"The Chronicles of Baltimore" (1874) is, first and foremost, a chronicle of the city of Baltimore. The book is structured as a coherent account of city life, municipal events, street development, markets, port activities, fires, epidemics, local...
Richard B. Riddick has been in hiding for five years, evading bounty hunters and mercenaries sent to capture him. After killing a crew led by Toombs and stealing his ship he heads to New Mecca in the Helion System, after Toombs reveals his bounty...
In the tradition of Holmes pastiche, travel to Baker Street to finally hear the full stories of The Baron Maupertius, The Cutter Alicia, The Remarkable Disappearance of James Phillimore, The Red Leech, The Aluminium Crutch, The Abominable Wife,...
In a world 300 years in the future, shattered by war and holocaust, time travel may hold the answer to all of mankind’s problems. But when things go wrong. Will the world ever be right...
This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing that...
The Chyrsalids is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of God’s...
Bertie Krohn, only child of Perry Krohn — creator of TV's longest running space opera, Starwatch: The Navigators — recounts the story of the last months in the lives of his two friends: Thad Michelet, author, actor, and son of a literary titan;...