Lloyd Sparks – författare

With the collapse of the government after the Second World War, Americans have learned to live without help or interference from police, lawyers and bureaucrats. In this simple and happy world lives an eleven-year-old boy who wants to be a scientist. Having found a plant that makes concentrated uranium, he and his friends build a spaceship out of the strongest substances known to man-spider webs and egg shells. They fly into outer space, but barely make it back alive.

Forced to crash land on Mount Saint Helens on Halloween, they encounter the frightening and magical inhabitants of a secret world. The young scientist discovers that the secrets that lie within his own mind can be more astounding than a trip into outer space.

They eventually make it home, only to be grounded for going into outer space without asking permission. In the end they learn that there is still much to discover in their own back yard.

With the collapse of the government after the Second World War, Americans have learned to live without help or interference from police, lawyers and bureaucrats. In this simple and happy world lives an eleven-year-old boy who wants to be a scientist. Unfortunately, he''s grounded for taking his friends into outer space in his spaceship without asking first. Now there''s nothing to do to escape boredom but make monsters. He starts with a strange fungus he finds at school.

Unfortunately his specimen becomes a little too hard to handle when it grows into a giant and learns to move. Before he can destroy it, the thing makes its escape into the neighbors'' pond. Making a submarine to go after it doesn''t quite work out, though, when the sub becomes a snack for a giant octopus.

No matter, for the scientist and his friends have more pressing concerns than a fungus monster and a giant octopus. By mixing frog DNA with a chicken egg they''ve accidentally created a dinosaur which threatens the entire county.

A young scientist and his friends are introduced to the frightening array of alternate universes when he creates a device that can open a doorway between dimensions. He learns that very small events can change how the world operates in very powerful and terrifying ways. Lost in a wilderness of parallel worlds and on the verge of despair, he finally discovers the key to finding his way home.

When he finally makes it back, he vows to never leave the safety and comfort of his home universe again. He soon discovers, however, that the world of the human brain can be just as scary when he creates a machine that can read minds.

After peering into the private thoughts and deepest longings of his close friends, he decides to destroy his creation only to discover how badly he needs it to fight the most horrifying menace of all-the ghost of a dead evil genius alive in cyberspace.

Ollie wants to lead a Boy Scout troop. Wade wants to lead soldiers into combat.Dr. Snider just wants to go home and retire. The three men find themselvestaking a group of reluctant teenagers on a campout in the wilds of NagornoKarabakh, where the get hopelessly lost. They wander into the no-mans-landbetween Armenia and Azerbaijan and find themselves caught up in a small war.To make things worse, the US has lost a nuclear warhead in the area and theRussians and Iranians want to find it as badly as the Americans do. The kidscome upon it first and only the Baku Boy Scouts and their arch-rivals, the MathGenies, can avert a major international incident.