The Accelerati Trilogy Books in Order

The Accelerati Trilogy is a middle grade science fiction series that mixes wild inventions, secret societies, and offbeat humor. Written with Eric Elfman, it follows fourteen‑year‑old Nick Slate, who thinks his family’s biggest problem is starting over after a house fire.

When Nick, his father, and his younger brother move into a creaky Victorian house in Colorado Springs, he claims the attic as his bedroom. The space is crammed with dusty old junk. The first time he opens the door, a toaster falls from above and hits him in the head. It is a fitting welcome. Nearly everything in that attic turns out to be stranger and more dangerous than it looks.

In Tesla’s Attic, Nick holds a garage sale to clear out the clutter. Neighbors eagerly buy up the odd appliances and knickknacks, only to discover that the objects have bizarre powers. A reel‑to‑reel tape recorder plays back people’s thoughts instead of their words. A camera develops photographs from the future. A battered baseball glove makes any catch impossible to miss.

Nick and his new friends Caitlin, Mitch, and Vince soon realize that the attic is some kind of magnetic vortex, and that all of the junk once belonged to inventor Nikola Tesla. The devices are pieces of a larger machine designed to transmit free energy around the globe. Unfortunately, a shadowy group of physicists called the Accelerati wants the same parts for its own agenda.

In Edison’s Alley, the stakes rise. Nick’s group races to track down more missing components before the Accelerati can grab them. The more pieces they assemble, the more unstable the world around them becomes, with odd weather, electromagnetic storms, and sudden disasters pointing to the power they are unlocking. Nick discovers that saving his family and friends may require choices he never imagined making.

Hawking’s Hallway brings the story to a head. To protect the people he loves, Nick is forced into working directly with the Accelerati as they move toward completing Tesla’s ultimate device. Time, space, and reality itself start to bend. His friends are scattered across the globe, each facing their own peril, while the series barrels toward a climax where controlling energy might mean controlling everything.

Across all three books, the tone stays light and quick, even when the risks are enormous. There are running jokes, oddball side characters, and plenty of action. At the same time, the series quietly asks what it would mean to unleash limitless power, who should get to decide how it is used, and how much responsibility falls on a handful of kids who happened to move into the wrong attic at exactly the wrong time.