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Rick Wilber and Gerald Brandt sign in San Diego

Event date: 
Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 7:30pm

It’s a science fiction double feature in the Galaxy when Rick Wilber and Gerald Brandt look at possible future incarnations of social media and corporate power. Rick, a prolific writer of short fiction, and editor of anthologies on media and baseball, published sections of his debut novel, Alien Morning, in Asimov's Science Fiction. In the future, Peter Holman provides freelance documentation of the arrival of aliens, the S'hudonni, via immersive social media interface Sweepcasting. Humans’ willingness to believe everything they see on media is the key to this thriller, which also explores fraternal conflicts.

The Courier, the first novel in the San Angeles series, introduced a far future California that has been turned into a multilevel city where corporations rule.  Motorcycle courier Kris Ballard witnessed a murder and sought refuge with an underground resistance group. The Operative picks up right where The Courier left off, with the resistance group under attack, and Kris’s savior and romantic interest taken captive. Gerald is working on the next installment, The Rebel.
 

Alien Morning By Rick Wilber Cover Image
$34.99
ISBN: 9780765332905
Availability: Not in Stock, Available for Special Order
(This book cannot be returned.)
Published: Tor Books - November 8th, 2016

Peter Holman is a freelance sweeper. The year 2030 sees a new era in social media with sweepcasting, a multisensory interface that can convey every thought, touch, smell, sight, and sound, immersing the audience in another person's experience.

By fate, chance, or some darker design, Peter is perfectly positioned to be the one human to document the arrival of the aliens, the S'hudonni.

The S'hudonni offer advanced science in exchange for various trade goods from Earth. But nothing is as simple as it seems. Peter finds himself falling for, Heather Newsome a scientist chosen by the S'hudonni to act as their liaison. Engaged to his brilliant marine biologist brother, Tom, Heather is not what she seems. But Peter has bigger problems. While he and his brother fight over long-standing family troubles, another issue looms: a secret war among the aliens, who are neither as benevolent nor as unified as they first seemed.

Peter slowly learns secrets he was never meant to know, about the S'hudonni, and about his own family. Realizing that he has been used, he can only try to turn his situation around, to save what he can of his life and of the future of Earth.


Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural By Rick Wilber (Editor) Cover Image
By Rick Wilber (Editor)
$15.99
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ISBN: 9781597805483
Published: Night Shade - October 28th, 2014

Of all the sports played across the globe, none has more curses, superstitions, or supernatural events like baseball, America's national pastime. While some of these can easily be explained, there are just as many that cannot. Field of Fantasies delves right into that superstition with short stories written by several key authors about baseball and the supernatural. Whether it's a frozen curveball, a robot pitcher, or fantasy outcomes (the Cubs winning the World Series!), these terrific stories are ones that fans of science fiction will enjoy, while fans of baseball will find strangely believable. Included in this wonderful anthology are stories from such prolific authors as: Stephen King Jack Kerouac Karen Joy Fowler Rod Serling W. P. Kinsella And many more! Never has a book combined the incredible events of baseball and science fiction like Field of Fantasies does. Whether you're a sport or science fiction fan, these stories will appeal not only to your fandom, but also to your appreciation and acceptance of the unknown taking place on the baseball diamond. If you've ever held a bat or glove in your hand (or just watched the game on TV), you'll be enthralled by these terrific tales that range from the sandlot to the sold-out stadium.


The Courier (San Angeles #1) By Gerald Brandt Cover Image
$7.99
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ISBN: 9780756412074
Published: DAW - November 1st, 2016

 Kris Ballard is a motorcycle courier. A nobody. Level 2 trash in a multi-level city that stretches from San Francisco to the Mexican border a landwhere corporations make all the rules. A runaway since the age of fourteen, Kris struggled to set up her life, barely scraping by, working hard to make it without anyone's help. 
But a late day delivery changes everything when she walks in on the murder of one of her clients. Now she's stuck with a mysterious package that everyone wants. It looks like the corporations want Kris gone, and are willing to go to almost any length to make it happen. 
Hunted, scared, and alone, she retreats to the only place she knows she can hide: the Level 1 streets. Fleeing from people that seem to know her every move, she is rescued by Miller a member of an underground resistance group only to be pulled deeper into a world she doesn't understand. 
Together Kris and Miller barely manage to stay one step ahead of the corporate killers, but it's only a matter of time until Miller's resources and their luck run out....