Old Complications

      Vincent Cleaver
     Old Complications

Fire, a tiger, and a company man, all come together leading to pilgrimage to a place where a few once chose to save themselves, and briefly lit up the Galaxy. Old Complications can do no less...V.Campudoni's 1994 illustrated novel of darkness, and redemption, and a little lost cat.

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    River Jordan - A Jerusalem Love Song

      Erin Sheena Byrne
     River Jordan - A Jerusalem Love Song

Phoebe's life was moving as orderly as the recitation of prayers on a shimmering springtime evening. She was ready to leave the one-room bavith she had shared with her family since birth, at the outskirts of Jerusalem, to wed her betrothed. She would learn to love Joel, she was sure of it. All they needed was time.And then, strolling along the River Jordan with her young nephew, she came across.Phoebe's life was moving as orderly as the recitation of prayers on a shimmering springtime evening. She was ready to leave the one-room bavith she had shared with her family since birth, at the outskirts of Jerusalem, to wed her betrothed. She would learn to love Joel, she was sure of it. All they needed was time.And then, strolling along the River Jordan with her young nephew, she came across a scene which would change her life. John the Baptist was talking with a man who radiated serenity. The visions seared her soul. A baptism - a dove - and a watching Roman legionnaire with steady eyes like a wolf's. When Joel grabbed her arm and scolded her for straying from her path, she had that sense.That sense that nothing would ever be the same.River Jordan is Book 1 of a gently cliff-hangered short story series. The sequence will lead up to a happily ever after ending. The series is clean romance and is suitable for all ages. Half of all author's proceeds benefit battered women's shelters.I would love your input as I'm writing these - it's your suggestions which will help guide the direction the story moves in! If you prefer to read your stories complete, you are welcome to wait until the sequence is complete and then buy the box set. Either way, you support the cause!

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    Honored: 7 Honorable Mention Stories from the Writers of the Future Contest

      Michael D. Britton
     Honored: 7 Honorable Mention Stories from the Writers of the Future Contest

Each of the seven meaty stories in this novel-length sci-fi collection earned an Honorable Mention in the world-renowned Writers of the Future contest over the past several years. This anthology includes four The File, Pause, Seer, Superthread, A Slave to Race, Decisions Decisions, and the previously-unpublished New Beginnings – the most recent of the stories to receive the honor.Each of the seven meaty stories in this novel-length sci-fi collection earned an Honorable Mention in the world-renowned Writers of the Future contest over the past several years. These are the stories that caused the illustrious judges at the Writers of the Future Contest to stand up and take notice, deliberate over, and eventually decide to give some kudos. This anthology includes four novellas: The File, Pause, Seer, and Superthread; plus three short stories: A Slave to Race, Decisions Decisions, and the previously-unpublished New Beginnings – the most recent of the stories to receive the honor. This represents a $25 value for only $7.99!

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    No Man to Trifle With

      Michael D. Britton
     No Man to Trifle With

Humorous western in the style of Robert E. Howard. Join Archibald Welkins and his dog Biter as they visit the big city--well, the only town they've ever seen--for the first time!An homage to the brilliant Robert E. Howard and his humorous Westerns.Archibald Welkins is leaving the family ranch for the first time. He and his dog Biter are heading into town when Archie falls in love with the best little cook in town. But is she already spoken for?

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    City Of The Dead

      S. D. Perry
     City Of The Dead

in effect since the brutal murders that plagued Raccoon earlier this summer. Joined by Police Chief Brian Irons and all of Raccoon's Council members, Harris assured the gathered citizens and reporters that Raccoon City will once again be a safe community in which to live and work, and that the investigation into the eleven "cannibal" murders and three fatal wild-animal attacks is far from closed.

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    Oneness

      James H. Schmitz
     Oneness

Oneness is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by James H. Schmitz is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of James H. Schmitz then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

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    Alas, Babylon

      Pat Frank
     Alas, Babylon

"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness.

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    Mobius

      Christopher Best
     Mobius

An unconscious man found at their mother’s graveside - could this really be the twin brother that Daniel had thought was long dead? Determined to nurse him back to health, Daniel takes the man in, only to find the invalid’s behaviour becoming ever more threatening. As tensions escalate, the tiny cramped flat becomes a powder keg that is set to explode with catastrophic and profound consequences.Ever since the day his twin brother Alex was swept out to sea as a child, Daniel George has been on a downward spiral. He can’t make friends, he can’t hold down a relationship and he can’t begin to grieve.Life is turned on its head when on the twenty-fourth anniversary of the tragedy, while visiting his local church, Daniel discovers an unconscious man slumped against his mother’s gravestone. A young nurse, Gulnaz Rahmani, herself paying her respects to a deceased relative, finds evidence of head injuries that indicate a mugging. Before the paramedics can carry him away, Daniel takes another look at the man, and through the cuts and bruises and the drawn, white skin he suddenly recognises the face of his long lost twin.For weeks, Alex languishes comatose in hospital, only to wake finally, mute and paralysed. Notwithstanding, if Gulnaz will agree to help him, Daniel will undertake to bring the prodigal, miracle-twin home and nurse him back to health.But is this man truly Daniel's twin brother? Wouldn’t a twin have tried to make contact years sooner? And why does he now so flatly refuse to play ball? As the invalid’s behaviour becomes increasingly threatening, and as the escalating pressures on Daniel sabotage his fragile new relationship with Gulnaz, so the tiny, cramped flat becomes a powder keg that sooner or later must explode. When the final spark comes, the consequences for everyone are catastrophic and profound.

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    Ghosts

      Martin Thompson
     Ghosts

A sci-fi short story. When scientists finally discovered the secret of consciousness – the C particle – they also discovered what the mystics had known all along: everything is conscious (in its own way). At least, those things that interact with the C particle. That includes pretty much all matter, anyway. And, in theory noted by but a few, all dark matter...A sci-fi short story. When scientists finally discovered the secret of consciousness – the C particle – they also discovered what the mystics had known all along: everything is conscious (in its own way). At least, those things that interact with the C particle. That includes pretty much all matter, anyway. And indeed, anti-matter, but that is of no importance, there being hardly any of the stuff around this part of the Universe. And, in theory noted by but a few, all dark matter..."Spider" McCool was a psychic investigator. But when he read about dark matter in a science magazine one day, he had an epiphany. Ghosts? No! Aliens! Or, better, both! At last, a scientific explanation for ghosts that didn't involve self-delusion.

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    Cosmic Tales 5: Pipe Dreams

      Richard C. Parr
     Cosmic Tales 5: Pipe Dreams

On a frozen mountain range, Elwood and Rodeena adopt disguises to try and scare away a bunch of workers from constructing an oil pipeline.Dylan Blake has never had a home before and he isn't expecting to find one in New Elphame, Michigan. But his new town is nothing like he expected. Between the foster parents who don't seem quite sure what to make of him and the kids at school who act a little afraid of him, Dylan is pretty sure that he's not going to stick around too long. But then someone tells his a crazy story about another new kid at Seelie High and the mysterious door she opened. It's all a little hard to accept, but Dylan might start believing when he steps through the door himself.Find out what life is like on the other side of the door in this third installment in the Tales from Seelie High collection. Whether you have been keeping up with the series or this is your first introduction to the students of Seelie High School, you will find yourself drawn into the mystery of New Elphame's strange, and possibly magical, past and the exciting adventure of its future. This edition also includes two mini-stories involving the students of Seelie High—a collection of interviews conducted by the intrepid Greer Douglas, student reporter for the Daily Chronicles, and a personal account of one student’s discovery of a magical heritage.

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    A Red Sun Also Rises

      Mark Hodder
     A Red Sun Also Rises

A tale of good and evil, where neither is what it seems! Aiden Fleischer, a bookish priest, finds himself transported to an alien world. With him is Miss Clarissa Stark, a crippled hunchback of exceptional ability, wronged by an aristocrat and cast out from society. On the planet Ptallaya, under two bright yellow suns, they encounter the Yatsill, a race of enthusiastic mimics who shape their society after impressions picked up from Clarissa's mind. Creating a faux London, the alien creatures enroll Clarissa in their Council of Magicians and Aiden in the City Guard. But why does the peaceful city require guards? After a day that, in earthly terms, has lasted for months, the answer comes, for on this planet without night, a red sun also rises, and brings with it a destructive evil. The Blood Gods! Hideous creatures, they cause Aiden to confront his own internal darkness while trying to protect his friend and his new home. With a sharp eye for period detail and a rich imagination, Mark Hodder establishes a weirdly twisted version of Victorian London on a convincingly realized alien world, and employs them to tackle a profound psychological and moral question. A Red Sun Also Rises breaks new ground by combining the sword & planet genre with Victorian steampunk while adding an edgy psychological twist.

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    Jem

      Frederik Pohl
     Jem

The discovery of another habitable world might spell salvation to the three (Food Bloc, Fuel Bloc & People Bloc) bitterly competing power blocs of the war torn & resource-starved 21st century. But when their representatives arrive on Jem, with its three intelligent species, they discover instead the perfect situation into which to export their rivalries. Subtitled, with savage irony, 'The Making of a Utopia', Jem is one of Frederik Pohl's most powerful novels.

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