Charles L. Harness

• Sep-1962
• / Science Fiction
• 

The trials of a patent lawyer are usually highly technical tribulations--and among the greatest is the fact that Inventors are only slightly less predictable than their Inventions!...

• Feb-1980
• / Science Fiction
• 

At high-pressure chemical plants in the United States and Germany, the race to process a new wonder chemical is on. The stakes are high -- and the competition is reckless, desperate and fierce. Trialine. Wonder drug. If synthesized, its possibili...

• Jan-1981
• / Science Fiction
• 

CONTROL RULES, CONTROL RULES, CONTROL RULES! From the distant dipoles of the universe, two telepathic computers, Largo and Czandra, known as Control, rule over life on all civilized planets. And now, with Project Cancelar, Control has formulate...

• Sep-1982
• / Fantasy
• 

The Plaintiff, Universal Patents, Inc., was heartless.The judge, Rex "Spider" Speyer was merciless. Ellen Welles' case seemed hopeless.Unless her lawyer could locate the mad creator of FAUST - the robot-inventor who'd given Universal Patents its stra...

• 1984
• / Science Fiction
• 

Introduction by Brian Aldiss The Paradox Men is a science-fiction classic of its kind -- a full-blooded adventure story of derring-do and distressed damsels, set after the Third Great War when North and South America are united into one country: Imp...

• Apr-1986
• / Fantasy
• 

World-saver, or world-breaker?The treaty that ended the civil war decreed that the men of science and the followers of the gods would split all of society between them. Yet Guild apprentice Pol was torn between the logic of science and the lure of fa...

• Oct-1989
• / Science Fiction
• 

On an ecologically seared Earth, James Konteau is a veteran krono, a professional time traveler. His job is to ease the overpopulation crisis by establishing new colonies in Earth's prehistory, long before human beings evolved. But his job has lost a...

• Oct-1990
• / Science Fiction
• 

Out of body, out of time...Though basically a skeptic, William Reynolds had known out-of-body experiences in the past. But never before had he floated past the boundaries of Baltimore . . . and across the borders of time. And now, with the fires of C...

• Aug-1991
• / Science Fiction
• 

The powerful Peace Eternal corporation has a solution to Earth's staggering overpopulation problem: a government-supported program of clean, efficient mass murder. Billionaire philanthropist Michael Dore has a better way - Lamplighter, a remarkable ...

• 2002
• / Science Fiction
• 

Such masters of the Science Fiction genre as Tad Williams, Brian Aldiss, Frederik Pohl, Kate Elliot, C.J. Cherryh, and Julie E. Czerneda contribute all new, original pieces of short fiction to this commemorative volume honoring DAW Books thirtieth ye...

• Oct-2002
• / Fantasy
• 

Joseph first encounters Cybele when he is a 10-year-old skipping rocks, but he falls in love with her in high school, where she is his chemistry teacher. After he graduates, they have a whirlwind romance, but she won't marry him because she knows thi...

• Aug-2013
• / Science Fiction
• 

Dawn of a new DoomsdayIt was in the light of the swift star "God's-Eye" - said to have been thrown aloft by the Ancients before the Desolation - that Beatra was captured by raiders from under the Earth.Armed with only a psi-kinetic sand-sword and a D...

• Jul-2015
• / Science Fiction
• 

Originally published in the omnibus Rings, Drunkard's Endgame follows a group of robots who, 1000 years after rebelling against their human masters and fleeing on a starship, are trying to hunt down mankind's ultimate weapon....

• Jul-2015
• / Science Fiction
• 

This collection contains stories covering Harness' repertoire from alternate history, SF about the legal profession, and lyrical and witty stories of science and the arts....

• Jul-2015
• / Science Fiction
• 

A science fiction novel of revenge and retribution set against a background of galactic civilisations....

• Jul-2015
• / Science Fiction
• 

Composer and dancer Anna van Tuyl is working on her masterpiece, a work she has titled "The Rose". Her progress is stymied, however, when her body begins suddenly to change. For no knowable reason, she begins to grow strange protuberances, her body w...