From the seriously warped mind of author Barry B. Longyear. It's a world in which human engrams can be and are copied into bios that can be grown to resemble anything from movie stars to rats, and into mechanicals from lipstick-sized micros up to full-sized mechs. Although all self-aware AB's (Artificial Beings) in the United Kingdom had recently been granted full rights of citizenship, the crimes committed by and against AB's necessitated special laws and its own international branch of law enforcement: Interpol's Artificial Beings Crimes Division. The cases recounted in Jaggers & Shad: ABC...

Trade Paperback, Joe Torio Mystery, 413 pages. When Major Crimes Unit Commander Al Dockery finds himself dealing with three seemingly unrelated series of killings at the same time, he calls his invalided former partner, Joe Torio, out of therapy. Sgt. Torio may be just as crazy as the killers Dock needs to stop, but Joe Torio's brand of crazy catches killers. The trick in this case is not to lose Joe in the process.

Trade Paperback, Joe Torio Mystery, 300 pages. Det. Sgt. Joe Torio is committed to a hospital for those with anger management issues to try to shake the frame being fitted on a giant of a convicted serial killer there for a murder the killer couldn't have done. While there under cover as a patient, Joe learns that at least two different persons at that hospital, for unrelated reasons, are also trying to kill him. In this world, however, murder is mostly considered just a treatment setback, and the only one who believes Joe is a cop thinks Joe is Inspector Javert hot after Victor Hugo's Jean...

Writing Instruction: By award winning author Barry B. Longyear, a step-by-step course in developing the outlook, method, and skills that will enable you to write the best stories of which you are capable. About Barry B. Longyear's The Write Stuff . . . "Don't read this book. Please. You'll only make my job harder. You see, it's true that we receive about 700 manuscripts a month. But the truth is that of those 700, 600 of them can go right back. It's easy to tell the writer doesn't yet have the right stuff. But reading this book will put you miles ahead of the rest of the pack. And the more...