(Old, unable to leap tall buildings in a single bound...)

I've moved to offering pdf files for personal reading rather than the old online text. Keep in mind these novels are copyrighted, but free to download and circulate among friends. At several megabytes, they may take an irritating moment or two to download and open , depending upon your system resources, and you do need a free Adobe Reader to open the file. There's a link to Adobe's site in Links.

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Site Introduction: Author's note...

The what and why of dark fiction...

Personalized fiction. Which character would you like to replace with your own name?

Published Novels

Timequest Trilogy and Silent Galaxy, published by Nordon's Leisure imprint in '81, trilogy reprinted by Dorchester in '85. Liquid Diet, published by Berkley's Diamond imprint in '92. 

All recent, unpublished novels listed below, 6x9 hardcover, paperbacks, and free downloadable pdfs, are available from Lulu.com. Free reads available online at this site as well. Feedback, positive or negative, is welcome and eminently useful. Click the little mailbox at the bottom of this page and say 'hello'.

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Three published novels rewritten and updated. Includes the independent novel Battlefields of Silence, original title for Silent Galaxy. You'll find a hyperlink to a review of Battlefields in Links at the bottom of this page.

Covers by Chris Hosking

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Originally published by Berkley Diamond in November, 1992. A unique twist on the vampire theme.

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Nine unpublished novels

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Nonfiction, the product of a veritable lifespan of thought and study. Want to live forever, a child forever at play in infinite fields of experience that never end? This peculiar notion, an implication within the field of quantum physics, scared the daylights out of me when I first encountered it ages ago. I'd prefer oblivion, although mortal existence renders the value or meaning of life moot. Immortality doesn't improve the situation. It just suggests that we'd best know the rules of a game we have no choice but to play.

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A group of clueless teenagers embark upon a perilous R-rated journey through the night! Girls in peril! Clueless boyfriends!

Oh, how original!

Actually, it might be as an interactive novel, fiction for us adults with adolescent mentalities. Okay, so the story is severely tongue-in-cheek, oozing prurience without the depressing slasher body-count typical of the genre.

Seven bored teenagers on a beach are offered an adventure of a lifetime by a stranger stepping into the light of their campfire in the depth of the night. Run a gauntlet, is his challenge. Survive and return to collect treasure given in advance to be buried anywhere along the beach. Survival rate is guaranteed to be fifty-fifty for each of the volunteer contestants. To boot, the game host invites a violent attack by scoffers and proves to the group that he is alien, or super-human, and has the power to follow through on all he promises.

He promises a very interesting experience for all, but is it for real?

Who in their right mind would accept such an offer? A gold bar and a pouch of high-grade cut diamonds worth a total of one half million dollars sweetens the pot. An identical treasure is offered to all, all to be buried in the night and retrieved before dawn-- by those who survive.

A gateway appears in the night, worlds within which to venture to begin game that multitudes will watch, albeit not likely human multitudes. Alliances are struck. The contestants make their choice. Treasures are buried.

The game has begun.

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A hyperlinked list of the novels on this site

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All of the 'multiverse' novels, Timequest Trilogy Revisited, Gods of Platonia and Liquid Diet in 6x9 hardcover and paperback format available in one convenient Lulu Storefront.

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Four current novels under construction

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Email: wgtedford@mchsi.com