Michael Kurland
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The Whenabouts of Burr: A Science Fiction Novel
Someone has taken the original document of the U.S. Constitution and substituted another. The substitute is identical, just as old, and equally authentic – except it has been signed by Aaron Burr! It contradicts history, but it is real and there for everyone to see! <P> Such a crime calls for out-of-this-world detective work. There must be alternate Americas – and one of them must be an American union that Burr helped shape. With a few impossible coins, the path is indicated…and the search for THE WHENABOUTS OF BURR begins! It's a hunt through all the alternate-universe Americas that might have been – with Alexander Hamilton to point the way and Aaron Burr to block it! <P>A classic science fiction novel combining future, past, and present in a super-science history mystery! Features a new introduction by Michael Kurland.
A Study in Sorcery
In an alternate history in which the Plantagenets still rule in England, France, and the New World, and where the science of magic has displaced the magic of science, Lord Darcy is the official representative of King John IV to investigate murders and other bizarre crimes, and Master Sean O Lochlainn his forensic magician sidekick. An Azteque prince is sacrificed at the top of an abandoned Azteque pyramid in New England, his heart torn from his chest in a fashion discarded hundreds of years earlier. Unless Darcy and Sean can uncover the how and why of the crime, the fragile peace between the Angevin settlers of New England and the Azteque Empire may soon be broken. Another first-class authorized continuation of the magical detective series begun by the late Randall Garrett.
The Sherlock Holmes Megapack: 25 Modern Tales by Masters
This volume assembles a mammoth collection of modern Sherlock Holmes stories – no less than 25 tales by modern masters, such as Carla Coupe, Gary Lovisi, Richard A. Lupoff, Robert J. Sawyer, Mike Resnick, and many more! (It's also an authorized edition, produced under license from Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd.) <P> THE ADVENTURE OF THE ELUSIVE EMERALDS, by Carla Coupe<BR> THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND ROUND, by Mark Wardecker<BR> THE ADVENTURE OF THE MIDNIGHT SEANCE, by Michael Mallory<BR> THE CASE OF THE TARLETON MURDERS, by Jack Grochot<BR> THE TATTOOED ARM, by Marc Bilgrey<BR> THE INCIDENT OF THE IMPECUNIOUS CHEVALIER, by Richard A. Lupoff<BR> SHERLOCK HOLMES—STYMIED! by Gary Lovisi<BR> YEARS AGO AND IN A DIFFERENT PLACE, by Michael Kurland<BR> A STUDY IN EVIL, by Gary Lovisi<BR> THE ADVENTURE OF THE AMATEUR MENDICANT SOCIETY, by John Gregory Betancourt<BR> THE ADVENTURE OF THE HAUNTED BAGPIPES, by Carla Coupe<BR> SUN CHING FOO'S LAST TRICK, by Adam Beau McFarlane<BR> Dr WATSON’S FAIRY TALE, by Thos. Kent Miller<BR> THE CASE OF VAMBERRY THE WINE MERCHANT, by Jack Grochot<BR> A HOUSE GONE MAD, by Sherlock Holmes as edited by Bruce I. Kilstein<BR> BE GOOD OR BEGONE, by Stan Trybulski<BR> CUTTING FOR SIGN, by Rhys Bowen<BR> THE STAGECOACH DETECTIVE, by Linda Robertson<BR> THE DEAD HOUSE, by Bruce Kilstein<BR> THE ADVENTURE OF THE VOORISH SIGN, by Richard A. Lupoff<BR> THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE PEACOCK STREET PECULIARS, by Michael Mallory<BR> SECOND FIDDLE, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch<BR> THE CASE OF THE NETHERLAND-SUMATRA COMPANY, by Jack Grochot<BR> YOU SEE BUT YOU DO NOT OBSERVE, by Robert J. Sawyer<BR> THE ADVENTURE OF THE PEARLY GATES, by Mike Resnick <P> And don't forget to search this ebook store for «Wildside Megapack» to see more entries in this series, covering classic authors and subjects like mysteries, science fiction, westerns, ghost stories – and much, much more! (Sort by publication date to see the most recent additions.)
The Last President
Set in an alternative reality where «All the President's men» do not get caught at Watergate, this «shockingly believable» novel presents the frightening scenario of what could happen if a powerful but paranoid American chief executive goes out of control. <P> "—The dirty tricks have just begun; rape, murder, plot and counterplot…are nothing to this imperial President…" –Publishers Weekly. <p> "[T]he authors have brought a chilling sense of reality to their fast-paced, smoothly-written thriller. It may be fiction, but it is close enough to fact to be genuinely terrifying." –The Miami Herald.
The Unicorn Girl
Michael Kurland's 'The Unicorn Girl' is a novel about a magical world, half-mystical, half-historic, half-imaginary. Three halves, you ask, isn't that impossible? Of course it it. That's why it's magical. It is a lost world, too, a lost world called The Sixties. You hold in your hands the one, the only, the original Unicorn Girl. It's time to slip an old Harper's Bizarre or Strawberry Alarm Clock LP onto the turntable, pour yourself a glass of cheap wine, take off your shoes, and put up your feet. Then set fire to a little Maui wowee (if you're so inclined – don't tell anybody I encouraged you to break the law) and settle in for a trip to a wonderful half-real, half-imaginary era with Michael Kurland and the Unicorn Girl. – Richard A. Lupoff, from the Introduction
Perchance
When the young apprentice Delbit Quint is «bought» by Dr. Faineworth, he arrives in an alternate history version of New York City to help the good doctor with his investigation of «Exxa.» This beautiful young woman had just appeared from nowhere, without clothing, on the streets of Gotham two weeks earlier, her memories of herself and her background completely lost. But when they go to her cell, they find it empty–save for her loose garments. Thus begins a glorious adventure in parallel universe-jumping, as Delbit discovers the reality of the world in which he lives–and the many other strange and interesting variations of Earth surrounding it in the Paraverse. Not all of those who've developed the capability of jumping to these alternate realities are friendly, however. And ALL of them want Exxa, who has the unique ability of moving from one world to the other without mechanical assistance. Great SF and fantasy adventure by a master storyteller!
Victorian Villainy
Among the world’s great fictional villains Professor James Moriarty stands alone. Doctor Fu Manchu, Hannibal Lecter, Count Dracula, Iago, Voldemort, Darth Vader, Bill Sikes, Inspector Javert, and the Wicked Witch of the West all have their fans, all have their place in popular fiction. But for every one who can tell you whose life Iago made miserable, fifty honor that Professor James Moriarty was the particular nemesis of Sherlock Holmes. But just how evil was he? These stories by Michael Kurland explore an alternate possibility: that Moriarty wasn’t evil at all, that his villainy was less along the lines of Fu Manchu and more like Robin Hood or Simon Templar. And the reason for Sherlock Holmes’ characterization of him as “the Napoleon of crime” was that the professor was one of the few men he’d ever met who was smarter than he—and he couldn’t stand it!