Earth sent out a fleet of starships in the year 2455. They were bound for Proxima but ended up broken down in the Antares Star System. Shoddy workmanship prevailed to save money for the Guild. They managed to land on Chimera. The ships never to off again and the stranded population had to survive or die. One thing - they had to live under the iron fist of the Guild. What a burden.Years ensued and the burden get any less onerous. Into an already strained society Mhel'Sargonus was bo...

Tim Conley’s Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art. Conley argues that the works of James Joyce, often thought difficult and far from practical, are in fact polymorphous meditations on this question. Examinations of traditional textual functions such as quoting, editing, translating, and annotating texts are set against the ...

Tales by the Light of the Moon Shadows is an anthology of 36 short stories that deal with some of the darker aspects of the human condition. It is the first book of three anthologies of short stories (The Hardwood Chronicles and Cherry Blossoms are the other two). This book deals with some of the 'hot button items' we modern humans would rather sweep under the rug, so to speak. Read & Enjoy!

Birthright Under a Sign is the first book in the Dark Moons on Chimera saga. Dark Moons is closely tied to the Rhumgold Sagas as they inhabit the same planets and contain some of the same people. Birthright is a four volume set that details the events and personages leading up to the occupying of the Triple Thrones of Theuniss. Read & Enjoy as our adventurers seek the ways and means of thwarting the machinations of the Guild.

Ronald Benoit has assembled a team of private investigators that he calls the Gravediggers. Their proficiency at rooting out corruption is noteworthy. They are usually hired for jobs too intense for others to tackle. When time is of the essence, Ronald and his team are there - in the middle of things. They get the job done - catch the criminals and defend the innocent.Crime Busting: Benoit Style is the fourth book in this series of six. In it Benoit and his team of Gravediggers figh...

Dark Moons on Chimera is a four part compendium that tells the stories of triplets (Kn'dra, Kn'Ross and Kn'Rose) who are born under a dire sign of danger and intrigue. The problem being there was only supposed to be one heir - not three. The other problem was an ancient alien curse spoken by the Marconians (original inhabitants of the Antares Star system. This curse told of Triple Thrones upon which the children would sit. King Wagamar, the triplets' father, decreed that the curse would no...

Margo Bryant is a young, brash reporter in New York City. She is sent undercover to St. Croix to investigate the kidnapping of a society heiress and runs into trouble as she steps onto the tarmac. She finds herself pitted with elements that are out of her league. But along the way she finds someone who is willing to help her and finds the islands are really a good place to find romance.Caribbean Blue is the first in six books about this fact-finding sleuth. She gets in and out of tr...

Tim Conley's prose whipsaws between carefully observed realism and fantastic absurdity to create surreal, compact worlds. Whether they're sketching the familial fallout of a stentorian patriarch or teaching the eponymous dance moves to survivors of the apocalypse ("With the rise of the invertebrates, spinelessness has never been so hip"), these stories are all marked by precise, engaging prose, dark humour, and a demented imagination.The 24 stories in Dance Moves of the...

Sam Benton was on his first assignment as a rookie police officer in a suburb of San Francisco when an urgent call came in that a convenience store was being robbed and people held at gunpoint. He and his partner answered the call and both were shot. Sam was placed on life support and almost died - if not for the groundbreaking surgery and drugs that were used by a new physician on the docks. Sam's mother couldn't pay for the procedure but the doctor took him in anyway and started his trai...

The Varieties of Joycean Experience is a collection of ten essays that display the wide range and diversity of perspectives and critical approaches that can be drawn upon to enrich our readings of James Joyce’s works. With special attention to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, these essays explore an array of unorthodox problems that these notoriously demanding books pose for readers.The first two essays offer new ways of tackling those persistent bugbear quest...

The Varieties of Joycean Experience is a collection of ten essays that display the wide range and diversity of perspectives and critical approaches that can be drawn upon to enrich our readings of James Joyce’s works. With special attention to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, these essays explore an array of unorthodox problems that these notoriously demanding books pose for readers.The first two essays offer new ways of tackling those persistent bugbear quest...

Sheriff Tom Stanley is presented with a situation he can't explain. A mutilated body left beside the road needs to be placed in the proper perspective. What killed the jogger? How was he killed and who would perpetuate such an evil? Sheriff Stanley has to track the 'Beast' to its lair and explain to the community of Cardiff Glen that there is nothing supernatural involved here.Turns out students from the college are involved in the situation. Sheriff Stanley must track down the beas...