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Morgan's Choice
Two alien ships respond to Morgan Selwood’s distress call, but the rescue turns out to be more than she bargained for.

If you enjoy fast-paced action-adventure in a space opera setting, this book is for you.

Reviewers say:
'Morgan’s Choice is an excellent blend of sci-fi and romance. Fantastic world building that’s easy to follow and charismatic characters who are absolutely fascinating.'

'Absolutely brilliant! I can completely appreciate a work of science fiction combining adventure, romance, politics, history and a few other things thrown in for good measure. “Morgan’s Choice” has all of that and is bound to appeal to the sci fi fans who like genre-hopping between hard-core space fiction, cyber-punk and “Foundation”-style political intrigue.'

The Edge of Darkness

At the end of the interstellar war, Max Ryan, an unwilling cyborg living on the Rock, a notorious prison planet, is rescued and sent to live on the transport ship Eden as it travels home to Old Earth.

Max never thought she'd be doing anything other than baking the ship's bread for the next five years. But when she uncovers a conspiracy bigger than the war that enslaved her in the first place, she is in for the fight of not only her life, but those around her she has grown to love.

A dystopian novel exploring the themes of love, class, race, gender, and power.

Review:
"The writing style is addictive and the characters are well written and very real. The dialogue has a vein of humour in them that appeals to me as it is fairly dry. But seriously... Kick ass female cyborg with an attitude... It's everything I look for in a Sci-Fi and more."

INSECTLAND

Be frightened! Be very, very frightened! Tiny, dragon-like creatures hiding in our homes are going to harm us. They will shrink us to the size of ants, enslave us, and turn our world into their own. But there is hope. Legions of insect robots intent on stopping them have recruited high school sophomore Dan Larson for help. Thrust into danger, Dan risks everything in a desperate attempt to prevent the end of society as we know it.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005P81J48

Source

It is the distant future. Humanity has expanded to fill every corner of the Solar System, over 100 billion people live on its many worlds, moons, orbital rings and asteroids. And after many generations of taxing the natural resources to their limit, a frightening has begun to set in. The most precious natural resource of all - water - is quickly running out! Humanity might be able to get by with recycling and rationing measures, but without new sources to tap, people will begin to die in the billions. When that happens, desperate measures need to be taken!

Source is a story that began as a Herscher Project contribution but which grew into a series in its own right. Thanks to Chris A Jackson who provided the theme, and to my many friends who have made the environment and the natural sciences their profession. In addition to inspiring the idea, they helped me to keep this story grounded in hard sci-fi wherever possible.

Liability

They're called hunters. Professional mercenaries licensed to track down, detain and even kill criminals. For years, they have been keeping the peace, patrolling the streets and putting the scum behind bars or in the ground. But after years of success, cracks are beginning to show in the hunters armor. With diminishing crime rates, competition between hunters is getting worse. And now that they are no longer cowering in fear, the people are beginning to demand that the hunters powers be revoked...

Liability is a story about crime, government, and the freedom to take matters into your own hands.

Reviews for Liability:
"Good story. Gets you wrapped up in the action right away and doesn't stop till the end."
"Dont look behind you when you read this novel, they may be watching you. thoroughly enjoyable reading."

Outside - a post-apocalyptic novel


The world of the future is divided by Perimeters: high-security gated communities where life goes on as normal. If you’re inside you’re lucky. If you’re outside, life expectancy takes a nose dive.

Riley is fortunate to have been born on the right side of the fence. But her life of privilege comes crashing down when someone breaks through the Perimeter and murders her sister.

She forsakes her own safety to go in search of the killer. Luc decides to go with her otherwise she’ll be dead before she’s past the security gate. But what awaits her outside is more unbelievable than she’d ever imagined.

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Dreamer's Island (USA Best Books Award Finalist 2012) is a post-apocalyptic novel of suspense, intrigue and humor.

Here's what Alison Baker, winner of three O. Henry awards said about it:

“In Dreamer’s Island Gretchen Hummel has created a rich, complex world that’s both beautiful and scary. Reading it, I found myself caught up in a lively and humorous community of artists, craftspeople, and dreamers—who are all too aware of the dangers that menace them from outside. I couldn’t put it down.”

Description:

In a post-plague, baby-hungry world Blair searches for her kidnapped daughter. She works as a tour guide on what mainlanders call Devil’s Island—all that’s left of a future San Francisco. The island is infamous for its high rate of plague survivors, its lively, thriving arts community, and its suspect spirituality.

Islanders are fascinated by mysterious “plague-gifts” – knowledge and skills acquired by surviving the plague and are covertly experimenting with the virus. Mainlanders abhor the mere mention of anything plague-related.

The island is quarantined, yet mainlanders Dr. Lourdes and his daughters insist on a visit. Their stated agenda is to shop the arts district and to adopt a child. But Dr. Lourdes’s curiosity about rumored plague virus experiments has Blair worried about the true purpose of their visit.

When the doctor’s youngest daughter contracts the plague, Blair must call on all her plague-gifts to help her survive. The girl’s fight for her life and Blair’s search for her own daughter dovetail in a startling conclusion that is beyond Blair’s wildest dreams.

Author Bio:

Gretchen Hummel has an MFA Degree in Creative Writing and an MS Degree in Psychiatric Nursing. Her publishing credits include short stories in The Potomac Review, Confrontation, and Shades. She lives in NC with her spouse and two furry, four- legged editorial assistants.

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Our Lady of 47 Ursae Majoris and Other Stories

"Here for the first time, fantasist Richard Parks has collected eleven of his pure quill science fiction stories, including: "Keeping Lalande Station" about a colony scout who's been in space just a little too long. "The Great Big Out," concerns the future sport of Storm Riding and a life-changing decision by an aging master of the game. "Passing Zero Point," original to this volume, is about the dating scene in a future that's practically already here, and the title story, "Our Lady of 47 Ursae Majoris" explores the persistence of mystery and wonder in a totally rational universe. These stories and more make this a volume lovers of old and new school science fiction should not be without."

"Discovering Richard Parks's fiction is like discovering a wise zen master pumping gas at a service station or a weathered swami slinging burgers at your favorite corner diner: transcendence in the midst of the ordinary, right where it ought to be." - Terry McGarry, in Interzone

Chris A. Jackson

Cheese Runners

Available in MP3 audio format only, for free download!

Cheese Runners
In the future, Earth is a backwater planet of no value. The Farfnians rule the galazy with an Iron Claw. They have eliminated disease, poverty and war, but step out of line and your planet gets pummeled. Earth’s money is worthless, and Earthlings wield no real power. This simply won’t do!
But the measly humans have discovered one chink in the Farfnians’ chitinous armor. Earth has one weapon: A nice sharp…cheddar!
Cheese is their weakness, and we are the galactic suppliers.
Join Captain Harry Fische and the intrepid crew of the Cheese-Running stringship Limburger on a satirical interstellar romp as they dodge, bluff and bribe their way through a maze of evil aliens, slimy smugglers and plummeting planetoids.

The sequels Cheese Rustlers and Cheese Lords are also available for download.

Enjoy!
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Altered Destiny
Stranded on an alternate Earth, architect and Jill-of-all-trades, Liane Gautier-MacGregor must find her way back to her homeworld before she's enslaved...or falls in love with a man who is the exact duplicate of her ex-husband.

Devyn MacGregor's alter ego as the Reiver Lord is the only way he can fight the Qui'arel and their nefarious Bride Bounty, a tax paid with human females...until he meets the oddly familiar woman who claims he is her husband. And who sets in motion the rebellion that will either free his countrymen or destroy them.

"ALTERED DESTINY is a rousing tale of despair, hope, love and courage."

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Chris A. wrote: "Chris A. Jackson

Cheese Runners

And I can attest to the fact that it's hilarious too!

Barbarian Girl
Liza Eaton was a slightly-chubby fifteen year old girl relentlessly picked on by bullies. Then she finds the Axe of Borin, a mystical artifact which imbues her with amazing strength and endurance. It also turns her into a hulking beast of rippling muscle, the opposite of everything she wants to be. But she can’t mope for long as the government forces her to train to become a hero, an expendable assassin who is sold to the general public as a virtuous role model.

Now at a new school for powered teenagers like herself, and training under the guidance of cynical ex-heroine Sarah Sapphire, Liza must find her inner strength quickly. Her former bullies have been transformed into cannibalistic monsters called wendigos, and they’re coming for her….

Godmachine

In the not-too-distant future the United States sends its first manned mission to the planet Mars. When the crew of Mars Mission 31 discover an alien artifact, they learn the story of Plixon, a planet not so different from Earth, where the population is monitored and controlled by a supercomputer known as the Godmachine. The story that unfolds follows the life of Ra'dall Simms, an unimportant Plixon citizen whose desperate need to make sense of his unraveling life takes him on an adventure that will change his world forever. When the returning mission crew relay the Plixon story to their superiors at NASA, there are major political implications which imperil both the lives of the astronauts and the future of Earth.

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Super Nova

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Set over 100 years in the future, Commander Jack Emerick finds him self in a difficult situation. His team have been tasked with securing a disabled military facility in a far flung uninhabited area of space. However when they get there they find something far more sinister than a mutinous crew or terrorist activity that threatens the future survival of all mankind.

Mechanical Jihad

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Sequel to Super Nova
Jack and Cantrell return to find themselves in troubling times. Yet again the Mechanicals are plotting against humanity only this time their plans come to fruition. This latest tale in the Super Nova series finds humanity on the brink of extinction as they fight for their very right to survive. Live and let live is something that the Mechanicals do not understand.

CHAOS THEORY

"How the hell did we come to where the President of the United States has two minutes to decide whether he will nuke Boston or kill the world instead?"


THE MEYERSCO HELIX
An extremely powerful novel of the biowar apocalypse, The Meyersco Helix traces the frighteningly plausible accidents by which the casual killing of a near-extinct mole escalates inexorably towards where an anguished President’s must choose either to let a self-propagating biowar substance to kill the world’s population — or to destroy a major American city by nuclear blast.

“Mr McCoy gets on with the job of telling us exactly what it is like in the Heart of Darkness. He has the soldier's eye for terrain and the soldier's eye for character. This has the ring of truth.”
— John Braine Sunday Telegraph

THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS

K116 is the top secret US chemical weapon that spells instant agonizing death to mankind. Self-generating in water, only a nuclear blast can stop the deadly dust expanding.

But when a lethal cloul of K116 escapes from a military research lab, one man survives. Charged with nightmare energy, Ribicoff becomes a walking carnage-machine.

Alive Ribicoff is a lethal liability — but dead his K116-glutted body will unleash chemical slaughter on a scale that will make the Black Death look like a summer cold.

Pursued by the massed might of US security forces, Ribicoff acts with the desperate, ruthless bloodlust of an animal at bay — until they corner him in Boston. Where his fiancé, the biochemist Stella Christopher, certain that he will come to her, is desperately working on a cure, despite the agents of her own government trying to kill her.

But will an American President act with equal ruthlessness? There is only one way to cauterize the city of America’s Founding Fathers.

It will be no tea party...

“Like the unblinking eye of a cobra, it is fascinating and hard to look away from, powerful and unique.”
— Edwin Corley Good Books

The Meyersco Helix is $2.99 in every ebook format. Paperback coming.


Andrew McCoy is also the co-author of the bestselling literary biography STIEG LARSSON Man, Myth & Mistress. All ebook formats $2.99, and 204pp trade paperback $9.99.

A science fiction novel set well into the future, where professional space mercenary units dominate the battlefield. Follow the adventures of a young mercenary through the events of his first enlistment with a mercenary armored brigade.

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Jed wrote: "A science fiction novel set well into the future, where professional space mercenary units dominate the battlefield."

Just looked at your book, is that a King Tiger on the front?

Hello! One of my readers on Amazon suggested that I add my books to this page. I hope some of you will take the time to check them out.

Luminous and Ominous:

If you had three days' warning of the end of civilization and a safe place to hide:

What would you take with you? Who would you save?

And who would you leave behind?

Henry Willingham and his friends have three days to make the most terrifying decisions of their lives. The world has been infected by an inescapable living nightmare of alien vegetation that will replace all life on Earth. They must get everyone they love safely underground into a fallout shelter. There's not enough time. There's not enough room for everyone. Who will they save? Who will they leave behind?

How will they live with the consequences?

After hiding underground for a year, the last three survivors must brave the otherworldly infestation and travel through what used to be upstate New York struggling for their lives and their humanity.

82,000 words

MOONGLOW, A Lesbian Romance Set In A Future Fashion World

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If anyone had told super model Rena Hilst she would find true love and happiness with someone twice her age, she would have laughed them out a window. Yet, there she was, at 22, living her dream as one of the fashion industry's top talents, in passionate love with her 43-year-old manager at Moonglow Model Management, Shell Dawes. From the outside, no cracks in the crystal of their relationship were apparent save for something on Rena's part:

Other women.

Rena never really hunted for people to cheat with but being far away from home on jobs with the most beautiful and interesting people on the planet occasionally led her to party too much and end up in another girl's bed. In fact, Rena repeatedly promised herself to stop straying on Shell. Then, at a fashion & celebrity elite gala, she meets Koko Dean and Lilly Morgan, 18-year-old best friends on the path to stardom in their own rights; Koko, an up-and-coming fashion model and Lilly, a musician with a knack for fashion design. Koko and Rena hit it off right away, which puts a damper on Lilly's plans of finally telling her best friend she loves her beyond the boundaries of friendship.

Rena finds herself wedged between an inclination to get to know Koko better or finally stay true to Shell. Feeling it's about time to change her ways, she opts for the latter but temptation won't let her off the hook that easily. Booze-fueled circumstances put her in line to stray yet again; this time, with her childhood best friend, Shannon Sadoveanu, a socialite who recently lost the love of her life by tragic means.

Shell had always put Rena's flings aside, chalking it up to necessary life experience for someone so young and free-spirited. She rationalized them as indiscretions of youth, fully believing that nothing -- especially a few meaningless affairs -- could rupture their love and bond. However, when she finds out what happened with Shannon, the crystal cracks. Something about it doesn't seem so meaningless. She feels the loss of Shannon's girlfriend may have opened the door to a hibernated love with Rena. Not sure how to deal, Shell wonders if she is to blame for tolerating Rena's occasional bouts of horseplay. For the first time in their four-year relationship, Shell questions the promise of "happily ever after." Together, they must finally confront the skeletons that have hung in their closet for far too long.

Set against the eclectic fictional cities of Moonglow, USA, and Utsukushisa, Japan, MOONGLOW will titillate your imagination, strum your heartstrings and prove that -- no matter what era we live in -- love is our strongest ally.

Matthew wrote: "Jed wrote: "A science fiction novel set well into the future, where professional space mercenary units dominate the battlefield."

Just looked at your book, is that a King Tiger on the front?"

It's a depiction of next Panzer in line after the King Tiger, the Panzer VII, or Mause, that never went into production, with a boxy turret. Just thought it looked cool, and a good match for how the Hercules Heavy tank would look.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Profit-Firs...

Actually, I just re-did the cover. Now it's an M60 with reactive armor. The PZ VII is now on the cover of the second novel.

Please consider checking out my novel: Falling Star

ONLY ONE MAN CAN SAVE THE PLANET; SMALL PROBLEM HE JUST DIED.

A very realistic science fiction thriller about the accidental discovery of mysterious, but mute, objects in the ocean in 1967 and what happened when they woke up in 1993 and began sending signals to outer space. Mike, pulled back into a clandestine agency to finish the job he began over twenty-three years ago as a. navy ensign , is strangely attacked by gangs of what look like ordinary Americans. Attacks he can handle, but he is shaken when he learns that a revered friend has died. Will the death of Mike's friend mean that the secret of these mysterious objects will be locked forever in the dark ocean bottom?

47 four and five star reviews on Amazon US and UK. Many more on other platforms.

This book is so realistic that readers often finish the book wondering, "if this story might not be fiction at all, but something very real and very disturbing."

Strongly recommended by noted U.S. book critic Alan Caruba, who says, "If you read just one novel in 2011, make it Falling Star."

Falling Star has sold over 4,400 copies since its release in August 2010.

Amazon, Nook, and Amazon Print

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The Asleep fantasy trilogy includes: Asleep, Awake, and Ascend
by Wendy Raven McNair

Adisa Summers doesn't know her boyfriend, Micah Alexander, can fly. These two African American teens come from loving families. However, things are not always as they appear. Micah's odd emotionless behavior, rigid posture, and vacant eyes are mysteries sending mixed messages to Adisa. When a flash of lightning sends a tree crashing down on her, Adisa is shocked to see Micah actually flying to her rescue!

In an instant, Adisa is in his arms, looking up at the sky over his shoulder as they fly parallel to the ground. She sees the tree descending fast, bearing down on them and Micah suddenly shifts, shielding her completely with his body. As the tree explodes against Micah's back, Adisa feels him shudder with the impact and the air fills with wood chips and sawdust. Miraculously, they aren't smashed into the ground. They safely continue flying, the wind rushing around them as they weave past trees.

After this dramatic rescue, Micah finally begins to open up to Adisa about his secret life as a superbeing and she discovers another shocking secret. Micah burns for her--literally!

Asleep is a superhero teen love story, set in modern day Atlanta, filled with humor, thrills, romance, and suspense.

The world's population decimated by AIDS prompts governments to conscript women to have children. But some think this is less about human survival than power.

Kevis wrote: "“Star Wars meets Jane Bond!”--Wornpages.com

Zyra Zanr is the most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy. Criminals everywhere cower at her name. During the attempt to capture a notorious fugitive, sh..."

Just uploaded the sampler. Looking forward to it!

Matthew wrote: "Kevis wrote: "“Star Wars meets Jane Bond!”--Wornpages.com

Zyra Zanr is the most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy. Criminals everywhere cower at her name. During the attempt to capture a notoriou..."

Thanks for checking Rogue Hunter out, Matthew. Hope you enjoy it!

David wrote: "The world's population decimated by AIDS prompts governments to conscript women to have children. But some think this is less about human survival than power.

"

Inspired by Handmaids Tale at all?

Matthew wrote: Inspired by Handmai..."

We're not supposed to enter into discussion threads here, but I must counter the innuendo.

It was originally written as a short story in 1974, when the cause of depopulation was a nuclear holocaust. It was rewritten as a book in 75/76 and then rewritten many times.

Another interesting thing: The story features a villainess called "Serena" (and she was in the original short story from 1974). Both the story and early drafts of the book were sent out over the years to various publishers and would thus have been seen by people in the publishing industry.

Make of that what you will.

David wrote: "Matthew wrote: Inspired by Handmai..."

We're not supposed to enter into discussion threads here, but I must counter the innuendo."

Just asking...

Sorry if I seemed defensive. It's a bit of a sore point with me. When Handmaid's Tale came out and I heard about it, I remembered thinking it was the death knell for Year of Compulsory Childbirth

Imagine a world where humans are pests and insect-like aliens rule over them. Imagine that world is Earth.

INSECTLAND

Be frightened! Be very frightened! Tiny, dragon-like creatures hiding in our homes are going to harm us. They will shrink us to the size of ants, enslave us, and turn our world into their own. But there is hope. Legions of insect robots intent on stopping them have recruited high school sophomore Dan Larson for help. Thrust into danger, Dan risks everything in a desperate attempt to thwart an attack and prevent the end of society as we know it.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005P81J48
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005P81J48

AFTER

On the day we’re born we’re all destined to die. But what lies after? For fifteen–year-old Nick Murray, death is only the beginning. His entire human life has been an illusion in preparation for the epic role his soul will play in the destiny of the universe.

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Hey, guys and gals

I've just soft launched a literary science fantasy called Bleedover. If anyone is interested in reviewing it, I'll send a free copy. Email me at curtishox@gmail.com


Bleedover

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Media has changed forever. Books, TV, film, advertising. It’s all being mysteriously altered, and no one knows why.

Dr. Harriet Sterling claims she understands, even if no one believes her. She calls it the New Phenomenon of Bleedover. She is alone, though, because the science establishment stands in her way. When a new graduate candidate, Towns Packer, succeeds in a controversial Bleedover project, producing an apple out of thin air, the world takes notice.

With the help of two other graduate students, Alice and Masumi, Dr. Sterling prepares a demonstration to shock the world. But her enemies pounce to stop her. She faces them at a symposium where Bleedover manifests itself with deadly consequences.

Press Release about Dreamer's Island:

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New Sci-Fi Novel Presents Lesson in Living

Author Gretchen Hummel releases debut novel to acclaim of fellow writers

DAVIDSON, N.C. – From Octavia E. Butler to Ursula K. Le Guin, the landscape of science fiction has erected a number of grande dames. While relative newcomer Gretchen Hummel has yet to claim a crown of her own, there is every indication that her own royal marriage to sci-fi infamy may not be far away.

In her first published novel Dreamer’s Island, Hummel leads readers through the streets and alleys of a future, post-plague San Francisco, which has been made an island by a massive earthquake. At the center of Dreamer’s Island is a mother’s unrelenting search for her daughter; at the bottom, an engaging look at fear, the resiliency of life and the intersection of the two.

The book’s heroine is Blair, a mother searching for her kidnapped daughter. She works as a tour guide on what mainlanders call Devil’s Island – all that’s left of San Francisco. The island is infamous for its high rate of plague survivors, its lively, thriving arts community and its suspect spirituality.

The island is quarantined, yet mainlanders Dr. Lourdes and his daughters insist on a visit. Their stated agenda is to shop the arts district and to adopt a child. But Dr. Lourdes’s curiosity about rumored plague virus experiments has Blair worried about the true purpose of their visit.

When the doctor’s youngest daughter contracts the plague, Blair must call on all her plague-gifts to help her survive. The girl’s fight for her life and Blair’s search for her own daughter dovetail in a startling conclusion.

Dreamer’s Island has already garnered attention among readers and writers:

“In Dreamer’s Island Gretchen Hummel has created a rich, complex world that’s both beautiful and scary. Reading it, I found myself caught up in a lively and humorous community of artists, craftspeople, and dreamers-who are all too aware of the dangers that menace them from outside. I couldn’t put it down.”

– Alison Baker, winner of three O. Henry Awards and author of Loving Wanda Beaver

Hummel is pleased with the attention and hopes readers walk away from the book with a stronger resolve. “We have to go through the shadow of fear to learn what it has to teach us,” says Hummel, “and it has a lot to teach if we don’t run away.”

About the Author
Gretchen Hummel has an MFA degree in Creative Writing and an MS degree in Psychiatric Nursing earned from the University of Utah in SLC and the University of NC at Chapel Hill. Her publishing credits include short stories in The Potomac Review, Confrontation, and Shades. She lives in N.C. with her spouse and two furry, four-legged editorial assistants.

Every time Jamie Richards falls asleep, she’s bounced through time and injected into possible futures. And all of these diverse futures lead to one horrifying conclusion; the end of everything.

DREAM TRAVELER

300,000 years from now, human spirits called Phelastians are finally making peace with ape-like creatures called Dwellers. Formality requires that a twenty-first century Earthling be present as witness to the treaty. A Phelastian travels back in time and recruits Whitmore Middle School’s newest student, Jamie Richards. When a Dweller overlord sabotages the celestial link connecting Jamie to her own world, she vanishes from the signing, crumbling the negotiations, and sending her on a series of mind-bending, alternate-reality adventures. Can Jamie save trillions of lives, prevent a war that has already occurred, and stop herself from meeting her self, all while attempting to stabilize creation and find her way home?
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Dream Traveler

Pike's Quest

It is the year 911 of the New Dawn.

In a future where horses are revered as gifts of the gods, and sheep and hounds are the beasts of burden, ancient magicks have been rediscovered. But there are those who wish to uncover the technology of the past and take control of the world for their own evil ends. Now, more than ever, the world needs a hero.

In the tiny hamlet of Ooze, a hapless, fish-faced, flaky-skinned youth named Pike is about to commence a quest: to win the heart of the fair maiden at the Pit of Zidor, and to release Moorlock the Warlock from the captivity of his mortal enemy. Accompanied by a garrulous sparrow and a belligerent horse, Pike is captured and then employed by the lisping Lord Nairey du Well in his sheep-drawn carriage, and then pursued by the deadly huntress, Scarlet Deadnight - du Well’s partner in tyranny.

Pike soon discovers:
- that fair maidens are not always female,
- that they can prove to be deadly foes, and
- the true value of a good moisturiser!

This comic fantasy turns the genre on its head and is a must for readers of all ages.

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5* Review on Amazon - "I loved this book. At most parts you will feel like you're a bystander to the conversations and scenes that unfold. You're tempted to join and you catch yourself laughing out loud. For anyone who wants a good book to escape into a whole other world AND have a good time, then this book is definitely for you." Andrea Kurian

New Release!!!
Take a trip into your mind!

DREAM TRAVELER
300,000 years from now, human spirits called Phelastians are finally making peace with ape-like creatures called Dwellers. Formality requires that a twenty-first century Earthling be present as witness to the treaty. A Phelastian travels back in time and recruits Whitmore Middle School’s newest student, Jamie Richards. When a Dweller overlord sabotages the celestial link connecting Jamie to her own world, she vanishes from the signing, crumbling the negotiations, and sending her on a series of mind-bending, alternate-reality adventures. Can Jamie save trillions of lives, prevent a war that has already occurred, and stop herself from meeting her self, all while attempting to stabilize creation and find her way home?



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So here's a story of apocalypse from an angle you won't have seen before...

The Last Man on Earth Club

Six people are gathered for a therapy group deep in the countryside. Six people who share a unique and terrible trauma: each one is the last survivor of an apocalypse.

Each of them was rescued from a parallel universe where humanity was wiped out. They’ve survived nuclear war, machine uprisings, mass suicide, the reanimated dead, and more. They’ve been given sanctuary on the homeworld of the Interversal Union and placed with Dr. Asha Singh, a therapist who works with survivors of doomed worlds.

To help them, she’ll have to figure out what they’ve been through, what they’ve suffered, and the secrets they’re hiding. She can’t cure them of being the last man or woman on Earth. But she can help them learn to live with the horrors they survived.

‘This one won't leave you with the warm and fuzzies, but it will leave you thinking, and for me that's the mark of great science fiction.’ – Sift Book Reviews

170,000 words

Ebook (Amazon US)
Ebook (Amazon UK)
Paperback

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Armor Academy Space Cadet is the prequel novella of the War for Profit trilogy. The novella introduces the central cahracter, sets the tone and depicts the universe in which the following three novles are set. At 8100 words, the literary style of Armor Academy Space Cadet and its complete story arc allows it to stand alone as a stoy of its own.

New York City, 1847: Someone is committing murders in the manner of Edgar Allan Poe's tales of terror. When a corpse is found interred in a masonry wall in a subterranean chamber, the police call on Poe himself to help solve the crime. But when the famous author applies his powers of detection to the murder, he finds that the clues lead in only one direction: to Poe himself.

>> Re Awakenings, an anthology of new Speculative Fiction <<

If you're looking for that Christmas Kindle read, or simply want to try some new authors, read Re Awakenings.

This wonderful, recently published collection of 15 new short stories, from 7 writers, explores the theme of Re-awakening in styles from the deadly serious to the joyfully silly.

There are stories for all who enjoy Speculative Fiction:

>> Most are science fiction; some serious, some funny, some poignant.
>> There are paranormal stories, both scary and metaphysical.
>> And finally... there is fantasy. Folk story and fairy tale standards get very new treatments!

A terrific read!

Enjoy :-)

Re Awakenings
Available on Kindle and iBooks.
In paperback March 2012

FREE on Dec 26th at Amazon
The Kafka Harrier
Dystopian Near Future Science Fiction

In the future, being rude is a punishable offense, and one exacted in public. When the Kakfa Harrier arrives to exact punishment, Mr. Alex Reed's day goes from bad to worse.

"The Kafka Harrier" showcases a superb blend of violence, suspense, and social critique, making this clever short story a must-read for all.

The Kafka Harrier is approximately 2,300 words.


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The Lilean Chronicles - Redemption

2 x 5 star reviews on Goodreads and Amazon UK

Two ancient prophecies, both foretelling the extinction of a race. two sides racing to their appointment with destiny. A terrible tide of evil laying waste to their world. So much rage, fear and a baby crying. A single baby prophesied to save lilea and many other worlds from extinction by the transmortal army. One single man who will bring an end to the evil that almost wiped them out and in doing so, save many worlds from their darkness. Vincent worries for his sanity as he suffers the nightmares and hears the voices in the dreams. As he battles with the nightmares and the source of the voices in the dreams is revealed, he begins to discover his destiny and finds that there are other forces at work against him.

Many worlds away farra discovers her part in his great task. Can she survive the terrors that lurk in the tunnels and can she unmask the mysterious killer? The ancient spirit people take them on a journey through space and time as they both race from world to world to meet their date with destiny and fulfil the prophecy.

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Doctor Ramani's Children and Other Stories
by G. S. Hargrave

This five story collection from Black Griffin Books consists of straight up science fiction, stories that might best be called fantasy, and a couple of tales with doors that open on both sides of the divide. Between the covers you'll find robotic dogs and telepathic cats, near future battlefields, dark Tibetan magic, genetic engineering and adventures in nanotechnology, the occasional haunting, and a cast of engaging and believable characters that will stay with you long after their final pages have been turned.

An extended excerpt from Bibliophiles, the final story in the collection, can be found here.

The book is available at Amazon in both print and a nicely formatted electronic edition. You can also read an excerpt from the title story there if you wish, by following the Amazon link and clicking on Look Inside.

Readers in the UK can find the electronic edition by clicking here.

Thanks much for having a look!

Hello Sci Fi fans. 8 years in the making, Paint By Numbers is out for ebook.

http://amzn.to/LQSO00

The first person to read it surprised the heck out of me with, "Doug, I just finished your book. Absolutely spellbinding! I didn't want to put it down to sleep! I highly recommend it! You are brilliant!" And she even bought it on her own. Now maybe my family will give it a try.

No spoilers from me beyond the official description, but I think you've probably never read anything quite like this. I know I haven't.

The mammoth computer Virgil has run the Earth’s net for more than a decade, protected by the unbreakable Mobius. Virgil has been so successful that the world’s dependence on it has become critical. This worries Hutch Axemeyer. Hutch, the troubled mathematical genius behind Mobius, is enlisted again by the World Security Authority after Mobius is proven to be not quite infallible by two teenage hackers. Susan Lo breaks into Mobius from sheer curiosity. Armand Pryther turns his hacking acumen into shady profits until he takes on the challenge of Mobius. It is perhaps no coincidence that all three were illegal genetic engineering products from a firm that sought to produce financial geniuses. Hutch doesn’t have to wait long to discover why the young prodigies are sent to him to mentor. A new object has come into the solar system and astronomers recognize that it is not the comet it was initially thought to be. Then Virgil has an unauthorized visitor accessing Mobius. Witness an epic mathematical war like Earth has never seen before as Hutch, Susan and Armand learn to Paint by Numbers.

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Hi Everyone!
This is a new sci-fi book being written - The Master of the Forbidden.
I would appreciate any feedback and support!
Here is the link to the kickstarter project where you can read the first chapter:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1...

Master of the Forbidden is the first novel in the proposed Gauntlet Saga, set on a near-future earth where children receive a special chip on their 16th birthday that give them one of a number of unique special abilities.

Master of the Forbidden is a tale that follows a young Cyric Anderson, a boy from an abusive household, on a dark journey to see exactly how far he is willing to go to put his life and family back together.

What do you think? I'm so intrigued by it and really want it to be published! If you are interested in reading this, please support the kickstarter project and share with your friends!

Journeys of Wonder Volume 1: An Anthology of Genre Fiction.

www.journeysofwonder.com

www.goodreads.com/book/show/14896770-...


Journeys of Wonder is a new anthology of genre fiction - many of which of Science Fiction - available only on Amazon for 99 cents. We’ve assembled three talented writers to bring you five chilling tales that are guaranteed to keep you up at night – or at least make you turn on the lights.

Featured in this first volume:

The Door: Six people are stuck in a room with no memory of how they got there while a fear of the unknown keeps them from opening the only exit they have.

Blackout: A terrifying tale of a young woman whose memory is shattered and a creepy neighbor who is not all that he seems.

Infinity: Two brothers, forced to travel through time to save the world from an unspeakable evil have little idea of what they have actually gotten themselves into.

Eye of the Wolf: A young girl struggles against the power of the full moon as she tries to hide her deadly secret from her family.

Afterdeath: In a future where our journey beyond death is no longer a mystery, the promise of eternal love waits, unless you break the rules.

Available here:
http://www.amazon.com/Journeys-Wonder...

Tomorrow (July 16th), Super Nova books 1&2 will be available for free via Amazon!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007...

Super Nova
Set over 100 years in the future, Commander Jack Emerick finds him self in a difficult situation. His team have been tasked with securing a disabled military facility in a far flung uninhabited area of space. However when they get there they find something far more sinister than a mutinous crew or terrorist activity that threatens the future survival of all mankind.
Mechanical Jihad
Jack and Cantrell return to find themselves in troubling times. Yet again the Mechanicals are plotting against humanity only this time their plans come to fruition. This latest tale in the Super Nova series finds humanity on the brink of extinction as they fight for their very right to survive. Live and let live is something that the Mechanicals do not understand.

Huzzah! Proof that great science fiction never dies. Just heard that Ben Jeapes has signed with the same publisher I'm with to rerelease his 1998 debut, "His Majesty's Starship", as well as a book of sci-fi shorts from his career with Interzone and sundry others.

http://www.clarionpublishing.com/his-...

They are here! They are hidden among us! They will stop at nothing to destroy us!

SILENT INVASION
Thirteen-year-old Tim Madison’s life turns upside down when a strange visitor takes him aboard a magnificent spaceship to train for a future alien invasion. Returned home with new skills and this terrible knowledge, he confides in his two best friends about his experience. Now, they’re in a race against time to prevent an all-out attack on Earth. Can they stop ruthless, spider-like creatures from constructing a massive extermination army deep inside our planet? Or will we all perish?
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006ZQTWPW