This is not 'slam, bam, welcome to earth' stuff. There will be no fairy dust sprinkled into the atmosphere to miraculously kill off the bad guys.
This could happen. The Shylmahn Migration brings gritty realism to the nightmare of an overwhelming alien invasion of earth. The miniseries screenplay adaptation of the novel won the Pacific Northwest Screenwriters Competition."Intelligent science fiction" William C. Brown, Ph.D. Author of 'The Evolutionary Science of Extraterrestrial Life' ...
For the Shylmahn, it was a wonderful adventure
This is not 'slam, bam, welcome to earth' stuff. There will be no fairy dust sprinkled...
The invasion had ended long ago. The remnants of humanity survived as best they could on reservations or in tiny communities out of sight of the masters of the planet. Most had never known a world not dominated by the Shylmahn, content now to live out their lives in the shadows.
Some were not content.
The Britton Family, legends from an all-but-forgotten war long since lost, fading into the obscurity of a human history soon to vanish, they now fought a war that no one knew was being waged.
Book Two of the Shylmahn Trilogy.
The invasion had ended long ago. The remnants of humanity survived as best they could on reservations or in tiny communities out of sight of the ma...
"I bequeath to my nephew, Jacob Quigley, all that I own, all that I dream, and all that I am, in the hope that my life's quest will become his quest."
-- Last Will & Testament of Tobias Quigley Those few cryptic words send Jake into a world that couldn't possibly exist. Traveling the Gateways, he will befriend the eternal Guardians and stand against an ancient enemy. The miniseries screenplay adaptation of the novel was a top-ten finalist in an international screenwriting competition. "If you need to take a break or get a cup of coffee, do so at...
"I bequeath to my nephew, Jacob Quigley, all that I own, all that I dream, and all that I am, in the hope that my life's quest will become his ques...
On October 12, 2007, a young soldier was injured in Afghanistan. For the next two years, as he was moved from Bagram to Germany to Walter Reed to Palo Alto and finally home to Washington State, his family never left his side. And throughout those years, his father wrote daily emails to family and friends, chronicling the journey from a dusty road in Afghanistan to the snowy summit of Mt. Rainier.
On October 12, 2007, a young soldier was injured in Afghanistan. For the next two years, as he was moved from Bagram to Germany to Walter Reed to Palo...
December 1960... Thirteen year old Jenny Harper is exploring the caves with her brother Bill and their best friend Mike. They see a strange shimmering light up ahead. Bill rushes ahead, disappears around the bend. Fade to present day... Thirteen year old Jack and his twelve year old sister Amanda visit their Grandma Jenny in the mountains over the Christmas holiday. They hear the story of a mythical cavern that Grandma went searching for fifty years earlier with her little brother Bill and their best friend Mike. Her brother was lost, never to be seen again....
December 1960... Thirteen year old Jenny Harper is exploring the caves with her brother Bill and their best friend Mike. They see a strange...
Present day... A man returns to a long-abandoned neighborhood. Doors stand ajar, shutters hang open, lawns and landscaping are unkempt. The man sits on the curb and opens a leather-bound journal. Through the journal, he recalls the events that took place in Ravenhill decades earlier. Journey back to 1964... The man is just a boy. He and his friends find that their neighborhood, a cul-de-sac set into the foothills along the California coast, is not all that it appears. There are strange happenings; some amazing, some terrifying, and all pointing to the fact that this...
Present day... A man returns to a long-abandoned neighborhood. Doors stand ajar, shutters hang open, lawns and landscaping are unkempt. The...
The Caravan is just one more tribe traveling a post-apocalyptic landscape, foraging through the dead cities of the past. The tribe is friendly and well-adapted to the nomadic life. But there is something unsettlingly dark underlying the pleasantness. After months on the trail, they settle outside an abandoned city for the winter. Foraging teams go in, looking to fill their wagons with supplies. Meanwhile, a band of marauders watches. They have their own way of getting what they want. And they want everything. This time, however, they are in for a bit of a surprise.
The Caravan is just one more tribe traveling a post-apocalyptic landscape, foraging through the dead cities of the past. The tribe is friendly and wel...
Movie Novella Series Collection Two-hour books adapted directly from screenplays. The five novellas included in At Variance are based on screenplays written over several years. Each has previously been published as an individual novella. The narratives follow as closely as possible the original screenplays. The results of this very painstaking balancing act are five films flickering before the eyes of the reader. And these five stories couldn't be more different from one another: family sci-fi adventure, dark satire fantasy, science fiction, holiday family fantasy, and...
Movie Novella Series Collection Two-hour books adapted directly from screenplays. The five novellas included in At Variance are based on scre...
A team of scientists travels the eighty floors of a strange black tower, where each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger, striving to reach the top floor and the dark force behind the creation of the looming monolith.
This novella serial is based on the eleven one hour screenplays of the television miniseries "The Black Tower."
This omnibus edition contains all eleven novellas in the serial, with each novella a direct adaptation of one of the episodes in the miniseries. They are structured and formatted exactly as the one hour screenplays from which they have been...
A team of scientists travels the eighty floors of a strange black tower, where each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger, striving to re...