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Mark Anthony Tierno
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Maldene: Volume One and Two (other topics)Cyberdawn: Beginnings (other topics)
Project Looking Glass (other topics)


My "Maldene" series is a triskadekology- that's a series of 13 books (not counting the 2-book prequel I later added). Starts off looking like swords and scorcery fantasy on an alien world (no lost colony of Earth or alternate Earth stuff here, this is a completely unconnected world) but then you see the science fiction elements begin to creep in, then later go back to the beginning and realize they were there hiding from the very beginnijng. A world where myth is just as real as science, a vast Earth-swallowing world of legend and mystery. A world also home to the most feared villain of them all.
Miro. (Pronounced as 'My-roh')
A wizard that even the gods are said to fear, though they aren't saying why. An individual who plans centuries in advance and holds the world in his thrall. But the world isn't what he's after; that would be thinking way too small. What is goals are is a matter of conjecture.
Into this appear some would-be heroes on their self-appinted quest to help the mysterious King find a way to combat the forces of Miro and defeat hijm once and for all... A quest which Miro truly wishes them success on.
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Then there's my 5-book Cyberdawn series. A mix of cyberpunk, dark fantasy, and probably about the most paranoid conspiracy plot around. I call it "Biblical-level conspiracy"; read it and you'll find out why. It's Earth in some alternate future, where peace is blooming, the world is about to abandon their armies and unify into a single government, mega corps provide free amenities such as a computer in every home, and it all looks perfect...
Unless you're Black Jack Hannigan, in which case it looks more like a case of fattening up the calf before slaughter. The "People" are a collection of various supernatural species, gleaned from a thousand worlds; the remnants and now servanats of creatures out to consume the world. They have infiltrated every aspect of the government and corporations, used their magic and advanced technology to easily overcome what pitiful defences are to be had. Now the day is nearing, when the Eye of the Apocalypse mey be opened, and once that happenes it matters not how vast the armies of the Earth may be.
Black Jack, along with some others in similar predicament as he, need to spread the alarm, to wake up the world, while the icy Rebecca Winter works relenetlessly to develop the technology required to have a chance at fighting winged demon cats, vampires, elementals, demons, and more. For this is the dawn of the Cyber Age.
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Then there's my Inspector Flaatphut series, a series of shorter works that I do as a break between the big stuff. Detective noir set in a dirty dystopian future, where science has evolved many of our four-legged friends to bipedal sentience and generated a secondary class of intelligent cats, dogs, and what-not of human height to walk alongside humans in a world that can be a bit dangerous for 'flat-heads'. Henry Flaatphut (be careful, he's picky about the pronunciation) is a detective with InterSpec, always getting badgered by his boss (who is an actual 300-lb badger), and getting the jobs that no ne wants and usually end up leading to some world-domineering conspiracy. With his AI "ICy" (not a typo, it's actually spelled with a capital C) and his grav-car "Tango II", he places tongue firmly in cheek to deal with his next case. Like in the first short story Project Looking Glass, where he encounters a furry femme fetal' that could be the one...
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Between everything I've written some 36 novels, a small portion of which are currently self-published. You can check out my profile here on Goodreads or hit up the assorted links on my web site, www.maldene.com
Maldene: Volume One and Two
Cyberdawn: Beginnings
Project Looking Glass
Mark Anthony Tierno