Mark Sondrini's Books

Line 1 - "All the King's Men" - A Marine Gunnery Sergeant uncovers a galactic conspiracy.

Line 2 - "Dog Tags" - A new technology becoming abusive.

Line 3 - "Tupan Patera" - A South American volcano  is linked with one on the planes of Io.

Line 4 - "Let He Who Is Inocent Cast the  First Stone" -  Throwing stones can be detrimental to your health.

Line 5 - "The Pirate, the Queen, and the Apprentice" A brave sailor ties to save a queen from rival religious sects.

Line 1 - "It Is About Time" - A young boy discovers physics while his old teacher learns things aren't always what they seem.

Line 2 - "The Juggler" - We learn how our world may have come to be.

Line 3 - "The Venus Flytrap and the Martian Flyer" - A retired Air Force retired fighter pilot finds something unlike anything he has ever encountered before.

Line 4 - "Crystals of Life" - The rise and fall of an alien life form on the beaches of  Florida.

Line 5 - "Troubador" - A boy and his father find hope for mankind in the songs if a space hobo.

Line 1 - "Anniversary Dance" - A university Geology professor has found evidence that Velikovsky was right.

Line 2 - "Drawerway" - A new US President discovers a secret feature of his Oval Office desk.

Line 3 - "Hamsters" - People Power for energy self-sufficiency? The problem might be the people.

Line 4 - "Poppa 3" - A new technology, used in good faith, changes the face of the world.

Line 5 - "Drone XLIX" - Shows the weakness and futility of a 'total no-fly zone".

Line 6 - "People Too" - A race discovers that we are more alike than many would have us believe.

Line 7 - "The Listener" -  Sometimes when you listen to what people say, you can get yourself into a lot of trouble.

Line 8 - "The Girl in the Tree" - How did she manage to fly, and why was she being chased in the first place?

LIne 9 - "Draken" - A simple alien being is forced to come to terms with a strange monster.

"Venus Through the Clouds" - A life's poem.

"The House in Bloomington" - A narrative orphin.

The story of the Red Queen is one of myth and legend, sending two young women on a quest to find her and join something meaningful.

A space yarn with cops, robbers, robots, heroes, and villains, set within the bounds of our Solar System between Mars and Saturn. A 10-day tour turns into an 8-day nightmare.

Tales told by residents of an old Virginia Cemetary.

1. "Son, Brother, Patriot" - A rough rider becomes a messenger for President Roosevelt on a mission to the Middle-East. 

2. "Stubborn to the End" - details the life of an early 20th Centry rodio cowboy.

3. "Fit to Print" - A Washington Post reporter travels across the country looking for the truth of the Japanese internment camps.

4. "A Kindred Soul" - A Virginia socialite works for women's right to vote.

5. "My Turn" - The Narrator describes his  introduction to psychiatry via lectures by Dr. Sigmund Freud and his 'Wednesday Group'.

A Chicago businessman inherits a rural Illinois farm from his 'dead' uncle and decides to move into that life. When the uncle's accidental death becomes a murder case, a PI named Justinian Kase gets involved.

Justinian Kase is brought into the intrigue of an unintentional gathering of 'wise guys', ALL in the Witness Protection Program, and ALL living in the same Adult Community in the western suburbs of Chicago.

When two of PI Kase's cold cases become related by a murder/suicide, Kase finds himself working with a new Chicago homicide detective, to the benefit of both.

Based on the characters and general narrative from 14 Beatles songs, a New Scotland Yard detective, William Bungalow investigated the death of a loose woman, Madonna Hanes, in her apartment. Bungalow travels to Street, a small village that had grown around the roundabout formed by the intersection of Abbey Road and Penny Lane.

Military might, political tactics,  espionage, and scientific insight combine to make a story that could be from our distant past. History, like time, can be a tricky thing.

This (Fan Fiction Story) begins twenty years before Star Wars: Episode 1, The Phantom Menace. Its goal is to provide a logical backstory of the dozens of characters populating the Star Wars Galaxy.

In these Juvenile mysteries (think "The Hardy Boys' Mysteries) our Heros travel the Atlanta suburb of Fairborn to in search of the truth.

In The Case of the Missing Flag, a Civil War relic is stolen. In The Itsy Bitsy Spider, Spec's baby sister is kidnapped while trick-or-treating.

Telling of his awaking to the rigor, dangers, and rewards of being a PI, Justinian Kase takes us to  Singapore, gaining the aid of a  Chinese businessman by freeing his son from a Thai jail. He needs the help to rescue two brothers of a Burmese girl from slavery by the Burmese military. In the jungle, danger abounds from all directions in the form of preditors, including the two-legged kind.

From trained chickens, frustrated postal workers, and runaway bears, this collection of short stories dabbles in it all.

Governments plot, humans and aliens explore, forces of nature and the supernatural conspire in the attempt to twist your imagination from the mundain to something else.

This UNAUTHORIZED novel begins where The Terminator ends, taking all the familiar characters from the Terminator Universe and smoothly blending in new characters and situations, leading you to the beginning of Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

In this (mostly) fictionalized family history, spanning thousands of years and hundreds of generations, members of the Sondrini and Balardini family travel through history. Beginning in 2045 BC and ending in 2034 AD our story stops at important points of history.

This Fan Fiction novel starts 10 years after Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith and 9 years before Star Wars IV: A New Hope, bridging the situations that 'probably' occurred to complete a seamless transition.

This is a collection of Short Stories, Poems, Essays, and Personal Essays dabbling in a little bit of everything: Science Fiction, Mystery, Fantasy, Suspense, and Mayhem.

It's 1933 and Hitler is coming to power. Jews are being eliminated from positions of power and influence. A plot to assassinate Einstein is uncovered by the  French resistance 'Papier' who notifies British intelligence. A new British spy, 'Rock' is assigned to prevent the Nazi killer 'Schere' from completing his mission. The 'cat and mouse' goes from Berlin to Belgium to New Jersey. as the tension and the stakes rise.