Scott Sowers

The Torus, the world's biggest supercollider, is locked in an Arizona mountain. Built by Nobel Laureate William North Hazelius, for the purpose of divulging the mysteries of the creation of the universe, there are others who believe it will suck the earth into a black hole, or that it's a challenge to God. When 12 scientists are sent to turn the machine on, they discover a secret that will either destroy the world or save. Either way, the countdown...

After a meteorite passes straight through the earth, Wyman Ford is called on to investigate the exit hole. What he discovers shatters all that is known about the universe. His investigation leads him to one of Mars' moons where a structure in the shape of a gun is found. It had been built to destroy any intelligent life that might challenge it, but who built it? Since it obviously poses a threat to Earth, Ford's team races against time to dismantle...

In Jonathan Lethem's wryly funny novel, we meet a young man named Chaos, who's living in a movie theater in post-apocalyptic Wyoming, drinking alcohol, and eating food out of cans. It's an unusual and at times unbearable existence, but Chaos soon discovers that his post-nuclear reality may have no connection to the truth. So he takes to the road with a girl named Melinda in order to find answers. As the pair travels through the United States they...