These three Vic Powers stories present hard-boiled dysfunctionality at its most intense and brutal best. These are not tales for the easily squeamish, or those who want to spend their hours leisuring in countryclub-style mystery puzzlers. These are the darkest of excursions into taut, tough, nasty crime and noir excesses, featuring a flawed and violent hero whose life leads him on a one-way ride down into the very depths of his own demonic hell! These are the back alleys of the human...
In the not-so-distant future, men have come to Mars to escape the oppressive Earth government. Ryan is an agent for a super-secret government agency, the Department of Control (DOC), and has always been willing to do whatever his masters want of him. But on Mars, everything is different, and all that Ryan does is read books: hardboiled, noir crime paperbacks dating from the last century. In fact, such works are read and collected by everyone on Mars, even serving as a medium of exchange. Why? Is...
He was Gaetano Salvidienus Rufus, better known by most simply as The Sicilian. He had been raised by the Greek, Apollodorus, upon the Mediterranean island of Sicily after his father Quintus Salvidienus Rufus had been executed by Mark Antony as a traitor, even though his father had secretly been working for the young Roman prince, Octavian.<P> Octavian, who was the nephew, adopted son—and heir to the Great Julius Caesar.<P> Caesar had been assassinated and soon afterwards had become...
The fifth issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine – a special Sherlock Holmes Fiction Issue – features an amazing new Holmes short novel by Carla Coupe, «The Adventure of the Haunted Bagpipes,» plus great Holmes stories and features by Bruce I. Kilstein, Mark Wardecker, Gary Lovisi, Paula Volsky, Marc Bilgrey, Stan Trybulski, Len Moffatt. Robert Eighteen-Bisang, Lenny Picker, Alan McCright, and M J Elliott. Our biggest issue ever, at 196 pages!
A Scientific Romance inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter Series and set upon the faraway planet of Ares, The Mind Masters is the fourth volume in this great new series of sword-and-planet adventures!
A Scientific Romance inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter series and set upon the faraway planet of Ares, The Time Masters is the fifth volume in this great new series of sword-and-planet adventures!
John Kirk of Ares – a hero very much in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' interplanetary romances – returns in the third book in the series! <P> PRAISE FOR BOOK 1: «It’s been nearly a century since Edgar Rice Burroughs first enchanted readers with his tales of John Carter and Dejah Thoris on the planet Barsoom. Since then, generations of writers have tried to recapture Burroughs' magic: from Otis Adelbert Kline and Robert E. Howard to Leigh Brackett, Lin Carter, Andre...
John Kirk of Ares – a hero very much in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' interplanetary romances – returns in the second book in the series! <P> PRAISE FOR BOOK 1: «It’s been nearly a century since Edgar Rice Burroughs first enchanted readers with his tales of John Carter and Dejah Thoris on the planet Barsoom. Since then, generations of writers have tried to recapture Burroughs' magic: from Otis Adelbert Kline and Robert E. Howard to Leigh Brackett, Lin Carter, Andre...
