Books with author Michael Schultz

Now a steampunk bestselling series!In an alternate 19th century, young Samuel Clemens sets out for the mining camps of America’s wildest frontier: the Moon. Travel with Sam and his partner Calvin as they venture into the desolate, deadly wastes of the Mare Imbrium and the Montes Caucasus, in search of wonders, adventure, and a fortune in precious water ice. This is Prospectors!, the opening salvo in the epic saga of Mark Twain on the Moon, as told by the alternate Mark Twain himself."You will soon forget that it isn't Mr. Twain" -Melvin H. Wilson, Jr.Top 20 in Amazon's Steampunk Fiction rankings, May 2019

A planet on strike, an alien love triangle, and a giant politician-eating artichoke: Galactic Senator Plunkitt is, literally and figuratively, up a tree. The trouble began when Plunkitt’s old school chum Flotsam Drang—a startlingly malodorous Denebian with an insatiable appetite for the pleasures of the flesh—set his eye-stalks upon the worst possible paramour: the secret tweet-heart of the planet Tree's most powerful bird.Their unlikely rivalry soon draws Plunkitt into a thicket of insider trading schemes, labor negotiations, and political skulduggery as dense and impenetrable as the rapacious jungles of Tree itself. But it's the Senator’s own knack for turning a bad situation worse that lands him, Flotsam, and Tree's favorite tweet-heart in deadly peril.Naturally, it falls to your humble narrator Jobs, armed only with a million-credit brain and a ten-credit weed-whacker, to untangle the threads, rescue the Senator, and deliver the planet Tree from itself.

The amazing, perilous, sometimes hilarious adventures of Samuel Clemens on the Moon continue in The Deirdre, book two of the Mark Twain on the Moon saga.At the end of book one, Prospectors!, Sam and his partner Calvin found themselves stranded in a remote crater, down to their last cylinder of air.In book two, they are dramatically rescued by the men of The Deirdre, an ice mine on the crater’s rim, and forced into indentured servitude, digging for ice deep under the surface of the Moon. But when the Deirdres jump a neighboring claim, and no-nonsense Calvin hears the cries of a long-dead miner on his radio, life inside the Moon turns deadly, and soon Sam needs all of his wits, and a six-gun, to keep himself and the Deirdres alive.

The Oath is a story of a teenager growing up in an ordinary suburb in the Confederacy of the Sovereign States of Amerikka. While playing in a neighboring haunt, Petor has an awakening: he sees a recruitment poster for the black-shirted secret police and becomes entranced; he wants to become a spy. Petor turns in his friends, teachers—even his family to the government.From a desolate mountaintop orphanage to a band of ragtag guerrilla fighters—the story follows one boy from innocence to the journey’s end finding himself end where he started.The Oath is a story about childhood, corruption, home, and a return to its purity after a lifetime.

In an alternate 19th century, young Samuel Clemens sets out for the mining camps of America’s wildest frontier: the Moon. Travel with Sam and his partner Calvin as they venture into the desolate, deadly wastes of the Mare Imbrium and the Montes Caucasus, in search of wonders, adventure, and a fortune in precious water ice. This is Prospectors!, the opening salvo in the epic saga of Mark Twain on the Moon, as told by the alternate Mark Twain himself.

"Michael Malgeri has created a series of small books that could change the way an entire generation views individualism, profit-making, and capitalism. The books are easy to read and fun to discuss with children of all ages. They capture the imagination and explain the moral foundations of the free society with just a few words and pictures. Adam Smith and Milton Friedman would have approved!"Joseph Bast, President, The Heartland Institute.

A planet on strike, an alien love triangle, and a giant politician-eating artichoke: Galactic Senator Plunkitt is, literally and figuratively, up a tree. The trouble began when Plunkitt’s old school chum Flotsam Drang—a startlingly malodorous Denebian with an insatiable appetite for the pleasures of the flesh—set his eye-stalks upon the worst possible paramour: the secret tweet-heart of the planet Tree's most powerful bird.Their unlikely rivalry soon draws Plunkitt into a thicket of insider trading schemes, labor negotiations, and political skulduggery as dense and impenetrable as the rapacious jungles of Tree itself. But it's the Senator’s own knack for turning a bad situation worse that lands him, Flotsam, and Tree's favorite tweet-heart in deadly peril.Naturally, it falls to your humble narrator Jobs, armed only with a million-credit brain and a ten-credit weed-whacker, to untangle the threads, rescue the Senator, and deliver the planet Tree from itself.

Non—an amnesiac—is cast into our world from another dimension. It’s a world close to ours, but hostile. All the terrors of living under collectivism—social rigidity, brutality, and mind-numbing conformity are its hallmarks. Closed captioning TV makes sure everything is in order.In iWear G&C, a hypermarket as big as a city, Non is a privileged eye surgeon. But flying blind, Non can’t remember his training or practice before coming to this world.Around him, Non’s world crumbles through war and unrest, but he continues to survive through cleverness, braveness, and luck.

"'Johnny Profit' bucks convention and takes the labels of guilt and greed out of honest profit making. It shows kids the value of mutually beneficial exchange and the pursuit of wealth. Parents will have a simple and fun way to provide their children a refreshing and alternative way of thinking about what really makes the world turn." Larry Kudlow, President Trump's Director of the National Economic CouncilALL PROFITS FROM THE SALE OF "JOHNNY PROFIT" WILL BE DONATED TO CHARITY