Michael David: 725 books

Kenneth is the best gatherer among the survivors. Only a few can gather Strings, the floating, Frayed remnants of what was once the edible vegetation of the world. Which is why there are a lot fewer people now than Kenneth remembers when he was younger. He might be only ten, but even Kenneth knows...

When his zipabout malfunctions, Rala makes a forced landing in Sally's backyard. Sally thinks Rala talks funny, but she wants to help. Rala is more worried about Sally's mother. Because even on this backward planet, children don't get left completely unsupervised. (1300-word short story)

Four linked stories of Hell, and Life, and Life in Hell. "Summer Breeze" - The demon Gykamjarott, who likes to be called Jike, decides he needs a change. "Inferno" - Undead hellcat Canto gets a night out on campus of lust and gluttony and the other deadly sins. "Sweet Tooth" - Donut baker Ted Millet,...

The White Hot Hemisphere Community Theater Company's production of Hamlet is the first since the cataclysm. It will be the last before the end of the world.

People with fairy blood in their veins should be careful when saying, "I wish..." Faye Woods, 11, thinks that would have been good to know *before* she wished she didn't have a brother--and knowing she was part-fairy might have been useful information too. Faye and her little...

Make a wish. Brace for impact. Find a vein and take a hit of the new--and highly illegal--wonder drug with the street name "Effie Two-Five", and your dreams will come true. You can be faster. Stronger. Anything you want to be--even a porno superhero. But be careful. Effie two-five has a serious learning curve. And you should have a lot of munchies handy. (8300 word short story).

Corporal Jonathan Nathan "Drooz" Andrews opens his eyes--and immediately wishes he hadn't done that. He's not sure what he signed up for, but it looks like the "future of modern warfare" has caught up with him. And he already knows he isn't going to like it. (3600-word short story)

Gods are at war. Dragons attack TV stations and winged gargoyles do battle with steam-powered behemoths. Gaia the Earth Mother and the woman called Blue lead the Weirdlings in their struggle against the Tyrant and his Compatriots, while the man who calls himself the Traveler walks through the chaos looking for The Door to the Sky.

The house next door has been sold and the new neighbors are moving in. Do you think they're religious? They seem to have a lot of kids. Do you think they're hiding something? They look ethnic. Do you think they might be worth robbing? Obviously, they can't be *monkeys*... (5500-word short story)

She's the girl you meet every year for the first time. She has red-gold hair, sky-blue eyes, and just a splash of freckles across her cheeks. She's as young as you are, or as old. She dances in the rain and splashes in the puddles. She jumps in the leaves and spins with the wind. She steps out of the fog to smile at you, then disappears before you can ask her name... (5400-word short story)

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We live in a society as dominated by food preference as by sexual preference, as obsessed with eating too much as with eating too little. In this accessible, cross-disciplinary text, David Goodman and Michael Redclift look at the development of the modern food system, integrating different bodies...

Using concepts that are not already a part of the militant discourse as a way to undermine extremism, Countering Heedless Jihad explores a stratagem aimed at defusing jihadist ideology. It explains how to counteract idealist theology using concepts from it, borrowing ideas from some revered Islamic...

At long last, this is the definitive Wet Hot American Summer book fans have been clamoring for! Screenwriters David Wain and Michael Showalter take pen to page and create a hilarious, behind-the-scenes annotated version of the original screenplay that launched a thousand Halloween costumes. They provide...