Author: jmstine

His Last Name Marked Him to Save a World and Woo a Princess—If She'd Have Him!

From the pages of Amazing Stories in the 1950s comes this great sf adventure duology centering on a man named Dr. Jack Odin. Odin knew all about the Norse legends, naturally he had read them as a kid. But he never expected a midnight call from a group of dwarves and a beautiful princess wanting medical aid for a companion. ...Except, their companion turned out to be the assassin of a high U.S. official—a fact which Jack only realizes after he operates and saves the man's life.

Forced to flee with the "little men" and their companions, Jack finds himself traveling to a lost world in a vast cavern beneath the Earth's crust! There, in a land that played host to wrecked star travelers for ages, Jack Odin must face his rival, the evil Grim Hagen, for the hand of the brilliant and beautiful Princess Maya—an act that sets off the Gotterdammerung of a world and the ultimate battle between Hunters Out of Time.

But even when all seems lost for Grim, his cunning mind finds a way to steal Maya away and kidnap her into space at faster-than-light speeds, where centuries will pass for those on Earth while only months pass for Dr. Odin, and his only fear is coming face-to-face with the terrible Hunters Out of Space.

Originally published as Hunters Out of Time and Hunters Out of Space.

The demon Asmodeus' war with Lillith heats up, and the fate of the Earth is at stake!

Asmodeus already has a plan for destroying the world and taking all of humanity with it. But all may not be lost; Morgaine has discovered a prophecy. "If human beings can solve ten ancient mysteries," it says, "the Earth will be saved. If they fail, Asmodeus will prevail."

The only ones with the power to unravel these age-old puzzles are Morgaine, Michael, and the other members of The Alchemists and Sorcerers' Guild. Asmodeus has a plan to prevent them from succeeding, and assigns his ten most powerful demonic servants to keep each of the mysteries a deeply buried secret. But Morgaine has conceived the most daring plot ever: she will steal Asmodeus' power—there's just one catch: if he regains it, she will be blasted out of existence in this universe and all others!

Isaac the android is in love—with an idea.

He wants a mate. He has crafted a female body and just needs a brain to place inside it and bring his dream woman to life. Dr. Takamora, the greatest living authority on positronic brains, promised to help. But he has disappeared.

Does Takamora's absence have something to do with Isaac's proposed lover—or Takamora's work on a Top Secret government project? That's what Issac has hired psychic investigator Raven Lenore to find out. Before it's over, Raven will face peril from science and sorcery alike!

Within the castle enchanted, Beauty slept—while her rescuer dared peril and death with every step...

As summer vacation starts, a college student named Linneus Vargas takes a girl to a small town to buy antiques. When he tries to seduce her, she gives him the brush. They enter an antique shop, and the proprietor talks him into purchasing an ornate wooden box. After they return to the university dorm, Linneus discovers that the girl never had any feelings for him and is engaged to the football team's quarterback. He also finds an ancient key in the box.

Later in the summer, Linneus travels to Eastern Europe where he visits relatives in Romania. He becomes intrigued by a ruined castle above the village. He is warned not to visit it. Nevertheless, he disregards this advice and hikes toward it anyway. It is surrounded by an impassible, yards-thick briar bush with poisonous thorns. He uses a borrowed chain saw to make his way through this barrier and enters the castle. It's a good thing he's brought the key he purchased a few months ago.

Cover art: Laura Givens

In the fourth novel in this bestselling series, Raven is given an assignment by the demon Lilith. She meets a time traveling ghost, is betrayed by her lover and best friend, visits Merlin's cave, is harassed by vampires, has narrow escapes from death, and falls in love. It's all in a day's work for a psychic investigator. And that's just what happens in the first few chapters!

A brilliant historical fantasy of one woman's vision, and the way it changed the course of the Roman Empire—as well as the future of humanity.

Humans Against Feline Aliens in a Galactic War to the Death!

Humanity has met its match in the Stygians, carnivores that evolved from feline ancestors, and whose society still reflects their catlike ways. Chief among the Stygian warlords is Growlrr, who declares war on the human race as the first step in his plan to rule the entire galaxy.

The key to humanity's future is a ragtag group of people, sublimely unaware of their importance, each a pawn of tomorrow, whose actions will determine the outcome of the conflict. These include the frustrated Prince Ron Bo Kan sent on a diplomatic mission doomed to failure; Brad Billiard, an intelligent agent who allow his vices to subvert his mission; Lady Slink, Growlrr's mistress, who has enormous psychic powers including the ability to send her aura anywhere in the galaxy; Princess Shady Lai, who plots against her father, Emperor Mikado, because she believes he is insane to fight the powerful aliens; Bulga Khan, High King of the Perseus Cluster, a pompous power-mad dictator; Lucia Malachi, seductive android super spy; Mr. White, android master of disguise; and the mysterious android Aristotle.

Soon, each will play a key role in a galactic war—one which is fought overtly with vast fleets of star ships, killer nanobots, and world destroying weapons; but also fought covertly with a war of espionage, counterespionage and traitorous plots. But Pawns of Tomorrow is more than a story, it is also a chess game in the finest tradition of John Brunner's Squares of the City and Poul Anderson's White Queen's War. Readers can follow the moves of the game through a summary at the start of each chapter and appendices at the end of the book.

It all begins when two android spies travel to the planet Paradise to meet Brad Billiard on business, not realizing he is a spy...

Hell on Earth... In Second Volume of the Raven Lenore Series!

Raven Lenore has a new client, Mordecai Wilsey, a mortician who hires her to find a corpse stolen from his mortuary.

First, Raven interviews the dead man's relatives with little success. Then she moves on to his friends. She gets no further than his best friend, Peter Morgan, before the interviews take a decidedly supernatural turn. According to Peter, the dead man has been seen out and about in a rather uncorpselike way, as well as associating with a known vampire named Celia VanGrimm.

Now in her element, Raven really gets to work, setting up surveillance of the mortuary. When she sees someone enter it, she investigates further and, lo and behold, catches Celia drinking blood drained from a corpse. Celia swears that she had nothing to do with stealing the first corpse, but confesses that Peter Morgan is one of her living blood donors. She tells Raven that she can be contacted at Graceland Cemetery.

Raven returns home and, her mind in turmoil, has a vivid nightmare in which the dead tell her that she will be caught in the middle of a maelstrom. Too bad they didn't tell her where the missing corpse is; she's running out of options.

Raven, feeling that she is going nowhere with the case, holds a séance with two of her Wiccan friends. But, instead of contacting the spirit of the missing corpse, they contact Raven's doppelganger, Lenore Raven, and inadvertently bring her out hell to walk the earth.

Will they solve the case together? Will the doppleganger cause trouble? Will anyone catch Celia VanGrimm? Where is the dead man and how dead is he, really? Find out in this riveting second volume of the Raven Lenore, Psychic Investigator series.

Hell has granted Morgaine an opportunity to win Michael, the man she has loved—and been spurned by—throughout the ages. But first, to win the demons' approval, Morgaine must help a young occultist obtain a copy of the dread Necronomicon, while protecting him from the bloodlust of the centuries-old vampiress who possesses it.

But there's no rest for the wicked, and Morgaine's next task is to help destroy an all-powerful malignant entity from beyond the barriers of space and time, while selflessly returning the woman Michael loves to life. Even for a hell-trained sorceress, it's a set of challenges that seem impossible—but Morgaine isn't a woman who easily gives up on the man she loves. With Michael's own true love returned to life, could Morgaine have even a ghost of a chance at winning him?

Don't miss this stunning climax to the masterful epic of Morgaine, the Witch!

Hard-boiled private eye Tony Vink considers himself the toughest of the tough—but his seamy underworld experience has hardly prepared him for this seemingly routine Missing Persons case.

Vink doesn't count on falling in love in with his employer, the curvaceous Paula—and neither does he count on time travel. Soon the two are involved in a transtemporal odyssey leading through passionate lovemaking and dangerous encounters to a denouement neither could ever have guessed!