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Michael Warren Lucas
Books in Order: 43 titles
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Laserblasted
Imagine Gomer Pyle as a scathing indictment of the military patriarchal industrial complex but with way more aliens and laser-inflicted explosions than the sitcom managed to achieve. Starring Brad Pitt as Gomer, directed by Sam Raimi.ZZ Claybourne, a...
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Apocalypse Moi
THE END OF YOUR WORLD?These twelve tales from critically-acclaimed author Michael Warren Lucas remind us that doom is always personal. Genes gone wild, or not wild enough. Cosmic heroes demanding you show them to a bank robbery, or else. Learning aft...
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Devotion and Corrosion
High Speed Madness, with Love at the WheelLove. The most overloaded word in our language. Love of your mate, love of pets, of parents and children and friends, all different things. We spend our last breath sharing our love. For love, we break not ju...
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The Rats' Man's Lackey and the Delphi Taco
Arachnids with ideas above their species?A wandering grimoire masquerading as an old Star Trek novel?The Whine Cellar and the Boom Closet?In Whackadoo Manor, we call that Tuesday.In my straight career, I did terrible things to protect normal people. ...
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The Rats' Man's Lackey and the Half Gallon of Christmas Miracle
A Private Eye in Supernatural Witness ProtectionWhackadoo Manor: hopeful destination for the desperate and the damned. Where the rooms redecorate themselves, the rodents have a valet, and everyone gets a random name off a list of Terry Pratchett char...
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Frozen Talons
A tale so outlandish it feels real. Prohibition. Grosse Pointe elves. Automotive lords. And the orcs doing their best to make America make sense. A riotous fantasy within a fantasy. Terry Pratchett via Detroit!--Zig Zag Claybourne, author of Afro Puf...
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Prohibition Orcs
I love these storiesKristine Kathryn Rusch, Hugo- and Nebula-award winning author of The FeyELVES WENT INTO THE WEST-TO AMERICA.GENERATIONS LATER, ORCS FOLLOWED.1927 Detroit. Orcs fight Prohibition, avoid police, and labor hard for their children. Al...
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Drag Air Through Fire
She isn't dead.He just hasn't saved her yet.He invented new kinds of math, new engineering, new science. His colleagues and friends failed to stop him. He surrendered everything for last one chance to rescue his love.The chances of a new Big Bang? Ac...
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git sync murder
Murder on the Sysadmin Express After accidentally solving two murders, Dale Whitehead hungers to stay in his apartment, hack virtual memory stacks, and forget the whole thing. Instead, his boss sends him to a technology/sci-fi convention in Detroit. ...
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Aidan Redding Against the Universes
Physics inconvenient?Change it. Then watch it try to kill you.Solve a murder in a universe without ground to stand on. Investigate inexplicable deaths a few million years after the Big Bang. Take too many breaths and never go home again. Let the anti...
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Witness November
THE HUMAN ASSAULTShaman Azok-Snaka defends his orcish tenement against the subtler dangers of 1927 Detroit. He teaches the Sagas and battles the grasping landlord, hoping to speak no language but Orcish all the rest of his days.But when a human shama...
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Drinking Heavy Water
SECOND CONTACTAidan Redding's entire goal for her time in this universe: behave. For once. Discovering seafaring aliens trashes that plan.The aliens raise questions. Her co-workers raise more.The answers explain it all. And ruin everything.On a world...
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Drums with Delusions of Godhood
Crash the Genetic CodeAs civilization staggers, hardened veteran Frances Young plays euchre with her team and slashes throats. The new kid can't play cards worth a damn, and he's probably no better at cutting throats.The Choreomania Response Squad. I...
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Face The Strange
Mayhem, destruction, and domination. Cooperation, friendship, and even love.When strangers from vastly different backgrounds collide, the potential fallouts are infinite.Within these pages you'll find stories of man vs. man, sapient vs. sapient, and ...
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Final Gift
One Orcess Against The WorldMha fought in the Spanish-American War and earned all the respect an orcess could dream of. But not even a life of constant struggle prepared her to endure her final days in a rural Michigan barn, so age-decrepit she can't...
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Terrapin Sky Tango
A FAMILY AFFRAY
With her father’s death, mercenary thief Beaks returns to the place she hates most -- her childhood home, to both pay her respects and make certain he’s gone.
She finds only lies.
Determined to rip the truth out of the shado...
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Git Commit Murder
If Agatha Christie ran Unix Conventions
The BSD North conference draws some of the smartest people in the world. These few days will validate Dale Whitehead's work -- or expose him as a fraud.
When a tragic death devastates the conference, o...
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Drowned Mirovar
In 1927 Detroit, orcs have no friends. But they get the best enemies.
Uruk-Tai wants a peaceful night in the orc speakeasy. Instead, he gets an intrusive human, family fights, looming threats…
…and opportunity.
To orcs, opportunity l...
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Hydrogen Sleets
Meet the new universe, same as the old universe- but thirteen billion years younger.
Aidan Redding's new assignment? A space station in a universe so young it's barely invented hydrogen. Researchers study the cosmos' earliest days, discover whole ...
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Forced to Talk, Like, with Your Mouth
BEYOND CIVILIZATION Antarctica? Uganda? No place so nice. This crew of Internet professionals, summoned to the isolated Oregon Coast to design a new Web application, find themselves WITHOUT WIFI Then things go bad. Like, dead body bad......
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Moonlight's Apples
Dale Dervish:
biker
brawler
all-around bad-ass
Give him trouble, he knocks your teeth in.
But a valley that appears and disappears, impossibly rich raspberries, and a sorcerous Fairy woman ensnare him before he realizes it.
Freedom ...
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Butterfly Stomp
The story that started Butterfly Stomp Waltz!50% John McClane50% Robin Hood100% troubleReeling from the death of her lover and partner, freelance "exfiltration specialist" Billie Carrie Salton breaks into a high-tech, high-security biotechnology firm...
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Butterfly Stomp Waltz
50% John McClane
50% Robin Hood
100% trouble
Reeling from the death of her lover and partner, freelance "exfiltration specialist" Billie Carrie Salton breaks into a high-tech, high-security biotechnology firm to steal their sickle cell an...
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Kipuka Blues
After extinction? "Politics. Monsters. Murder." The alien Absolute eradicated Earth's native life, replacing a fraction of it with alien duplicates. Kevin remembers the life of a police officer, but must find a new life in the bizarrely warped landsc...
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Wifi and Romex
Midnight at the datacenter. Crimping cable, testing circuits, and -- -- dodging bullets? Toby just wants to finish tonight's install and go home, but gunfire and spilled blood mean he might never go home again. But one gunman turns into a team. Hos...
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Spilled Mirovar
The modern year of 1927, and orcs still have to fight elven asshole bullshit.Prohibition left exceptions for the church of Men, the Elvish sacraments, even the Dwarfish rituals. But the elves in Congress insist that orcs have no sacraments.Without th...
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Whisker Line
Snatched from the tunnels beneath his war-shattered homeland, Aleksander has everything he could want. The kind and generous people of the amazing New York City gave him a home. A job. A new leg. Teeth. Even a face. He lives the perfect life-until bo...
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Forever Falls
There's no grounds for murder.
There's no ground at all.
The people exploring and exploiting alien universes risk everything, including their lives. But Devin Gupper’s death makes no sense. And the more questions security officer Aidan Red...
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Immortal Clay
Duplicate. Infiltrate. Exterminate.
"Liberate?"
The alien ate its way out of Antarctica, devouring and duplicating every living thing it found. Humanity turned continents to glass and oceans to poison in a desperate effort to stop it-and fai...
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Calling Control
Every experiment needs untouched subjects for comparison - controls. Even routine genetic repairs on human beings. Genetic engineering fixed Kevin's teeth and eyes, but couldn't save his disastrous marriage. Then he meets Fell, a woman with bad teeth...
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Waking Up Yesterday
He fell asleep a successful forty-six year old. And woke in his parents' ramshackle home, decades earlier. Eighteen years old again, with alcoholic parents and a violent brother. A chance for a better life? Or just another trip through the nightmare?...
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Sticky Supersaturation
Map your body onto a different universe's natural laws. See the impossible, and discover how to exploit that universe's natural laws for profit. New security officer Redding fought for years to get on a Portal team. A whole universe to explore, and s...
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No More Lonesome Blue Rings
Incurable prion disease eating your nervous system? Abandon everyone you love. Go to a clinic in a universe where prions can't replicate. Sherry Rogers fills her days as best she can with her rattletrap nervous system. When aliens attack the clinic, ...
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Vicious Redemption
Trapped on a reef with a walking dead man.A need that cannot be sated or survived.Nobody else hears the dead dog's murderous ghost.Whiskey means silence. So do claws.Mental scars drag the world behind them.SOME SALVATIONS COST TOO MUCH.The five stori...
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Pax Canina
Matthew Keith barely controls his anger over the brutality he witnesses as an emergency room housekeeper. Then a murderous spirit attaches itself to Matt and slaughters those who anger him. Matt must fight an intangible enemy that acts on his own wor...
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Wednesday's Seagulls
A hundred-foot barren rock in the middle of the ocean. A plane wreck. One survivor. One dead man. But the dead man keeps moving. Stop moving? He’ll eat you. Sleep too long? He’ll eat you. The only thing tougher than living with a zombie?...
