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Vincent Miskell

Biography

Vincent Miskell is a college instructor, a writer, and a poet. He is the co-author (along with his wife Jane) of OVERCOMING ANXIETY AT WORK and MOTIVATION AT WORK.

His short fiction has appeared in ROSEBUD, INTERTEXT, ECLIPSE, and in the SF paperback anthology, the AGE OF WONDER. His poetry has appeared in THE LYRIC, POETIC VOICES OF AMERICA, and MOBIUS.

In 2006, his poem "Screen Savior" was nominated for a Rhysling Award and his poems have been published in ASIMOV'S SF mag (Sept. and Oct./Nov. 2006 and March 2010). His poem, "Seven Dates with a Time Traveler," appeared online in the May 2007 issue of FROM THE ASYLUM.

"Giving the World Away for Almost You" appeared in the December 2010 issue of AOIFE'S KISS.

"Godspeed Inc," a novelette, begins the Naomi Kinder SF adventure series, which continues in the full-length novel, RESCUING THE FUTURE. Two more novels in the series are in the works.

Series

Naomi Kinder SF Adventures by
Godspeed Inc: A Naomi Kinder Adventure
Price: Free!
Rescuing the Future: A Naomi Kinder Novel
Price: $2.99 USD.

Books

The Night Stands Still by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 105,970. Language: English. Published: January 9, 2021 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage
(5.00 from 1 review)
As the Nazi regime falls to invading Allied armies, infamous SS General Heinrich “Gestapo” Müller escapes with the help of a concentration camp inmate psychiatrist. But a former US Army intelligence officer, Tom Junger, is in pursuit—not to arrest him for trial at Nuremberg, but to kill him.
Freud's Lost Journals: A Novel by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 112,180. Language: English. Published: November 27, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Adventure » Action, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
“You do not sound happy, Herr Carson,” a voice behind me said with a marked German accent. Startled, I jerked around to see a holographic Sigmund Freud in the prime of his life. Afterward, Alex Carson is caught between Red Chinese and neo-Nazis who both want Sigmund Freud's early journals, stolen in 1938 during a raid by the Gestapo. Now Alex must find the journals to save his sister Kristine.
Dreaming Thomas: A Fairy Tale by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 2,920. Language: English. Published: November 23, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » Fairy tales & fables
(4.00 from 1 review)
Thomas cannot help dreaming of faraway adventures, magic trees, and scary dragons. But his daydreaming keeps getting him into trouble. His older brothers laugh at him and keep calling him "Dreaming Thomas." Then one day, he gets the chance to help the old King and the King's beautiful princess daughter. Illustrated and written by the author of The Giant Who Woke Up in the Middle of the Night.
The Giant Who Woke Up in the Middle of the Night: A Children's Story by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 2,530. Language: English. Published: November 23, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » Fairy tales & fables
(4.00 from 1 review)
Yob the Giant keeps waking up in the middle of the night. Clunk, clunk, clunk, he walks on his large wooden shoes down the dark stone stairs to the kitchen. He hears all sorts of scary night noises. Then he is surprised by a voice. Illustrated and written by the author of Dreaming Thomas: A Fairy Tale.
Humorous Poetry Parodies & Even Verse by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 7,020. Language: English. Published: October 21, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
(5.00 from 1 review)
This book of funny and clever parodies will have you laughing and smiling. It pokes fun at Whitman with "I Sing the Body Bubonic," at Poe with "The Raving," at Dante with "Declined Comedy," at Coleridge with "Rime of the Ancient Maintenance Man,"—and at Emily Dickinson, Shelley, Frost, Donne, Wordsworth, e.e. cummings,Robert Service, and Blake. Other comic verse breaks between the parodies.
Time Travel Times 5 by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 24,640. Language: English. Published: September 15, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
(5.00 from 1 review)
Suppose you could travel in time to see Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine, Socrates, or W. C. Fields. Or you could revisit your teen years through the power of Beatles music to alter your present—or accompany a time traveler from the future. Wouldn't you leap at the chance? In Time Travel Times 5, Vincent Miskell, invites you along on five fantastic journeys through time.
To Ignite a Fire on Enceladus and Jack London's To Build a Fire by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 14,460. Language: English. Published: September 8, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Adventure » General
(5.00 from 1 review)
"To Ignite a Fire on Enceladus" is an imaginative science fiction variation on Jack London's "To Build a Fire," a story for survival in the frozen terrain of the Yukon. Except now, a space miner is struggling to stay alive on an icy moon of Saturn where he has crash-landed with a dog. Both stories are together in one ebook (along with a Study Guide).
Death and Faxes: A Science Fiction Story by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 3,370. Language: English. Published: September 8, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
(4.00 from 1 review)
Calder is normally a kick-ass hype comm tech, but because she's too afraid to transport via interstellar body faxing, she's spending time and credits to travel home the old-fashioned way by space ship. Then she discovers the pilgrim ship won't be making its scheduled stop for her transfer. Instead, the ship will end in everyone's destruction—as planned.
Rescuing the Future: A Naomi Kinder Novel by
Series: Naomi Kinder SF Adventures, Book 2. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 112,180. Language: English. Published: July 25, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
(4.67 from 3 reviews)
Naomi Kinder’s saving the solar system from a black hole incursion makes her the most-celebrated hero of 2097, but a capsule from 2313, teeming with new technologies and warning of the future nanobot invasion of the Earth, challenges Naomi, her Russian-Belgium lover Leo, and her friend Bonnie to travel more than 200 years forward in time to prevent humanity’s destruction.
Godspeed Inc: A Naomi Kinder Adventure by
Series: Naomi Kinder SF Adventures, Book 1. Price: Free! Words: 10,140. Language: English. Published: June 12, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
(4.67 from 9 reviews)
Godspeed Inc owns the sweeper ship Naomi uses to mend the spacetime rifts that faster-than-light Q-drive ships rip open as they smash out of the solar system. Now Naomi wakes with something really big bearing down on her—something that’s come through a rift, threatening Earth. Time is running short as she races to Umbriel to reactivate an old sweeper ship. But she gets company.

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