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The Ultra Long Goodbye

BOOK 3 OF THE  “UNION OF WORLDS”  TRILOGY … Dave Crowell and his partner Tem Forno take on a case to help a retired Envoy find someone from Crowell’s immediate past. The connection to the previous Ultra scares makes the case extremely important, but the results could create political unrest on several of the eight […]

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The Ultra Thin Man

NEW! Author preferred definitive edition. BOOK 1 of the  “UNION OF WORLDS”  Trilogy … A tense and fast-paced near-future thriller where aliens, terrorists, and interplanetary conspiracies collide. ​In the twenty-second century, when mortaline wire controls the weather on the settled planets and entire refugee camps drowse in drug-induced slumber, no one―alive or dead, human or […]

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The Ultra Big Sleep

NEW! Author preferred definitive edition. BOOK 2 of the  “UNION OF WORLDS”  Trilogy … Sequel to The Ultra Thin Man, this SF noir thriller features two detectives battling aliens and underworld drug lords in a showdown for control of the Union of Worlds amidst a search against all odds for lost family. ​Dave Crowell is […]

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Slightly Ruby

A PREQUEL NOVELETTE TO THE UNION OF WORLDS TRILOGY A man is found murdered and brutally impaled near the Seattle waterfront, and during the investigation, private detectives Dave Crowell and Alan Brindos come face to face with an alien drug known as RuBy. It’s a dangerous prototype that’s bound to cause problems for the eight […]

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Rain Music

Now available Cover art by Nikki Rossignol Original watercolor painted with actual “magic” rainwater from the Olympic Rainforest! 1st 100 hardcover copies (sold through Fairwood Press) will be signed and numbered. There’s magic in the forest and it sings . . . Truman Starkey heard it once, there in the ancient rain forest. A song […]

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The Best of Talebones

edited by Patrick Swenson   The Best of Talebones collects 42 of the best and most beloved stories from Talebones magazine. Taken from 39 issues published over 14 years, this anthology includes such writers as Jack Cady, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Marie Brennan, Barb Hendee, Carrie Vaughn, Kay Kenyon, Ken Scholes, James Van Pelt, James Sallis, […]

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Crooked V.2

Welcome to CROOKED V.2, the second volume of sci-fi crime stories edited by Jessie Kwak. In this volume you’ll find 18 stories of mayhem and tangled loyalties. Bounty hunters chase targets who aren’t what they seem. Private eyes hunt wrongdoers in mean, futuristic streets–and are hunted in return. Easy jobs go wrong. Hunted bounties get […]

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Unfettered 3

My story “Hawkeye” was published in this anthology. A very limited edition is also forthcoming. ◊ From the editor of the award-winning anthology Unfettered comes the newest installment in the science fiction and fantasy series, Unfettered III. Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community […]

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Seasons Between Us

My story “Hope to See the Ghost Tonight” appears in this anthology (2021). * What is a life well-lived? How should life be lived? What kind of stories will you leave behind? Recommended by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Foreword Reviews (starred review) Travel with twenty-three speculative fiction authors through the seasons of […]

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Gunfight on Europa Station

I have a story in this anthology titled “Seeds.” An actual wagon train to space? Gunslinging cowpokes riding in rickety rocketships? What isn’t possible when you mix science fiction and Westerns? The final frontier ain’t so final in these 12 tales of space exploration and adventure: each a timeless yarn told around the warm glow […]

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Unbound II

A magical collection of seventeen original stories by an amazing list of contributors—including a Dune story by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson! Like Unbound and Unfettered before it, Unbound II boasts a collection of SF&F writers allowed to submit the tales they’ve been wanting to write for a long time—without the constraints of theme. The result? A new anthology as powerful as […]

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Imagination Fully Dilated: Science Fiction

edited by Patrick Swenson & Robert Kruger   Oregon artist Alan M. Clark knows what it’s like to be  a freelance illustrator, having created story art for many projects. But he has also had his own artwork interpreted by story writers in two previous volumes of the Imagination Fully Dilated series. Now, Fairwood Press and […]

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Like Water for Quarks

Science Fiction meets Magic Realism in this ground-breaking anthology featuring stories by some of SF’s greatest names and brightest newcomers. Like Water for Quarks opens up a universe of fusion fiction that provides readers with an entirely new perspective on both our present and our future. Stories by Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, Connie […]

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