Richard - Libros y biografía

In India, the land of "snakes, elephants, gurus, and coconuts," Vijay Prabhu grows up Catholic and confused. The result is an Indian "Angela's Ashes," one in which Vijay, redefining his goals, dreams...

Indians and sexual liberation, American politics, Bill Clinton, Western feminism transplanted into Asia, Miss World Sushmita Sen, Khushwant Singh on Indian sexual hypocrisy, beauty contests, free expression...

For all the kids that don't think they're good enough. You Are!When the young girl in this book asks her family; Mom, Dad, Brother, Uncle, Grandma, and Grandpa, if parts of her body are OK, they always...

A scream for help across the hard black, then silence.That was the start of Chad Forradel's bad day. One minute he was checking out a planet of bug corpses, the next he's catching a ride on an old heavy...

Can mortals stand against the power of the heavens?Vampires have hunted werewolves almost to extinction. Val and Danny, the last of their werewolf kind, aim to strike back at the heart of their ancient...

The enemy is already here.After the encounter with the merciless Ezeroc on Absalom Delta, Grace Gushiken and Nathan Chevell make a run for home. They have a new mission: to warn humanity. Aliens are real....

A colony world falls silent.Grace Gushiken is a grifter and a liar. Worse, she's an esper, an abhorrent creation of the Old Empire, on the run from the Republic's justice. Nathan Chevell captains the...

The leader of the fallen Republic returns. Destruction sweeps across Earth.Grace Gushiken and Nathan Chevell rule the Empire. While they petition seditionist worlds for aid in a war humanity struggles...

Grace Gushiken is a prisoner at fourteen.Grace is confined to her father Kazuo's grounds. She, like him, is an esper: a reader of minds. Kazuo has arranged extensive training for her. Stealth. Infiltration....

The ad said Job of a Lifetime!Triton Station is Hope's new home. At twenty-two years old and already Guild Engineer First Class, she is asked to breathe life into the broken spans of Triton's shipyards.The...

Nathan Chevell has four hours to stop the fall of an empire.As Captain of the Emperor's Black, it's Nate's job to protect the Ruler of all Humanity. But the discovery of an assassin close to the throne...

It's 2150AD. Metatech enforcer Mike Takahashi's vacation is off to a bad start.When Mike wakes on a slab, a bone saw a handspan from his arm, it's all the confirmation he needs that someone is harvesting...

It's 2150AD. Syndicates fight on the streets.Company enforcer Mason Floyd and rockstar Sadie Freeman share an uneasy truce in a city buried beneath company sin. As the rain lifts for the first time in...

Our empire is built on lies.The Senate is in chaos. The Republic is falling from within, a corrupted shell around a rotted core. Abhorrent espers control humans like pawns. The Republic Navy is in open...

Bad hangovers don't usually come with a pile of bodies.Valentine's a nice guy with ordinary problems. That's about to change.Surfacing after a drunken night Val finds drug megacorp Biomne has unleashed...

The fight for humanity's future will be won or lost where it all began: Earth.Grace Gushiken and Nathan Chevell stand with the few allies they have found. They must save their Empire from the insect-like...

When someone kills your buddy, it's time for a road trip.October Kohl no longer captains the Emperor's Black. He's spent his time since the war drinking whiskey. When a courier arrives carrying a message...

Freedom brings the Empire to its knees.Pastor Cleaver and his Church grant life eternal to the faithful. His seductive offer: join me, and live without pain or fear.His insect-like masters hide in the...

Would you let a stranger damn the world?In the five years since their Pack left the ruins of a Biomne facility, Adalia Kendrick has discovered gifts of her own. While her mother Danny tries to run from...

It's 2150AD. Samson will pay.Delilah Griffiths is ex-Metatech. She's got the best covert ops bionics money can buy. None of that helped brother Ollie when the link virus crippled him. Smart money says...

It's 2150AD. Uplinks turn us into slaves.Mason Floyd is lost on a dying world, bionics failing as he wages war against the ruling elite. He's left off-grid rockstar Sadie Freeman on Earth with a hopeless...

The smell of charred circuitry wasn't a perfume Elspeth Roussel liked to wear.Helm of the Empire destroyer Nostradamus, El is the best at what she does. No one flies the big ships like she can. But Empire...

Humanity's greatest fear has come to pass. Earth has fallen to the Ezeroc.Grace Gushiken and Nathan Chevell travel to Mercury. They seek the hub of AI civilization, and the intelligences that control...

In 2150AD, humanity surrenders decisions to corporate masters.Megacorp Reed Interactive's prodigy Austin Ainley creates abhorrent mind-influencing tech. Reed terminate his contract but keep the invention.Austin...

Someone wants to hire October Kohl. First mistake.Trypso is a below average world filled with below average people. October Kohl wants off the crust and away from the wannabe Yakuza there.When the crime...

Saveria's been dead twice before. Third time's the charm.The Gravedigger crashes on an uncharted world. She carries the Emperor's spymaster Chad Forradel, and his young ward Saveria. They find a forgotten...

Nathan Chevell and Grace Gushiken are criminals.That's all they have in common. Nate ducks the law in Ganymede's pirate port, and Grace runs from the Empire's justice to Starfire Station. They face super...

An empire falls.Before there was a Tyche, the crew were scattered. Nate wore the Emperor's Black. El Helmed mighty destroyers. Hope joined the new Republic's reclamation projects. Kohl fell in with the...

Backstage Pass to the Flipside Part Two: Talking to the Afterlife with Jennifer ShafferBook Two explains the process of obtaining these "interviews from people on the Flipside." Jennifer Shaffer is a...

Backstage Pass to the Flipside Part One: Talking to the Afterlife with Jennifer ShafferBook One explains the process of obtaining these "interviews from people on the Flipside." Jennifer Shaffer is a...