Cube Rube

by Scott Michael Decker

After salvager Jack Carson arrives to the capital of the long-dead Circian Empire, he finds a ghost cube that tells him he's been chosen to become the next Emperor. Even though he finds this ludicrous, Jack teams up with an orphan girl who claims to be the Princess of Circia. Troubled by divorces, bankruptcies and his constant search for smoke-induced oblivion, Jack tries to figure out what's going on while avoiding debt collection agents sent by his ex-wife. Through a series of escapades, Jack finds out more about himself than he thought possible. But who is the mysterious girl, and could the Cube be right?

260 pages, Paperback

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.