Rock'N Roller Movie Star Drag Races with Alien In Sci-Fi Fantasy

Online, April 14, 2011 (Newswire.com) - What happens when mid-twenty-first century American Graffiti is set in Cuervo, New Mexico and a Rock 'n Roller movie star arrives on the scene only to find himself challenged to a drag race with an alien? Author T.L. Sheldon answers these questions and more in The Last Gas Station On Earth (116 pages, $12.95) a page turning action packed novel where the main characters are fighting for the history of our world.

Sheldon's novel opens with "The King" look a like, singer and movie star, Big John Burns, pulling up to a gasoline pump in Cuervo, New Mexico. While filling his Condor Yellow 1953 Buick Skylark with high octane gasoline the attendant tells John that classic cars and their drivers have been disappearing and he describes how aliens have been doing this. Not one to walk away from a challenge, Big John Burns goes to the drive-in-diner and meets the people of the fifties theme park-like town and asks them to describe what they know about the aliens. He discovers that several of the locals are really aliens disguised as humans and that they're planning to
Destroy the town and all its memorabilia. He also discovers that he walked into a trap and the only ticket out for him is to accept the life or death challenge from the leader of the aliens to a Rebel drag race off Conchas Dam. If Big John wins, the town, gas station and refinery will be given to him along with the stolen cars and the fifties memorabilia. If he loses, everything goes to the aliens and he could die.

Sheldon has the gift of creating ulterior universes as he also did so brilliantly in The 51st State:Panhandle when he created an isolated desert prison, and now In The Last Gas Station On Earth he creates a believable futuristic universe with a fifties backdrop in the middle of the New Mexico desert. Fifties trivia buffs will love the authors use of such names as Chili Pepper, Toodiefor, Hotshot and Trophy for the other main characters of the book and the reference to over thirty classic songs blaring on the juke box reinforcing the scenes in the novel. John meets the girl and the juke box blares songs that will test your knowledge and trivia sense for the oldies but goodies. "This is the book that made this writer an author. Great style and a great story," said agent M.T. Caen.

ISBN-13: 2 370000 059291
Publisher: Big Thunder Publishers

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Big Thunder Publishers
P.O. Box 82836
San Diego, CA 92138
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About Terry Sheldon
T. L. Sheldon is the founder of Big Thunder Publishing and Big Thunder Productions (www.bigthunder.org). Sheldon wrote the "original" Anaconda screenplay treatment and his agent at the time, M.T.Caen, submitted The 51st State: Panhandle to Clint Eastwood's company, Malpaso Productions, which considered it as a possible choice for a movie. Another WGA registered screenplay, The Knight's Day, was "the best story I've ever read," according to Academy Award nominated director Budd Boetticher, who was also Sheldon's mentor for riding Andalusian stallions. This story is now the basis of a trilogy in novel form that will be published soon. Sheldon has been published in trade magazines for the real estate profession and in newspapers for op-ed columns. Sheldon's technical legal writing was tested as he assisted in writing the State of California housing standards for "low-moderate" income housing known as inclusionary zoning to accommodate "affordable" housing within his real estate developments. This legalese led to Sheldon successfully writing and lobbying, with a lot of help from Democrat Speaker Willie Brown, for a California Senate Bill signed by the Governor to omit Sheldon's property from the Coastal Zone; a feat never accomplished before or since. Sheldon's other recently published novel is The Last Gas Station on Earth, which he plans to market as a film project. He has a dozen other projects in various stages of completion. The next book scheduled for release this summer will be a western, Colt &Big Thunder, an action oater with lots of gun-play. T.L. Sheldon resides with his wife where they live at the beach in San Diego. Sheldon's trademark motto, "Lifestyle is Everything," permeates his writing and causes him to watch every sunset possible.