Welcome, Author Larry Hammersley!

 

                                Author Larry Hammersley

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.  

 

*He has several short stories at Amazon, Smashwords, and Wild Rose Press.

*He enjoys writing, amateur radio, woodworking, building musical jewelry 

boxes,  walking for exercise, and is active in the local Oolitic, Indiana Church of Christ.       

Here's a look at some of Larry's wonderful books

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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?