Author: jmstine

“Hard SF, satire, adventure, and some very strange humor combine in this intriguing, inventive, and sometimes disconcerting SF story.” —Science Fiction Chronicle

A wild young Chicano artist who covers Greater Los Angeles with fantastic graffiti. A beautiful African telepath who opens the door to communications with the deadly Sirens of Jupiter.

“An alien first contact story featuring a hyperactive, irreverent, and self-absorbed Chicano artist from East LA. Cortez is recruited to make contact with creatures discovered on Jupiter who 'speak' in projected images. It's a dangerous assignment; previous attempts to communicate have ended in insanity and death, but Pablo is always up for a little bit of craziness.” —Michael Lichter, Amazon

“Ernest Hogan is the creator of a Xicano science fiction genre with a crossover readership. …raw creativity.” —Frank S Lechuga

Combining hard science fiction with pyrotechnics worthy of The Stars, My Destination, Ernest Hogan tells the story of the painter who founds the Guerrilla Muralists of Los Angeles, and goes on to make Mankind's first contact with the sentient life-forms of Jupiter.

“Energetic, fast-paced, funny, and thoroughly enjoyable.”  —Analog

Not since Ayn Rand's Howard Roarke has there been an artist as iconoclastic, as idealistic, and as splendidly spectacular as Pablo Cortez. And look out, he's twice as radical!

“If Hunter S Thompson and Alfred Bester had a Chicano child, it would be this.” —Dave Hutchinson

It's a roller-coaster ride from vulgarity to the transcendent, as the unforgettable Pablo Cortez struggles, selfishly and selflessly, to expand humanity's consciousness on a journey from the barrio to the stars.

“It grabs you and won't let you go. The best [first novel] I've read in science fiction since Neuromancer.” —Tom Witmore, Locus

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“All cultures have some acceptable form of human sacrifice. And if you really want to cause trouble, try taking it away.” —Pablo Cortez

SECOND BOOK IN THE ENTHRALLING FANTASY SERIES THAT'S ALREADY EARNING RAVE REVIEWS FROM READERS:

“A. R. Marsh's The Dire Deeds (The Guild of Ornamental Hermits Book 1) is jam-packed with gloriously spectral, flamboyantly festive rainbow-hued, unabashedly queer characters; penned with unquestionable verve, a thoroughly captivating style, and unquestionable panache; woven into a magical, metaphysical, metaphorical, and meta-fictional epic narrative, this is a book to be loved, written by someone who knows what love is--and how important that is for everyone right now.” —Goodreads 5-star review

“A delightful romp filled with whimsical imagination. More than once I found myself wondering, “Where do xey come up with all these ideas?” Dimension-portaling sentient peach pits? A giant amorous salamander? Elves obsessed with Burning Man clown culture? This book runs the gamut of the strange and marvelous. Part love-story, part critical gender theory, I highly recommend getting swept up in the Guild of Ornamental Hermits. Who knows, maybe you’ll find your way into another dimension!” —Amazon 5-star review

“Wow! Just spent a wonderful week spending time with some wildly colorful, delightfully eccentric, truly fascinating characters… and miss them already. I have never read anything like this. The language is bright and delicious. The characters are unique and, at the same time, very real. Blew me away. A true original. Can’t wait for book two!” —Amazon 5-star review

“Infused with a quick, quirky wit, a joyful read! A.R. Marsh merges the real world of Pahoa, Hawaii, with a magical one where simply saying, “salamander” brings forth kundalini energy surges, where an inter-dimensional, Malibu-Barbie-worshiping baddie may succeed in zir dastardly plot, and where purple edible glitter just might help save the day. I look forward to the fun and giggles to come when the fantastical journey continues.” —Amazon 5-star review

“Add A.M. Marsh to the List of World-Builders. I’ve never read a queer-friendly urban fantasy before but I thoroughly enjoyed this one. It’s a smart, inventive and fun. And it’s full of wonders. The humor, characters and insights into popular and non-mainstream cultures not only held my attention, but richly rewarded it. Sexuality is handled with a light touch and playfulness abounds. The characters, except for the malevolent ones, are likeable and often lovable. Marsh is such a good writer that I found myself reading just to find out zir take on the unfolding action. Danger and evil exist, but as in an English cozy, the mayhem occurs offstage. And more books are coming!” —Amazon 5-star review

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Powerful other-dimensional Wethrini warriors are poised to invade Hawai’i Island!

Half-Elf Oyster Olson, and the all-too-human Babe Bump, Tomma Bedlam, and the other nine “Hermits of Hermitville,” are new to the magical arts, barely conversant with simplest spells and scrying.

Their new Elven mentors make an executive decision: “Time for a crash course in Elf magic!”

So the Hermits are whisked away to a “time warp” replica of a California winery tasting room for intensive instruction designed to prepare them for the conflicts to come.

Meanwhile a local doomsday cult plans a ritual rave to summon a dreaded cosmic goddess from beyond the Mortal Coil.

Then the Hermits, newly initiated into Elven mysteries and spellcraft, return to Hermitville for a battle of magical mind games with the dreaded Wethrini, just as the doomsday cult’s ritual approaches its height, and a massive tropical storm crashes into the Hawaiian islands.

Some live, some die, minds are blown, true love blossoms—and Oyster enchants his harmonica.

But, Hermitville, and all of Hawai’i, will never be the same.

Astounding — The Tremaine Years, 1934-5

The first book in an ambitious republication of the Hugo Award winning writer, editor comic book and radio script author.

Most of the stories in this volume have never been reprinted since their original publications. This collection of novellas and novelettes is an essential book that belongs on every science fiction readers shelf.

Gold’s SF stories are “practically required reading … the narrative level is high.” —The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
Gold’s work is “way up there at the top of the literary pile.” —Galaxy

“People have forgotten how much Gold had to do, as a writer, with the growth of science fiction[...] [He possesses] an alert and unusual mind investing old ideas with new insights and adds an extra dimension of idea into a deceptively simple story line.” —Fantastic Universe

“Ususual tales, rare collectors items.” —Indianapolis Star

Among the stories readers will find are:

“Inflexure,” in which the passing of a solar system through our own, leads to unexpected, even inconceivable, and terrifying results.

“Avatar,” a tale of genetic engineering and a man who redesigns a human being to be a god – but overlooks a very obvious fact.

“Gold,” the story of a man who made everything so cheaply everything could be purchased for nothing and there was no need for greed – but what of the greedy?

And three more “top-rank stories.” —Analog/Astounding

Hugo Winning Writer-Editor's Nebula Nominee Story!

Fabulous collection of classic humorous and satirical science fiction by legendary writer-editor H. L. Gold. Exclusively in eBook, this don't-miss volume rounds up Gold's uncollected work, including his Nebula Nominee story, "Inside Man." Readers will find fresh, new, delightfully fey wrinkles on ESP (as in "Inside Man" and "The Riches of Embarrassment"); the tale of the wife of a tribal chief whose subtle manipulations of colonial visitors inadvertently saves the world from itself ("The Transmogrification of Wamba's Revenge"); a man unlucky enough to achieve one of humankind's oldest dreams ("He that Hath Wings")," two spacelanes con men who manage only fleece themselves ("Grifter's Asteroid") and the extraordinary short novel, "Some to Watch Over Me," a dark and haunting serio-comic inversion that stands traditional notions of hyperspace, monstrous aliens, true love, ambition, revenge, and human values on their heads.

"There's nothing machine-made about the short stories and novelettes of H. L. Gold. They're individual tales of odd notions, often proving once again that Mr. Gold is almost the only s.f. writer capable of creating lower and lower-middle class backgrounds (a relief, after all of s.f.'s potentates, plutocrats and technological elite)." —The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Gold's SF offers "witty entertainment" from a "sharp and perceptive intelligence." —The Science Fiction Source Book

An astonishing and innovative romantic space opera!

Amarrilis Halai-Tam is a soldier in a matriarchy that controls the known multiverse. She is an aristocrat and the lover of General Sebaren Jorram-Rai. Her assignment is simple; she must neutralize Colonel Nathaniel Carollan who is not part of the matriarchy. She infiltrates his lodge where he lives among his troops. She finds herself falling dangerously in love with him. Torn between two men and two loyalties she finds herself caught in a web of military intrigue.

Jodie Wise is a young woman who doesn't know much about the world she lives on, and is ignorant of the multiverse. She has the instincts to survive. Her innocence is about to be shattered by the impending war between the people of her world and the matriarchy.

Simone Chiodini has traveled extensively throughout the USA and Southern Europe. Traveling is one of her greatest passions, second only to telling stories. A former resident of Michigan and current resident of California, she hopes to one day return to Italy where she has family.

"Compelling new Scifi by a fresh new author." —Amazon 5-star review of Book 1 in this series

Ana O'Neill is a lesbian on a hyper-patriarchal Earth within the vast many worlds of the multiverse. She marries the kind, loving and gay Xandreas Tate in order to survive in her society, but when she meets R.J., the woman of her dreams, will she be willing to risk everything to be with her? How far will the granddaughter of Amarrilis Halai-Tam go to be with her beloved?

For fans of Nicola Griffith, Lise MacTague , Lois Mcmaster Bujold, and Robert A. Heinlein.