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KUDOS

Epic 2010 Award, Best Adventure novel for Quanty
Dream Realm Award 2008, best SF novel for Human by Choice (with Travis S. Taylor).
Eppie Award 2007, best Action/Adventure novel for Mindwar.
Eppie Award 2007, best Young Adult novel for White Odyssey.
Dream Realm Award 2006, best SF novel for Warp Point.
Fictionwise 2005 E-book Author of the Year.
Multiple Finalist, Dream Realm Awards.
Multiple Finalist, Eppie Awards.
Knowbetter best science fiction novel of the year 2002 for The Sex Gates.

Intro

Here you'll find titles in various genres, including humor, science fiction, mystery, and suspense/thriller. Most of my books are available in both Print and as E-book editions. They almost always appear first as E-books and then come out in print. See the menu for "E-books" and "Books in Print" for descriptions and links to where they may be purchased in either version. You can also see a complete list of my books in print at Amazon.com and at Barnes and Noble. Most of my print books may be ordered from bookstores. All of my E-books are available at Fictionwise.com, eReader.com, the Kindle store and the Sony eBookstore as well as Amazon.com and at Barnes and Noble.

For those who are new to E-books (which may be read on computers, laptops, PPCs, and just about any hand held device, including Palm, IPAQ, Smart phones and dedicated reader devices such as Amazon's Kindle. I suggest http://www.fictionwise.com/help/help.htm as a good place to start. After looking over the web page at Fictionwise, click on Home at the same site and you'll find thousands upon thousands of books by just about any author you want to name, including many of the New York Times best selling authors, and also including all of my books, of course.

Bainstorming Blog! Click on the bainstorming blog link to visit this very popular feature every month to see what's new! I ramble and sometimes rant, but the newsletter is devoted to what you, the readers, might find interesting, including recommended books by other authors, short vignettes, anecdotes, updates, discussions of subjects brought up by fans, short articles, muses by the author and so forth, in no particular order. Come visit periodically and discover all sorts of good stuff.

News of current projects or books just appearing in print or anything else of interest concerning my writing will probably be contained in the monthly bainstorming blog. An index of past bainstorming blog subject matter is available at the top of bainstorming blog page. However, if you can't find what you're looking for, please write and ask!

New and Selected Books of Interest

Most books are available for ebook readers such as Kindle, Nook, Sony, etc. They are also being made available for the iPad as rapidly as possible.

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Human by Choice

TheStarship Down

A starship on a circuit to service earth's colonies is sabotaged and winds up irrevocably lost in space. The only option is to find a habitable planet to live on. Aboard the ship is a contingent of convicts bound for a prison planet, an army company rotating to one of the colony worlds, government officials and scientists going or coming from the colonies, a contingent of prospective colonists going out to pioneer and a miscellany of other passengers. A crew of two hundred fifty is now responsible for a thousand people after they finally find a new world to settle on. Add in a mad captain, combative convicts and some unworldly aliens and it becomes all that acting Captain Travis Callahan can handle-and then some!

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  The Frontier Rebellion

The Freedom Alliance consists of twenty frontier planets which revolt against the tyranny of the corporation-controlled Earth but above all against their corporate masters that control almost every facet of life on their planets. The surprise revolt succeeds at first but then the Earth Navy comes back, bringing enough warships and corporation army troops to subdue the rebels, they think. Unfortunately for them they have never come up against people like Maria Santos, Calvin Helos, General Juanita Sanforth and other brave patriots willing to sacrifice all for a chance to run their own lives. Forced underground, they prepare for a second revolt, using their hidden navy built from confiscated transports, obsolete weapons that have not been used for half a century, an underground army training in the jungles and finally a unique ally, the Elves of Weaver. Even then success is not guaranteed. Lives will be sacrificed, ships will be lost and the fight will be fiercer than they ever believed, but the Freedom Alliance is determined to succeed. Their people will live free or die trying.

The Frontier Rebellion is another masterful novel by Darrell Bain, author of Human by Choice, Alien Infection, Starship Down, The Long Way Home and many others.

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Savage Survival    

Savage Survival is a coming of age story like no others and Lyda Brightner is a character you won't forget. When eleven year old Lyda is thrown into the midst of millions of undisciplined humans, with no parents or guardian to protect her as she grows up, she has only her own bravery and her belief in the innate goodness of humans to sustain her. For six years, Lyda must endue the most ghastly and brutal environments imaginable, put there by invulnerable aliens for reasons of their own. After her first horrible experience in a barren desert, she vows that come what may, she will live, even while millions die, for she is determined to find what is behind such hideous treatment by the aliens.

 Special Limited Hardcover Edition of Savage Survival

Only 500 copies of this special edition will be printed. It is available for order now at Amazon.com and BOOK STORES and from the publisher, Twilight times Books at www.twilighttimesbooks.com.

Order now to be sure you get a copy!

Review

5 Talismans (Highest rating)

I have been an avid reader for quite some time. I have read too many books to count over the years covering a variety of genres. Through my literary travels the list of novels which have made me say, "Wow, that was something special", is relatively short. Frank Herbert's Dune, Terry Brooks' The Elfstones of Shannara, and George R.R. Martin's series A Song of Ice and Fire are all at the top of that list. After reading Darrell Bain's novel Savage Survival however, I think that list has grown a little longer.

When Earth is invaded by an unknown alien race, eleven year old Lyda Brightner finds herself swept up in the destructive wake. With her father dead and mother missing, Lyda awakens in a concentration camp somewhere in a desert in the southwest United States. Within hours, she is horribly abused by a man who then in turn tries to sell her into slavery.

After managing to escape, Lyda discovers an inner strength which helps her retake control of her life, and puts her on a path of self discovery. Deciding the only way to defeat those who would hurt her and those she comes to protect, is by meeting them head on, Lyda quickly finds herself the leader of several like minded survivors. The aliens however, have different plans. The human survivors are put through test after test so that only the humans with the strongest minds will make it through each trial. Along the way Lyda and the other human refugees learn they are changing.

Their minds are sharper and their bodies are stronger. With each trial the changes become more evident. Lyda uses these "gifts" to protect the people who choose to follow her, and also to discover love as well as learn what true leadership is all about. Savage Survival is truly a masterful piece of science fiction writing. Darrell Bain uses an alien invasion of Earth as a backdrop to tell not only a coming of age story but also to spark deep thought concerning society as a whole. His character Lyda Brightner is as memorable of a character as you can get. I sincerely hope there are more tales of her exploits coming in the near future.

Darrell Bain's Savage Survival is definitely what is right about the science fiction genre. I believe this is as close to a must read as you can get. With an intricate plot, vivid imagination, and one of the most memorable characters I have run across in a long time, Savage Survival will leave readers with that same "wow" feeling I received.

Reviewed by Shawn Oetzel for Tales of the Talisman.

The Long Way Home

SF from Double Dragon Publishing.

New release!

A surprise assault on an Exploration Corp starship by implacably hostile, xenophobic aliens leaves its one remaining long boat as the only option for warning the home worlds of their existence, but the starship had been a thousand light years from Earth. Theoretically, that sort of voyage in a long boat is possible but has never been attempted. In order to return they will have to stop on numerous unknown planets to renew supplies many, many times along the way. There is certain to be danger and inimical life forms, as well as the hazards of braving interstellar space in a ship meant only for travel within a solar system. And before they get anywhere close to earth they have to figure out a way to destroy a much larger and much better armed alien starship. It is shadowing their every move but must not be allowed to follow them home to Earth and its colonies. The long journey has to succeed, even as more and more of the crew fall prey to perils of the incredible journey. Humanity must be warned. There will be no second chance. Fail and the poorly armed home worlds will likely die.
Darrell's highest rated novel.
Available now at all bookstores and online from Amazon.com; Barnes & Noble

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 complete chaos. Blacks in America begin rioting and killing Whites. Israel and the Arab states go to war again. The oil fields of the Middle East and Africa are up for grabs...  Darrell Bain's most controversial novel since "The Sex Gates."

Read a chapter excerpt.
ISBN: 1-933353-70-8
Available now at all bookstores and online from Amazon.com;  Barnes & Noble

Quanty

SF from Double Dragon.

New print release!

When Mark and Alice decide to install a program of their own devising into the only quantum computer in the world, wildly unintended consequences occur. The computer not only becomes self-aware, but the new program produces an unchangeable core directive which impels it to protect Mark and Alice as well as itself. It doesn't matter what the political, religious and military establishments think of a sentient computer running rampant on the internet and into secret files of governments all over the world, or what they try in order to stop it. Quanty intends to protect Mark and Alice and itself with all the power at its command no matter who gets hurt or helped in the process. The result is Mark and Alice becoming the focus of governments, spies and the military of every nation, since only they can control Quanty. Or can they? They're on the run but Quanty's unasked for "help" causes them to fall into one disaster after another, with no end in sight.

Read a chapter excerpt.
ISBN: 1-55404-666-1
Available now at all bookstores and online from Amazon.com;  Barnes & Noble

New ebook release

The Focus Factor is available now from Fictionwise.com or eReader.com.

The Focus Factor is a suspense/thriller but can just as easily be enjoyed by science fiction as well as mainstream fans. It begins with a distraught scientist, Dr. Murray Blake, whose family has been killed in a crash with a truckload of illegal aliens. He decides to try using his research into the extreme focusing shown by some autistics to find a solution to the illegal immigration problem.

But it doesn't stop there! Dr. Blake discovers that solving the illegal immigration problem using the Focus Factor leads to a way to address every other problem besetting America in the 21st century--but does he dare risk it? The solution is draconian. Failure will mean his and his friends' execution as traitors. Success will set America on a new path to greatness. Find out what happens by reading The Focus Factor by Darrell Bain and Gerald Mills.

Whether you're a Republican, Democrat, Independent or Apolitical; whether you like suspense, mainstream or science fiction; you're bound to find some satisfaction in this truly unusual book that uses fiction to explore extremely timely topics.