Bøker av George Phillies

Five tween superheros were sent to circumnavigate the universe in order to save the world. The Wizard of Mars warned that some might die. Eclipse saved the world, but died in the effort. At the end of the previous book, she returned from certain death. Now she has to save the world, a few more times. Meet the five: Eclipse -- World's Greatest Tween SuperheroWorld's Most Terrifying Tween SupervillainOpinions differ.She's caring, daring, deadly...and here to save our world...though she knows that, win or lose, she will die trying. She's twelve. She's hardworking, bright, self-reliant, good with tools, vigorously physically fit, tough as nails, still young enough to disguise herself as a boy. And she's a persona - she flies, reads minds, and only on occasion blows up a nearby mountain range. Trisha Anson is not quite a year older than Eclipse. She's friendly, considerate, really good in school, athletic, does more than her share around the house. She's also the persona Comet. She has superspeed...an hour of housework in a minute. She flies, including across the universe in a long day. Trisha's brother and sister are personas, too. Trisha's year-younger sister Janie Wells is a budding world chess and go champion. As the persona Aurora, she reads minds, sees distant events, and can kill with a glance. Janie's twin brother Brian Wells builds fantastic models from scratch. As the persona Star, he has a nearly unbreakable force field and summons plasma beams that cut battleships in half. The enigmatic Cloud was given his superpowers by the Screaming Skull himself. He can summon lightning, titanic winds, and all-obscuring fog.

Adara Triskittenion has been admitted to the school of her dreams, Dorrance Academy, the premier magical research university of the Commonality of the Timeless. Her objective: Become a faculty member and stay forever. Her family, House Triskittenion, the Hall of the Three Kittens, still has claims on her time. For most of the year she has books to read, courses to ace, but first that trivial test of combat magic skill, the Practical Exercise.Readers are perhaps familiar with fictional magical academies modeled after English Public (meaning private, boarding) Schools. Dorrance Academy is not one of these places. Dorrance resembles an American research university, except that the 'science' majors are fields of sorcery.A minor authorial aside: As it happens, your author is also a research scientist, a retired physics professor. Once upon a time, many decades ago. I was a student at America's Dorrance Academy, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I have woven into the tale a fair piece of advice on how to succeed at such a school. If you are headed off to such a place, please keep my advice in mind. You may correctly assume that some of the modest vignettes are lightly disguised real occurrences, including 'construction line' and 'personal self-aggrandizement'.