When you stay up late into the night feverishly reading a book you just can’t put down (even if it weighs a ton) and seriously consider flipping back to page one when you’ve finished, I think it’s safe to say you’ve found something special. Special is what Joe Graham’s Omni: History Begins is all about.

Set in the year 2012, History Begins is a magnificent work of superfiction, a genre not often found outside of comic books. This is one story that doesn’t start off with an ordinary boy. Eleven-year-old Joseph Pringle is what’s considered a “near miss” in a world rife with super humans. He’s been gifted with super strength, speed and stamina, but not enough to be classified a “super.” That is, until one day while trying to fix an art fair project, he transforms everything within a 200 foot diameter into steel. Read the full story