<p><b>Award-winning author James Alan Gardner returns to the superheroic fantasy world of <i>All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault</i> with <i>They Promised Me The Gun Wasn't Loaded</i>.</b><br><br>Only days have passed since a freak accident granted four college students superhuman powers. Now Jools and her friends (who haven’t even picked out a name for their superhero team yet) get caught up in the hunt for a Mad Genius’s misplaced super-weapon. <br><br>But when Jools falls in with a modern-day Robin Hood and his band of super-powered Merry Men, she finds it hard to sort out the Good Guys from the Bad Guys—and to figure out which side she truly belongs on. <br><br>Especially since nobody knows exactly what the Gun does . . . .</p>