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Superguy
Jeff Webster is a reluctant superhero. Ever since he was four years old he’s been able to teleport himself to distant places, read minds and move stuff around with mind power. But growing up in Los Alamos, home of the atomic bomb and lots of scientists, taught him the dangers of standing out. With both parents dead, he holds down a simple job but wonders what he should do with his life. Help people in danger? Block terrorist schemes? Become famous for his unique abilities? Watching him is FBI Special Agent Janet Van Groot, newly assigned to monitor adult children of people who work at the national labs, in hopes of catching a hidden foreign spy. What happens after Jeff’s first rescue effort leads him, Janet and the entire nation into a future no one could have expected.
223 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 2, 2016
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T. Jackson King
51 books48 followersT. Jackson King (Tom) is an Amazon bestselling science fiction and urban fantasy author. He is a lifelong reader of SciFi/Fantasy stories and his favorite authors have included Darynda Jones, BR Kingsolver, K.F. Breene, Martha Carr, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Andre Norton, J. K. Rowling, Ann Christy, Lois McMaster Bujold and Ursula LeGuin. Outside of fantasy and science fiction he has enjoyed the novels of Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle, and the urban fantasy crime mysteries of Darynda Jones.
Tom began writing SF novels at age 38, when he discovered he had read all the Human-Alien first contact or encounter novels in his local library. So he decided to write his own, thanks to an overactive, very visual imagination. Those early years produced FIRST CONTACT and RETREAD SHOP. When the New York City publishing houses ignored his later novels because they had no Hollywood tie-in, he went to several small presses, then began self-publishing as an Indy author in 2011. He loves that readers in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia are some of his most loyal readers!
Before becoming a bestselling author, Tom worked in a radiocarbon lab at UC Riverside and earned an MA degree in Archaeology from UCLA. His interests in ancient history, ancient cultures and journalism got him several government agency jobs that led him to roam the raw landscape of the Western United States where he worked as a federal archaeologist and newspaper journalist.
Tom lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA and hangs with a group of smart and tolerant Westerners. Divorce taught him to smile a lot and to work at being a Nice Guy. Which earned him the love of his wife Sue. Still, he is pretty weird. Has been since fourth grade when he began reading SciFi. Since then, he and Authority have rarely been in agreement. Readers are welcome to visit his T. Jackson King page.
Tom began writing SF novels at age 38, when he discovered he had read all the Human-Alien first contact or encounter novels in his local library. So he decided to write his own, thanks to an overactive, very visual imagination. Those early years produced FIRST CONTACT and RETREAD SHOP. When the New York City publishing houses ignored his later novels because they had no Hollywood tie-in, he went to several small presses, then began self-publishing as an Indy author in 2011. He loves that readers in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia are some of his most loyal readers!
Before becoming a bestselling author, Tom worked in a radiocarbon lab at UC Riverside and earned an MA degree in Archaeology from UCLA. His interests in ancient history, ancient cultures and journalism got him several government agency jobs that led him to roam the raw landscape of the Western United States where he worked as a federal archaeologist and newspaper journalist.
Tom lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA and hangs with a group of smart and tolerant Westerners. Divorce taught him to smile a lot and to work at being a Nice Guy. Which earned him the love of his wife Sue. Still, he is pretty weird. Has been since fourth grade when he began reading SciFi. Since then, he and Authority have rarely been in agreement. Readers are welcome to visit his T. Jackson King page.
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December 22, 2016
An enjoyable read. I like the characters and the setting and the premise. The writing is, in a word, functional. It reads like it was written by someone with a memory for details and penchant for precise description. I feel that he describes things in far too much detail, even down to makes and models of items or specific physical details of people.
Basically, I think he needs a better editor to pare down his writing and smooth out the slightly autistic-sounding bits. Otherwise good though.
Basically, I think he needs a better editor to pare down his writing and smooth out the slightly autistic-sounding bits. Otherwise good though.
June 19, 2017
Very stupid hero and very biased politics.
The main starts out sympathetic, and becomes progressively more stupid and not exhibiting the character traits the author claims he possess. Also there is some flagrant political propaganda the continuously distracts from the story. If you ignore these it's an ok read.
The main starts out sympathetic, and becomes progressively more stupid and not exhibiting the character traits the author claims he possess. Also there is some flagrant political propaganda the continuously distracts from the story. If you ignore these it's an ok read.
July 7, 2019
Psychic superhero
What impressed me beyond good characterization was the respect shown to law enforcement personnel and their capabilities. How unlike our ego in chief.
What impressed me beyond good characterization was the respect shown to law enforcement personnel and their capabilities. How unlike our ego in chief.
January 9, 2017
A great story about Jeffrey Webster who was born with abilities which could have been due to his parents work.
Jeffrey has an ordinary job mainly because he doesn’t want to draw attention to himself. But as will happen sometimes fate steps in and he begins to use his powers when terrorists begin taking people hostage in several places.
The FBI are trying to find out who the mystery man is and one of the agents, Janet, discovers his secret. Will she keep it??
Jeffrey has an ordinary job mainly because he doesn’t want to draw attention to himself. But as will happen sometimes fate steps in and he begins to use his powers when terrorists begin taking people hostage in several places.
The FBI are trying to find out who the mystery man is and one of the agents, Janet, discovers his secret. Will she keep it??
December 6, 2016
Great introduction to a new hero.
Enjoyed a super hero story that wasn't based on teenage hang ups. Really liked the fact he was a regular guy and not into macho over powered villains or a world full of super people. Will be first in line for book 2.
Enjoyed a super hero story that wasn't based on teenage hang ups. Really liked the fact he was a regular guy and not into macho over powered villains or a world full of super people. Will be first in line for book 2.
November 19, 2016
Absolutely LOVED it! Gimme another!
December 1, 2016
Good
Not as good as "Jumper" but nicely done. I will be keeping an eye out for more in this series.
Not as good as "Jumper" but nicely done. I will be keeping an eye out for more in this series.
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