Books by Vance Bessey

A series of experiments in genome manipulation sixteen years ago has resulted in an unstoppable army of grotesque teenage human/animal hybrids. Who has harnessed the awesome power of evolution and for what purpose? Can two orphans and a handful of super-hero wannabes stand against the fury of this perverted force of nature while solving the mystery of their own origins?

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Book Review: Orphans of the Storm

By Science Fiction Author

Piers Anthony

I read Orphans of the Storm by Vance Bessey. This is young-adult science fiction. The bare outline is simple, but the details are complicated. 17 year old Lucas Fish and 16 year old Katie Byrd are orphans living at the Blackthorne Children's Home with no memories of their original families. They discover that they have special powers. Lucas is quite heavy and strong, especially when he's near water. In fact his fish component makes him a phenomenal swimmer with gills. Katie is light and can fly; she can also carry heavy things into the air, somehow lightening them enough. She can also scream hard enough to shatter glass. They discover each other, and conclude they're related, maybe brother and sister. They work together; he can protect her, and she can carry him to different places. Meanwhile a tough gang of weird mutant teens, maybe human/animal crosses but far stranger, are messing up Crescent City, making it tough for the authorities. Lucas and Katie decide to help the chief of police, who privately deputizes them after seeing what they can do. Then it gets wild and woolly as mutant faces mutant. It turns out to be a plot by crazy Dr. Alan Thanatos, who made the mutants, to conquer or maybe destroy the city and the world. There are way too many variants to describe here, but one example is a boy who can fling sticky tape that entangles anyone it touches. I'm not sure I've ever seen more oddball mutants in one novel that there are here; there is great imagination. Overall this is a fun adventure novel that teens should like. What kind of crossbreed would you like to be, with what special powers?

Awk The Awkward Penguin

A Children's Book Written and Illustrated by Vance Bessey

A cute baby penguin is hatched to a proud Mom and Pop penguin in the Antarctic, but he has a

strangeness about him - his flippers are far too long - much longer than normal. Soon, the other

young penguins notice his abnormality and how it makes him clumsy and a poor swimmer and

they begin calling him 'AWK, the Awkward Penguin'. Awk has many misadventures but learns

that altho his long flippers give him some trouble, they are a marvelous gift as well, allowing him

to glide through the air! He uses this gift to rescue the whole penguin group from danger proving

that - being different is not always a bad thing, sometimes its very good. And sometimes it is

even wonderful.

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Enigmatic Tales

A Collection of Short Stories in the Genres of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror by Authors Vance Bessey and

Larry Shorette, Illustrated by Vance Bessey and Ben Blatz. Available on Amazon and Patreon

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The Edge

A compendium of the Previously Published Single Panel Gag Cartoons by Vance Bessey