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Ourelle was the closest planet to legendary Earth that Earl Dumarest had reached. There the legend of the Original People persisted among the several strange races that populated this world out along a far arm of the Milky Way. Somehow the boy named Jondelle held the key to further data in Earl's quest, but before he could obtain it, the child was kidnapped.

A dying man's last words brought Dumarest to Loame, "the garden planet". Its name was a mockery - Loame's gentle citizens could only watch in horror as their fields were ravaged by a mutated vine that destroyed all it touched. They were sure the acid-dripping vine was the work of their enemy world, Technos.

In 1988, Ernest Hillerman worked a few nights playing the monster in The Brown Depths, a horror film that has now gained quite a cult following. So when he is invited to appear at a convention and meet fans he didn't know he had, he is intrigued. What he finds out, however, is that the film he appeared in is apparently cursed...and everyone else associated with it has died under mysterious circumstances.

Spade: Secret Master of Fandom and Private Detective. Paladin: Spade's enigmatic sidekick and infamous detective for hire. Together: Two of masterful author Kristine Kathryn Rusch's most popular characters.

A warlike race of Martians plans their glorious conquest of Earth but one of them, Ettil Vrye, foresaw defeat. He was given his choice of joining the Legion of War - or burning! The story contains quite a bit of humor and irony, things not often found in Bradbury stories.

Secret Master of Fandom and Private Detective Spade gets a strange request: a tiny woman with pointed ears asks him to help her with a case at FleshCon, a California science fiction convention. The tiny woman turns out to be the infamous Paladin, whom Spade thought was only a rumor. Paladin needs help finding a teenage boy whom she says vanishes whenever she approaches him.

When a dead body turns up at the first ever Dinocon, Secret Master of Fandom and Private Detective Spade knows just who might be behind it all: Lucinda Danielle Stanhope who calls herself the Martha Stewart of Science Fiction. Now he just has to prove it. Stomping Mad marks the first appearance of Spade, who along with his sidekick Paladin, is one of Rusch's most popular characters.

Poker: a high-stakes, deadly serious professional sport. Doc Hill knows all too well the risks involved. Or so he thinks. But when one of the greatest poker players of all time dies, the stakes rise even higher. Doc must solve an increasingly frightening series of murders - and win the biggest tournament of his career - before he finds himself forced to fold his cards for good.

When ninth grader Britt Petersen decides to explore the dreaded Laemmle House for an article in her school newspaper, she drags her friends Rob and Dave along. All get more than they bargain for inside the house, and discover something worse when they leave: that a full year has passed.

Joseph Rannen is dead, and no one besides Morgan Kimball seems to believe he wasn't a traitor. With greedy Earth warships hovering overhead, Kimball has twelve hours to produce evidence that his friend and mentor was murdered, preferably without jeopardizing the colony's safety.

Rish Outfield presents a dozen stories performed by the author. Includes some bonus flash fiction pieces not available anywhere else!

Brooklyn Lisst is one of only three people awake on a spacecraft headed for a distant colony when she makes a gruesome discovery. One of the hibernating colonists has been murdered...and Brook starts to suspect there's a fourth person awake somewhere on the ship.

In this Western sequel to Birth of a Sidekick, young Ben Parks is stuck in Trueno, Arizona without a mentor. But when a veiled stranger comes to town, he ends up with a second chance at achieving his dream of being an adventure sidekick.

Ten-year-old Will Choner has an unusual ability, one he inherited from his dead father and one his mother has forbidden him from using. But when Will's uncle shows up at the door, Will is tempted to use it again...to find that missing girl on the news.

A stowaway on a train, running from something horrible, falls into the hands of evil men. Soon, innocent lives will be lost as human monsters will face something ancient, powerful - and hungry.

When the world as we know it falls, the New Texas Republic rises to face the harsh realities of holding civilization together one town at a time. Such is the task before Austin Reynolds, Texas Ranger, as he rides into the community of New Hope where a shifty-eyed mayor, his alluring and beautiful assistant, and a blind prophesying preacher complicate an inevitable battle against wild northern raiders. No Kinda Life is a post-apocalyptic adventure and traditional western rolled together into a riveting short novel

Rish Outfield narrates a sampling of his short stories, including "Remember the Future", "Try Your Luck", "Dying Is Easy", "Roll with the Changes", and "Who Can It Be Now?", along with a couple of tales only available in this collection.

The time has come for the Lean Rider, Western hero, to pick his new sidekick, and orphaned Benny Parks is thrilled to be chosen. He looks forward to a series of adventures and life lessons alongside the famous gunslinger, but has no idea what he's really in for.

What happens when a small town, rural zombie ends up being sent to Washington DC as a member of Congress?

Alec Ewell moves to a new town with his grandfather, and goes to a new school to start a new life. But everywhere they go, Alec just can't help but use his unique ability to heal people who are injured, or sick, or suffering. He is a Balm, and it's a power that runs in his family, but Gramps wants him to keep it a secret, to leave well enough alone, and just try to be a normal boy...something Alec has never managed to do.