Doom Spore (a DarkSF Series novel) is a 'summer movie in a book' - dark, chilling, and hugely creepy science-horror fiction in the tradition of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, They Walked Like Men, and The Thing. As it turns out (the author didn't know this when writing it in 2003-5) Doom Spore reflects a true phenomenon - the entomopathogen fungus family, which turns ants and other insects into suicidal robots (zombies) to help the fungus thrive while the helpless victim (e.g., a carpenter ant) suffers a prolonged and terrifying death right out of your worst nightmares. More on that true...

Praised by reviewers, Lantern Road* is a far-future adventure of a doomed love between a human and a gorgeous alien princess. In a galaxy where humans are hated and hunted like prey during the Inversion of Man*, their affair causes scandal that only ritual suicide can fix. While Lady Ramy is forced to take her life (but wait - you don't know the whole story until the end), Jory the Velvet Thief & Failure escapes to the stars - and an amazing adventure. *The title Lantern Road refers to the imperial highway circling Oba's great island in eternal night. Based on feudal Japan's...

Library Journal, in their 2003 review of the print edition, offered warm praise for this "fresh, original new approach to a timeless classic" and recommended it for large libraries everywhere. In its initial appearance as an e-book at Fictionwise, this novel sold thousands of copies and garnered over 400 reviews, almost all positive, most of them raves. (Synopsis follows at end below.) It's a soaring, imaginative science fiction novel in a well-established, long-standing tradition (called Robinsonades, typically about shipwrecked, marooned adventurers) whose science fiction subset alone...

When a man loves an airplane, it's a matter of calculations. When a man loves a woman, everything is up in the air. Paul Owens, in the early 1970s, found an obscure Soviet technical journal-and an inspiration that would save the Free World (based on true history). Paul also falls in love with a beautiful, intelligent young widow named Marsha Kassner, 32, who moves next door with her son Peter, 9. A brilliant aircraft engineer at Lockheed's Skunk Works, Paul is also a handsome young man tending toward fast cars, long hair, and loud music-all anathema to his stiff-necked supervisors. Certain...

DarkSF is the Dark Chocolate of Science Fiction, we are told by John Argo-a pioneer in digital publishing since 1996. If you love DarkSF movies like Blade Runner, Dark City, Chrysalis, or Alien, then Nebula Express is yet another classic for you (along with his Monopol City, Robinson Crusoe 1,000,000 A.D., Streamliners, and others). Nebula Express (John Argo, 2003) is a DarkSF novel based on a terrifying premise. What if we aren't who we think we are? What if our memories, our loved ones, our hopes and dreams, are all just smoke (think of the replicants in Blade Runner). This novel puts a...

Remember a time when you enjoyed playing board games around the kitchen table, and you rolled the dice and moved your piece around the train tracks on the board? You could buy and sell real estate in some virtual city that left much to the imagination. Maybe you fantasized what it might be like to shrink down to atomic size. You'd become a tiny person in an virtual game world with life-sized trains and cities all around you. Most excitingly, you'd meet all those fascinating people-spies, lovers, runners, shooters, or a million ordinary men and women going about their lives in a divided Gotha...