It's Halloween, and John Justin Mallory's partner, Winnifred Carruthers, has been so busy preparing for the biggest holiday of the year (in this Manhattan, anyway) that she seems short of energy and pale. Mallory is worried that she's been working too hard. Then he notices the two puncture marks on her neck...On this night when ghosts and goblins ...
Resnick, a self-professed friend of Nicole Brown Simpson, dishes all the juicy details of Nicole's life. She also insists that Nicole was not having an affair with fellow murder victim Ron Goldman and that O.J. Simpson did indeed murder his wife.
- Sci-fi author Mike Resnick has won more awards than Ray Bradbury or Isaac Asimov - Leonardo da Vinci, star of the best-selling The Da Vinci Code, is hot - Time travel, adventure, humor--Lady with an Alien is an Art Encounters tour de force! "Lady with an Ermine," Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of a patron's mistress holding the symbol of her ...
The date is 1968 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now. The Republic, dominated by the human race, is in the midst of an all-out war with the Teroni Federation. Almost a year has passed since the events of "Starship: Mercenary". Captain Wilson Cole now commands a fleet of almost fifty ships, and he has become the single ...
At the cabarets and brothels of Montmartre, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is a well-known visitor. Brilliant, rich, and deformed, Toulouse-Lautrec carries on flirtations and relationships with many women - prostitutes as well as famous singers and dancers. In "A Club in Montmartre", renowned writer Mike Resnick imagines the lonely artist meeting a ...
This collection of 29 short stories from masters of science fiction--each tale chosen by the authors as the funniest they have ever written--presents wildly hilarious stories accompanied by prefaces written by the authors providing valuable insight into their selection and themselves. Featured contributors include David Brin, Esther Friesner, ...
There's never been anyone quite like John Boyes, the most notorious of East Africa's pioneers. This is his true story, his firsthand accounts of exploits on the Dark Continent during the days of the most daring adventurers. There are lots of things you can say about John Boyes: he was a troublemaker. He was an ivory poacher. He was a hunter. He ...
Pity the poor private eye (or official investigator, for that matter), who has to solve a case which may involve death by black magic, evidence that may have been altered or planted by an itinerant sorcerer, and supernatural entities.
The starship Theodore Roosevelt is fighting on the far outskirts of a galactic war, its crew made up of retreads and raw recruits. A new first officer reports, Wilson Cole, a man with a reputation for exceeding his orders (but getting results). He's been banished to the Teddy R for his actions, but once there, he again ignores his orders.
Jefferson Nighthawk, the most famed bounty hunter in the galaxy, is unfrozen again--and this time for good. With a cure finally available for his debilitating disease, the Widowmaker wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But while he has been frozen, his previous clones have garnered him a whole new set of enemies. And with the Widowmaker ...
It's 8:35 pm on New Year's Eve, and Private Detective John Justin Mallory is hiding out in his Manhattan office to avoid his landlord's persistent inquiries about the unpaid rent. As he cheerlessly reflects on the passing of a lousy year, which saw his business partner run off with his wife, he assumes the bourbon is responsible for the appearance ...
There is only one thing that Jefferson Nighthawk, the original Widowmaker, really wanted to do and that was retire on a far away planet and raise a garden. There were still two clones of him to keep the peace and carry on his legend. Unfortunately for him, his two clones have come to a disagreement. When a widowmaker takes on a widowmaker everyone ...
A collection of 25 speculations asks 'what if' the fortunes of the Kennedy family had been different, including an all-Kennedy rock group, JFK in the real Camelot, and much more.
In all of African history, there is no one quite like John Boyes. There have been better hunters, and certainly greater explorers. Although he's very readable, there have been finer writers. But when it comes to the category of Opportunist, Boyes' names stands out from all the others: he was, in his life, hunter, explorer, trader, ivory poacher, ...
The date is 1968 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now. The Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, is in the midst of an all-out war with the Teroni Federation. Captain Wilson Cole, a man with a reputation for exceeding orders but getting results, found himself the victim of a media feeding frenzy, a ...
Authorized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's estate, this brand-new collection of 26 Sherlock Holmes stories takes place in Holmes' own era, in our present time, and in the future. All the tales contain some science fiction or fantasy element, and all remain true to the spirit and personality of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous and enduring creation.
This collection of 30 original stories, each inspired by a song written by singer/songwriter Janis Ian, features some of the biggest names in science fiction and fantasy, including Harry Turtledove, Orson Scott Card, and Mercedes Lackey.
This collection of 29 short stories from masters of science fiction--each tale chosen by the authors as the funniest they have ever written--presents wildly hilarious accounts accompanied by a preface that offers valuable insight into the authors and their selections. Contributors include David Drake, Gregory Benford, Janis Ian, Gene Wolf, Brian ...
Set in the same world as Resnick's Santiago novels, this first novel in a new trilogy introduces Mouse, a hard-bitten, cynical woman and professional thief, who finds herself in deep trouble when her attempt to rescue a seemingly helpless little girl has potentially deadly consequences.
Hugo Award-winner Resnick returns to the bestselling world of Santiago and Soothsayer. Now a grown woman, psychic Penelope acts as Oracle on the planet Hades.es a target. But this time, the hunters are in for a surprise--for Penelope's powers have grown tremendously . . . and she's not afraid to use them.
Jefferson Nighthawk--known and feared by many as the Widowmaker, the consummate bounty hunter--has been frozen for a century in order to defeat a deadly disease. Only now the cost of his care has risen, so the Widowmaker is called out of retirement for one special commission, and a very large chunk of cash. A notorious assassin has been wreaking ...
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