Shadows Between Worlds

by Kevin Wade Johnson

John Stephen Gray suffers sleepless nights from the memories of mistakes he's made, mistakes he can't forgive himself for. Or, at least, that he's never learned to forgive himself for. But neither he nor his daughter Janna have time to brood when invaders attack his home.In a world of visionaries who have invented such wonders as regeneration tanks, cloned hardwoods and advanced weaponry, they have to find a way to deal with their attackers, and more importantly the nature of their attackers; but they also need to discover their own abilities, the nature of those abilities, their world, so like and yet unlike our own, and its nature as well.Not to mention other worlds parallel to theirs.For all the visionary inventions of their worlds, their attackers use equipment strange to them. Where have the attackers come from? Where did they get, or make, their equipment? And why are they attacking in the first place?The Roads Between Worlds series, of which this is the second, deals with perception and understanding, along with parallel worlds, and parallel versions of humanity. Which is to say, along with the adventure, it considers what is human, as opposed to inhuman. Humane as opposed to inhumane. Perhaps even the unforgivable.

300 pages, Paperback

Published March 27, 2016

About the author

Kevin Wade Johnson began writing fiction in the 1970s, and began getting serious about it in the following decade, becoming a quarter-finalist in the fourth-quarter 1988 Writers of the Future contest.

Fiction had to take a back seat to his thirty-year career within the Defense Department. After five years of active duty in the military, he went from being one of NSA’s premier writers of intelligence reports to becoming a historian in the Center for Cryptologic History. In his over 30 years of government service, he became proficient in four languages; certified as adjunct faculty for nine different courses; created over 100 internal web pages, over 80 entries on the internal blog Write Right, more than 40 training videos (also not publicly available), and numerous brown bags and workshops; finally, he created a National Cryptologic School course (two more were under consideration when he retired from the civil service in 2015).

An expert at journalistic style, he also learned and took to heart Information MappingTM techniques. He became a "legend" at teaching how to write clearly and comprehensibly from complex, confusing, and even contradictory information.

He capped off his tenure by writing The Neglected Giant: Agnes Meyer Driscoll, the free, award-winning, published biography of a pioneering codebreaker. Before retirement he had a short story published in a regional anthology; not long after, and then since retiring, he has self-published numerous novels, novellas and collections, all of which are free ebooks. For ten years he posted thought pieces, free fiction and more at kevinwadejohnson.blogspot.com; most of these articles have been moved to ebooks.

Those ebooks and the others are at http://self.gutenberg.org/Authors/Kev....

The son of noted genealogist and classics teacher Arta F. Johnson, he grew up in central Ohio, and is a graduate of Whetstone High School in Columbus and Ohio University in Athens.