David Walton

• Apr-2004
• / General Fiction
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Working to teach others how to use the public buses in Pittsburgh, Ray Maddes believes that the only way to advance in a materialistic society is to care nothing for advancement, but he soon finds himself in danger of losing his minimalistic struggle...

• Apr-2008
• / Science Fiction
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Years in the future, the U.S. is a splintered country. The city-state of Philadelphia is ripe for revolution. Mark McGovern, the son of a rich politician, lives in a world of expensive parties and frivolous biological mods, a sharp contrast to the po...

• Mar-2010
• / General Fiction
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David Walton's collection of eight stories, five of which are set in Pittsburgh, offers darkly humorous meditations on modern life. In "Skin and Bone" an unexpected, strange, and ultimately tragic encounter between a karate student and his instructor...

• Mar-2013
• / Fantasy
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Imagine an Age of Exploration full of alchemy, human dissection, sea monsters, betrayal, torture, religious controversy, and magic. In Europe, the magic is thin, but at the edge of the world, where the stars reach down close to the Earth, wonders abo...

• Nov-2013
• / Fantasy
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Quintessence Sky continues where the events of Quintessence (Tor Books, 2013) left off.

At the edge of the flat Earth, a strange fire in the sky burns, altering the balance of the elements and threatening all life on Horizon Island. Matth...

• Apr-2015
• / Science Fiction
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A QUANTUM PHYSICS MURDER MYSTERY. A Mind-Bending, Near-Future, Science Fiction Technothriller. Jacob Kelley's family is turned upside down when an old friend turns up, waving a gun and babbling about an alien quantum intelligence. The mystery deepens...

• Sep-2015
• / Science Fiction
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Ryan Oronzi is a paranoid, neurotic, and brilliant physicist who has developed a quantum military technology that could make soldiers nearly invincible in the field. The technology, however, gives power to the quantum creature known as the varcolac, ...

• Jul-2017
• / Historical
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It's Christmas 1942, and the world is at war when word comes from the front that Mary Helen's father is presumed killed in action. While her devastated mother, Frances, struggles with grief and questions her faith, Mary Helen surprisingly does the...

• Oct-2017
• / Science Fiction
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In this science fiction thriller, brothers are pitted against each other as a pandemic threatens to destabilize world governments by exerting a subtle mind control over survivors. Neil Johns has just started his dream job as a code breaker in the ...

• Feb-2019
• / Science Fiction
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Featured on Wall Street Journal's list of the Best Science Fiction of 2019 The place, New York City; the time, the very near future. The streets of Gotham are swarming with self-driving cars, which are now a reality, and the competition between two e...

• Oct-2022
• / Science Fiction
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We always thought we were the first.When paleontologists Samira and Kit uncover dinosaur skeletons in northern Thailand, they also find the remains of an ancient genetic technology that nations will kill to control. Catapulted into a web of murder an...

• May-2023
• / Science Fiction
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Walton has brought hard sci-fi roaring back to life. -WALL STREET JOURNALTHE PAST TURNS DEADLY in this sequel to the globe-spanning paleontology thriller Living Memory. Ancient genetic technology drives world politics as China and the US vie for the ...

• Dec-2023
• / Science Fiction
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PAST AND FUTURE CLASH in the final book of this globe-spanning paleontology thriller trilogy. The threat of extinction by killer organism leads to world war as national powers vie to control the powerful technology uncovered in Thailand. Samira and h...