Charles Bowen

• Aug-1984
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A user's guide to CompuServe, the popular commercial information network. Screen-by-screen instructions map out the entire service, including full coverage of CompuServe Information Manager and third-party communications programs, such as TapCIS and ...

• Sep-2010
• / Science Fiction
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Dr. Kenton Stover takes an undercover job as a research physician at Lilith's Spiritual Spa. Located inside a distant asteroid, Lilith's is run by Malika Baer, an aging celebrity who preserves her looks using the Spa's rejuvenation accelerants. Kento...

• Sep-2010
• / Science Fiction
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Dex Doxroy isn't ready to stop driving. But Moonview says it's the law. After an accident in space, an independent freighter pilot and veteran of the War for Habitat Independence (WHI) resists the Moonview Government's attempt to revoke his license. ...

• Apr-2011
• / General Fiction
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More than 30 years ago, Walker Raines lost the woman he loves. Now he has clandestinely orchestrated what he hopes will appear to be an accidental meeting in very romantic circumstances: aboard the beautiful Delta Queen during a leisurely four-day sp...

• Aug-2011
• / General Fiction
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What’s inside these shorts? Speculations in social science fiction where ratfinks hex their way through rocketships, political campaigns and junkyards on the moon. I’ve seen their whiskers. I’ve heard their coiled tales. Oh yes indeed, there’...

• Nov-2011
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-2012
• / General Fiction
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After his parents died, Granite “Grant” Richardson drifts with the currents. Life turns for him when he's blackmailed and his younger sister drops into a coma. He returns to Lake Horizon where he discovers his sister's troubled history, an underw...

• Jan-2014
• / Science Fiction
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A couple hundred years after the bio-wars and we’re still sealed in residential tanks. I have to wear a hazard suit just to go downtown, not that I can afford to go out. I passed all the tests. Now I sell blood just to make rent on my tank. Not for...

• May-2015
• / Horror
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Carter Connor returns from Iraq to recover from his injuries. He dates Ronnie, a woman who runs the Internet radio station where he sings country music. His injuries return and Carter hears voices and reads thoughts. He drinks to drown his crazy and ...

• Feb-2016
• / General Fiction
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Cal McKinley had to accept it. He was as dead as the president who shared his last name. He'd finally found a job as an IT jock at the Responsive Research Institute. Instead, he ends up dead, possibly murdered. But he doesn't get it. If he's dead, wh...

• Jul-2017
• / General Fiction
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Despite budget cuts, Apollo sustained four missions beyond number 17. The bicentennial tragedy of Apollo 21 still hangs over the country. In the summer of '76, I made that ride home by myself. When I arrived, there was no confetti parade or visit to ...

• Mar-2018
• / Horror
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Drew and Angela leave NY City jobs to renovate an eight-sided historic mansion constructed by a twisted Whig industrialist from the nineteenth century. The house’s evil secrets are revealed when Angela sinks into addiction and Drew is driven toward...

• May-2018
• / Horror
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Fright Light’s collection of thirteen longer short stories presents titles such as, The Colonel's Skull, Barbary Angel, Livestock, Porn Star, Worm Riders, and more. Have a pint and wait with ghosts at Miss Caldwell's Boarding House. Watch a Civil W...

• Jun-2023
• / Historical
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Thorns In The Garden City is a sequel to Paladin, the novel that set the stage and brought in the characters in the story, and reenters the world of the 1940-50s in Augusta, Georgia. Originally a significant trading post and fort developed at the end...

• / Horror
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Broken in battle, a Confederate soldier has nothing left in his gut but burning revenge. Blue Bellies defeated his state's army, they burned his sharecropping home and they defiled and murdered his wife. At war's end, he treks northward with the goal...