Bill Ransom, Frank Herbert's coauthor on the Pandora Sequence (The Jesus Incident, The Lazarus Effect, and The Ascension Factor) is an accomplished and respected novelist in his own right, and WordFirePress is pleased to offer Bill's backlist of gritty, near-future thrillers which have been unavailable for many years—ViraVax, Burn, and Jaguar (all for $2.99), as well as The Jesus Incident. A vivid and gritty thriller in the vein of Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy, BURN takes today’s genetic research one step into a terrifying future, a “Hot Zone” world gone mad about a man-made contagion that literally leaves no one untouched....
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I have a short story about the Frankenstein Monster in Christopher Golden's upcoming anthology, The Monster's Corner, which will be released by St. Martin's Books at the end of September. My story is titled "Torn Stitches, Shattered Glass" and is set during kristallnacht, at the beginning of WWII. Other authors included are Kelley Armstrong, Simon R. Green, Jonathan Maberry, and many others.  Publishers Weekly listed The Monster's Corner among the ten most-anticipated SF/Fantasy/Horror books for fall.
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I have a short story about the Frankenstein Monster in Christopher Golden's upcoming anthology, The Monster's Corner, which will be released by St. Martin's Books at the end of September. My story is titled "Torn Stitches, Shattered Glass" and is set during kristallnacht, at the beginning of WWII. Other authors included are Kelley Armstrong, Simon R. Green, Jonathan Maberry, and many others.  Publishers Weekly listed The Monster's Corner among the ten most-anticipated SF/Fantasy/Horror books for fall.
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We have gotten a new cover, designed by Neil Jackson, for my high-tech oil-spill disaster novel, ILL WIND, written with Doug Beason. The eBook is available in all formats from WordFire Press. Doug Beason and I have also replaced the eBook text of our Nebula-nominated nanotechnology thriller ASSEMBLERS OF INFINITY. The text previously available as an eBook was not our preferred version of the novel.  Available in all formats from WordFire Press.  (Note, Amazon won't let you download the same book twice, if you wanted to get the newer version; If you really want the revised text, click on the...
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