Henry Melton

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books
  • First Book:
    April 2008
  • Latest Book:
    January 2023
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Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • Roswell or Bust

    Teenager Joe Ferris was raised to help guests--he was third generation in his family's motel business--but once he connected with mute Judith, they were off on a thousand-mile road trip through the Southwest to help out the most unique guests of all-...

  • Emperor Dad

    James Hill saw the theft of the British Crown Jewels live on CNN during high school French class, and had the uneasy suspicion that his father’s secret project in the backyard shed was more than he’d been pretending.  Could Dad have invented...

  • Extreme Makeover

    High school senior Deena Brooke struggled to make sense of the impossible changes to her body, grateful for the interest Luther Jennings had in her puzzling insights and quirky urges, until she discovered that he was hiding a deadly secret of his own...

  • Lighter Than Air

    It could be the best prank in the history of Munising High School's unofficial Prank Day. Working for a next door neighbor inventor had left Jon Kish with unlimited quantities of lighter-than-air foam, perfect for building...say, a full-sized flying ...

  • Falling Bakward

    Jerry Ingram never wanted to be an interstellar explorer, just a bit more special than a sixth-generation farmer in South Dakota, and that's why he spent hours after school digging at the mystery spot in the back fields, searching for Indian artifact...

  • Time Quadrants

    This is a sampler of four science fiction short stories by award winning author Henry Melton. Litterbug -- The slightest mistake can turn the course of history, and change a father's mind.Echoes -- Can the echoes of un-done histories make a differenc...

  • Golden Girl

    Debra Barr was barely out of bed when she found herself thrust into a pivotal role in the future of the human race. Hey, she wanted to be more than just a small town girl, but this was ridiculous Plucked out of her bedroom in small town Oquawka, Ill...

  • Pixie Dust

    Jenny Quinn's life was on course for her advanced physics degree until a lab experiment in vacuum decay turned her life upside down. With her career hopes destroyed and her professor dead in an unexplained fall, she is left with a strange change in h...

  • Follow That Mouse

    Dot Comal loved her home town, although the Utah ranching community of Ranch Exit was too small to call a 'town'. She had her horse, Pokey, and her father to care for, and Ned from the next ranch over was comfortable to be around when he showed up on...



  • Bearing Northeast

    The unexplained cylinder falling out of the sky was the perfect excuse to take a vacation when sixteen year old Seth Parmer and his older sister Biz found their Fresno lives upended by an unexpected layoff. WIth Seth's twitter buddies following along...

  • Star Time

    It all starts here... The plan always worked for the bloodthirsty Cerik, whose battle-bred claws and muscles made them the uncontested top predator on scores of planets-the radiation pulse from the supernova would turn civilization on the blue-whi...

  • The Copper Room

    Jerry had the greatest study aid ever -a copper room where time could be adjusted faster or slower, which he had helped his inventor uncle build. But being able to cram a fifteen hour study marathon into five minutes paled to the notion of spending s...

  • Henry's Stories: Volume 1

    Ten science fiction short stories by Henry Melton, including the gaming classic Catacomb. These adventures have been collected from the on-line magazine Henry's Stories, both new and previously published in other magazines. In this volume are: "Catac...

  • Kingdom of the Hill Country

    For eleven years, the Earth has been recovering from the supernova flare, but in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, a new threat has arisen, a bandit horde brutal enough to send Helen Black, the independent minded horse doctor and rugged survivo...

  • Breaking Anchor

    "M99 0" -- A coded message appeared on Tommy Dorie's cell, not that unusual from his secrecy minded scientist father Nick. Whether it was a scavenger hunt, a "pop quiz" or just a test to see if he were following orders, when Nick gave him a coded ord...

  • Tales of the U'Tanse

    The Cerik raid on supernova-damaged Earth was a failure, but with a pair of humans in his claws, the leader hoped to breed a new race of slaves to replace the Builders, their technologists, that they had wiped out in a fit of revenge. Born of nece...

  • Henry's Stories: Volume 2

    From the dusty tracks of the Moon to the volcanoes beneath the sea, with a few side trips to alien planets and alternate reality, these short fiction stories from Henry Melton's collection will give your imagination a good stretch. Here are a variety...

  • In the Time of Green Blimps

    Samuel Bolls' plan was simple-go to California and parlay his camera and editing skills and the connection with his famous uncle into an entertainment industry career-but fate had other ideas. Rachael Nue, aspiring actress, with enough genetic enh...

  • Beneath the Amarillo Plains

    Jeff Kale thought his home town of Amarillo Texas was as ordinary and unspectacular as the table-top flatness of its terrain, but his life changed forever when his buddy's car was smashed into the overpass-leaving him with permanent brain damage and ...



  • Captain's Memories

    Captain Pearce never intended to be a teacher, but the only way she could escape her early retirement on Earth and get back out into the vacuum was to share the human side of the great Terraforming Project to young political appointees hoping to b...

  • Chipper Flies High

    Chipper was the weakest of the baby birds born in the swampland around the Cape Canaveral Launch Complex, and couldn't fly as well as his brother or sister, but one day he flew over to the giant Man Bird and was trapped inside. His adventure took him...

  • Free U'Tanse

    On the poisonous world of Ko, the U'tanse-a breed of psychically gifted humans-struggle to find their destiny under the brutal control of their Cerik overlords. Life or death was at the whim of their masters' claws. Joshua was the first freeborn U...

  • Humanicide

    Mars was terraformed, and the biotech engineers could walk on Luna without breathing gear. Earth had three moons and hundreds of orbiting habitats in the Clusters. The great Terraforming Project was hitting its stride, but there were conflicts ove...

  • Secrets of the U'Tanse

    Joshua was born a Free U'tanse, one of the few humans not under the claw of the Cerik who ruled the poisonous planet Ko. But after the rescue of the abandoned people of Rikna, it became his job to keep the existence of the refugees secret--putting...

  • Power of the U'Tanse

    The only other race that had rebelled against the Cerik, the Delense, had been totally exterminated, but they had left a legacy--their technology and a hydroelectric plant that had allowed the Free U'tanse to live and flourish. But when it was dam...

  • Alpine Duty

    Centuries after the Plague, detailed in Humanicide, humanity lives on... Charles Fasail was born to be a student on the island nation of Alp, a colony of scholars on an illiterate world--the terraformed Luna. For seven years he survived as an ind...

  • Breckenridge is Buried

    It was a heavy snow year in Breckenridge, Colorado--great for the ski resort, but extra work for Will Parker, working for his father, keeping the snow shoveled. The high point of his day happened when he caught a break in the clouds and was able t...

  • The High Quest

    Centuries after the Plague, the only library on terraformed Luna had been destroyed in a horrific fire. Was the restoration of humanity's greatness lost?Charles Fasail, raised a scholar but orphaned by the Great Burn and enslaved as a dock worker in ...

  • Alpine Destiny

    Centuries after the Plague on terraformed Luna, recovering humanity faces its greatest threat, an orbiting asteroid colony prepared to destroy them.Using his beamship to explore the far reaches of the forested world of Luna was a joy for Charles-bein...



  • Maker on the High Road

    Her request for a custom statue of Sailor Moon was just their first step together. Luke Moore worked part time in Plant Operations at Hatch Municipal Hospital keeping the gadgets running, but it was his hobbies that defined him. He made ends meet by ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Henry Melton has published 30 books.

Henry Melton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Maker on the High Road, was published in January 2023.

The first book by Henry Melton, Roswell or Bust, was published in April 2008.

No. Henry Melton does not write books in series.
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