Launch of My Book

If you want to send your imagination on a flight of fancy with an easy, unassuming brand of science fiction and with a dash of historical romance thrown in for good measure, then get set to launch it with my recent book, The Star Machine and Other Tales. 

Here's a summary from the book's dust jacket:

The O'Ryans are an odd, restless lot. Generations of this enterprising Irish family find opportunity in America as an itinerant blacksmith, a resourceful tradesman, a college professor, an eccentric industrialist. The family's lifelong pursuits seem peculiar; likewise, the upshot of their ventures often alarms many. But, it is the latter O'Ryan's founding of a band of ingenious scientists, technicians and engineers, the Travelers, who cause the greatest unrest. Advancing 21st-century industry with fabulous and fearsome machines, the Travelers launch an entrepreneurial blitz on behalf of humanity but malicious rivals frustrate their efforts at nearly every turn.

One in the band turns traitor and the O'Ryans must hide, unable to quell a rising tide of tyranny seeking the Travelers' marvelous inventions for evil's own advance. To thwart his foes, Ian Kilroy, a faithful though furtive friend of the O'Ryans, must discover what links a rash of devastating earthquakes, the startling destruction of a pilot fusion reactor, and the secret sabotage of the Travelers' own trial starship. Time isn't on his side. A starry amulet, more accursed than lucky as the O'Ryans' family heirloom, seems the unlikely prize Kilroy's enemies madly seek to keep the mystery unsolved and seize the Travelers' legacy.

To order your copy, click this link to the publisher Xlibris, a subsidiary of Random House, Inc. and a partner in Random House Ventures, LLC.

Or, you can order a copy online by clicking at this link for Amazon.com.