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This is the ninth book in the Future of Humanity (FOH) series. After a long journey, it's time to set the ship down on the new human home world, which General Amanda Lowrey has named, appropriately, Terra 2.
There is Landing Site Eden, where she will attempt to set down a ship that was never meant to land. There are the satellite sites, each 50 miles from Eden, to the north, east, south and west.
There are the advance teams, whose only job is to...
2) The Storm
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Harold Sloan is the chief terraformer on Galen, a planet in another solar system.
Harold is also a man who lives very much within himself, and he loves nothing more than his work. Or so he believes.
Which is worse? The work-stopping storm that sometimes rages outside his annex apartment window? Or is it the internal storm, the one he can never escape?
3) Jack Tilden
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One ad in the magazine for adventurers was different than the others. There was no flash or bluster, no promises of adventure or big money. Only four line of text followed by a toll-free phone number: Do you have special abilities? Want to put them to use? Give us a call.
Blackwell Ops. Something about the ad was too intriguing to pass up. At least for the former Marine who was about to become Jack Tilden. Blackwell Ops is a special, very secretive...
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In this collection of five intense short stories, a writer and his friend travel to Pamplona for the running of the bulls, the friend's attempt to truly live just one more time; Training can take many forms, from a good old-fashioned thumping to much worse treatment (that will leave you smiling); A young couple arrive in a bus terminal. Both are nervous at their impending separation. We assume it's a sad time for both, but is it? Are they running...
7) The Spring
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Mark Smith, an old retired Marine, is not happy with the state of the nation. But he's only cleaning his rifle, a weekly ritual held over from the old days. He leans one way, his wife the other. Protector and protected, neither able to exprience the other's worldview. Will it matter?
8) Exotic
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A meek, mild accountant from Cleveland finally, finally gets a break when he lands a big client for his firm. But he gets an even bigger one when he gets to Louisiana.
9) Getting Paid
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It's the end of a hot, tired, sweaty day. Along with the other dock hands, you're waiting for your pay. Then a guy has to pop off.
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Between Books 2 and 3 of the 12-volume Wes Crowley saga, there's a 15-year gap. This is the seventh book that works toward filling that gap. Hence, the Wes Crowley Gap Series.
This is also the second novel for the Wes Crowley Santa Fe sub-series. I don't know how many stories will emerge from this diversion.
In this book, Wes accompanies Lew Wallace, the governor of the New Mexico Territory, over 200 miles on horseback from Amarillo to Santa Fe....
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"But Babies Are Just So Cute!" is a touching story of how human beings react to babies. All babies. Especially in this intense, perhaps humorous, short story. In "Mouth Watering," an SF short story, when Lisa Reddich stops by a small café for a plate of French fries, she's looking for a mouth-watering experience. What she finds is considerably more than she bargained for. Then again, she's considerably more than we bargained for. In "Normal Louisiana...
12) Coralín
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This is a love story set in Mexico in the late 1800s. Being a lawman, takes a toll that former Texas Ranger Wes Crowley knows all too well. He's settled with the notion that he will live and die alone to avoid bringing harm to those he might have loved. But, Coralín Martinez de Silva is a force of nature, and she has ideas of her own. This story is excerpted from the forthcoming novel, The Marshal of Agua Perlado, book seven in the Wes Crowley series....
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Harold Cranston, 87 years old minus 1 day, is packing at his wife's direction for a trip to see their son in Colorado. He works in the Mustang Mountain tracking station. Helen and Harold live outside of Huntsville, Alabama, the home of Redstone Arsenal. Like the epigram says, When the missiles are launched, who among us will know? This story is derived from the forthcoming novel, The Consensus.
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This is a novel, but only in the most basic sense. Actually it's a novel wrapped around eleven separate short stories. Or maybe it's a short story collection enclosed in a novel.
The novel itself consists of a prologue and several intermissions, one after all the short stories except the last one.
The stories run the gamut of genres: horror, action-adventure, psychological suspense, humor, western and others.
The novel is about two writers on a...
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All good fiction is character-driven. Learn where to get story ideas and how to write a hook and an opening. Learn how to write captivating settings, scenes and endings. Replete with examples and containing two extremely important writing exercises, this concise book is all you need if you want to learn to write character-driven fiction.
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You want to write a novel, but you feel overwhelmed.
But you can silence that feeling and start writing your novel TODAY. Your critical mind is fear-based. It exists to protect you. It keeps you from putting your hand on a hot stove or from crossing the street without checking for oncoming traffic.
In the case of putting yourself "out there" in the form of short stories or novels, it strives to protect you from yourself.
It strives to protect you...
18) That Ain't Right
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This is a political spoof. A career politician gives an inspiring campaign speech, sort of, and has the audience eating out of her hand, until something wholly unexpected but richly deserved happens.
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On Earth in the not-too-distant future, Will Perkins looks at Luna almost every evening.
He dreams of visiting there, living there, someday.
Finally, almost through a fluke, he realizes his dream. He and his wife Rose will live in the well-established Arzachel 1 crater colony while he works as part of a crew to build Arzachel 2. But nothing ever goes quite as planned, does it? Even as Will and Rose's lives are changing, so is the face of reality,...
20) Barbecue
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Two buddies on a camping trip in a remote desert location. A town full of women nearby. Fantasies abound. But is it all fantasy? Or is some of it sheer terror? Come along for a surprise.
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