DC Green - free downloads of his best-selling book

DC Green is giving away free downloads of his best-selling book, ‘Erasmus James and the Galactic Zapp Machine’.

In a move that has stunned the publishing industry, children’s author DC Green is giving away free downloads of his best-selling book, ‘Erasmus James and the Galactic Zapp Machine’. ‘People say I’m crazy – and maybe I am,’ says Green, an award-winning author and surf journalist. ‘Yet I believe in giving things back. If these free books can help spread laughter and the joy of reading, I’ll be one happy writer.’ The free e-book downloads are available through DC Green’s website or through barrelbooks.com, his publisher’s site. Says Barrel Books publisher Sally Collins, ‘We hope this free offer will be taken up by thousands of readers. People can download and be laughing at the first chapter in 60 seconds. We’re happy for anyone to download this great story or also give it away for free. Schools will be able to download free e-books for every student then download our free teacher notes and student activities written by author and teacher, Matt Porter'.

About the E-Book

‘Erasmus James and the Galactic Zapp Machine’ is a funny fantasy about a boy who zapps to a world where humans, ninja horses and mutant chooks live in peaceful harmony. At least they all did … until Erasmus makes a deal with wacky King Reginald that could lead to galactic war. Published by Barrel Books two years ago, ‘Erasmus James and the Galactic Zapp Machine’ is a self-contained story suitable for children aged seven and up that has sold over 5,000 copies in Australia. The book has been critically acclaimed as ‘a brilliant debut novel’ by Bill Condon in Buzz Words and ‘an awesome read from the literary giant of surf journalism’ by ASL magazine.

About DC Green

DC Green has won awards writing for surf magazines around the world for over 20 years, and has more recently become the author of children’s books such as ‘Stinky Squad’ and ‘Three Little Surfer Pigs.’ Green spends ten weeks every year touring schools, many in remote areas, inspiring children with his writing tips, dramatic readings and ‘world’s worst rapping’ as the author describes his unique style of dancing. Says Green, ‘In the future, I hope Barrel Books will release all my books as free downloads so that, all around the world, the young and young-at-brain can enjoy the adventures of Erasmus James.’ ‘Erasmus James and the Galactic Zapp Machine’ can be downloaded at either www.barrelbooks.com or dcgreenyarns.blogspot.com.

Jaime Buckley of WANTED:HERO also highly recommends the works of DC Green, who just happens to be the famous gnome “Green” in the international eComic hit. “DC Green is a mate and as talented as they come! All of my own children have a hand signed copy of Erasmus James and the Galactic Zapp Machine, right next to their personal copies of their own fathers books. Even my 16 year old daughter still reads it at night to her siblings who can’t read yet…but love the stories DC crafts and weaves to expand their imaginations and dreams.” -Jaime Buckley.

Bella Swan in the new vampire Twilight puts Harry Potter under threat.

Yup Bella Swan could be whacking Harry Potter...
And worse still she's just an ordinary schoolgirl without a hint of wizarding powers.

TWILIGHT MOVIE TRAILER


{Kristen Stewart [below] plays Bella Swan a High School student who moves to the sleepy town of Forks. She becomes drawn to Edward Cullen, played by British actor Robert Pattison}













But Bella Swan is set to challenge Harry Potter in the battle for teenage hearts.

Swan is the fictional heroine of Twilight, a new Hollywood blockbuster set in the shadowy world of vampires.


The film is based on a series of best-selling fantasy novels by Stephanie Meyer, a Mormon housewife-turned-publishing phenomenon.

Meyer, 34, has been hailed as the new JK Rowling and her last book knocked Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows from the top of the best-seller list in the US, where the release of each new novel is greeted with near hysteria by her army of teenage fans.

The rivalry is set to deepen after movie giant Warner Bros announced it is delaying the November release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and showing Twilight in its place.

The film comes out in the US on November 21 and in the UK on January 9.

While Potter fans are bereft - some even threatening to boycott the film when it is eventually released next July - the move will stoke further interest in the Twilight franchise and make a star of its young lead, Kristen Stewart.

The 18-year-old plays Bella, a High School student who moves to the sleepy town of Forks, Washington State, to live with her father. She becomes drawn to Edward Cullen, a pale and mysterious classmate, only to discover he and his family are vampires. The pair then embark on an unorthodox romance and battle the forces of evil.

In a further Harry Potter link, Edward is played by British actor Robert Pattison, a 22-year-old best known as Harry's fellow Hogwarts pupil Cedric Diggory.

Stewart made her debut as a 12-year-old in Jodie Foster film Panic Room and has since appeared in the Sean Penn-directed Into The Wild and sci-fi thriller Jumper, but this is her first starring role.

If Twilight proves a box office hit - and Meyer's fans should make sure it does - a sequel will swing into production next year and all four books in the series will be set for the big screen treatment.

The Twilight series has sold close to 14 million copies worldwide - 10 million of those in the US - and have been published in 37 countries.

When the fourth instalment was published last month, launch parties across the US played hosted to thousands of screaming teenage girls and book stores held Potter-style midnight openings. There are over 100 internet fansites devoted to the books, Twilight-themed rock bands and clothing. Fans refer to themselves as 'Twilighters'.

In the UK, 20,000 copies were sold in the first 24 hours of sale - no match for Harry Potter, but still an impressive figure. Borders book chain described it as "phenomenally exciting... the closest thing we've had to Harry in recent times".

A spokesman for Meyer's UK publisher, Little, Brown, said the word-of-mouth had turned the novels into a hit: "The first book had no marketing attached to it so we had few expectations. We have been taken aback by how fast the books have jumped up the best-seller lists."

The books may revolve around the romance between the two lead characters, but parents can rest assured that the relationship is a chaste one. The author, a married mother-of-three from Arizona, says her Mormon beliefs inform her work, and she refuses to write about pre-marital sex.

The Adventures of Prince Ziph

The Adventures of Prince Ziph






If you're not a great fan of graphic novels here's one that just might grab your fancy. Once in a while one comes along that is innovative - even enchanting. This graphic novel is rather good.

Meet The Adventures of Prince Ziph

Ever imagined how Mars was millions of years ago when it had oceans flowing on its surface ? And what about Martians ? They had such busy lifes that life on Earth was later most on their fault. And what about the meaning of life ? Does God have a beard ? Does it matter ? And what does all this have to do with Area 51 ? Who built the Face on Mars ? Is Heaven a private club ? Is life after death real ? How boring is it ? Who runs the universe anyway and does this entity have weekends ? This and plenty of other crazy questions will be answered in this fantasy saga....
















But let's take this a bit further. This is a riotous and insightful romp through a lot of different worlds and a lot of different themes. There is candy for the eye and food for thought here. It isn't just a picture book.

More...

This book is available in English and Portugues and is available from Lulu.com


But Here is something really special about this novel and about the authors website. There is a graet section called Project History that is pretty scrummy. There are lots of pencil sketches and some great comparisons of the first sketches done in 1988 side by side with the book release sketches. This is just a wonderful insight into the creation of a graphic novel...




The Authors Website: Ziphcomics.com Which includes lots about this novel and the upcoming novel. Along with the early drawings and comparisons.



The book is currently available at Lulu in both print and download forms: Ziphcomics at Lulu

Hal Spacejock Series - Entire first novel free

There may be no free lunch for goofy hero Hal Spacejock, but his fans worldwide are about to be served a big helping of science fiction – for nothing! Fremantle Press and Western Australian author, Simon Haynes, are giving away complete online copies of the novel Hal Spacejock 1. To coincide with the release of the fourth book; Hal Spacejock: No Free Lunch, the first novel in the popular series will be available to download from June 2008.

Author Simon Haynes says there is a method to his madness.

“Science fiction readers are typically technologically savvy and familiar with E-books.

“They are often bloggers with many online connections and the spread of information across the online community is incredibly fast,” he said.

Haynes said he was keen to build an international following but in some countries his books were only available as an expensive import.

“Hal Spacejock 1 is now on its third reprint and I’ve proved there’s an audience for my particular brand of offbeat humour.

“By giving away the first novel as a free online download, I hope to reach a wider, international audience and, with any luck, get them hooked on the whole Hal Spacejock series,” said Haynes.

Although the practice is rare in Australia, free online books in the science fiction genre have been given away by overseas publishers such as Tor Books, HarperCollins and Baen with interesting results. Initial reports indicate that releasing “freebies” can lead to increased book sales.

According to Sales and Marketing Manager, Clive Newman, Fremantle Press was at first resistant to the idea of releasing a free online version of the novel.

“Giving away a free book, especially one that is on its third reprint, is not something we would normally contemplate.

“But this is a science fiction series and overseas readers aren’t going to buy the fourth novel, Hal Spacejock: No Free Lunch, if they haven’t even read the first,” he said.

Haynes also has his eye on the reluctant reader in the school system – especially boys. He said that while many potential readers may shudder at the thought of borrowing a book from the library, he hopes they may be more inclined to check out an E-book.

“If you’re a school librarian, a parent or an English teacher who wants a way to promote reading, you’ve really got nothing to lose by pointing kids in the direction of an online novel.

“I’m a parent and I figure that if my kids are going to spend more time in cyberspace then you’d better make books available to them there as well as in the school library,” he said.

The four Hal Spacejock books are a comic science fiction series that will be enjoyed by anyone who likes books by Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Tom Holt or Jasper Fforde.

To download your free copy of Hal Spacejock 1 go to Babel Tower or www.spacejock.com.au

The Hal Spacejock series is published by Fremantle Press and is available from all good bookstores and at Babel Tower Library or www.fremantlepress.com.au

About the author
Simon Haynes is the author of four Hal Spacejock novels, a number of articles on writing and publishing, and several short stories, one of which collected an Aurealis Award in 2001. Born in the UK and raised in the south of Spain, he immigrated to Australia with his family in 1983. He’s a founding member of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and lives in Perth with his wife and two children. His goal is to write fifteen Hal Spacejock books before someone takes his keyboard away.

Altered Carbon

Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan

Not for the faint hearted....

In a Hurry Synopssis

In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or “sleeve”) making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.

Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco, now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that treats “existence” as something that can be bought and sold. For Kovacs, the shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning. . . .


Altered Carbon is an extremely good example of the rising group of British Cyberpunk novels, as led by the likes of Michael Marshall Smith (this novel is very reminiscent of 'Spares'). It combines a great sci-fi setting and superb eye for intricate detail with breathtaking nihilistic thriller pace. Packed with shockingly violent action set pieces and embittered realistic characters, Altered Carbon is an incredibly involving read.

The novel leads off with a punch, as the cynic Ex-con Takeshi Kovacs and his partner get blown away very violently by the police in a raid. This highly irregular start is solved when the main plot idea of Altered Carbon is revealed: Human minds can now be uploaded into data networks, and then sent across the stars to be downloaded into new bodies.

Due to Kovacs' military background, he gets transported to earth and downloaded into an aging chainsmoker, in order to solve a murder case. An extremely rich three hundred year old businessman has been killed, and after his resurrection cannot remember why he has died. Kovacs is called onto the case, and
is drawn into a sordid mass of sex, violence and drugs revolving around the death.

This kick-start novel by Richard Morgan has done an sound job in creating a truly believable future world, full of bizarre and intriguing technological wonders and a run-down earth culture that begs for further exploration. The Language and superb prose punch throughout, and although the end is slightly off-pace, the novel as a whole is well worth the read.

Duainfey - The first of a two-book series

Duainfey

by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

In a Hurry Synopsis:

In a world separated by a thin border from the lands of the Fey, Rebecca Beauvelley knows that for her younger sister Caroline to make a marriage beneficial to their family, a husband must soon be found for Rebecca, despite her crippled and useless arm. When her father betroths her to a cruel northern lord, she runs away with the charming elder Fey Altamire. Too late, Rebecca discovers that Altamire's intentions are far from honorable and that she has become a sexual pawn in his rise to power among the Fey and human lands. The husband-and-wife writing team, authors of the "Liaden Universe" series (e.g., I Dare), begin a new series that blends the fantasy and romance genres in one seamless whole. Some steamily graphic sex scenes may limit this to an adult readership

More Detail

Duainfey (2008) is the first fantasy novel in a new duology. A hint on a breeze through the keleigh led the Queen of Viatura to send someone to investigate. The Woods Wise reluctantly returns to Xandurana and her queen to report.

The Barrens caused by the great war have healed and a new people have settled in the land. They do not appear to use kest at all, but have brought great bounty from the land. Their auras are beautiful and even intoxicating.

In this novel, Rebecca Beauvelly is the elder daughter of an Earl. She is unmarried due to her deformed arm and the shame that she had brought upon her house. Yet her father has found a suitable match for her and she is soon to marry. Her younger sister Caroline is eagerly awaiting her chance to come out in New London.

Her brother Dickon has been her protector from spiteful others for many years. He can't quite stop Caroline from making disparaging remarks, but he tries. His friend Ferdy is also Rebecca's friend.

Becca is helping prepare for a dance that her sister Caroline has persuaded their mother to hold. Caro can be very persuasive when she pouts, pleads and cries. Dickon comes with news about a stranger in the area, a Fey gentleman from the other side of the boundary.

Altimere is tall and very handsome, with buttery colored hair and amber eyes. He has come to talk to Ferdy's father about starting a breeding farm with Fey horses. Lord Quince has already breed a quarter-Fey mare that seems very smart, but not malevolent like the grandsire.

Sir Jennet Hale is Rebecca's fiance, In their only meeting, Sir Jennet seemed to be quiet-spoken, portly, a bit red in the face, and about her father's age. His previous wife being deceased, Sir Jennet needs another to hold his household.

Meripen Vanglelauf is a Woods Wise ranger. He has been asleep for nine thousand nights recovering from his wounds. He and Faldana Camlauf had been captured beyond the keleigh by the Newmen and horribly tortured. Meri had escaped, but Faldana had not.

In this story, Rebecca meets Altimere while seeking aid for a fallen friend. Altimere is well spoken and takes an instant liking to Rebecca. He compliments her on her riding and comments on her aura. At the ball, he dances the first set with her. Caroline is as quickly enamored of the Fey gentleman and tries to separate the two on several occasions.

Sir Jennet is furious that Rebecca had paid attention to another man and drags her to a chair and throws her in it. He hurts her deformed arm in doing so and seems to delight in her pain. Later, her father orders her to apologize to Sir Jennet.

Rebecca runs away from the marriage to Sir Jennet. Altimere rides with her and somehow nobody appears to observe her presence. Her brother rides right by her without noticing. She doesn't wonder about these happenings, but follows behind Altimere through the boundary, which the Fey call the keleigh.

Rebecca slowly notices her own deference to Altimere and her lack of self-will. When Altimere gives her a diamond bracelet to wear, she slips it on two-handed, but not without great effort. Afterward, she finds herself doing things totally against her will.

Meri is awakened from his recuperative sleep and taken to the Engenium, his cousin Sian. Neither he -- nor the chyarch who has been caring for him -- know why Sian has sent for him. And when he arrives at Sea Hold, Sian denies sending such orders.

Sian introduces Meri to a Newman living on her lands. The trees near his village are not doing well and Sian has no other ranger to send to the village. Meri knows his duty and goes with the Newman, but has to fight against the effects of his aura.

This tale develops into a story of political intrigue among the Fey. The current queen had won the throne after the great war weakened the Elder Fey. Queen Diathen is not herself Elder Fey and they view this situation as an abomination. So the Elder Fey are working on her downfall.

The story is actually two tales, one about Rebecca and the other about Meripen. They do not meet in this novel, but they are connected through Sian. Surely they will come together in the next volume of the series: Longeyes. Enjoy!

Highly recommended for Lee & Miller fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of exotic cultures, high magic, and great perseverance.

Try it => Chapters One to Nine

New Book: Marsbound by Joe Haldeman

Marsbound, a new novel by Joe Haldeman, was published earlier this month (Ace Books, 2008).

According to Locus Online, Marsbound, “possibly first of a trilogy, [is] about a teenaged girl whose family is among the first settlers on Mars, where she discovers aliens inhabiting underground caverns.”

A more detailed description appears on the cover flap of the new hardcover book: Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime--they’re going to Mars. Being picked from the lottery is considered an opportunity not to be missed, even though Carmen isn’t so sure she wants to bother with it anymore. After training for a year and preparing to leave on the six-month journey through space, she finds that the initial excitement has given way to nervous trepidation--and frustration.

Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from Earth. There are chores to do, lessons to learn, and oppressive authority figures to rebel against. And when she ventures out into the bleak Mars landscape alone one night, a simple accident leads her to the edge of death until she is saved by an angel--an angel with too many arms and legs, a head that looks like a potato gone bad, and a message for the newly arrived human inhabitants of Mars: We were here first.

According to Haldeman’s LiveJournal entry for January 11th, 2008, the book has a complex history: “The thing had three incarnations, and when I put them together I somewhat screwed up the chronology, so I'm carefully charting it out as I go along. (The incarnations -- first a novella version in Dozois's Escape From Earth anthology, where the protagonist is a teenager ["The Mars Girl"], then the novel itself, Marsbound, where the protagonist is older, being serialized in Analog right now, and a somewhat longer and more complex book version, recently changed to accommodate the sequel Starbound, which was not in my original plans.)”

Interestingly, Haldeman’s LiveJournal entry for February 15th, 2008, describes how he chose the title Marsbound. Other titles he considered included Menace From Mars, Mars Threat, Mars Giveth, and To Mars.

You can read an excerpt from the book Marsbound at publishing house Penguin’s website or through Amazon’s Online Reader.

Haldeman's original novella, “The Mars Girl,” which appeared in the anthology Escape From Earth: New Adventures in Space (2006) and was a finalist for the 2007 Locus Poll Award for Best Novella, was reviewed by John DeNardo at SF Signal, Paul Kincaid at The SF Site, and Elizabeth A. Allen at Tangent: Short Fiction Review.

The expanded novella, rechristened Marsbound, was published as a three-part serial in Analog in early 2008 and reviewed by Jason Sanford and the blog The Elephant Forgets.

The new full-length book, Marsbound (Ace Books, 2008), was reviewed by Paul Haggerty at SFRevu.

In reviewing the three incarnations of Marsbound, several critics have drawn similarities to Robert A. Heinlein's two juveniles, Red Planet (1949) and Podkayne of Mars (1963). Haldeman’s LiveJournal entry for May 19th, 2008, speaks to the issue and is worth reading in its entirety. Here’s a small piece: “My bathtub read currently is Heinlein's Podkayne of Mars. My next novel, Marsbound, has some superficial similarities, and I thought before it comes out I'd better reread the Heinlein one, to see what I might have unconsciously plagiarized, after 42 years. ... I'm sure some critics will claim that I stole all the ideas from the Heinlein book, but not if they actually read both of them."

For the technologically inclined, Marsbound can be purchased as an eBook through Fictionwise or Amazon's Kindle, and as an unabridged audiobook through Audible.com or Apple's iTunes.

A Vietnam veteran, amateur astronomer, and Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author, Joe Haldeman is an adjunct professor teaching writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. He and his wife, Gay, were Guests of Honor at ArmadilloCon 30, held this past weekend in Austin, Texas

Science fiction for children and teenagers

Unwind
by Neil Shusterman



The Knife of Never Letting Go
by Patrick Ness


Starcross
by Philip Reeve



Odin's Son
by Susan Price


The Resistance
by Gemma Malley



The best children's books have always had an element of science fiction. The Narnia books posited the existence of other worlds; Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials plays with the multiverse theory. Science fiction is an excellent stepping-stone between the fantasies of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood.

Increasingly, the burgeoning young adult or teen fiction genre not preoccupied with chick-lit or tales of deprivation is turning to SF, with dazzling results. Readers of these pages will know how striking I found Scott Westerfeld's Uglies, positing a society in which all children believe themselves hideous until at 16 they get radical plastic surgery to turn them into Pretties. Neal Shusterman is another American writer for 13+, and his novel Unwind goes much farther.

Unwind imagines a society in which parents who get fed up with their children can sign them up, secretly, to be “unwound” at 13: that is, taken away to have every part of them, from eyes to skin, donated to others. The decision to “abort retrospectively” is irrevocable, and when the clever, rebellious Connor discovers his fate, he plots his escape.

This is the kind of rare book that makes the hairs on your neck rise up. It is written with a sense of drama that should get it instantly snapped up for film, and it's satisfyingly unpredictable in that its characters change and realise things about each other in a credible way. Enforced organ donation isn't a new idea, but Unwind has the kind of anger that will appeal to teenagers.

Equally interesting is Patrick Ness's The Knife of Never Letting Go . The title and under-edited 479 pages made my children flatly refuse even to open it. However, this is a stunning debut and one that takes 100 pages before revealing that it's set on another world rather than the Wild West. The settlers are infected by a disease that affects only men and boys, so they must hear the “noise” of other men's thoughts - and those of animals. Although it ends on a maddening hook for the sequel, this is as compelling as it is original, and terrific for 14+.

For pure, stylish fun, Philip Reeve is hard to beat. I didn't ever get to grips with his bestselling Mortal Engines series, but this new one, which began with Larklight and continues with Starcross is too entertaining to miss. It has the twinkly, lugubrious humour of Le Petit Prince and Edward Gorey and is set in a universe where new planets can be reached by train. Art and his snotty sister Myrtle find that the hotel they are staying at slips back and forth in time. David Wyatt's illustrations match the elegance and brio of a fantastical conceit.

Susan Price's prize-winning Sterkarm trilogy was a savage and romantic time-travelling tale. The last part of her Odin trilogy, Odin's Son , is no less gripping but will probably appeal only to girls of 11+. Affie, the spoilt rich girl who got sold as a Bonder to pay off her father's debts escaped Earth to Mars with the strange girl Odinstoy and the child Gift. Odinstoy sacrificed herself to win the freedom of the remaining Bonders on Mars, and protect her son; but the blond boy has grown into an ugly, mentally handicapped young man. Is he truly the son of Odin, or is his conception even stranger? The answer isn't entirely satisfying but the boldness and inventiveness of Price's imagination is consistently impressive.

The Resistance by Gemma Malley is another well-written dystopian thriller tackling the price of longevity - but only if parents are prepared to let their children die instead Peter and Anna, first encountered in The Declaration, are now legal but continue to fight against adult authority as members of the resistance, infiltrating Peter's grandfather's corporation. There is a dramatic and heartfelt plea for “a real life, full of moments of joy, of anguish, of irritation, of fun”, which is well worth disaffected teenagers of 12+ reading.

But if you prefer your SF less preachy and more life-enhancing, the best is yet to come - the first winner of the Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition, Emily Diamand's Reavers' Ransom, is out in October. Many teenagers like SF because they are looking for new worlds to conquer rather than the dull old one their parents have messed up. Whether they will cope with quite as much spirit and charm as Lilly, as she navigates a Britain half-submerged by global warming, only time will tell: but if you think SF is only about machines battling with split infinitives in distant galaxies, think again.

Stalking the Vampire: A Fable of Tonight

Stalking the Vampire
A Fable of Tonight
A John Justin Mallory Mystery

Mike Resnick

Stalking the Vampire: A Fable of Tonight
by Mike Resnick

It’s Halloween, and John Justin Mallory’s partner, Winnifred Carruthers, has been so busy preparing for the biggest holiday of the year (in his Manhattan, anyway) that she seems short of energy and pale. Mallory is worried that she’s been working too hard. Then he notices the two puncture marks on her neck…

On this night when ghosts and goblins are out celebrating, detective Mallory must stalk the vampire who has threatened his assistant, Winnifred Carruthers, and killed her nephew. With the aid of Felina, the catgirl, Mallory and Carruthers investigate clubs and lairs that only seem to exist on this one night of the year.

His hunt takes him to Creepy Conrad's Cut-Rate All-Night Mortuary, where he questions the living and the dead; to the Annual Zombies' Ball, to learn more about the undead; to the Hills of Home Cemetery, where the vampire sleeps by day; and to Battery Park, where all of Manhattan's bats come to feed and sleep. Along the way he meets a few old friends and enemies, and a host of strange new inhabitants of this otherworldly Manhattan.



Locked in an intriguing battle of wits with the millennia-old vampire, Mallory has until dawn if he is to save his trusted partner

Reviews:

“Resnick's often-hilarious sequel to Stalking The Unicorn continues the offbeat investigations of PI John Justin Mallory, now a permanent resident of an alternate Manhattan....This time, his team includes Scaly Jim Chandler, a dragon with hopes of making it as a pulp author, and a vampire who prefers tomato juice to blood. Readers with a taste for supernatural whimsy will find much to enjoy here.” - Publishers Weekly







About Mike Resnick
Photograph: © Carol Resnick
Visit Mike Resnick online
at www.mikeresnick.com.

Mike Resnick has won an impressive five Hugos and been nominated for twenty-six more. He has sold fifty-four novels and more than two hundred short stories. He has edited fifty anthologies. His work ranges from satirical fair, such as his Lucifer Jones adventures, to weighty examinations of morality and culture, as evidenced by his brilliant tales of Kirinyaga. The series, with sixty-six major and minor awards and nominations to date, is the most honored series of stories in the history of science fiction.

See also Starship: Mutiny
(Book One of the Starship Series).
See also Starship: Pirate
(Book Two of the Starship Series).

Also Starship: Mercenary
(Book Three of the Starship Series).


New Dreams for Old, Ivory



and Stalking the Unicorn ..
(A John Justin Mallory Mystery).