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,...

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,...

As the Evolved invaders conquer more and more of Peregrine space, Arvada Sattar and Sahan Kotori go on fighting their own war in defiance of Naval Command. While Arvada develops tactics for ambushing...

Sahan Kotori died calling out Arvada Sattar's name as he fell into the sun at Harrar's Reach.Or did he? Because after a long dim time, awareness comes to … something. Something with no body and no name....

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...

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...

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...

Today the Machines deliver the new Benjamin. But for Lucian Wren, a beleaguered scriptwriter in a world ruled by cradle-to-grave teleprompters, that's no cause for celebration. For the two-year-old they've...

John Gottschalk did not expect to be the sole survivor of a rescue mission to a habitat swallowed up a black hole years before. He did not expect to find the survivors of the banged-up colony enslaved...

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...

Stuck in Juvenile Corrections, 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 for a chance to see her in the Infirmary.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Utah? Yeah, Utah. In the era of Mickey Mouse ears, black and white TV, and a really snazzy pink '57 Imperial. Not a real promising place to sell beer, seeing as how the whole state is dry. But that's...

"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...

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...

Seattle, 1907. "The wickedest city in America." — McClure's Magazine.Honey Jack Gallagher serves as brass-knuckled enforcer for a family of tough Irish cops who maintain law and order in Seattle's wild...

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...

You don't miss your genes till they turn prehistoric.To save the world from nuclear holocaust, the Timekeeper must start evolution running backward. And man, is he pissed. So pissed, he's decided to backdate...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

In mid-21st century America, you're either on one side of the desk or the other. The Social Services Department desk, that is. Helping others to help themselves.Like beleaguered caseworker Cary Gilford...

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...

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...