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World Without End
When an author writes a story, creates a world and the creatures in it, does the literary world actually come into being in some parallel universe? Joshua Gordon, creative writing professor and writer of pulp fiction thinks so and is in fact so convinced it is true that when he is diagnosed with a terminal illness he sets out to find a protege who he can convince to take over as the creator god of the world. He finds that protege in the person of John Fisher."
...Sufficient...
The title ...Sufficient... is taken from Matthew 6:34. "Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow will take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Stephen Mitchell discovers the true depth of that quote when none of the plans he makes ever seem to work out and he finds himself in the midst of the battle for equality on many fronts.
The Design
“Are the gods truly gods or just powerful humans?” The question still echoes through the city of Peshar even six hundred years after the coming of the gods. Garith Balal, a successful scribe and fair witness in the city, is pulled into the resistance to the gods through influence of a slave bought to satisfy his wife's social climbing desires. Alvis, the slave, a human from another world of the Cadeki empire, has roots in the planet Archlea where he is now a slave. He is a believer in “The Design”; the belief that all things in the universe are controlled to an unknown end by the Great Designer who created the universe.
Other Doors
Ben Fordham was a misfit destined to die in the gutters of L.A. until he found himself in a seedy bar trying to cadge a drink from an odd looking little fellow who claimed to be the best tattoo artist who ever lived. The next morning Fordham woke up with a beauty of a hang over, a beauty of a tattoo on his left forearm, and a beauty of a problem. He found himself chained to the slimy wall of a torch-lit dungeon with the threatening sound of soldiers' measured tread coming toward him--and his problems were just beginning.
Secrets and Doves
The title “Serpents and Doves” comes from the warning Jesus gave to his disciples as he sent them out to preach the gospel, knowing the dangers they were going into. He said “Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.” Stephen Mitchell learns first-hand what that warning means when he goes to a Tennessee church college in the midst of the turbulent sixties. He learns about friendship, war, protest, the sexual revolution, and civil rights.
DESIGN
Javi Holis, eldest son of a successful family of tapestry makers, joins a group of religious recluses. He discovers powers hidden in a collection of Mandala designs and spends his life learning how to use them in the service of the god called the Maker of All. When a technologically superior galactic empire invades the world of Javi Holis, the invaders are considered gods. The empire pacifies Archlea, unwittingly dispersing belief in “The Design” throughout the empire where that belief then flourishes. After six hundred years, the Empire of the Kadeki “gods” is collapsing. An Archlean fair witness (a notary public) goes to the slave auctions to buy a house slave and is manipulated into buying a particular slave. He has come to protect and preserve a book of Mandalai hidden by Javi Holis before his death. This is the Book of the Design, and it must be preserved at all costs.
Aliens Among Us
No trope may be as popular in pulp science fiction as the alien come to Earth. Now Pulp Empire celebrates the Aliens Among Us with ten new stories of alien invasion, abduction and action! Whether it is 70s exploitation action by Melvin L. Hadley, high-flying adventure by David Boop or G. Lloyd Helm's posse sent to stop an alien invasion, readers can find a thrilling story of alien encounter in these pages!
Borrowing a Moose Head from Cole Porter
In our time as members of the US Air Force we had lived in many places and gone through many things. We didn't expect that being stationed at Grissom AFB in Indiana would be the trial it turned out to be. We were leaving Germany, a foreign place, to come to middle America, supposedly home, but Grissom certainly didn't feel like home. Between the circus that seemed to run the town of Peru, the god-awful weather and the hostile locals we felt like we had moved into a war zone. But, military families make the best of what they are dumped into so we did our best.
Train Wheels, Flying Saucers and the Ghost of Tiburcio Vasquez
Most of the people in these stories are at least tangentially based on real humans. Big Dave was a fellow I worked with many years ago and his description in the stories is accurate. The reader should also notice that all these stories start and mostly end in a bar somewhere. I don't play adventure games but, I am told that most of them start in bars as well. There are still several Big Dave stories to be told, and I am working on them, but I just couldn't get them done in time to come out in this book. Many elements of these stories are true. The fun and the trick is to figure out what is true and what is fantasy.
Argosy Volume 2: Pulp Modern
Argosy is a revival of the classic pulp format for the digital age, publishing low-cost, quality pulp fiction in ebook format. The time is now. Strange things are happening across the globe. Four unwilling heroes are thrown into circumstances beyond their comprehension. Some react in good humor; others, with trepidation. Some will return scarred, others broken, and some will not return at all. Somewhere in New England, a man returns to the place of his nightmares to search for his older brother, missing for thirty years, while in Central Texas a man awakes with no memory of his identity and little of his past. Elsewhere in the Southern United States, two men stumble upon a secret best left untold, and in Auckland, New Zealand a man disappears without a trace. In this volume, four novelettes of modern pulp fiction, set in the modern day: The Beat of Heavy Wings by Kurt Newton Your Basic Plot by Curtis James McConnell Illegal Aliens by G. Lloyd Helm Hidden by Peter Glassborow
