Novels

White Spawn

Adolescence can be terrifying. The monsters under the bed that frightened us in childhood are replaced by deeper fears, monsters all the more terrible because they just might be real. Kayla’s family has moved to a rural community, and things aren’t great at home. She feels cut off from the real world, and she’s always fighting with her new stepfather. Then one day she discovers a dying salmon on the bank of a stream…

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The 37th Mandala

The author of The Orchid Eater returns with a horror novel about mandalas and what they mean to people–including Michael Renzler, who is obsessed with them, and Elias Mooney, who believes they are the root of all evil.

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The Orchid Eater

Sunshine and surfing. Drugs and grenades. Streetwise preachers and serial killers. There’s a reason the words “troubled” and “youth” go together. Mike James may be young but it would be a stretch to call him troubled. He’s never been laid. He fears he never will be. The only fact of life that seems inevitable is […]

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Kalifornia

It is September 9, 2050. The great state of California is turning two hundred. And it is anything but coincidence that at midnight on the eve of the bicentennial, a child named Calafia Figueroa is born in a flagrant grab at publicity. Born…and then immediately kidnapped by a shadowy cult with its own ideas about […]

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Neon Lotus

A finalist for the 1988 Philip K. Dick award, Neon Lotus is a colorful adventure of Buddhist cosmology set in a futuristic Tibet. It begins with the assassination of a Tibetan scientist, creator of a “Bardo Device” that tags and follows souls from one life to the next. Identifying this soul’s next incarnation as the […]

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Dad’s Nuke

First published in 1985, this satiric suburban take on cyberpunk imagined a rapidly approaching future that is now rapidly dwindling in our rear-view mirror: The far-flung year of 1998. Against a background of anarchy and apocalypse, white suburban families have withdrawn into fortified enclaves, where they struggle to conform in a world where life has […]

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The Third Force: A Novel of Gadget

Written as a tie-in to the 1993 adventure computer game Gadget, The Third Force tells the story of Elena Hausmann, chief librarian at the Imperial Library and member of the titular Third Force, an underground resistance group attempting to overthrow Lord Paulo Orlovsky, dictator of the Empire. Elena’s discoveries about the mysterious green ore that is used by […]

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