Twenty-eight years ago the black hole at the center of our galaxy spasmed outward to swallow the space habitat Tycho Brahe. Now John Gottschalk, sole survivor of a would-be rescue mission, searches the banged-up torus for survivors. His chances? Some...
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco real-life heroine Donaldina Cameron became known as “the Chinatown Angel” for rescuing Chinese “slave girls” forced into prostitution. To the tongs and brothel owners, though, she was Fahn Quai -- the Wh...
Today the Machines deliver a new Benjamin. But for Lucian Wren, a beleaguered scriptwriter in a world ruled by cradle-to-grave teleprompters, that’s hardly cause for celebration. For the two-year-old they’ve cast for his new show is an over-sized...
Seattle, 1907: “the wickedest city in America.” When an idealistic nurse tries to help a glamorous prostitute with friends in too many places, she soon becomes witness to the murder of a vice lord. Dragged into the middle of a gang war for contro...
In an attempt to grab a few tabloid headlines away from Jen and Britney, starlet Sindee Sands once resorted to the baby shtick. Now she wants to wed the twelve-year-old off to similarly aged gangsta rapper Bull Fido in a TV gala the sponsor “‘Twe...
When the mayor of a turn-of-the-century logging town investigates a lumberyard arson believed set by a labor agitator, she risks becoming a target herself as she uncovers a desperate scheme of seduction, betrayal, and murder....
Stuck in Juvenile Corrections and facing a long prison sentence, a teenage girl tries to preserve her last memory of beauty by sharing it with a troubled youth who got himself punched in the face just to visit her in the Infirmary....
Do you thrill to tales of pirate treasure, ringing cutlasses, broadsides cutting through the salt breeze, and do-or-die romance? Come aboard aboard HMS Cygnet as she blazes a bloody course into the Golden Age of Piracy.Desperate to escape the vengean...
When the Egyptian goddess Hathor geeks out and turns into a flying, fire-breathing lion determined to eat the world alive, Isis and Thoth decide that only the Greek hero Odysseus possesses the cunning to outwit her. So they send a time-storm around t...
Frank Barton lives life on the run. Many lives. Ever since the Civil War, when instead of dying from his wounds, he turned into a snake crawling across the battlefield, absorbing life from others.For years Frank struggles against the killer serpent i...
I made San Francisco for the Summer of Love and Saigon for the Tet Offensive. I'm not that easily impressed any more.But when ex-MP Lonnie Davis, fresh back from two tours in Vietnam, agrees to track down missing counter-culture acid queen Mara Isaac...
Pharaoh Akhenaten has just decreed that in place of Isis, Hathor, Thoth, and all the other traditional gods of Egypt, only one true divinity shall now exist — himself. And so he directs Chenzira the Scribe to Thebes, the capital of the priestho...
(Previously published as Man of Pain by Richard Quarry)The Golden Apples that keep Odin, Thor, and the other Norse gods immortal — and sane — have been stolen by Gullveig the Gold-Witch. But the Aesir are too weirded to care; they're gett...
As a spate of ritual murder/mutilations spreads across the city, London fears an invasion of Thuggee assassins. Detective Inspector Nathaniel Frayne, however, digs in his heels against tromping around beating confessions out of Hindus the way the new...
When a methane explosion in the London sewers spews forth a much-mangled body, Detective Inspector Nat Frayne finds an ancient Hunter watch still tangled in the bones. It identifies the corpse as an aristocrat who disappeared in mysterious circ...
Beck Egan, a veteran Rigger in the colony at Lagrange 5, narrowly escapes death in an accident that looks suspiciously like sabotage. But sabotage by who?On one side an Earth government increasingly under the control of right-wing fanatics claims the...
Forced to flee Earth two centuries before, the people calling themselves the Evolved come roaring back on a mission of conquest and revenge. Now in the form of a Group Mind, they quickly scatter the navies of Earth and its allies.Two soldiers of the ...
In Victorian London the French Mesmerist Madame Davignon claims to unite the bereaved with the spirits of their loved ones. A simple enough swindle.To start.But when the game mounts first to blackmail, then murder, Detective Inspector Nat Frayne pose...
As a generation ship way past its pull date creaks and groans toward the nearest star system that might hold out a chance for survival, the scientifically literate Riggers turn to brain enhancements in a desperate attempt to discover new technologies...
Detective-Inspector Nat Frayne of the London Metropolitan Police has seen numerous hanging victims, both official and self-staged. But never one so well-dressed, right down to the topper tilted slightly askew by the noose. In fact the victim's flash ...
When Captain Brenda Valkonen leads the first joint Earth-Peregrine Alliance into remote space to examine the wreck of an alien vessel, she does not know the fate of humanity may hang in the balance.Though only several generations removed from Earth, ...
His brain resurrected by the Evolved, weaponized against Arvada Sattar, and fitted with a Grinder body, Sahan Kotori now commands the Grinder forces. Haunted by the sound of her laughter as she betrayed him, he vows to cast her down into the Terror B...
Why would a supposedly upright missionary die of an overdose of opium in a respectable Mission home? From upper-crust Mayfair parlors to opium dens down on the Limehouse docks, gaslight-era detective Nat Frayne investigates a tangled web of intrigue ...
Dismissed from the London police, Nat Frayne finds himself unexpectedly recruited by the Foreign Office to act as bodyguard for an aging diplomat. The mission: to deliver a supposedly vital letter to the head of the Egyptian government.But Frayne fin...
Roy Snyder wants to apologize. Now that he's finally clean and sober, he wants to tell everyone he ever harmed while on the sauce just how sorry he is. And this time he really means it. He wants especially to apologize to his long-suffering wife for ...
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Gildas Wainwright revives an ancient religion in order to give the people of an isolated town the faith they need to carry on. But the thing about ancient religions, they tend to return to their roots....
Never eat your sister.Good advice, but sometimes hard to follow as a storm of devolution sweeps down on the Seattle library, transforming the patrons into saber-tooth tigers, tyrannosaurs, twelve-foot pink centipedes, and all manner of exotic, extinc...
The President likes his french fries. He also likes watching things blow up. He's not so sure, though, he likes watching them blown up by a missile guided by three crows pecking at a screen. I mean, what's the use of having the biggest, most ma...
When Alice alerts Bill to news flashes showing cities crumbling as metal melts away, he huffs, Photoshopped. Seconds later their apartment starts to fall away beneath them. Bill and Alice scramble, slide, and bounce out, escaping with nothi...
A warlord coerces a pair of banished Zen monks into exorcising the curse over his salt mine, where so many slaves have died that the rest refuse to go underground no matter how hard he whips them. For the monks, scheming Rikuzen and his companion the...
When social worker Damon Shorter, once an aspiring jazz musician, hears one of his clients singing snatches of songs unlike anything he's heard before, their beauty captivates him. Erina has spent her early adulthood see-sawing between psychiatric wa...
An revolutionary drive based on multi-dimensional String Theory just drove the starship Chaffinch straight into a Dimensional Paradox. Will the ship escape before the next Big Bang? All depends upon a jazz musician aboard coaxing the other-worldly so...