Author: Stephen Goldin
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN: 1452445052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
For the past five years, Jade Darcy has not seen another human being. A computer-augmented mercenary, she lives on the planet Cablans, a stopover point for traders from hundreds of worlds -- and a good place to meet customers who need the services of a skilled warrior. She turns down what she considers a suicide assignment: traveling to an enslaved world to assassinate one of its military leaders. But then she learns there's another human being on Cablans -- a human being with the potential to expose Jade's mysterious past, with possibly fatal results. All of a sudden, a suicide mission looks positively appetizing....
Jade Darcy and the Affair of Honor
Author: Stephen Goldin
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN: 1452445052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
For the past five years, Jade Darcy has not seen another human being. A computer-augmented mercenary, she lives on the planet Cablans, a stopover point for traders from hundreds of worlds -- and a good place to meet customers who need the services of a skilled warrior. She turns down what she considers a suicide assignment: traveling to an enslaved world to assassinate one of its military leaders. But then she learns there's another human being on Cablans -- a human being with the potential to expose Jade's mysterious past, with possibly fatal results. All of a sudden, a suicide mission looks positively appetizing....
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN: 1452445052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
For the past five years, Jade Darcy has not seen another human being. A computer-augmented mercenary, she lives on the planet Cablans, a stopover point for traders from hundreds of worlds -- and a good place to meet customers who need the services of a skilled warrior. She turns down what she considers a suicide assignment: traveling to an enslaved world to assassinate one of its military leaders. But then she learns there's another human being on Cablans -- a human being with the potential to expose Jade's mysterious past, with possibly fatal results. All of a sudden, a suicide mission looks positively appetizing....
The Universes of Stephen Goldin
Author: Stephen Goldin
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN: 1370913257
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Stephen Goldin is a science fiction andfanasy author whose professional career spans more than 50 years. This guide tells a little bit about him, lists his titles and explains what order his series should be read in, and gives links to where the reader can learn more about him and his work.
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN: 1370913257
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Stephen Goldin is a science fiction andfanasy author whose professional career spans more than 50 years. This guide tells a little bit about him, lists his titles and explains what order his series should be read in, and gives links to where the reader can learn more about him and his work.
Angel in Black
Author: Stephen Goldin
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN: 1452486905
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Five supernatural tales from a master storyteller. This book contains the stories: * For Services Rendered * Bride of the Wind * The Chenoo * In the Land of Angra Mainyu * The Masai Witch Visit the Shop, where the mysterious proprietor will take you on journeys into the second sphere--a land of nightmares, the mystical realm where legendary creatures battle for the souls of humans, and where every victory has its price. But do you dare NOT pay?
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN: 1452486905
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Five supernatural tales from a master storyteller. This book contains the stories: * For Services Rendered * Bride of the Wind * The Chenoo * In the Land of Angra Mainyu * The Masai Witch Visit the Shop, where the mysterious proprietor will take you on journeys into the second sphere--a land of nightmares, the mystical realm where legendary creatures battle for the souls of humans, and where every victory has its price. But do you dare NOT pay?
And Not Make Dreams Your Master
Author: Stephen Goldin
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
In the near future, Dream broadcasting has become the latest entertainment medium. Wearing a Dreamcap while you sleep enables broadcasters to send Dreams directly into your unconscious mind, giving you an entertainment experience as intensely real as though you'd been there yourself. Wayne Corrigan is a performer at Dramatic Dreams, one of the smaller broadcast studios in the Los Angeles area. Janet Meyers, the lady Wayne's in love with but is too shy to tell her, is another. A third colleague is Vince Rondel, a genius of the art, a so-called Master Dreamer with enough imagination to create and populate entire worlds within their minds and project them to the audience. Vince is the superstar of the studio, though he doesn't seem pretentious about it. He does have other problems, though, like a domineering mother who's a religious zealot. When a mysterious malfunction occurs, Wayne is called on to enter a Dream started by Vince. Once inside, he finds a situation run wild and people enslaved by Vince, who seems bent on self-destruction. Now, tens of thousands of people--including Janet, who's in the audience that night--are in danger of dying or going insane unless Wayne can find some way to wrest control of the Dream away from Vince. And Not Make Dreams Your Master is a wild, inventive ride through the nightmare mind of a madman.
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
In the near future, Dream broadcasting has become the latest entertainment medium. Wearing a Dreamcap while you sleep enables broadcasters to send Dreams directly into your unconscious mind, giving you an entertainment experience as intensely real as though you'd been there yourself. Wayne Corrigan is a performer at Dramatic Dreams, one of the smaller broadcast studios in the Los Angeles area. Janet Meyers, the lady Wayne's in love with but is too shy to tell her, is another. A third colleague is Vince Rondel, a genius of the art, a so-called Master Dreamer with enough imagination to create and populate entire worlds within their minds and project them to the audience. Vince is the superstar of the studio, though he doesn't seem pretentious about it. He does have other problems, though, like a domineering mother who's a religious zealot. When a mysterious malfunction occurs, Wayne is called on to enter a Dream started by Vince. Once inside, he finds a situation run wild and people enslaved by Vince, who seems bent on self-destruction. Now, tens of thousands of people--including Janet, who's in the audience that night--are in danger of dying or going insane unless Wayne can find some way to wrest control of the Dream away from Vince. And Not Make Dreams Your Master is a wild, inventive ride through the nightmare mind of a madman.
Ghosts, Girls, and Other Phantasms
Author: Stephen Goldin
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN: 1452405913
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Book Description
GHOSTS, GIRLS, & OTHER PHANTASMS is a comprehensive collection of Stephen Goldin's solo short fiction, containing most of the stories from his earlier collection THE LAST GHOST AND OTHER STORIES. (The "Angel in Black" stories have been broken out into their own volume.) It includes some of his best-known stories, such as the Nebula Award finalist story "The Last Ghost" and the oft-anthologized "Sweet Dreams, Melissa." The complete Table of Contents lists: Sweet Dreams, Melissa The Girls on USSF 193 Nice Place to Visit When There's No Man Around Xenophobe Grim Fairy Tale Of Love, Free Will, and Gray Squirrels on a Summer Evening Stubborn But As A Soldier, For His Country The World Where Wishes Worked Apollyon Ex Machina Prelude to a Symphony of Unborn Shouts Portrait of the Artist as a Young God The Last Ghost Haunted Houses The stories in this book run the gamut from humor to pathos, and demonstrate the evolution of a prolific writer in the speculative fiction field.
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN: 1452405913
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Book Description
GHOSTS, GIRLS, & OTHER PHANTASMS is a comprehensive collection of Stephen Goldin's solo short fiction, containing most of the stories from his earlier collection THE LAST GHOST AND OTHER STORIES. (The "Angel in Black" stories have been broken out into their own volume.) It includes some of his best-known stories, such as the Nebula Award finalist story "The Last Ghost" and the oft-anthologized "Sweet Dreams, Melissa." The complete Table of Contents lists: Sweet Dreams, Melissa The Girls on USSF 193 Nice Place to Visit When There's No Man Around Xenophobe Grim Fairy Tale Of Love, Free Will, and Gray Squirrels on a Summer Evening Stubborn But As A Soldier, For His Country The World Where Wishes Worked Apollyon Ex Machina Prelude to a Symphony of Unborn Shouts Portrait of the Artist as a Young God The Last Ghost Haunted Houses The stories in this book run the gamut from humor to pathos, and demonstrate the evolution of a prolific writer in the speculative fiction field.
Assault on the Gods
Author: Stephen Goldin
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 659
Book Description
Starship captain Ardeva Korrell is used to fighting prejudice, both because she's a woman in what's normally a man's line of work and because she's from a world with a misunderstood religion. But now, on a trading mission to a backwater planet, she finds herself with another kind of fight on her hands; she and her small crew must battle an army of robots and defeat the tyrannical, god-like beings who have enslaved the native population. The task before them is straightforward: to storm the gates of Heaven itself!
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 659
Book Description
Starship captain Ardeva Korrell is used to fighting prejudice, both because she's a woman in what's normally a man's line of work and because she's from a world with a misunderstood religion. But now, on a trading mission to a backwater planet, she finds herself with another kind of fight on her hands; she and her small crew must battle an army of robots and defeat the tyrannical, god-like beings who have enslaved the native population. The task before them is straightforward: to storm the gates of Heaven itself!
Quiet Post
Author: Stephen Goldin
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN: 1311801936
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
From the author of POLLY! and TREK TO MADWORLD comes a truly bizarre comedy of outlandish proportions. The Quasiverse: A land that’s a combination of Oz, Wonderland, Discworld, and general surreality, where anything can happen and often does; a land of snow globe mines and french fries plantations; a land where bossy birds can have teeth and locks can be very particular about how you stick a key in them; a land where you never know what color the sky will be when you wake up in the morning and where murder victims can be only randomly dead. Martia Rosenthal is escaping from a bad love affair, and enlists for a diplomatic assignment in the Quasiverse. With the combination of her wealth and the position of sub-legate, she’s assured it will be a quiet post. But she reckons without the vagaries of this bizarre world, where the unusual nature of her friends, as well as her enemies, threatens to end her sanity, if not her very life. Quiet Post is an absurdist comedy with surprises around every turn and smiles never far from your lips.
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN: 1311801936
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
From the author of POLLY! and TREK TO MADWORLD comes a truly bizarre comedy of outlandish proportions. The Quasiverse: A land that’s a combination of Oz, Wonderland, Discworld, and general surreality, where anything can happen and often does; a land of snow globe mines and french fries plantations; a land where bossy birds can have teeth and locks can be very particular about how you stick a key in them; a land where you never know what color the sky will be when you wake up in the morning and where murder victims can be only randomly dead. Martia Rosenthal is escaping from a bad love affair, and enlists for a diplomatic assignment in the Quasiverse. With the combination of her wealth and the position of sub-legate, she’s assured it will be a quiet post. But she reckons without the vagaries of this bizarre world, where the unusual nature of her friends, as well as her enemies, threatens to end her sanity, if not her very life. Quiet Post is an absurdist comedy with surprises around every turn and smiles never far from your lips.
Shrine of the Desert Mage
Author: Stephen Goldin
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 815
Book Description
Starting from the fabled holy city of Ravan, two paths diverge that will take their respective travelers to the farthest reaches of Parsina. The black-hearted thief Hakem Rafi comes into possession of the ultimate power of evil, while the storyteller Jafar al-Sharif and his daughter Selima begin a longer involuntary journey that will test the limits of their ingenuity. But first, they must fool the world's greatest wizard into believing that they, too, are practitioners of the mystic arts. Thus begins the Parsina Saga, a journey through a world of djinni, flying carpets and high adventure in exotic realms -- with the fate of the world at stake.
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 815
Book Description
Starting from the fabled holy city of Ravan, two paths diverge that will take their respective travelers to the farthest reaches of Parsina. The black-hearted thief Hakem Rafi comes into possession of the ultimate power of evil, while the storyteller Jafar al-Sharif and his daughter Selima begin a longer involuntary journey that will test the limits of their ingenuity. But first, they must fool the world's greatest wizard into believing that they, too, are practitioners of the mystic arts. Thus begins the Parsina Saga, a journey through a world of djinni, flying carpets and high adventure in exotic realms -- with the fate of the world at stake.
Mindsearch
Author: Stephen Goldin
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN: 1456440551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The exciting sequel to Mindflight.On the planet Iwagen, Richard and Mara Cheney have taken over their late parents' project, a hospice for telepausal Dur-ill telepaths, hoping to start a new telepathic generation.But someone else is interested in Dur-ill telepaths, too. A mind-being called the Mentad has been growing on Dur-ill worlds, absorbing Dur-ill telepaths into itself and becoming a collective consciousness with many bodies. It learns about the Cheneys' hospice and stages a deadly raid. When his sister is taken by the Mentad, Richard must seek the aid of the Terran Intelligence Agency, the very group responsible for trying to kill his parents. With Agency assistance,Richard will stop at nothing to free his sister and the others from the Mentad's clutches.
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN: 1456440551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The exciting sequel to Mindflight.On the planet Iwagen, Richard and Mara Cheney have taken over their late parents' project, a hospice for telepausal Dur-ill telepaths, hoping to start a new telepathic generation.But someone else is interested in Dur-ill telepaths, too. A mind-being called the Mentad has been growing on Dur-ill worlds, absorbing Dur-ill telepaths into itself and becoming a collective consciousness with many bodies. It learns about the Cheneys' hospice and stages a deadly raid. When his sister is taken by the Mentad, Richard must seek the aid of the Terran Intelligence Agency, the very group responsible for trying to kill his parents. With Agency assistance,Richard will stop at nothing to free his sister and the others from the Mentad's clutches.
Eternity Brigade
Author: Stephen Goldin
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Hawker was a good soldier -- so good, in fact, that the Army asked him and his buddies to sign on for an extended hitch. What they couldn't know was that the extension would last forever. Century after century, war after war, Hawker and his comrades were re-animated over and over to fight on alien planets with ever more advanced weapons. The reasons for the wars were incomprehensible, but that didn't matter. All that counted was the fighting itself. From incarnation through incarnation, one goal remained in Hawker's mind. Somewhere, somehow, there had to be a way out of the loop. And he was determined to find it.
Publisher: Parsina Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Hawker was a good soldier -- so good, in fact, that the Army asked him and his buddies to sign on for an extended hitch. What they couldn't know was that the extension would last forever. Century after century, war after war, Hawker and his comrades were re-animated over and over to fight on alien planets with ever more advanced weapons. The reasons for the wars were incomprehensible, but that didn't matter. All that counted was the fighting itself. From incarnation through incarnation, one goal remained in Hawker's mind. Somewhere, somehow, there had to be a way out of the loop. And he was determined to find it.