How Not to Train Your Dimension-Hopping Dragon
(2025)(The eighth book in the Very Funny Sci-F series)
A novel by Donald Beavers
HOW NOT TO TRAIN YOUR DIMENSION-HOPPING DRAGON
Book 8 in "THE FELIX BUMBLESNAP MISADVENTURES" SeriesWhen a tear in the fabric of reality delivers a cinnamon-scented dragon with questionable respect for physics, even Felix Bumblesnap may have met his chaotic match.
The city has grown accustomed to Dr. Felix Bumblesnap's scientific mishaps—from philosophical hippos to existential parking meters—but his latest experiment has summoned something unprecedented: a dimension-hopping dragon that treats solid walls as helpful suggestions and causality as a buffet option.
Designated "Flicker" for its habit of phasing between dimensions faster than Felix can say "fascinating quantum anomaly," the iridescent creature transforms traffic lights into fractal art displays, grants philosophical awareness to breakfast bagels, and rearranges garden gnomes into topologically impossible configurations.
As Captain Abby Sparks deploys increasingly desperate containment protocols (all spectacularly unsuccessful), anxiety-prone AI Nigel calculates a 98.7% chance of "accidental everything-becomes-cheese scenarios," and quantum kitten Silver communicates in physics-inspired limericks, Felix makes a startling discovery: Flicker isn't causing chaos—it's cleaning it up. Their interdimensional visitor is actually a cosmic maintenance entity, drawn to repair the very reality tears Felix has spent years accidentally creating.
Meanwhile, the dramatically caped Professor Victoria Doomly sees an opportunity for villainous exploitation, only to discover that dragons with multidimensional consciousness make terrible minions and even worse audience members for evil monologues.
In this eighth installment of the beloved Felix Bumblesnap Misadventures, our accidental innovator learns that sometimes the best way to train a dimension-hopping dragon is to admit that you can't—and perhaps that's exactly as it should be.
Genre: Science Fiction
Book 8 in "THE FELIX BUMBLESNAP MISADVENTURES" SeriesWhen a tear in the fabric of reality delivers a cinnamon-scented dragon with questionable respect for physics, even Felix Bumblesnap may have met his chaotic match.
The city has grown accustomed to Dr. Felix Bumblesnap's scientific mishaps—from philosophical hippos to existential parking meters—but his latest experiment has summoned something unprecedented: a dimension-hopping dragon that treats solid walls as helpful suggestions and causality as a buffet option.
Designated "Flicker" for its habit of phasing between dimensions faster than Felix can say "fascinating quantum anomaly," the iridescent creature transforms traffic lights into fractal art displays, grants philosophical awareness to breakfast bagels, and rearranges garden gnomes into topologically impossible configurations.
As Captain Abby Sparks deploys increasingly desperate containment protocols (all spectacularly unsuccessful), anxiety-prone AI Nigel calculates a 98.7% chance of "accidental everything-becomes-cheese scenarios," and quantum kitten Silver communicates in physics-inspired limericks, Felix makes a startling discovery: Flicker isn't causing chaos—it's cleaning it up. Their interdimensional visitor is actually a cosmic maintenance entity, drawn to repair the very reality tears Felix has spent years accidentally creating.
Meanwhile, the dramatically caped Professor Victoria Doomly sees an opportunity for villainous exploitation, only to discover that dragons with multidimensional consciousness make terrible minions and even worse audience members for evil monologues.
In this eighth installment of the beloved Felix Bumblesnap Misadventures, our accidental innovator learns that sometimes the best way to train a dimension-hopping dragon is to admit that you can't—and perhaps that's exactly as it should be.
Genre: Science Fiction
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