Cube Rube

by Scott Michael Decker

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A hapless salvager puts his hands on a cube of alien manufacture, and finds out he'll be the next emperor. He soon finds in his care an orphan girl, who's adamant she's the princess.

The girl and the cube stymie his every attempt to rid himself of them, and he's bewildered that they insist he's anything more than a scrounge rat. And then he comes to the Empire's attention.

260 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 19, 2014

About the author

Scott Michael Decker, MSW, is an author by avocation and a social worker by trade. He is the author of twenty-plus novels in the Science Fiction and Fantasy genres, dabbling among the sub-genres of space opera, biopunk, spy-fi, and sword and sorcery. His biggest fantasy is wishing he were published. His fifteen years of experience working with high-risk populations is relieved only by his incisive humor. Formerly interested in engineering, he's now tilting at the windmills he once aspired to build. Asked about the MSW after his name, the author is adamant it stands for Masters in Social Work, and not "Municipal Solid Waste," which he spreads pretty thick as well. His favorite quote goes, "Scott is a social work novelist, who never had time for a life" (apologies to Billy Joel). He lives and dreams happily with his wife near Sacramento, California.