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,...

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...

Gerald the star mole is living large. All the nice fresh stone-free dirt he can dig in, all the worms he can eat, and no predators to raise his stress level. Unless you count the funny people in white...

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...

In a 1930 Germany plagued by hunger and street-fighting, an idealistic young writer argues his vision of the future with a front soldier from the Great War who can't escape the past.

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,...

Desperate to grab a few headlines to bolster her fading career, starlet Sindee Sands schemes to marry off her reality-challenged twelve-year-old daughter to similarly aged gangsta rapper Bull Fido in...

The Blue Ibis, a creation of the Egyptian god Thoth, promises heaven to whoever who can read the inscription within. Two agents, one from the Justice Department and one from the Egyptian Council of Antiquities,...

Victorian-era police detective Nat Frayne leans more toward fists and fast dealing than the strict letter of the law. But in these three cases Frayne goes up against adversaries who may be even tougher...

Lord Under LondonWhen a methane explosion in the London sewers spews up a much-mangled body, Victorian-era Detective Inspector Nat Frayne finds an ancient Hunter watch pointing to the mysterious disappearance...

A scintillating, action-packed anthology of crime throughout history.Soldier of DiscontentWhen the mayor of a turn-of-the-century logging town investigates an arson blamed on an IWW agitator, she risks...

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...

Hanging drywall does not call to the socially well-adjusted. But when a simmering feud between partners escalates into a duel, their lives hang on the width of a nail.

He's a 180K a year techie hoping to get laid. She's a hospice nurse coming off a very hard day. When they meet over dinner, the question may come down to her pink cat-face watch, Miss Kittenses.

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...

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...

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...