Janet Rendall is an award-winning author who writes adventurous and humorous science fiction that delights sci-fi, fantasy and crime readers alike.
TubeLight
Nineteen-year-old Neon Ryder suspects she has a superhuman ability to heal people. An attempt to cure her old friend, Jimmy Trent, an angry and depressed quadriplegic, whose spinal cord was severed by a Viet Cong sniper’s bullet, unleashes a torrent of ever-escalating problems on everyone she loves.
Her parents, Frank and May, living under the radar for twenty years, are in danger of discovery. May is a plant-based alien with healing powers hiding in a human body. Frank is the FBI agent who captured her in 1949. If recaptured, May will be studied and dissected and Frank subjected to a congressional-military investigation.
Further complications arise when paraplegic Bob Evans, son of a billionaire with powerful connections, witnesses Neon’s attempt to heal Jimmy. Jimmy’s recovery makes Bob think Neon gave Jimmy an experimental drug and he wants whatever she’s got. How the story plays out will have readers excitedly turning pages to discover the outcome. Learn more…
Route 66 to the Milky Way
Can you eat your way out of this galaxy? Take the alimentary canal from one dimension to another? Apparently not.
She was still here, despite consuming huge quantities of Milky Ways. A fusion of sci fi lite with humor laced thriller. Described by readers as a cross between Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the X-Files meets ET. Two plant-based aliens crash to Earth during the attack on Pearl Harbor and infuse themselves into just deceased bodies to survive our atmosphere. The one coordinate from their home planet is “66” so they search the “Mother Road” for the dimensional conduit, their only way home. Learn more…
What People Are Saying
“Adventure, love and intrigue. Well-drawn characters come alive on the page and you live their exciting trip right along with them. If you like sci-fi and crime don’t miss this gem of a novel. For creativity, imagination and unique characters it’s hard to beat.”
DAVID PUTNAM
AUTHOR OF THE DISPOSABLES, THE REPLACEMENTS, THE SQUANDERED, AND BRUNO JOHNSON SERIES
ABOUTJANET
Establishing herself as a writer has been a lifelong pursuit for Janet Rendall. She began writing short stories at age seven on her mother’s old Remington. During her many years as an occupational therapist and Certified Hand Therapist, she wrote extensively on these subjects in various texts and professional publications.
She has received several writing awards from the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference and many practice awards from the American Society of Hand Therapists and the Occupational Therapy Association of California. TubeLight is her second novel.
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