Lisa Mason's classic cyberpunk about an ambitious young mediator who must confront a terrifying presence haunting her telelink. From the author of Summer of Love and The Gilded Age.High above the dangerous streets of post-quake San Francisco Island, mechanically modified professionals link minds in a cybernetic telespace to push through big deals and decisions at lightning speed. But unexplained telelink blackouts and bizarre hallucinations have marred mediator Carly Quester's debu...

Genius. Visionary. Madman.Nikola Tesla (1856--1943) was the pioneering genius who invented the AC electrical system that powers our world to this day, as well as radio, remote control, the automobile speedometer, X-ray photography, the AND logic gate that drives all our computer systems, and countless other devices and precursors to devices such as cell phones, television, and the Internet that we so effortlessly use today.Strikingly handsome and charismatic, fluent in half...

My Charlotte: Patty's Story is a short, sweet memoir about a life in a garden and one writer's first inspiration. Includes Lisa Mason's first story, "Arachne," published by Omni Magazine worldwide, by Hayakawa in Japan, and by Replik in SwedenReading Charlotte's Web inspired Mason to write her own novels at age eight. Her quest to discover the meaning of the spider led her to Jungian psychology, myths, and symbols. The classic myth of Arachne became the subtext of her first story, ...

On the exotic planet dubbed XYK-834, rogue human John Dixon has fallen in love with the alluringly alien NanaNini--but that puts him in bad with the corporate Network goons. Yet maybe the enigmatic Sparkle can set everything right.The Paul Di Filippo Presents series showcases the best in modern speculative fiction, personally selected by one of the most acclaimed authors and critics in the science fiction and fantasy fields.

A Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book.The year is 1967 and something new is sweeping across America: good vibes, bad vibes, psychedelic music, psychedelic drugs, anti-war protests, racial tension, free love, bikers, dropouts, flower children.An age of innocence, a time of danger. The Summer of Love.San Francisco is the Summer of Love, where runaway flower children flock to join the hip elite and squares cruise the streets to vi...

Two hundred fifty years ago, a purveyor of poisons and the creator of genetically modified organisms—Emirk Corporation—launched into the Moon's orbit around the Earth an artificial planetoid called Chrome.There, Emirk technicians created races of human beings blended with the genes of animals. They were called Blends.Now Luna Lightfoot—half puma, half woman, jewel thief—inadvertently hears a confidential conversation and witnesses a murder. She teams up with Terralina Rusta...

From the extinguished HomeWorld, the Settlers traveled across the stars to NewWorld with hopes of starting over again.In the war-torn nation of Illyria, Maya just wants to grow vegetables and live in peace. But she has a dark secret she can never reveal, especially to her beloved Yuri.Written in the tradition of Fritz Leiber's classic, "The Man Who Never Grew Young," and Martin Amis's Time's Arrow, uniquely told from a woman's point of view. The story's title is an homage t...

A New York Times Notable Book. A New York Public Library Recommended Book. The sequel to Summer of Love, A Time Travel (A Philip K. Dick award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book).The year is 1895 and immigrants the world over are flocking to California on the transcontinental railroad and on transoceanic steamships. The Zoetrope demonstrates the persistence of vision, patent medicines addict children to morphine, and women are rallying for the vote. In San Franci...

At her mother's urgent deathbed plea, Abby Teller enrolls at the Berkeley College of Magical Arts and Crafts to learn Real Magic. To support herself through school, she signs on as the superintendent of the Garden of Abracadabra, a mysterious, magical apartment building on campus.She discovers that her tenants are witches, shapeshifters, vampires, and wizards and that each apartment is a fairyland or hell.On her first day in Berkeley, she stumbles upon a supernatural multip...

The Omni Story That Sold To Universal Studios.A high-powered executive is about to lose his estranged teenage daughter to critical burn wounds and only desperate measures may save her life."Tomorrow's Child" started out as a medical documentary for the 3M Company, became a lead story published in Omni magazine, then sold outright to Universal Studios where the story is presently in development.The ebook includes Lisa Mason's 30-Day Blog, "The Story Behind the Story ...

"The Net" meets "Conspiracy Theory" with EarthquakesEmma "J" for Joy Pearce is at her editorial offices on the twenty-second floor of Three Embarcadero in downtown San Francisco when the long-dreaded next Great Earthquake devastates the Bay area. Amid horrific destruction, she rescues a man trapped in the rubble. In the heat of survival, she swiftly bonds with him, causing her to question her possible marriage to her long-time boyfriend.But Jason Gibb is not the charming ph...

Carly Quester was once a professional telelinker with a powerful and corrupt mediation firm. Now she lives as an outlaw among the underground in San Francisco, wanted by the authorities for dubious crimes against Data Control. But with a new assignment from a mysterious sengine—and the help of a standalone AI entity, Pr. Spinner—she seeks the fast-track back into public telespace and the Prime Time.Her assignment, however, comes with sticky strings attached. For it has made Carly t...