John Walters
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A woman doomed to fall endlessly backwards in time unexpectedly finds an unusual and enigmatic romance. An elderly homeless man's debit card becomes a magical fountain of money. As predatory aquatic aliens invade the Earth, a formerly disabled young woman obtains the power to fight back. A terminal cancer patient discovers a dark fantasy world where he embarks upon a quest towards a tantalizing yet ephemeral goal.In these fast-paced but subtly-wrought...
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It is the late 1960s... In this sequel to "The One Thousand" a team composed of humans and benevolent aliens hunt for murderous, alien-possessed convicts with enhanced powers who have escaped from prison. They discover that this fellowship of psychopaths is preparing an elaborate party for hippies and other street people in a remote mansion built to simulate a Medieval castle, and that they are planning to slaughter everyone who attends. Now the seven...
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Technology has been developed that can reanimate corpses and simulate personalities after death. The wealthy use it as a means of carrying on their legacies. Sylvia Peddington, also known as Sinister Silvia, was a ruthless businesswoman in life. Now, shortly after her resuscitation, a hearse driver has delivered her to the elegant mansion of one of her competitors in life for a party to celebrate her coming out as one of the undead. Little does she...
4) Tim Duncan
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Tim Duncan towers head-and-shoulders above the NBA--in more ways than one. Find out how this three-time NBA champion almost didn't even make it to the gym! They are the heroes, the winners, the champions. They are the people whose exploits thrill and inspire us all. They are the World's Greatest Athletes, and this series celebrates their lives and accomplishments. Written by top national sportswriters, the volumes in this series feature outstanding...
5) Touchable
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After fleeing systemic intolerance on Earth, a lonely man on a far-flung interstellar outpost receives an exciting offer from a battle-jaded veteran - but there's a catch. She's lonely too, and wants a traveling companion, but only if he agrees to assimilate a hitchhiking alien life form.
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Millions of people follow college football with great passion, enjoying beloved traditions and exciting game action. For many players, however, college football is more than just fight songs and school spiritits a big step on the road to pro football. The truth is that only a select few make that transition, however. How is that situation affecting how college football is played and run? What changes are coming that will balance the scales? Or is...
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Mexico has conquered much of the territory that once belonged to the United States. Americans are confused and disoriented. A lone, dying Native American searches for his people, a race of people that no one else believes ever existed. If he doesn't find them soon it will be too late.
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As invading aliens unleash monsters resembling mutated Earth carnivores to devour humankind, an extended family gathers together in a mansion on an isolated bluff for a last stand. To survive, they must fight together against ravenous beasts attacking from land and sea.
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After a rebellion aboard a starship sent to colonize a new world is put down, the rebels are rendered immobile around an orbiting satellite. However, while the starship officers and crew oversee the initial stages of the nascent outpost, the rebels use virtual reality technology to invade their communications and initiate a propaganda campaign designed to turn the colonists against their erstwhile leaders.
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"Just seconds left . . . they bring the ball upcourt . . . here's the shot . . . it's good! Game-winner!" Any sports fan knows the excitement of watching or listening to sports. The people who create those shows, behind the microphone or behind the scenes, are part of an exciting profession. They combine talent, technical and business knowledge, and a love of sports to fill the airwaves year-round. Whether you have a great radio voice, a face made...
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Heroes aren't always as they seem; often they are ordinary people reacting to circumstances beyond their control or pursuing the only option open to them. In this eclectic collection, reclusive old folks take on powerful cyborg bodies to combat ferocious invading aliens; a man near death uses cutting-edge psychiatric technology to journey into his memories and come to grips with crucial decisions from his past; a dead woman travels halfway around...
13) Rainfall
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Escaping a death sentence on a starship, three refugees come across a stone city that has been mysteriously abandoned. With a torrential rainstorm fast approaching, they become aware of a horrific menace lurking in tunnels beneath the city streets.
15) Hive Minds
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In the near future, a couple seeks to evade societal confusion by joining a commune based upon sharing and solidarity. However, the once free-thinking members become oppressed by authoritarian leadership and investigating governmental agencies. As the escalating situation becomes increasingly restrictive and intolerable, the couple plans an escape.
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Leon Wolf, an elite quarterback on a Super Bowl-bound football team, suddenly discovers that he has telepathic ability. At first, it merely seems an advantage in the game, as he can read the minds of his opponents and teammates and anticipate their moves. However, he is then approached by a representative of the mysterious Telepathic Guild and presented with a life-changing proposition.
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While browsing through items at the estate sale of an eccentric anthropologist, a young man happens upon a pair of goggles that allows him to see a race of otherwise invisible tiny humanoids. His roommate steals the goggles, uses them to capture some of the little people, and after they die fashions a bracelet out of their skulls. Neither is prepared for the angry miniature searchers who come looking for their kin.
18) Time Zone
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In a world whose inhabitants routinely visit famous historical events, two jaded road-weary tourists take a holiday in an isolated retrograde enclave where time travel is forbidden.
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A government scientist develops a strain of marijuana that gives those who use it psychic sensitivity. From all over the country people are drawn to him, and he is determined to use the drug's special power to find a way for them all to time-travel back to the original Woodstock Music Festival.
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Hannah and a colleague from the Telepathic Guild have been investigating environmental issues in the Arctic. After the crash of their small plane in a remote wilderness area, they encounter a renegade who has forsaken human society and become telepathically linked to a savage wolf pack.