The History of Mystery

....And the conclusion of the excerpt from Space Cadet - if you'd like to read more, look for Vladimir Mortsgna's Herschel's Adventures in SpaceLand on barnesandnoble.com!

Nozzia scurried back to the sewing machine shop trap door without waiting around for witnesses. He lowered himself a little hastily and his right foot broke through the box he had on the top of the tower, like the undertaker in the H P Lovecraft story. That box slid off its perch and crashed to th...

I got a sidebar comment that the short story we serialized ("The second Mrs Trummelthau") was too dark, so we'll try something cheerier.  Enjoy, in two parts, an excerpt from my novel Space Cadet, a novel about several college professors, shady administrators, rival teams of assassins, rival religious cults living in an abandoned superstore, former military contractors, and at least three candidates for U S Representative from New Jersey, share a mysterious and unhealthy interest ...