The Roberts
“impressive … haunting … packs an emotion and intellectual punch”
— SF Site
“a breezy read with a terrific ending”
— Handee Books
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Dubbed the “one-eyed architect,” Robert and his innovative buildings are praised to the skies. Suddenly his masterpiece, a dome made from a living membrane, collapses in on its inhabitants. Meanwhile his relationships disintegrate as he chooses his work over his lovers. Reeling from failure and paralyzed by self-doubt, what Robert needs is inspiration.
Robert needs Grace.
Unable to find someone to love, Robert decides to craft his perfect woman. But creating a woman is far more complicated than creating a building. Though Robert adores the winsome and compassionate Grace, he finds himself once again subsumed by his work. Their attempt at compromise has entirely unforeseen consequences. Suddenly trapped in a game of passion and jealousy, Robert is forced to confront all that is dearest to him: his work, his love for Grace, and hardest of all, himself.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Healer
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— Booklist
— Science Fiction Chronicle
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Payne is unusual in that he is seemingly unaffected by the mysterious burn out (called “The Drain”) that all other healers experience. Torn from home, he journeys across the strange landscape of his world in a search of an acceptance he may never find. Along the way he travels from the outskirts of society to an isolated mining camp; from there to a metropolis dedicated to gambling and vice; and from there, to a secret government compound where the most dangerous of healings are performed. Finally, in a land where reality meets mythology, he faces the greatest challenge of his life, and experiences a transformation that will forever alter the balance of the world.
X,Y
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— Locus
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In the morning she isn’t Frankie anymore. She doesn’t remember who she is. She knows for certain only one solid truth: she’s a man. As for Terry, her live-in boyfriend, he can’t quite understand what in the hell she’s talking about.
Frankie tries in vain to piece together what’s happened. Terry does his best to help, wanting nothing more than to get his girlfriend back. But eventually he grows impatient, and one night commits an unspeakable act.
Frankie, trapped and livid, slowly learns to live as a captive in a woman’s skin. She learns to rule over her poor misguided man. She makes him work for her. Wait on her. She uses her stranger’s body to tease, tempt and torment him with his own lust and desire.
This is the story of an ordinary couple in the their own private hell: A man and a woman in changed places; a man and a woman exploring the cruelty, darkness, horror, and ultimately, redemption, that once was hidden between a woman and a man.
The Movement of Mountains
Designed to mine a fungus that is used in a new wonderdrug, the Domers are huge and corpulent creatures with five-year life spans. Their bodies are recycled to create each succeeding generation. But rebellion rears its head when a new strain of virus disrupts their carefully orchestrated lives, conferring strange and painful memories. With pain comes hope for change. The Domers’ awakening poses a complex moral dilemma for Jules: should he cure the disease, as he has sworn to do for all such diseases, or encourage its dissemination on the chance that it will liberate both the Domers and the rest of mankind