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A serialized novel by Colin O'Boyle. Updated monthly, two episode are available as of May 2012. They can be found here: [http://www.amazon.com/author/colinoboyle\]
A serialized novel by Colin O'Boyle. Updated monthly, two episode are available as of May 2012. They can be found here: [http://www.amazon.com/author/colinoboyle\]


The story follows the life of Jack Baling, an engineering professor whose life takes a drastic turn down a strange lane when one of his students brings in a working perpetual motion machine. Studying this impossible device pushes Jack over the boundary between genius and insanity. He emerges from the other side with a death ray (cobbled together with parts from the microwave and his wife's hair dryer), and goes on a rampage, stopping only when he encounters another mad scientist.
The story follows the life of Jack Baling, an engineering professor whose life takes a drastic turn down a strange lane when one of his students brings in a working perpetual motion machine. Studying this impossible device pushes Jack over the boundary between genius and insanity. He emerges from the other side with a death ray (cobbled together with parts from the microwave and his wife's hair dryer), and goes on a rampage, stopping only when he encounters another mad scientist.


Because there are people out there that share his abilities, and even more frightening than the mad scientists are what they dream of. For them, nothing is ever ''truly'' impossible.
Because there are people out there that share his abilities, and even more frightening than the mad scientists are what they dream of. For them, nothing is ever ''truly'' impossible.
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* [[Artificial Limbs]]: The character Jack mentally dubs “Bladerunner” is described as having blade-like prosthetic legs. Probably something similar to Oscar Pistorius’s. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Pistorius\]
* [[Artificial Limbs]]: The character Jack mentally dubs “Bladerunner” is described as having blade-like prosthetic legs. Probably something similar to Oscar Pistorius’s. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Pistorius\]
* [[Ax Crazy]]: When Jack gets his hands on a [[Disintegrator Ray]] capable of converting tables {{spoiler|or people}} into a pile of dust, it doesn’t work out well.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: When Jack gets his hands on a [[Disintegrator Ray]] capable of converting tables {{spoiler|or people}} into a pile of dust, it doesn’t work out well.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Peter Sharpe of the Prometheus Corporation describes the Prometheans as shepherds and humanity as sheep. Two guesses on how much value he assigns to the lives of people who aren’t “enlightened.”
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Peter Sharpe of the Prometheus Corporation describes the Prometheans as shepherds and humanity as sheep. Two guesses on how much value he assigns to the lives of people who aren’t “enlightened.”
* [[Death Ray]]: Jack’s first invention as a mad scientist. Extra points for being housed in his wife’s hair dryer, so not only can it convert a kitchen island into dust with a red beam of light, it does so while being pearlescent pink with stylized purple flowers.
* [[Death Ray]]: Jack’s first invention as a mad scientist. Extra points for being housed in his wife’s hair dryer, so not only can it convert a kitchen island into dust with a red beam of light, it does so while being pearlescent pink with stylized purple flowers.
* [[Deflector Shields]]: A personal one is used at the end of the first episode to defend against Jack’s death ray. It’s “about the size of a fold-up highway map and the color of Windex.”
* [[Deflector Shields]]: A personal one is used at the end of the first episode to defend against Jack’s death ray. It’s “about the size of a fold-up highway map and the color of Windex.”
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* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: When Jack fires his death ray, he can actually see a red beam of light emit from the end of the weapon, and he has time to see it travel from the barrel to his target.
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: When Jack fires his death ray, he can actually see a red beam of light emit from the end of the weapon, and he has time to see it travel from the barrel to his target.
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Jack is able to build a disintegrator gun out of parts from his microwave, flatscreen TV, laser pointer, refrigerator, and his wife’s hair dryer that plugs into any standard wall socket.
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Jack is able to build a disintegrator gun out of parts from his microwave, flatscreen TV, laser pointer, refrigerator, and his wife’s hair dryer that plugs into any standard wall socket.
* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]: Jack’s study of his student’s perpetual motion machine caused him to go insane.
* [[Go Mad from the Revelation]]: Jack’s study of his student’s perpetual motion machine caused him to go insane.
* [[Hypno Ray]]: Not so much a ray as it is an audible tone, Jack is on the receiving end of one of these at the beginning of Episode 2.
* [[Hypno Ray]]: Not so much a ray as it is an audible tone, Jack is on the receiving end of one of these at the beginning of Episode 2.
* [[Hologram]]: The central atrium of the Prometheus Corporation’s HQ has an enormous hologram of Prometheus as its centerpiece.
* [[Hologram]]: The central atrium of the Prometheus Corporation’s HQ has an enormous hologram of Prometheus as its centerpiece.
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