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The Summer of Love-and the end of the World!Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, August 5, 1967. Five hippies form a band they call Rock n' Roll Universe.All they want to do is get high, make love, make music-and get on the cover of the Rolling Stone. But when they encounter a Very Strange Fellow in the Golden Gate Park, very strange things happen, and mind-boggling forces propel the group into a cosmic battle for the fate of the universe.Rock n' Roll Universe is in part homage to and a pastiche of the Butterfly Kid, by Chester Anderson, 1975. It is also in part autobiographical. Rand lived some of the events fictionalized in the book."But I ain't saying which," he says.
In Las Vegas, everybody has secrets...The young mother rent-a-cop who dreams of dead people's graves and her incompetent, thieving P.I. boss. The eccentric billionaire toy-collector, his lesbian "right-hand man" and her dazed and confused lover.The angst-ridden cop. The rabble-rousing bag lady, her band of homeless pranksters, and the preacher who wants to levitate a casino. They all have secrets.One is a murderer.
The Six Tribes beat the US Army and won their own nation - the Dakota - in northern great plains of America's Old West. The Pax Dakota has maintained peace between the USA and Dakota for 24 years, but as the 20th century dawns, that peace is about to shatter. Ancient spirit Old Enemy has escaped his medicine bundle prison. His relentless quest to return to the spirit world that cast him out in the Long Ago Time is renewed. Only Watcher, the spirit the First People created as Old Enemy's jailer, can stop him. But Watcher can't remember how to do it.Meanwhile, on the border between their nations, young runaway prostitute Etta Mae Dooley meets Joseph Thorn, a Dakota boy wracked with doubt and spiritual emptiness. As spirits watch and scheme, with the extinction of mankind at stake, the pair find themselves pawns in a deadly game they cannot win.
Us regulars at the Lucky Nickel Saloon, Second Avenue, Laramie, Wyoming Territory, US of A, are shocked to hear from Mick, the Irish barkeep, that his mortgage is due tomorrow. Bankruptcy looms, dire straits for certain sure, as we-all're broke and none of us can get credit nowhere else.Sudden-like, a gang of faeries invades town. They're intent on robbing the circus, just arrived in town for a show, of payroll gold. But afore the robbery, said bandits intend to get drunk on Fairy BrewHaHa, concocted, so the legend in Fairyland goes, only in the Lucky Nickel and nowheres else.Trouble is, Mick, who brewed said brew afore he gave up sipping at his own stock long ago, can't remember the secret formula. He better remember quick, as the faeries get agitated and commence to breaking up furniture and glassware.Trapped under the saloon piano by the furious fairy folk, yer faithful narrator Tom Dooley (at-yer-service), plus gunslinger Banky, one-eyed gambler Casper, Mick the Irish barkeep and his soiled dove affianced Emma Drummond, back-east dude reporter Sam Something, along with circus strongman Tom Murphy and his mermaid wife Miss Lizzy (who resides in a water barrel), and don't forget Charlie although he's asleep, and good ol' one-legged Jack Thatcher, plus the circus folk (except for Clementine, the elephant) must do battle - guns, poker, fisticuffs, swinging parasols, and wooden leg clubs - with the fairy horde.We got ourselves a saloon to save!
Dadgum Martians Invade The Lucky Nickel Saloon! is about these dadgum Martians that invade the Lucky Nickel Saloon, Second Ave, Laramie, Wyoming Territory, US of A. Only these dadgum Martians don't look like your regular Martians. No sir; they look like Earth chickens. Only these chickens have lips.And as everybody knows, chickens with lips lisp.Or is it Sheriff Benjamin Dover I'm thinking of? Never mind.Unlessen we want to be Tooken Over, we got ourselves a saloon to save!
"Home is a placed called Peaceful Valley, Wyoming...and love is a place called home."...And Horace Bixby is a long way from home - ar at the very least he's a long time from home.According to Horace, Golems and magic were just realities in Peaceful valley in the 1800's until the day everything went all wrong.
"Home is a placed called Peaceful Valley, Wyoming...and love is a place called home."
...And Horace Bixby is a long way from home - ar at the very least he's a long time from home.According to Horace, Golems and magic were just realities in Peaceful valley in the 1800's until the day everything went all wrong.
Anna Devlin is pregnant, and she wants to tell the news to her husband Martin, administrator of the desert colony planet, Phoenix. But her joy is blasted into oblivion as the ideological rift between two religious factions suddenly erupts into violent revolution. Anna and Martin escape into Phoenix's blast-furnace heat. To survive, Anna must learn how the killer environment works and how to become part of it. But first, she must deal with the womb-deep loss, and madness.
Angel-like creators made the universe and put it in an egg-sized stone. Then they cast the stone into the universe they'd created--a paradox. But something went wrong. The fabric of creation is unraveling. The stone's guardians have become weak over the millennia but they hatch a desperate and dangerous plot to save the universe. Thomas Cain, a giant man with the heart and mind of a child, finds the stone. In Wyoming's Wind River Mountains, in the mid-21st Century of a decaying America, the stone gives Thomas wonderful powers and horrific urges. Thomas befriends an old Indian shaman who understands visions. The pair must unravel the stone's mystic powers to save a dying human race, and they have little time. Sheriff Pete Cain, Thomas' own brother, is hunting Thomas--for murder.
