A mind-bending, time-traveling, gut-busting collection of short stories that takes you to the edge of space and deposits you just below the skin. 12 writers of Sci-Fi, Speculative and Unusual tales, brought together to twist your thoughts and displace your known reality. Have you ever traversed the universe on a completely organic spaceship? Or experienced the foreboding secrets of Mars? Did that itchy rash you scratched, try to scratch you back? Or do you just need to change your socks? Volume One features stories by Will Schmitz, Lori Bowen, Gennady Favel, Henry Dane, Jeffrey Van Tuyl, Ralph Greco Jr., Eric Zipper, Ron Sacdalan, Brian Olszewski, Manuel Royal, Rodney Loy, and Tracy Biggerstaff.

The Infinite Spectacle: Short Stories of Displaced Reality

Literature & Fiction

Schmitz, Will

Sacdalan, Ron

Zipper, Eric

Biggerstaff, Tracy

Bowen, Lori

Favel, Gennady

Dane, Henry

Greco Jr., Ralph

Olszewski, Brian

Van Tuyl, Jeffrey

Short Stories & Anthologies

PageBacon

Luke Wentworth is a private dick with enough bad habits to keep him stuck to the underbelly of Los Angeles till the trumpets call him home. Maybe sleuthing is a way to serve the greater good, but probably it’s just another way to pay off debts and get a little action to boot. Tracking the missing daughter of a local big-shot requires a certain amount of tact that our Wentworth just doesn’t have time for. Things will go wrong. People will get hurt. Cats better scat or they’ll wind up going splat. Luke is on the job, but the job keeps getting bigger and badder.

The Violet Catastrophe

Bots are everywhere, so you’d best get used to them.  They have permeated the farthest extents, constructing your future and recreating the past, performing tasks of complexity with a precision and elegance that no “bio” can hope to match. Special talents? Not like them. High IQ? That’s what you think. Sex machine? Ha! They croon like nobody’s business and get your dishes sparkling clean. Inexhaustible, indestructible, biocompatible—and the latest models are 100% submersible. Affordable? You bet. It’ll practically pay for itself in less than three cycles.  Get yours today! (And pray it isn’t defective.)  A frenetic romp through the lives of future “bots” and the "bios" lucky enough to find their place in a universe where the artificially inclined are the masters of acting natural.  Will Schmitz has fused together a collection of smart, funny and utterly disturbing vignettes of future "life" written in a fast-paced, abbreviated style that will keep the pages turning until it's far too late to pull the plug.

Bots, Come!

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Bomby would rather spend the day lounging amongst the branches of his favorite lant tree, but being a servant of the Grues has its responsibilities, and all of them are boring. Too bad he didn’t see the great fireball falling from the heavens. He would have had a great story to tell, but it probably wouldn’t have made much difference since the Grues never listen to him anyways.   Generations of venerated leaders have led the planet’s inhabitants though interminable war guided by a philosophy of blood and stone, but in a society where the wheel is little more than a curiosity, weapons forged of metals emerge as the heart of a nascent technology. When a pirated starship of immense capability is haplessly marooned amongst the population of fierce idol-worshippers, the malevolent tide of evolution threatens to wash clean the slate of planetary sovereignty.   If Bomby could have just stayed up in his favorite tree ...

Planets Above & Below: Grues & Kirns

After being ravaged by famine, genocide and 400 years of war, an ancient city-state known as Panteria has united the planet bringing peace for most, and unrest for others. Rebels, Terrorists, or Freedom Fighters--The labels never matter. Good or Bad, they threaten the neoteric status quo. With secrets to protect at all costs, genetically and bio-mechanically enhanced soldiers are enlisted to combat all threats with extreme ... diligence. Nearing the end of thirtieth century, an unparalleled killer in the Army of Mutants escapes the brutality and seeks a life of peace. Jim St. John--recruited, trained and enhanced by the government as a boy to be the ultimate soldier--vows to stop the bloodshed, unearthing a civilization buried by catastrophe for over 800 years. Under St. John’s command, the ultra-soldiers of Crystal Mountain must rise above the surface to exact violent justice on those who threaten the nascent liberty. But nothing worth dying for comes easy. Hell, when it’s all said and done, the Executioners may have to forget about saving the world and simply save themselves. Steel yourself for the first volume of the Panteria Chronicles ... Fallen.

Panteria Chronicles: Fallen

Sisk, L. B.

Fantasy

Drawn to the '80s: The ABCs of the Decade's Hits Drawn by My Kid

"It is a lovely concept and execution ... 'have fun' with it." - Nick and Jack, Wang Chung ..". this is childhood sincerity and creativity in one fell swoop, and it's immensely charming." - Glenn Dallas, San Francisco Book Review Sam loves to draw. His mom, Lori, is obsessed with '80s culture. Combine the two and you get Drawn to the '80s, featuring several years of Sam's creative renditions of '80s pop music. Arranged in colorful A-B-C order, kids can get familiar with the most awesome music generation of all time! Featuring Sam's visual renditions of '80s hits by Quiet Riot, Thompson Twins, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, Van Halen, Run DMC, The Go-Go's, Def Leppard, The B-52's, Kenny Loggins, Prince, Billy Idol, David Bowie &amp; Queen, Duran Duran, Thomas Dolby, Katrina and the Waves, The Buggles, Michael Jackson, Bauhaus, Olivia Newton-John, Human League, The Police, Ray Parker Jr., Peter Gabriel, Beastie Boys, and The Human League.

Lori Ferraro

"It is a lovely concept and execution ... 'have fun' with it." -Nick and Jack, Wang Chung "... this is childhood sincerity and creativity in one fell swoop, and it’s immensely charming." - Glenn Dallas, San Francisco Book Review (hardcover) Sam loves to draw. His mom, Lori, is obsessed with ‘80s culture. Combine the two and you get Drawn to the ‘80s, featuring several years of Sam’s creative renditions of ‘80s pop music. Arranged in colorful A-B-C order, kids can get familiar with the most awesome music generation of all time! Featuring Sam’s visual renditions of ‘80s hits by Quiet Riot, Thompson Twins, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, Van Halen, Run DMC, The Go-Go’s, Def Leppard, The B-52’s, Kenny Loggins, Prince, Billy Idol, David Bowie & Queen, Duran Duran, Thomas Dolby, Katrina and the Waves, The Buggles, Michael Jackson, Bauhaus, Olivia Newton-John, Human League, The Police, Ray Parker Jr., Peter Gabriel, Beastie Boys, and The Human League.

Ferraro, Lori

Children's Books

You, in Calamity's Kingdom Coloring Storybook

Arts, Music & Photography

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the PageBacon publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by PageBacon