My Science Project

by Mike McQuay

Good mass market paperback Solid binding. Shelf wear to corners and edges. Reading creases on spine and a 1" tear on back cover. Date stamp on edge of pages on bottom of book. Interior pages are clean and unmarked, but tanned due to age. 169 pages 6.8" X 4.2" X 0.7" A novelization by Michael McQuay based on the screenplay by Jonathan Beteul. 18-year-old Michael Harlan has to save the world and finish high school! Meet Michael Harland of Carson, Arizona. Your average high school senior with your average high school senior's cars, rock and roll, and girls. He's doing just enough school work so that he can graduate and start working full-time For his upcoming science project, Michael figures he'll raid the old army junkyard outside town and find something to fix up. But the something he finds is quite a bit different from the usual Army surplus. You see, Michael's science project doesn't come from this world or this time -and once he turns it on, a lot of incredible things began to happen around Kit Carson High Sudden thunderstorms, massive power failures, disappearing science teacher. By the time Michael discovers what his science project really is, it may be too late for him to put these things right again. Too late not only for Carson Arizona but quite possibly for the entire world! Bantam Books 1985

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction

176 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1985

About the author

Michael Dennis McQuay was an American science fiction writer. He wrote for several different series. His work in that field includes Mathew Swain, Ramon and Morgan, The Executioner, and SuperBolan. The Book of Justice series he wrote as Jack Arnett. He also wrote the second of the Isaac Asimov's Robot City novels. His non-series novel Memories was nominated for a Philip K. Dick Award for 1987.

McQuay taught creative writing at the University of Central Oklahoma for more than ten years, and died of a heart attack at the age of 45 in 1995.

Reviews

[Nancy]

Enjoyable
Could see the movie as I read
with added details that were
satisfying

[Paxton Holley]

This was a really good adaptation of the movie. It didn’t really alter the story, but it had several extended scenes that added to the character development. Particularly to the main characters’ parents.

Really enjoyed this.

[Amanda Turenchalk]

Great, quirky story about a kid whose science project brings about some creatures from another world. Don't bother with the movie though.