What a joy to welcome Larry to the "World"! Larry has graciously offered to gift two
versions of "Saving Clay" to selected visitors to this blog visit. Thank you, Larry!
A bit about the author:
* Larry has been married to Sue "coming up on 58 years on December 29"
and has eight grandchildren. Congratulations!!!
*He has a BS in chemistry from Purdue, and MS in chemistry from Indiana
University. He enjoys writing science fiction and clean romance.
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Saving Clay
Saving Clay is a long novel and required lots of research into
foreign lands and the parts of shrubs that have flowers, leaves,
etc. that could be used for medicinal purposes. Clay’s education
is a college degree in biochemistry which enables him to recover
the natural chemicals.
Julianne has a degree in international relations and becomes
an ambassador at largebringing peace world-wide. Her and
Clay meet at a young age when Julianne saves Clay’s life. The
old prophetess, Lana, tells Julianne when and where to be to
save Clay. Clay’s trips to Alaska, Australia, Pakistan and
Nikumaroro Island are detailed where he heals people. Because
Clay and Julianne travel world-wide they cannot be together
very often. Julianne becomes a target for an arms dealer
and his terrorists because of her success at bringing peace.
Clay’s final trip is to Nikumaroro where a storm sweeps
the island and everyone but Clay escapes. He is stranded
there with little hope of being rescued. Will he ever
see Julianne again?
Buck's Wake Up Call
BUCK’S WAKE UP CALL
Buck thought he had a special relationship with Carrie in high
school. She cared not for anyone else in school but for Buck. She
graduated a year before Buck and moved away. It seemed their
bond was strong when she gave him her prized possessions. When
Buck located her out east after she quit writing, she was engaged
to someone else.
Sally had been in love with Buck all through grade and high
school. Buck tried to convince Sally he was over Carrie. She
was only partly in belief of that. When she was accepted at
the University of Rhode Island for her writing skills a young
English professor won her heart.
Buck thought it was just as well because he had a strict advisor,
Dr. Bancroft, at Purdue for his chemistry degree and he expected
all his chemistry majors to make an A in each of their chemistry
classes and a B in non-chemistry courses. Buck had to
concentrate. He graduated and his advisor suggested he be
interviewed by Eve, a former student of his. She had started her
own company analyzing minerals. Eve hired Buck.
Buck initially fought not to judge Eve’s looks as a “Plain Jane”. He
soon changed his mind and found beneath her exterior a
beautiful woman not only in looks but character as well. Buck
not only enjoyed working for Eve and analyzing mineral samples
but recognized she was sincere in what she said and done. She
could be depended upon, trustworthy and Buck fell for her.
Higher Mission: Excerpt
The big tire of the rover startled him as it ground to a halt beside him.
Cramer felt a moment of relief until he turned to face a blaster leveled
at his mid-section. The helmeted figure of the pirate motioned
ngrily for him to get into their rover. Cramer didn’t have to be told
twice. The blaster could kill with its high energy beam and it would
be a tossup as to which would take his life first—the decompression
of his suit or the blaster beam frying his guts. It was obvious these
men didn’t intend to rescue him by picking him up. They
rode in silence until he noticed the attenuator reading on his receiver
blink to a seven. The crater and building complex appeared ahead.
“This is Dirk. We have a member of your crew. We’ll deliver him
safely if you give us the storage tank with the blind fish,” Dirk
said into his suit mike.
“No deal,” the answer came over Cramer’s receiver as well. He
recognized Sanchez’s voice.
“Then we’ll kill him,” Dirk replied, no hesitation, no uncertainty,
no bluffing in his voice.
Cramer sank to deep despair, picturing the proverbial plug
nickel of higher worth than his life. He confirmed that
feeling as he spotted on top of the main building a large canon
swiveled in their direction, its spherical energy storage chamber
behind the ribbed barrel glowing bright red.
Simultaneously, the rover driver jumped out his door
and Dirk reached across in front of Cramer for the
passenger side handle, but Cramer beat him to it. He opened
the door and leaped for the snowy surface just as
the canon emitted a scarlet beam in their direction.
The blast exploded the pirate’s rover into a thousand
pieces, the debris striking Cramer and sending him
tumbling in space away from the blast. During his
somersaulting, he spotted Dirk flying above him,
frozen entrails trailing his lifeless body. Cramer couldn’t
see the other man among the tiny pieces of metal and
plastic from the exploded rover.
He felt his own suit losing pressure. The self-sealing
mechanism kicked in and barely managed to handle
the small leak. He lost consciousness as his oxygen
pack provided him its last gasp of air. At the point
of blackout, he saw Europa’s icy surface coming
up to meet him. His whole life seemed to flash
before him like the time on Earth when he fell into
the old fishing hole and almost drown forty years ago.
The last image burnt into his mind before oblivion
struck was Cindy’s face in the Martian hospital.
Meeting the Challenge
Meeting the Challenge is a novel I have had and revised several times down through the years. I self-published it when a publisher required extensive changes for acceptance.
The story involves star ship captain, and widower, Jim Hansen, who seeks a cure for his ill daughter, Patty. That leads him to three planets to find a cure. He must battle aliens and overcome deceptions that put him and Patty in danger. He falls in love with Leah, a Mizarian woman, but her people forbid the marriage of an earthman and Mizarian woman. Leah falls sick and Hansen takes her to a planet located at the end of the universe for a cure. Will he ever overcome the ban against him and Leah from being married?
