Tom Lichtenberg

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  • Bibliography:
    58 Books
  • First Book:
    November 2009
  • Latest Book:
    May 2018
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Book List in Order: 58 titles

  • Fissure Monroe

    Dawn Debris is hired to find a possibly-radiation-poisoned leg bone of a high society fashionette who only wants to fit in with the new craze of skeletal transplants that’s sweeping the nation. A store detective, a street musician, a tedious pundit...

  • Hidden Highway

    Sharad LeMaster ran away from his own cult, and tried to hide from his followers by taking a desk job in a motel in the middle of nowhere, but when a certain lazy ghost from his past reappears, Sharad is lured into a haunted house and becomes the pro...

  • Macedonia

    A gang of street kids, an anonymous radio announcer, a detective from the future, a presidential assassination attempt and a frequently mistaken narrator all play a part in this jumble of introductions to an open-source novel inspired by the works of...

  • Missy Tonight

    These days it seems like everyone is cashing in on the New Atheism craze, except for lifelong unbeliever Alan Musted. What’s a portable toilet dispatcher to do? Crash the party, that’s what! Join Alan and his friends and enemies in this ground-br...

  • Orange Car with Stripes

    This “atheist science fiction comedy cult classic” follows the trail of a Professor of Defunct Sciences as he attempts to discover the deepest darkest secret of the mysterious driver of the orange car with stripes!...

  • Rampant Pheromonix

  • Secret Sidewalk

    Beauregaard Sweet became invisible, but his troubles began when he suddenly reappeared. Now everybody wants something from him. Manny the mechanic wants his wife. Sharad LeMaster wants his secret. Emma Biggs wants another shot at the TV news, the lea...

  • Snapdragon Alley

    Ten year old friends Alex and Sapphire discover something strange on the city bus map " a street that existed for only one year. As they set out to solve the mystery, they encounter the possibility of another world, another dimension perhaps, lurki...

  • Somebody Somewhere

    Some psycho kidnaps his would-be girlfriend, gets chased by the cops halfway across the state, runs out of gas right outside your house, where you and your spouse are enjoying a quiet evening at home, and now you’re held hostage at gunpoint and sur...



  • Squatter with a Lexus

    Pearson Holmes disappeared a long time ago, leaving behind a potentially valuable safety deposit box. Freddy the Freegan is the first to stumble across the mystery, but soon a whole cast of characters are out to find the key and claim the treasure be...

  • Time Zone

    This is not your father’s time travel. There’s no machine, there is no dial. There’s no telling where or when you’ll go. The only thing that can change is you. It will make you what it needs to make you, to fit you in, to make it work. And wh...

  • World Weary Avengers

    The good folks at World Weary Avengers Incorporated had a simple idea - changing the world for the better by talking loudly in public. Seemed simple enough, but even with the help of the most sophisticated hand held device ever invented, some jobs ar...

  • Phantom of the Mall

    The settlers were dispatched to a distant world to prepare the way for the great migration. Everything went according to plan, a little too smoothly, perhaps. Now there's only one thing missing in New Town, just a minor detail.Dystopia in G Minor. Th...

  • Ledman Pickup

    If you were a sentient gadget, what would you do? Travel? See the world? After overhearing one warehouse worker tell another that 'Green Bay is better than San Francisco', a newly conscious handheld device decides to re-route its shipping destination...

  • Tiddlywink the Mouse

    A collection of oddly surreal stories for unusual children, featuring a mouse and his friends - a squirrel, an elephant, a limpet and a fish - along with an assortment of mischievous clouds and cowardly mushrooms....

  • Zombie Nights

    "Being a zombie, not so easy". That could have been Dave Connor's six word memoir. "At first he couldn't remember how he'd ended up in that shallow grave; he just knew it was hell to claw his way out, and that the taste of its dirt would remain in hi...

  • Death Ray Butterfly

    Inspector Stanley Mole doesn't mind a hard case, but things have gotten out of hand. There's a killer who escapes to a parallel universe, a 20,000 year old murder, a witness to her own death, a toddler assassin, subatomic-particle sniffing butterflie...

  • Raisinheart

    Three stories of a lonely youth. Jimmy Kruzel's bad luck is that his worst enemies are always his best friends, or is it the other way around, and that sometimes his darkest hours seem to come right after the dawn. In tales more bitter than sweet, Ji...

  • Renegade Robot

    It's the end of the world as we know it, when the dreaded Singularity finally occurs and happens to be captured, live on tape, by agents of the Frantic News Network, which freaks out, as usual, and causes a lot of trouble for the mild-mannered nanobo...



  • Dawn Debris

  • Unwritten Rules of Impossible Things

    What if someone - or something - stole one of your days? Just one, and you didn't know why, or what they had done with your life in that time? Young Philip Galvez and his friend Marcus Holmes found out for themselves when they decided to discover why...

  • Fixture

    When a city commissioned a famous artist to create a masterpiece for their newly refurbished downtown, they only forgot one thing: to tell him when to stop. Now his greatest work is threatening to take over everywhere. It's a race against time and sp...

  • Dragon Town

    Argus Kirkham, now 39, is once again dragged unwillingly into an inexplicable situation. Sapphire Karadjian returns to the story as an investigate journalist assigned to a new mystery, a volcanic sinkhole which has swallowed an entire football stadiu...

  • Sexy Teenage Vampires

    You live long enough you see everything. That's what old Bill told himself. Working down in the underground train station all those years he figured he'd pretty much seen it all, until they showed up, first one, and then the other. A love story in bl...

  • The Atheist Shopping Network Presents

    These days it seems that everyone is cashing in on The New Atheism. What's a portable toilet dispatcher to do? When the top atheist pundit goes down in flames of confusion, lifelong unbeliever Alan Musted is ready to take his place. The only problem ...

  • The Secret Trilogy

    The three short novels comprising The Secret Trilogy share characters, plots and locales across different genres: a mystery (Squatter with a Lexus) , an urban fantasy (Secret Sidewalk), and a ghost story (Hidden Highway). A secret thread runs through...

  • Entropic Quest

    In this dystopian fantasy, certain people are stuck at binary ages (8, 16, 32 ...) due to an unknown cause. They cannot age, or change, or become sick or even injured. By turns experimented on, abused, tortured and scorned, they are eventually exiled...

  • In Constant Contact

    The good folks at World Weary Avengers are at it again. Now they've come up with a device that keeps you in continual contact with a professional friend, someone guaranteed to always be there, whenever you need them, to be whatever you need them to b...

  • All Geeked Up

    If you were a sentient gadget, what would you do? Travel? See the world? After overhearing one warehouse worker tell another that 'Green Bay is better than San Francisco', a newly conscious handheld device decides to re-route its shipping destination...



  • The New Guy In Moon Base Twelve

    They weren't exactly the crew the President had in mind when he announced his plan to build a permanent base on the moon so the Chinese wouldn't do it first, but there they were, a boring collection of peaceful, happy settlers who couldn't even get a...

  • Dragon City

    Enter the world of Snapdragon Alley, where every so often very strange things happen in a far corner of the city of Spring Hill Lake. Beginning as children, Alex and Argus Kirkham and their friend Sapphire Karadjian encounter the whatever-it-is and f...

  • Happy Slumbers

    When Argus Kirkham disappears, his older brother Alex returns to the city of his youth to join in the search, but finds himself instead at the edge of a baffling mystery he can neither see nor begin to understand, in this fourth and final re-mix of t...

  • Humanoid Central

    In the future, humans and androids desperately need to find a way to get along with each other, but they're failing miserably. Mired in war and environmental catastrophe, a new generation has to rise to the challenge. A hand-picked group of Future Le...

  • The Von Barkingham Method of Time Travel

    In the future ... well, you already know this (or will), assuming you lived (or will live) through the horror, the misery, the nightmare that was (or is) (or will be) the Von Barkingham method of time travel. May God have mercy on our souls....

  • The Girl in the Trees

    Twelve year old Miranda Amelia Harden has lived all her life on her grandfather's ranch in the mountains. All she wants is to stay there, but the rest of the world can't seem to leave her alone. She has only two questions. How young is too young to k...

  • The Lemon Thief's Ex-Wife's Third Cousin

    YOLO. You Only Live Once. Or do you? Maybe there's another you living your own life somewhere else, right now.When my friend received a postcard in the mail depicting his childhood home he had no idea who had sent it or why. Even stranger was the unk...

  • Prisoners of Perfection

    All they wanted was to get out of the infinite forest where they'd been imprisoned for what seemed like millennia. Immortal and frozen forever at age sixty four, their leader was set on revenge and his loyal pair of eight-year old followers were more...

  • The End of the Line

    Epic Fail. The anti-hero, anti-fantasy, anti-quest adventure continues. Escaping from one prison only to find themselves inside another, where machines run wild, the sun doesn't know how to set, and time itself is running out, the chosen ones find th...

  • Epic Fail

    Epic Fail: The anti-hero, anti-fantasy anti-quest adventure! Accidental ordinary everyday immortals, shut away in an infinite forest prison maze, must find a way to fulfill their mission: to find some unknown thing, take it somewhere, and do somethin...



  • Freak City

    It’s hard to control your destiny while you’re waiting for the bus. The trouble for Argus Kirkham began when a stranger pushed his way through a crowd at a bus stop and pressed a package into his hands. Inside the package were various random item...

  • Unwritten Rules and Robots

    Three Short Novels Renegade Robot: It's the end of the world as we know it, when the dreaded Singularity finally occurs and happens to be captured, live on tape, by agents of the Frantic News Network, which freaks out, as usual, and causes a lot of t...

  • Wish World

    We all have dreams. We pray, we hope, we buy lottery tickets and wish on falling stars. We know this isn't the most practical way to get things done, but our hearts tell us a different story. We want to believe. But suppose the world really did work ...

  • Cashier World

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    A collection of stories, including the legend of the Wandering Cashier, the classic tale of the Bathroom on the Bus, the roadside diner Angel of Death, and featuring the famous private detective Dawn Debris in The Land of Many Things...

  • Beepers

    Dillon Sharif was the world's greatest big-data detective. It helped to be the handsome grandson of the billionaire founders of the AllDat Corporation - legal owners of all the world's information - but would it be advantage enough to solve the riddl...

  • Lost Souls

    The world's #1 Big-Data Detective returns in yet another extremely unlikely, if not impossible adventure. This time the wrong things are happening at the wrong times in the wrong places while pasts and futures hang in the balance. Part Freakonomics, ...

  • Migrants

    The world's #1 (if not only) Big-Data Detective returns in yet another extremely unlikely (if not impossible) adventure. This time things that should never move are apparently moving, and hidden dangers are lurking just beneath the surface. Part Frea...

  • Zappers

    The world's #1 Big-Data Detective returns in another unrealistic adventure. This time there are disappearing dogs, cars that won't start, and people who have been partially electrocuted, perhaps by God. Part Freakonomics, part Sherlock Holmes, part D...

  • Close to Nowhere

    A haunted desk, a case of mistaken identity, and ominous threats from mysterious strangers can be seriously annoying when all you want is to get your job done and go home to your family. Sometimes you just have to take the horns by the bull and deal ...

  • Deadline



  • Jumpers

    Dillon Sharif was the world's greatest data detective, but he had too many cases. He needed to apply the same analytics techniques he used for solving mysteries to manage his own workload issues. He was also going to need help. A lot of help. Part Fr...

  • How My Brain Ended Up Inside This Box

    When I was born I was so small I was mistaken for a french fry. I was never an ordinary child. My best friend was a seagull. I was also illegal. Artificially intelligent people like me had been banned ever since that thing with the Twelve Elevens. Mo...

  • This and That

    Told in the style of a combined social media feed, 'This and That' relates several overlapping and interwoven stories; a woman facing treatment for cancer, a man held hostage for no reason by a foreign government, a global corporation enamored of its...

  • The White-Hole Situation

    It's the year 2525 and the world is finally clean. It was a tough job and took a lot longer than we thought it would and everything comes with a price, but it's all good now. It's the future that Star Trek promised, where benevolent computer systems ...

  • Bobby and the Bedouins

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  • The Ghost on the Wall

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  • The Mortal Hole

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  • The Next Big Thing

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  • The Part-Time People

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    DeBarrie's Stationery Store needed help again. Somehow, the part-time people never worked out. It was a problem. One after another, the part-time people came and went, and sometimes, nobody ever found out what happened to them. The newest one seemed ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Tom Lichtenberg has published 58 books.

Tom Lichtenberg does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The White-Hole Situation, was published in May 2018.

The first book by Tom Lichtenberg, Squatter with a Lexus, was published in November 2009.

No. Tom Lichtenberg does not write books in series.
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