Thomas P Thomas: 439 books

Women, African Americans, and gays have recently upended US culture with demands for inclusion and respect, while economic changes have transformed work and daily life for millions of Americans. The national obsession with the National Football League provides a window on this dynamic period of change,...

Revelations about slews of huckster and vast armies of foreign and domestic hackers out to use our inattention, prejudices, and ignorance of the facts to manipulate and sucker us appropriately angers and frustrates us. If you read a newspaper or magazines, have a radio, a TV, or a computer or even...

Reluctant seer Adrian Barakat foresees the Titanic rising and sailing for New York, then is called on to suggest why this happened and how to prevent a possible disaster. The lead theory is that the spirit of a strong-willed woman who went down with the ship is causing this in an attempt to reunite...

Elderly Miss Miriam Marston leads the opposition to a highway construction project that would destroy her house and the others on Oakview Avenues that the Mayor and others with finanical interests in the matter are trying to push through. When it is learned that she claims to share her house with...

Nerber is a contestant on the the Far-Out Show, the first intergalactic reality TV show of his planet Ormelex. He is the first of his kind to secretly visit Earth since he is the only one of the several who traveled here for the purpose to safely reach Earth’s surface (although he doesn’t know...

Due to his family’s donations Saskatchewan Indianapolis Smithe (Polie to friends and foes), is an honorary curator of the Thyemaster Museum of Science and Man-made Arts where he often accidentally causes chaos. Polie learns of, tracks down, and interacts with three ceramic shards that together form...

In each of these four unrelated What will happen? stories someone works to conceal where someone else is to prevent unpleasant, illegal, and/or murderous consequences.Action in Motion: Revenge-seeking kidnappers hide their victim by riding the subways with him while their demands are considered and...

Larry Ritter arrives in Anytown with a secret agenda, a lot of self-confidence, a list of aliases, and a suitcase full of smiley faces pattern bandannas. He visits with many of the town’s residents and persuades them for various reasons to wear one of those and gather in Town Square that evening....

The good witch Mistress Pleasing is wary when the wizard Kluklicks arrives in the kingdom in magical fashion. He immediately strongly challenges the king to a contest of magic ability between himself and the wizards of this and other kingdoms. The winning wizard will be free to claim any items he...

Inept burglars Tony and Bill Perrine sneak in to steal a valuable painting from an office where it is on display only to find after all their trouble that it was moved to a local college art show as a temporary exhibit. An art collector and thief currently handicapped by injuries anonymously hires...

Gay Adam Parker, feeling lonely and horny too long, purchases Roger, a humandroid “buddy” on the order of Star Trek’s Mr. Data, but the lifelike fully functional Roger is so versatile, witty, and has so much personality that he amazes, amuses, and complicates Noah’s whole life with laughs,...

Prison guards Henderson and Killian, looking for some easy money, plot to secretly spring convicts Jones and Williams whom they have talked up to the Press as very dangerous, and promptly recapture the pair for the reward. Prisoners Carson and Dees who really want to escape are persuaded to forcibly...

At closing time the Barkley kids (Tim, 12; Sheila, 8; Billy, 5) are accidentally locked in the Harding Commerce Center, a large urban shopping center and office complex with state of the art security and interior environment systems controlled by a voiced computer called D.O.C. Deliberately hiding...

Seven unrelated tales for grown-ups played for laughs.“Love Drug Connections”: Hunts for an aphrodisiac and a statue, both called Love Goddess, result in chases, lies, and comeuppances.“Funerals Are For Drama”: Backers of an Indie film die suddenly and further funding depends on the actors’...