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Human by Choice

SF from Twilight Times Books.

"Authors Travis S. Taylor and Darrell Bain have written a terrific tale. The story moves along at a cracking pace, and the suspense doesn't let up from the first page to the last. The plot is ingeniously constructed--built on a clever idea that is then carefully and sympathetically developed, with twists and turns that keep the reader guessing right up to the end of the book." ~ Reviewed by Robina Williams, author of Jerome and the Seraph and Angelos.
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Mogollon Rim

SF from Twilight Times Books.

When one of the Strake brothers is out prospecting with a metal detector he finds what he thinks are peculiar little gold nuggets midway up the Mogollon Rim, a drop off from the Colorado plateau. When Gary Strake's girlfriend Mona calls John Strake for help because his brother is acting peculiar, she is dead when he arrives, her throat torn out.

Gary swears there's something else, something big, buried where he found the little gold colored objects. He also thinks some one or some thing has been stalking him. When the brothers and the sheriff begin investigating Mona's murder they are attacked by a creature that looks like a horribly mutated cougar. Then when they find that the nuggets have an almost fatal attraction, they know they need help--and soon!
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Warp Point

SF from Twilight Times Books.

An unmanned alien ship suddenly appears from a point in space within the solar system and heads toward Earth. It finally comes to rest in the pasture of an ordinary couple's country home. Immediately upon going inside, they are placed in irrevocable, sole command by the ship's computer. How Dan and Stacy Saddler handle the enormous military, political and religious pressure of choosing a crew and taking the ship back through the enigmatic warp point makes this one of Darrell Bain's most exciting novels.
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From Hollywood Experts and Published Authors: Words of Wisdom for Starving Artists

Self-Help from Double Dragon Publishing.

A treasure trove of information from: a personal manager for Hollywood actors, a Hollywood teacher and movie extra, a "Fictionwise eBook Author of the Year", an owner/co-owner of two websites listed among the "Writer's Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers", a retired university professor, and other successfully published authors. This book is based on articles published during the first year of "The Golden Goblet" Newsletter edited by Marilyn Peake, and features additional articles by contributing authors written expressly for this book. Authors include: Biff Mitchell, Darrell Bain, Dr. Hugh Rosen, Eugen M. Bacon, J. Richard Jacobs, and more.
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The Williard Brothers Collection, Double Dragon Publishing, ebook, 2006, adventure. The four books of the Williard Brothers series, the zany trio who live for adventure and are the most politically incorrect scoundrels you'll ever meet, have been collected into one volume. It's been released by both Fictionwise.com and eReader.com under the title The Williard Brothers Collection. The books were originally begun as a fictional account of Darrell and his brothers' adventures in Vietnam during the war and continued as a fiction series afterward.
 

SF from Double Dragon Publishing.

When terrorists try to poison undergraduate schools with a nerve agent, the scheme backfires. Instead of causing death, the chemical stimulates the mirror neurons in the students’ brains, causing them to multiply and become hyperactive. This, in turn, leads to unusual talents. As the children grow, their teachers and other institutions become very interested in the odd perceptive ability they begin displaying. Government, industry, military, drug cartels, businesses and the underworld all want to use them for their own purposes. Some of the young men and women have different ideas. They will fight to keep their freedom…especially after a few of them begin to develop another odd talent, one that may change the world.
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The Focus Factor

Futuristic suspense from Twilight Times Books.

A scientist whose family is killed by illegal immigrants decides to use his research on autistic idiot-savants to discover a solution to the problem. Before long, he finds himself inextricably involved in a conspiracy to not only solve the illegal immigrant crisis, but almost every other ill besetting America.
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The Melanin Apocalypse

SF suspense from Twilight Times Books.

A man-made virus is killing all the blacks in the world. The African continent is devolving into total and complete chaos. Blacks in America begin rioting and killing Whites.

The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta becomes the focal point of a vast political struggle for a cure or a vaccine, with some politicians preferring to let the disease run its course and rid America of its race problems once and for all. China prepares to invade Taiwan now that America is overwhelmed with racial warfare and sick and dying blacks. Israel and the Arab states go to war again. The oil fields of the Middle East and Africa are up for grabs...

The CDC provides the only possible bulwark against the whole world falling into anarchy-and then it is attacked by rampaging blacks because of rumors that the government itself might be responsible for the lethal pandemic. The scientists, staff and the small CDC security contingent all have to fight for their lives, and for a chance to save the world from the most appalling conspiracy in history. Darrell Bain's most controversial novel since "The Sex Gates."
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"This is one roller coaster ride that just didn't stop to enable you to get your breath back. Things happen fast and furious, going from one scene to another and you have no choice but to read on to see what is going to happen next. I read it one morning, I just had to see where it was going to lead. ...The book isn't horror, but it is frightening in the respect that the scenarios the author describes could very well happen in the near future. A book that certainly makes you think. Excellent read." ~ Reviewed by Annette Gisby for Twisted Tales.
 

Toppers

Humor from Twilight Times Books.

Tall tales or not (and they claim they're not), you will find yourself going along for the ride as Darrell Bain narrates the beginning of an electronic friendship between himself and Will Stafford. The two Vietnam veterans hit it off immediately when they run across each other on the web. Darrell is promoting his first novel, "Medics Wild" and lists it under Military humor. Will finds it there and asks what it is about.
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SF from Double Dragon Publishing.

In the future, whites have become a minority and are treated as second-class citizens by the colored majority. Whites are discriminated against, relegated to shantytowns and allowed to do only menial labor under segregation laws that are beginning to amount to little more than slavery. As conditions grow worse, white 'volunteers' are worked to death in mine pits and the tar sands, where conditions are so brutal that serving as test subjects on alien planets begins to sound better than anything on earth, no matter what the danger.
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A Parody of Clinton: Joe Sixpack, President. SF/alternate history. This satirical look at Bill Clinton may politically offend but it's hilariously funny at the same time... "This book is a good example of what comes from mixing politics and beer. It resulted from a night of camaraderie and debauchery with my brothers. Sometime during the festivities, one of us thought up the idea of what might happen should a real, though intelligent, Redneck ever get to the White House. We all laughed like crazy at the prospect and had great fun discussing various scenarios and situations. Perhaps we also vented some of our frustration at the labyrinthine entanglements of our present political process and how it works or doesn't work. At any rate, once I sobered up, I thought the idea might make a good book.

Eventually I did write the novel, and during the process tried to stay relatively true to how I think good ol unreformed Joe Sixpack might react to suddenly becoming president of these United States. I sincerely hope that in doing so I have not offended any of my readers. Trust me when I say that this was written purely for fun and not intended to cast aspersions on any person's sex, age, race, sexual orientation, political affiliation, color, ethnicity or any other characteristic I may not have listed here. I also sincerely hope you can laugh with me as you read. Sometimes that's the only way to keep from crying.

One more note: I have no political affiliation and belong to no political party. Bill Clinton got parodied simply because he was in office at the time this book was written, and because however great or not great he may have been as president, he was and is a wonderful public figure for poking fun at. If he and Hilary ever read this, I hope it gives him a chuckle or two, and I hope they remember the lawyer's old axiom: never sue a poor person."

Alien Infection. Double Dragon Publishing, ebook, 2005, SF suspense. "When a laboratory technician on the verge of retirement accidentally infects himself with blood from an emergency room patient, he intends to report it--until government agents swarm the hospital, confiscating every sample of blood taken from the patient--at gunpoint."

Around the Bend. Collection. An eclectic, erotic, fun and meaty SF, fantasy, humor and nonfiction collection, Around the Bend contains all of Darrell Bain's short fiction.

Back from the Bend, Double Dragon Publishing, ebook, 2006, Science Fiction. This collection of short stories is a great way to introduce yourself to Fictionwise Author Of The Year Darrell Bain. The stories are annotated by the author and interspersed with excerpts from his popular newsletter as well as articles published elsewhere. Read about the little girl who can talk to animals, but no one believes her. About a young autistic boy who changes the world by playing with magnets. About an invasion by aliens who look like birds. Find out about the strange pets Neanderthals keep.

Bark!. SF/F. Find out what happens when Tonto, a little, ADHD affected, one-testicled weenie dog, turns out to be the only thing standing between the Earth and accidental alien invasion!
Pure comic genius from multiple award-winning author Darrell Bain.

Circles of Displacement. SF/F. A stellar accident has thrown hundreds of small circular areas of East Texas far into the past. The displacement circles include such random spots as a roadside park, a Wal-Mart store, the streets of a small town--and the death row section of the state prison. Eventually the displaced individuals will come together in climactic battle for control of the new world.

Crazy Ships. SF/F. EPPIE Award Finalist Earth has become a dystopia ruled by giant corporations, where the majority of the population is bonded to a company for life. Twins Jane and Steve are an exception, living an upper class life by means of their parents' stake in a new enterprise--which doesn't suit the great corporation currently governing the world.

Darrell Bain's World of Books. Autobiography. It is Darrell's sincere hope that this autobiography, expanded from memoirs posted on his web site, will be an inspiration not only for writers but for anyone who has ever had to struggle in their life and for those who think things will never get better. They can, despite all the odds against them, if they will only keep trying. That's the key, he thinks. That and the right partner in life, like Betty is for him.

Hotline to Heaven. Romantic comedy. Darrell considers Hotline to Heaven one of his best books, and quite different from anything else he's ever done. Humor, chicanery, sex, betrayal and romance, along with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing until the end. It has such a fun plot that it will even have you wondering who you should be cheering for, the rascally villain Ed Tanner, or the innocent young Violet.

Laughing All the Way. Humor. At last! The hilarious sequel to the five star rated Life on Santa Claus Lane is back! The bumbling adventures of a Christmas tree farmer and his saintly wife who (mostly) overlooks his aversion to work, his inability to handle anything mechanical without a life and death struggle, his aversion to work, his misguided attempts at cooking, his aversion to work, and the foibles of life on a farm his wife has to work to support while he is trying to become a writer. Don't miss it!

Monitors, Double Dragon Publishing, ebook, 2005, Science Fiction/Suspense/Thriller. In the future, Monitors are stronger, smarter and longer-lived than normal humans. They also have a sex drive much higher and more versatile than other people.

My Brother Gary. Non-fiction. My younger brother Gary is a charming, humorous, articulate, romantic adventurer and warrior. He's one of those types of men the rest of us admire and fantasize about, wishing we could be more like them. In the olden days, he would have been a Mountain Man or a Knight or perhaps even a Pirate or Buccaneer. In any era, he would always have been one of the first to cross the mountains, the wide rivers or brave the unexplored oceans.

Savage Survival. SF suspense. Subjected to suffering in one brutal and horrible environment after another. Millions of earthmen have been captured by aliens and are being put through the strangest and most terrifying survival tests ever imagined. Young Lyda Brightner's first experience after being thrown into the midst of undisciplined humans is so horrible that she vows she will never let it happen again, and that somehow she will live long enough extract revenge on the creatures responsible. She doesn't know that the trials are just beginning. She doesn't know that only a few hundred of the millions of captives will live through the vicious and cruel winnowing process.

Again and again she has to call on the only resources she has available: her own innate bravery, her quick mind, her unwavering belief in the innate goodness of the majority of humans and ultimately, her belief that eventually she will find someone to love. But even if she lives through all this, she will still have to face the final question. What do the aliens have in mind for the few survivors?

Savage Survival is a coming of age novel like no other and Lyda Brightner is a character you’ll remember forever.

Shadow Worlds. Double Dragon Publishing, ebook, 2005, SF suspense. Genetic duplicates of people start dropping out of thin air right beside the originals. The duplicates are complete except for one little detail: they're dead. Frank Winston begins an investigation that widens to include the mystery of a vanished airliner that had his parents on board, as well as those of the first person who found a dead twin on her doorstep, Linda Vesprie. Together, they discover that quantum physics is even stranger than scientists had believed, and that their world and an infinite series of alternate earths are in dire peril.

Neither Frank nor Linda realize they are being misled when a woman from an alternate earth asks for their help. When they discover the duplicity, it is already far too late to do anything about it. Shadowy monsters, conniving federal agents, alternate worlds and a lonely scientist racing against time to save both his world and earth make this latest offering from best selling author Darrell Bain and collaborator Barbara Hodges a page-turning adventure that strings the suspense out to the last page.

Space Trails, Double Dragon Publishing, ebook, 2006, Science Fiction. Darrell Bain's latest novel encompasses the spirit of the old American pioneers who risked all for a chance of a better life in a new environment. With conditions in America deteriorating, the Bentley family decides to take advantage of the recently discovered method for reaching the stars. They sign a contract with a corporation in return for partial financing of their venture to a new world. But as they travel on the space trails, they gradually discover that all is not right about the expedition they're on. When the discrepancies finally come to a head, they find the corporation has deceived all the immigrants.

The Disappearing Girls. Mystery/suspense. Girls and young women are disappearing without a trace, without a clue. No bodies are ever found. Police are stymied until a possible connection appears in the form of a young woman who has unaccountably inherited a newly built mansion from her estranged father.

The Dog Who Thought He was a Cat. Twilight times Books, 2006, Children's illustrated story book. Tweedle had a hard life when he was young. His mother became very sick and had to be rushed to the animal hospital where she stayed for a long, long time. Tweedle never even got to see what his mother looked like, for puppies don't open their eyes until they are three weeks old. His mother never had the chance to explain to Tweedle what sort of animal he was. So after a time, Tweedle goes in search of his identity and has a few adventures along the way.

The Sex Virus. SF suspense. It is quickly discovered that a virus capable of changing sexual attitudes is spreading over the world. While the FBI and CDC are racing to discover the originators of the virus and to create a cure or vaccine, the investigation is hampered by the fact that the agents themselves are becoming infected.

Tonto: The Autobiography of an Odd, Addled Little Dachshund . SF. This isn't really a science fiction story, but what other category do you put the story of a talking dog in? Especially when it's the story of the dog who was the avatar for the science fiction novel Bark! And finally, a talking dog makes it science fiction in my book, even if he did do it only that one magical night. When you read about what Tonto has to say for himself, you may have trouble believing a dog would think that way, but it's all true, I swear.

Ultimate Suggestions. Suspense. A renegade chemist discovers a drug which can be given quickly and surreptitiously and which will convert anyone almost instantly to a state of mind where the merest suggestion becomes an imperative need to obey.

Life on Santa Claus Lane

Tales from a Texas Christmas Tree Farm. Humor. [Prequel]. Lost pets, lost kids, bugs, snakes in trees, and learning how to stuff big trees into little cars and dozens of hilarious contretemps all go into making this a unique book. Join Darrell and Betty Bain as they move to the country and find that Christmas tree farming is a unique, demanding, frustrating, exasperating but ultimately rewarding profession.

Life on Santa Claus Lane. Mainstream humor. [Book 1]. If you can get through this book without laughing until your ribs are sore, you are a rare exception and haven't got a funny bone in your body.

Laughing All the Way. Humor. [Book 2]. A true life tale of a stupendously funny move to a new home where everything goes wrong and many more real life stories of home life, by Darrell Bain, told in his own renowned style of humor. A book for all the seasons, for all ages, for anyone who likes to laugh at life's foibles.

Doggie Biscuit!. Humor. [Book 3]. Biscuit truly relates to people with ever fiber of his little doggie heart, even to having a human girl friend, getting tickets for reckless driving and sampling Viagra pills. Who could resist a dog story like this? This book is dedicated to all those who have taken a pet into their home and made a people of it.
 

The Pet Plague

Altered Humans. SF suspense. [Prequel to The Pet Plague]. In a world where enhanced animals have altered the ecology beyond repair, the great protective enclaves are beginning to be built, but there will be no refuge there for altered humans, nor for normal humans trying to protect their enhanced pets.

The Pet Plague. SF. EPIC Award Finalist. [Book 1]. The story begins on earth with genetically engineered pets with near-human intelligence getting loose and practically overrunning the world, with perhaps the only chance for salvation a downed alien spaceship.

Space Pets. SF/F. [Book 2]. An epic, erotic journey in search of a new home for humanity--but in the end it might turn out that earth is still the best the universe can offer, if only it can be tamed again!
 

The Sex Gates

The Original Sex Gates, Double Dragon Publishing, ebook, 2005, Science Fiction/Suspense/Thriller. This is "The Sex Gates" novel as originally written by Darrell Bain alone. It has a widely divergent, completely different ending, and it contains one more major character and several more supporting ones. In this original version, all questions are answered and all issues resolved in this one book. It is being published now in response to all the fan mail and interest the trilogy generated-and continues to generate. "The Sex Gates" has already become a science fiction cult classic and this book should be a significant addition to the sex gates universe.

The Sex Gates. SF. KnowBetter Best Science Fiction Award Winner. [Sex Gates Book 1]. What if: You could change your old body for a young one by stepping through a gate? What if: You could cure all illnesses by stepping through a gate? The catch: You change your sex, too!

Masters of the Sex Gates. SF/F. [Sex Gates Book 2]. Earth is changed forever when the Sex Gates arrive. By passing through a gate, you can change your sex or cure an incurable illness--but each passage carries a price. What will the ultimate price be?

Worlds of the Sex Gates. SF/F. [Sex Gates Book 3]. The exciting conclusion to The Sex Gates trilogy. The mystery of the sex gates has at last been solved, but a horrible dilemma arises. The masters of the sex gates are gone, but they have left a potential catastrophe behind.

Taboo Love: a Sex Gates Sensual. eXtasy eBooks, 2005, Erotic SF/F. From Darrell Bain and Jeanine Berry, the authors of the worldwide best-selling cult classic, The Sex Gates, comes an erotic tale of forbidden love. In the Sex Gates universe, changing your sex and becoming young and perfectly healthy again is as simple as stepping through a gate. A Family Affair explores the unexpected love affairs that could only occur in a near-future world where instant sex changes are turning social mores upside down. How would you cope if a family member changed sex, or if your best female friend suddenly became a handsome male? Step into the Sex Gates universe and discover that you may not know yourself nearly as well as you think you do!
 

The Strange Valley

A Strange Valley. SF suspense. [Book 1]. A clerk working in the census bureau discovers a series of anomalies in the population of a small city located in the Ozark Mountains.

Prion Promises [A Strange Valley novel]. SF/F. [Book 2]. A secret cabal of the National Security Agency spreads lies and deception about Masterville Valley. The happy, peaceful people of the valley are forced to fight back, and they begin their battle by secretly spreading their prions out into the world, including the halls of congress.
 

The Williard Brothers

Medics Wild!. Adventure. [Williard Brothers Prequel]. When the Williard brothers get going, any resemblance to a real war is purely coincidental! Sgt. James Williard uses his position as the hauncho of a medical dispensary in Vietnam as a base, while he and his crazy medics turn the war zone into a party zone. Williard's two brothers, Jerry, a naval ensign and Jason (Jumpin' Jase)--the Marine fighter pilot who regularly loses 15 million dollar planes--join the fun and then it is like no war ever recorded. Wilder than M*A*S*H, a hilarious romp.

Postwar Dinosaur Blues. Humor/adventure. [Williard Brothers Book 1]. After the war the zany Williard brothers and their paramours go looking for adventure and find all they can handle when they decide to see if there really is a dinosur still living deep in the Congo. Flying a beatup old seaplane, the brothers are shot up, shot down, chased by the Mafia for carrying drug money they don't know they have, captured by pygmies and forced to undergo the dread palm wine drinking contest, where failure means being fed to Mokele Mbembe--and if they survive all this, the Godfather is waiting back in New York to feed them to his pet shark.

Bigfoot Crazy. Humor/adventure. [Williard Brothers Book 2]. The Williard brothers are tired of the sedentary life. When one of them falls heir to proof of Bigfoot--or possibly an alien--various government agencies began chasing them and their girlfriends, hoping to recover alien technology, if that's what it is. Deep in the wildest Part part of The Brooks Moutain Range in Alaska, the chase comes to a head, with the CIA, Russians, NSA and Mafia all vying with the Williard brothers and an Eskimo girl to win the prize.

Three for the Money. Humor/adventure. [Williard Brothers Book 3]. "Three For The Money" takes place after the turn of the century when the Williard brothers of Vietnam war fame are beginning to show their age, but aren't ready to slow down yet. They are headed into their wildest adventure yet, involving a treasure worth far more than their inherited billions even if they can collect the money, which becomes increasingly doubtful, because others want it, too. Their attempt to find the money and the baffling object that may be the real prize will set the stage for their antics to last for many, many years to come. Of course first they have to defeat the mysterious Mister H and his beautiful assistant, the CIA, the FBI, and the Mexican army, then find the money, collect the unknown prize and escape with their lives. That's a tall order for anyone--except the Williard brothers, the most amazing trio to appear in fiction since The Three Musketeers!

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