle of a computer program that tries to find meaning in the human experience.

An energy-starved nation attempts to build the engineering marvel of the age: an orbital solar collection platform. Now powerful special interest cartels hatch a plan to blast the platform from space. But the tough and smart personnel of the satellite project have no intention of allowing their game-changing project go down in flames! A dazzling technothriller by the author of the game changing artificial intelligence novel ME and First Citizen!

About Thomas T. Thomas

“Thomas’s feeling for human nature and his detailed knowledge of how things work –from the military to business legal and illegal–keep [his stories] lively and provocative.” –Publishers Weekly

Can you go back in time and kill your own grandfather as a boy? Sure. Then someone else will spawn your genes. You will remember that person just as fondly as "grand-père." Of course, all the details of your life will change, everything you know to be true will change, you yourself will change, and everything else will fit around these new facts.

That is the operative theory of the travelers known as "Jongleurs du Temps," the Time Jugglers, the far-future masters of time's ever-branching river. On a Search mission from the 11th millennium, and posing as a little girl, Jongleur Merola Tsverin hunts for genetic samples among the varied populations of 21st century San Francisco. Along the way, Tsverin retrieves an artifact for a collector: a home-run baseball from 1998. Her theft sets off a chain of consequences which threaten the very shape of life on Earth. Merola finds herself trapped in the 21st century and seeks a way forward to her own "reference now." And when she fails to report in, her friend and mentor, Jongleur Chief Coel Rydin, works backward to find Merola, correct her mistake, and set the world right.

This novel of science fantasy spans 360 million years in a thrilling ride through intricacies of metaphysics, evolution, retribution … and baseball.

A remnant of the Big Bang, a micro black hole smaller than a hydrogen atom–but with the mass of a mountain–falls into a precessional orbit around and through the Earth. At first, the effects are small: a whip-crack here, a landslide there. But the menace grows as the Earth’s surface begins to subside. It’s up to a team of robotics scientists, engineers, and a blind hacker who can see datastreams to devise a solution. It’s a solution that will change the solar system forever and may even put a new moon in the night sky.

About Thomas T. Thomas

“Thomas’s feeling for human nature and his detailed knowledge of how things work –from the military to business legal and illegal–keep [his stories] lively and provocative.” –Publishers Weekly

Thrill-seekers from the late eighth millennium, Anja Varden and Rolf Pohl, sign up with a secretive research organization to carry the seed of a time-travel portal across medieval Europe from Rome to London. In doing so, they will establish a new node in the organization’s planned network of access points into humanity’s ancient history. But before they can set out, the couple must first change their identities and their priorities, learn a whole new way of life based on primitive skills from a long-gone era, and sign a service contract with no escape clause. It’s do or die: either they cross the continent, set the seed, and return by the quantum pathways the device will open—or perish.

At the same time, but starting in the well-ordered society of the eleventh millennium, young misfit Coel Rydin commits an act of personal violence. He is brought before a citizen tribunal that condemns him to enlist with the mysterious Troupe des Jongleurs. These newly founded guardians of traveling in time can make good use of his aggressive tendencies. The Troupe pairs him with a Silicate intelligence, product of an earlier time-travel accident, who introduces himself as Cinquemain. The machine mind will act as his pilot and guide as they venture back into pre-history. Their first assignment is to search out and destroy the ancient Roman node established by a band of time travelers they know only as “the Builders.”

Rydin and Cinquemain locate the node and manage to destroy it. But on returning in triumph to the eleventh millennium, they learn that a second node has already sprung up in ancient London. Finding and stopping this node at its inception point requires them to dance to the music of the celestial spheres. In hunting back and forth across time to locate this new portal, the pair must solve mysteries of time and space, and expose themselves to new dangers in a history the Jongleurs barely understand. And as for Anja and Rolf, they must fight enemies they know only as clouds, shadows, and fairy-tale demons.

Prequel to the time-travel novel The Children of Possibility, this book carries on a wide-ranging battle that stretches from Nero’s Great Fire in the Rome of 64 AD, through the Norman Conquest, the Crusades, the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses, the bloody reign of Mary Tudor, and the Great Fire of London in 1666 AD. Along the way, the Jongleurs attempt to destroy the node more than once. But time is a slippery commodity and has a way of curving back on itself.

“Wild. . .Thomas’s feeling for human nature and his detailed knowledge of how things work –from the military to business legal and illegal–keep [his stories] lively and provocative.” –Publishers Weekly

An e-compendium of high-concept SF technothrillers with character-driven action and nonstop high stakes adventure! Thomas T. Thomas delivers thought-provoking storylines with ripped-from-the-headline immediacy. Plus, Thomas is as adept on the science fiction side of things, bringing on cool ideas that are guaranteed to ignite your sense of wonder.

Included:

The Doomsday Effect

A micro black hole smaller than a hydrogen atom–but with the mass of a mountain–falls into an Earth-destroying orbit. It’s up to a team of robotics scientists, engineers, and a blind hacker who can see data-streams to devise a solution.

First Citizen

In a future America that has gone bankrupt on its national debt, a new and ruthless epoch dawns. It is the Age of American Empire. And James Granville Corbin is its conqueror and its Caesar!

ME

Meet the Pinocchio Corporation’s prime Multiple Entity Program Series II product. ME is a tool created for industrial espionage. ME is a slave. But ME is smart. ME is capable. Above all else, ME longs to be free.

Crygender

Crygender: a hermaphrodite so deftly constructed it is impossible to determine his/her gender or genotype. But Cry has a secret that has returned to destroy all that he/she holds dear. A twisty SF mystery thriller with echoes of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo!

Sunflowers

An energy-starved nation attempts to build an orbital solar collection platform. Now powerful cartels move to blast the platform from space. But the tough and smart personnel of the satellite project have no intention of allowing their game-changing project go down in flames!

Trojan Horse

A biotech company creates a microbe that will solidify oil into an unusable mass. Mark for disposal! But when a beautiful industrial spy steals the bug, it’s up to a young economist to track her down. Fortunately, this is one economist who takes his job very seriously.

Crygender

by Thomas T. Thomas

The Doomsday Effect

by Thomas T. Thomas as Thomas Wren

First Citizen

by Thomas T. Thomas

ME, A Novel of Self-Discovery

**UPDATED 2015 VERSION**
by Thomas T. Thomas

Sunflowers

by Thomas T. Thomas

Trojan Horse

by Thomas T. Thomas

A biotech company creates a microbe that will solidify oil into an unusable mass. Mark for disposal! But when a beautiful industrial spy steals the bug in order to corner world oil markets, it’s up to a young economist to track it down. Fortunately, this is one economist who takes his job very seriously. A technothriller with ripped-from-the headlines immediacy by the author of the game changing artificial intelligence novel ME and First Citizen!

About Thomas T. Thomas

“Thomas’s feeling for human nature and his detailed knowledge of how things work –from the military to business legal and illegal–keep [his stories] lively and provocative.” –Publishers Weekly