Savage Glen and other stories

A naturalization asteroid goes awry.

Nary a wizard, witch, or hobbit. Not a single vampire or space monster. Literature for the masses.

Signature is a futuristic sci-fi adventure recounting the political upheaval, social collapse, and revisionist... More > reconstruction of 22nd Century Western civilization, as witnessed by a group of doomed intellectuals through a series of decoded holographic events. There's a price to knowing too much. What these men learn will impel them through a plague-ridden hell of madness, barbarism, and duplicity, in a world that may or may not be a multi-layered illusion. < Less

Microcosmia pursues offbeat protagonist, Cristian Vane, an emotionally troubled young liberal, who's just come into the... More > staggering Vane fortune. With his newfound wealth and responsibility, Vane sets out to put his cosseted life back together, but a series of gut-wrenching misadventures in the real world produce a complete nervous breakdown. The young heir surfaces with a fresh perspective: wealth is wasted on the wealthy; his bequest is a golden opportunity to do something magnificent in a heartless world. Sickened by a documentary featuring scammed Ethiopian famine victims, he sets off for Africa to build his utopia. Though Vane's misplaced magnanimity results in East-West friction and internal rivalries, he still manages to create his magnum opus, even as cutthroat pirates, a vile Eritrean colonel, and a doomed affair with a gorgeous, control-freak journalist push him over the edge. The tale concludes with an overwhelming assault by the Eritrean Army during the mother of all desert locust plagues. < Less

Nary a wizard, witch, or hobbit. Not a single vampire or space monster. Literature for the masses.

Savage Glen and other stories

The Official 2011 Rose Calendar

verse by Ron Sanders

A naturalization asteroid goes awry.