The books are presented with related books grouped together, and more or less in order of their publication. Most of these books have been published overseas as well. For the sake of not having this page buried in italics, with one or two exceptions, I have only listed the first U.S. edition.
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ALLIES & ALIENS
My first two book, THE TORCH OF HONOR and ROGUE POWERS were later combined into a single omnibus edition under the title ALLIES AND ALIENS. The two books tell the story of the first interstellar war — a war interupted by the First Contact with a friendly — and very dangerous — species of aliens — who just happen to be occupying the battlefield. {Baen Books, paperback, June, 1995}.
ORPHAN OF CREATION
The bones of a australopithicine — a form of pre-human thought to be extinct for a millions — are found in Mississippi, and seem to date from the period just before the Civil War. As the evidence mounts that australopithicines are alive in the present day, a question that no one ever thought to ask before suddenly become more more urgent — what, exactly, is a human being. {Baen Books, paperback, 1988,
FoxAcre Press 2002.}
FARSIDE CANNON
Scientists working in the high arctic wastes of Iceland discover proof that an asteroid strike killed the dinosaurs. But their evidence is less than welcome to the people planning to move the asteroid Cornucopia into Earth orbit. There seems to be only one way to stop the asteroid — and the only place to do it from is the lunar Farside. {Baen Books, paperback, 1989}. This book takes place in the same universe as the Hunted Earth series, about a hundred years prior to THE RING OF CHARON.
THE WAR MACHINE
(with David Drake)
The Pact, the despotic and corrupt system that has held all the worlds and star sytems together for so long, is finally starting to unravel. But as bad as it is, the chaos and upheaval that will come in the wake of the Pact’s collapse can only be worse. A young officer, his marriage wrecked for the momentary advantage of one political faction over another, is forced to do battle against a unseen enemy in the name of the Pact. {Baen Books, paperback, 1989.}
SUPERNOVA
(with Eric Kotani)
As the twentieth century draws to its close, a young scientist discovers evidence that Sirius B, one of the closest stars to Earth, is about to undergo a Supernova explosion. Indeed, it may have already exploded, with the explosion shock wave already on its way to Earth. At first, it seems just a scientific curiosity, but even from a distance of many light years, a supernova explosion can have strange — and disastrous — consequences.(Avon, 1991)
THE MODULAR MAN
In a world where the line between man and machine has become increasingly blurred, a robotic household maintenance unit is arrested for murder, and the dead man’s widow decides to defend the machine herself. For the case is not just about murder. The prosecution wants the court to rule that no machine can stand trial, because no machine has rights under the law. Except there are very good reasons to argue this one does — because the prosecution believes the dead man is very much alive, his mind stored inside the robot. In effect, the victim has been arrested for murdering himself. {Bantam Books, paperback, 1992}.
STAR WARS –THE CORELLIAN TRILOGY
These are AMBUSH AT CORELLIA, ASSAULT AT SELONIA, and SHOWDOWN AT CENTERPOINT. Han Solo takes his wife, Leia Organo Solo, Chewbacca, and his three children to visit his home world of Corellia. It is supposed to be nothing more than a family vacation, with a little politicking thrown in on the side. Instead, Han and his family stumble into the middle of a dangerous rebellion — one that could cause the New Republic itself to fall.{Bantam Books, paperback, 1995}.
THE RING OF CHARON
The first book of the Hunted Earth. An incredibly powerful group of aliens, the Charonians, steal the planet Earth, removing it completely from the Solar System. {Tor Books, paperback December 1990}
THE SHATTERED SPHERE
The Second book of the Hunted Earth. In the second volume, something so powerful it can threaten the Charonians has broken loose in the universe. But how can humanity defeat the Adversary without so much as knowing what it is? {Tor Books, hardcover July, 1994, paperback September 1995}
ISAAC ASIMOV’S CALIBAN
In this first book of a three-book series of Robot mysteries, an eminent roboticist is savagely attacked — and all the evidence points to something impossible — that a robot attacked her. But Sheriff Alvar Kresh soon learns, much to his horror, that, all of a sudden, such a thing is possible — because the scientist who was attacked had made some changes in the Three Laws. {Ace Books, trade paperback, 1993}
ISAAC ASIMOV’S INFERNO
A political assassination throws the planet Inferno into chaos just as draconian measures to rescue the planetary climate are going into effect. But as soon becomes apparent, solving the case could easily wreck the delicate political structure of the re-terraforming project. {Ace Books, trade paperback, 1994}
ISAAC ASIMOV’S UTOPIA
Third book in the CALIBAN triology. A young scientist proposes a daring plan to revitalize the dying world of Inferno — but the robots of Inferno are determined to prevent all risk, all danger — even if the risk might save the world.
The Depths of Time is the first book of a trilogy, The Chronicles of Solace. Admiral Anton Koffield discovers a dangerous if hidden flaw in the techniques then being used to terraform the planet Solace. He rushes there with a warning — but is delayed in transit for over a century, to find a world still unaware of the disaster that is about to overtake it.
On the verge of extinction, only the gravest imaginable crime against humanity can save it. A bold new plan seeks to ignite a new SunSpot over Greenhouse, saving the habitat domes crucial to the survival of the Solacian people. But a secret clouds this symbol of much-needed hope: human space is contracting at a startling rate, threatening to wipe out all living worlds — including Earth. But as the work begins, agents of the Chronologic Patrol step in to prevent interference with the past – even at the risk of dooming humanity. Thwarted at every turn,Anton Koffield, proposes one last wildly grandiose idea – one final, desperate gamble. But if the only choice lies between madness and certain catastrophe – is there any choice at all? This book is part of David Brin’s young adult series, Out of Time, published by Avon Books. In the series, young time travelers from the present and the past are recruited to help save the future. Three time travelers are forced to take the place of Human diplomats during the first face-to-face meeting with a dangerous alien race. (Avon Books, 1999)
by Thomas B. Allen & Roger MacBride Allen
The Book of Record of the Time Capsule tells the people of the Future where to find the secrets of the past. But The Book of Record has it own story –one that has waited for far too long to be told. This brief volume reports how the world’s first Time Capsule was created — and what the plans are for finding it, five thousand years after its burial.Includes the complete text of The Book of Record. . FoxAcre Press, 2010. by Thomas B. Allen & Roger MacBride Allen Three books in a series of science-fiction detective stories.
The message was garbled, but it appeared to be a simple enough request: escort a human prisoner convicted of murder back to Earth for punishment. But when BSI agents Jamie Mendez and Hannah Wolfson arrive on a planet settled by the enigmatic Pavlat, it seems that everyone is determined to kill them before they can complete their mission–or even find out what it is. And on a planet where murder is a time-honored tradition, Death is a cause everyone believes in. Mendez and Wolfson must find a way to untangle the web of Pavlavian intrigue obscuring the case and sort out what’s really going on. But there’s far more than just one man’s life at stake — and soon they’ll have a fresh murder to solve. (Bantam Spectra, 2006)
It was just a simple courier job, but it ended in disaster. More than six months after BSI agent Jamie Mendez’s predecessor was sent out on a mission, his ship has been found, the twenty-five-year-old agent inside — dead of old age. The urgent message he sacrificed his life to deliver has survived in the form of a highly encrypted datafile. The encryption has kept the sensitive information safe from alien code-breaker — so far. But with the decryption key lost, the file is just as useless to BSI. Now agents Mendez and Hannah Wolfson must travel off-world in the ill-fated ship on a desperate mission to discover what happened to one of their own . . . and to search for the key to a secret that could set off an interstellar, interspecies war — one that may end with humanity’s extinction. (Bantam Spectra, 2007) It’s the most dangerous assignment of their careers — a mission so top-secret, not even their commanding officer has been permitted to know the details. Within minutes, BSI agents Jamie Mendez and Hannah Wolfson are whisked aboard an Elder Race ship as massive as a small moon, hurtling across the galaxy at unheard-of speed toward the scene of a crime no one dares to put into words. They’ve been partnered on the case with Brox 234 — an agent of the Kendari, humanity’s chief rival in the endless game of interstellar diplomatic threat and bluster. Mendez and Wolfson quickly learn one thing for certain: they’re about to face a threat so deadly that only an alliance between the human race and its fiercest foes will give any of them even the slimmest chance of survival. And even that chance is about to slip away.…
THE CHRONICLES OF SOLACE
THE DEPTHS OF TIME
THE OCEAN OF YEARS
Oskar DeSilvo led the project that terraformed the planet Solace, but he’s been dead for over a hundred years — or so thought all of Settled Space. But now, as Solace slides toward ecological collapse, Anton Koffield has reason to believe DeSilvo might be living still — and might hold the secrets that could save not only Solace, but all of humanity. And Anton Koffield has his own reasons for finding DeSilvo, the man who nearly destroyed him… Thus begins a quest not only to track down DeSilvo — but to save the future from the whims of a madman.
THE SHORES OF TOMORROW
A QUICK GUIDE TO BOOK-ON-DEMAND PRINTING
This self-published book was, essentially, the result of my research into self-publishing, and is primarily a discussion of the essentials of planning, designing, printing and binding true perfect-bound paperback books at home. (FoxAcre Press, 2002)
THE GAME OF WORLDS
TIME CAPSULE: THE BOOK OF RECORD
MR. LINCOLN’S HIGH TECH WAR
BSI: STARSIDE
THE CAUSE OF DEATH
DEATH SENTENCE
FINAL ENQUIRES