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She walked through an impossible door in an impossible wall and found herself in the history books.

It was the year 2390 CE - then it was 1916.

Dr. Arlene Sandra Pierce PhD, tenured professor of European History at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom. She loved her nickname, Snake, that came from her initials, ASP. A neat reference to Cleopatra and her whole death before dishonour thing.
It is always nice when your initials do good.
Arlene's fiancée, Dr. Carla Lillian Anna White PhD, tenured professor of North American History at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom. She did not like the nickname suggested by her initials, Claw.
Arlene grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, United States of North America. Carla grew up in Great Shelford, England, a bit more than four kilometres from The University of Cambridge. They often saw the irony in a woman from North America studying European history and a woman from Europe studying North American history. They were however a great help to each other.
One day while taking a constitutional, Arlene came upon an impossible door in an even more impossible wall. The door seemed to call out to her, telling her of great adventure if she would just step through.
Her curiosity eventually overcame her common sense and she stepped through the door.
If the universe needed a person to be in a particular place at a particular time, it might create a wormhole between those two points. What would such a wormhole look like to a human being? Arlene now knows that wormholes can look like an impossible door in an impossible wall.
She stepped through the door and found herself in the middle of a war. Specifically, the Battle of the Somme, the bloodiest and worst battle of World War 1. Even worse, she found herself standing in the middle of No Man's land!
How did she survive?
How did she respond? Why was she there? What information should she provide?
Arlene remembered Serena Beth Thompson, the only other adult to travel in time. She had a purpose, when she completed her work in the early 17th century, she returned. Did Arlene have a purpose? Serena Beth Thompson was a brilliant engineer, a genius even. Arlene was intelligent, but just a historian. All she could provide was information.

“Bright new author. Interesting concepts. Wide appeal. Well worth the read.” —Amazon Reader Review

She was tossed out of a 30th story window.
She should have died.
She didn't die. What she did was to travel 500 years into the past.
She joined a clan of Niutachi, a First People tribe who lived in what is now called Missouri.
She didn't know how she'd traveled in time.
She did know that if she didn't get back to her own time and prevent it, her husband, Steven, would be murdered.
But how could she ever get back to her own time when she didn't even know how she had gotten to this one?
For nearly three years she lived there.

Finally available! The long-out-of-print story that inspired the famous cult film of the same name!

“I grew up on Edgar Rice Burroughs when he was still writing new Tarzan and John Carter books. I loved this story, and if Burroughs is your cup of tea, you will love it, too.” —Forrest J Ackerman

Dinosaur Valley Girls is a fantasy spiced with comedy, telling the tale of Tony Markham, magically zapped across time to a mythical valley populated by sexy cavewomen, brutish cavemen and, of course, dinosaurs.

In this book you will meet:

Tony Markham—To meet the woman of his dreams…he had to enter to enter a barely-survivable nightmare world.

Beeg-Mak—From the moment he met the man from the future, he knew they were destined to be mortal enemies.

The Cavemen—A band of cruel brutes, to whom women were fit only for sex and drudgery.

Hea-Thor—A mighty warrior, she had pledged to help him return to his world…even though she knew another woman’s arms awaited him.

The Dinosaur Valley Girls—Repulsed by the crude, violent ways of the Cavemen, they found sanctuary in a hidden cavern deep within the valley.

Murderous Dinosaurs—Reptilian monstrosities, they were feared by even the most savage predators who roamed the dawn-age jungles.

“Campy and unpretentious ... Yet its precise lack of seriousness is what makes the story enjoyable. Dinosaur Valley Girls is not without its comedic moments—especially the scene where the cavemen dance with a straw effigy of one of the cavewomen. It gets the job done.” —Buzzy.com

Based on Glut’s original uncut version of the movie, this new edition of Dinosaur Valley Girls includes never-filmed scenes from, and scenes entirely left out of, the screenplay

It is the future, and humankind has spread to the stars. But hundreds of years of peace have atrophied their aggressive instincts. Then warlike aliens, the Volvnians, swoop out of nowhere and begin attacking the human planets, conquering them with ease.

Earth and its remaining colonies quickly start a genetic engineering program to produce warriors to defend the colony worlds and retake the planets they have already lost. Battle rages across the stars.

Tomas and Jon are engineered, not to fight, but as support staff. Tomas is an artist who creates everything from inspiring murals to medals and insignia. Jon is engineered to be only five feet tall so he can clean a narrow tube essential to the hyperdrive.

When their battleship is destroyed by the Voles, Tomas and Jon find themselves the only survivors, marooned over a colony world the Voles have conquered. Furious, frightened, with no training for battle, and Jon too short to even reach the controls of any of the of the heavily armored battlesuits, these two men—one an artist the other engineered for a single cleaning job—swear revenge on the Voles and to liberate the whole planet.

"Platt's situations are well-detailed and carefully thought out. His plot moves along nicely, and his prose is consistently readable. He tells the story of two congenital nonentities who find themselves the last survivors of an Earth-ship full of warriors which is destroyed by an extraterrestrial race, the Voles. The heroes are forced to land what’s left of the ship on a Vole-occupied world. This, and their subsequent efforts against the Voles, is the story. I was never once bored." —Paul Walker, Luna Monthly

"Enjoyable scifi adventure, with some interesting science." —Goodreads

“Platt’s work demonstrates undeviating clarity, pulp-magazine plotting instincts, and a sure inclination to offend. [Here is] a substantial look at the death of an unnamed city and of the crisis-ridden America surrounding it.” The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Night is falling on humankind. Urbanization has reached its limits. The birth rate plummets. Driven by technology, city life becomes an orgy of sensation - until it crashes. The birth rate plummets, and tough clans of rebels are left roaming through an urban wilderness where giant, empty buildings stand as monuments to the unborn.

It is a world waiting to end, and Michael has a plan to help it along…

“Platt's theme that the City is killing man, mentally and physically, is very valid today. An uneasy work, but … passages will move the understanding reader beyond what is often expected from sf. …Recommended.” Vector: Science Fiction Review

“Completely weird.” – Tampa Florida Tribune

”Without a doubt Platt’s best, the sardonic lift and wild irony of authentic terror” —Michael Moorcock

“A vivid, gripping nightmare.” —Alfred Bester, Hugo & Nebula winner

“Suicide rock concerts, abandoned subdivisions scoured by gun-toting vigilantes, the pleasure palace, and a neighborhood-rage ending all intensify Platt's study of interpersonal relationships. Unfortunately for all of us, little has been done to address the issues raised by Platt; only the names have been changed to protect the guilty.” —Amazon Customer

“The book has frightening power because so many of the elements of this future society are here today. And the question it raises is: is this really our world-to-be? Or can a new, better society be formed from the debris of our present state?” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram

“A great read. It packs a nifty little punch. Platt must have had a time machine or a crystal ball when he wrote this, the economic and social malaises he touches upon (which led to the decaying and dysfunctional city he envisioned) are eerily present in the here and now.” —Amazon Customer

Fifty years before Chinese ghost cities, Platt was the only science-fiction writer to imagine a diminishing birth rate, and its consequences.

In the grand tradition of Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land, here is the funny, tragic tale of a machine that fell to Earth—and became a hero to everyone who crossed his path.

"An advanced android develops a glitch in its program and starts acting like a cybernetic Messiah. Less Than Human takes aim at a variety of targets, from Rambo politics to '50s nostalgia to cliched SF plots, and manages to be both funny and frightening, often by turns on the same page. A strong satire, often quite pointed — a commodity much in demand these days." —Newsday

“Delightful, clever, humorous, and a damned good story... It’s a great novel.” —Piers Anthony, author, The Xanth series

Can a renegade android and two refugees from the fifties stop the most powerful man on earth? Stay tuned... Burt is a trillion dollars’ worth of android—with a ten minute gap in his programming that renders him virtually useless to his creators, Still, since coming to Earth, he has managed to find a snappy new set of clothes, a cure for cancer, and a girlfriend.

Now Burt’s made some really amazing discoveries about himself and his adopted home. Discoveries ranging from the amazing Presidential Robot to mechanized sex to mutant wildlife in Lake Michigan to the truth behind kill-crazed New York City cops.

Discoveries that are going to make life a lot harder for the Chief Programmer and the powers that be ... and a lot more deadly for Burt and his newfound friends.

“Science fiction of the absurd. An android is grown on the moon by Earth scientists following instructions from aliens, while below a despotic government strives to rule a decayed, rubbled, chaotic world.The android escapes, but has a tiny gap in its programming... It reaches New York, meets the girl, the hippies... It invents defenses against the racist, reactionary, ruthless police and... Well, there are a lot of side- bars and bits of plot business - funny and savage - along the way. I love it." —Science Fiction Review

“Funny, fast-paced, and enjoyable. Those without a sense of humor can skip it in favor of some square-jawed space epic—at their loss.”