Mike Resnick books

Buntline Special (2014)

Being new to Westerns, but a lover of Steampunk, I really enjoyed this book. However, I was a little disappointed with the character development. I think the lack of depth written into the story is mainly because these are famous people, and we should already know who they are. But, being new to ...

The Land That Time Forgot (1999)

Because part of me is perpetually ten years old, I will always be a sucker for "Lost World" type novels, all those stories of people winding up on remote islands or lost continents or hidden sections of the Arctic and finding a land full of extinct creatures, especially dinosaurs, who make everyt...

The Further Adventures of Batman (1989)

“Criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot, so I must wear a disguise that will strike terror into their hearts! I must be a creature of the night, like a . . . a . . . a bat!” —Bruce Wayne It began with those words fifty years ago, a crusade that would grow into a legend. Orphaned as a child,...

The Outpost (2002)

Award-winning writer Mike Resnick takes us back to his wild and wooly Inner Frontier in this tall-tale of an adventure novel.On the planet Henry II, orbiting the twin suns of Plantagenet and Tudor, at the very edge of the great black hole at the center of the Milky Way, there is a tavern called T...

Starship: Mutiny (2005)

The starship Theodore Roosevelt is fighting on the far outskirts of a galactic war, its crew made up of retreads and raw recruits. A new first officer reports, Wilson Cole, a man with a reputation for exceeding his orders (but getting results). He's been banished to the Teddy R. for his actions, ...

Starship: Pirate (2006)

The date is 1967 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now. The Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, is in the midst of an all-out war with the Teroni Federation. After his latest exploit saved millions of lives but embarrassed his superiors, Captain Wi...

ReVisions (2004)

Fifteen original tales of "what if" Some of today's top science fiction writers explore the futures that might have been, including original stories from Julie E. Czerneda and other great names in the genre.Contents:The resonance of light / by Geoffrey Landis --Out of China / by Julie E. Czerned...

Alternate Gerrolds: An Assortment of Fictitious Lives (2004)

David Gerrold takes you on a tour of alternate universes … universes where Santa Claus isn’t nice and the best man is actually elected president; where Ronald Reagan and Gregory Peck command the plane carrying the first atomic bomb and John F. Kennedy stars in the hit show Star Track, where Franz...

A Thousand Deaths (2007)

Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future (1992)

I’m not sure when my desire to be a writer first sparked, but I can tell you when it roared into full flame; it was the day Mike Resnick spoke at my high school. I was a junior, and I’d been a voracious reader for years. I’d even written a short story for my English class, taught by one of my fav...

The Widowmaker (1996)

One of the major voices in science fiction, Mike Resnick presents the first volume in a bold new trilogy.Jefferson Nighthawk--known and feared by many as the Widowmaker, the consummate bounty hunter--has been frozen for a century in order to defeat a deadly disease. Only now the cost of his care ...

Starship: Mercenary (2007)

The date is 1968 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now. The Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, is in the midst of an all-out war with the Teroni Federation. Captain Wilson Cole, a man with a reputation for exceeding orders but getting results, fou...

Soothsayer (2005)

This review is from: Soothsayer (Oracle Trilogy Book 1) (Kindle Edition)Although a lifelong science fiction fan, I had never before encountered the Inner Frontiers of Mike Resnick's Santiago world. This story, the first of a new series, is set within this environment and, although the pleasure of...

The Other Teddy Roosevelts (2008)

Theodore Roosevelt: president, naturalist, explorer, author, cowboy, police commissioner, deputy marshal, soldier, taxidermist, ornithologist, and boxer. Everyone knows about that. But how about vampire hunter? Or African king? Or Jack the Ripper's nemesis? Or World War I doughboy? Mike Resnick (...

A Gathering of Widowmakers (2005)

Naprodukował Mike Resnick klonów swojego bohatera - Jeffersona Nighthawka - i już od tomu drugiego czytelnika przede wszystkim interesował scenariusz, w którym owe klony pracują razem, wespół w zespół. Autor właściwie nie miał wyboru, stąd po kilku latach przerwy od wydania “The Widowmaker Unleas...

The Return of Santiago (2004)

When Danny Briggs, a young thief, stumbles upon the long-lost poems of Black Orpheus, a poet who had immortalized the exploits of mythic bandit, assassin, and hero Santiago, he embarks on an interstellar odyssey to unravel the truth behind Santiago's legend.

Kirinyaga (1999)

Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia collects Mike Resnick's famous Kirinyaga stories and ties them together in a thematic arc that has novel-like continuity. The story focuses on Koriba, a mundumugu (sort of like a witch doctor and a wise man rolled into one) of the Kikuyu tribe. Koriba feels that his t...

Stalking The Unicorn (1987)

It's 8:35 pm on New Year's Eve, and Private Detective John Justin Mallory is hiding out in his Manhattan office to avoid his landlord's persistent inquiries about the unpaid rent. As he cheerlessly reflects on the passing of a lousy year, which saw his business partner run off with his wife, he a...

Eros at Zenith (1985)

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Eros Ascending (1984)

Book One of the Velvet Comet--the enormous, exclusive, elaborate, and infamous orbiting brothel: As a field accountant for the Vainmill Syndicate, Harry Redwine is assigned to the Velvet Comet for the delicate task of financial sabotage. By inserting 'errors' in the accounting logs, the Syndicate...

The Dragon Done It (2008)

Pity the poor private eye (or official investigator, for that matter), who has to solve a case which may involve death by black magic, evidence that may have been altered or planted by an itinerant sorcerer, and supernatural entities.

Flagship

Most of the bodies hadn't been removed yet, and the odor wafted up to the roof where the Kermit had set down.     Cole turned to Val before opening the hatch. "No sudden moves. These guys figure to be more on edge than most." "Got it," she replied with no show of concern. &nbs...

The Best Rootin' Tootin' Shootin' Gunslinger in the Whole Damned Galaxy (2011)

A world that lived up to its name: Tombstone. A world that deserved no acclaim: Tombstone. A world for the halt and the lame: Tombstone. A world even God would disclaim: Tombstone. A world that events overcame: Tombstone. A world where the Fates fanned a flame: Tombstone. A world that would soon ...

Doctor and the Kid, The (A Weird West Tale) (Weird West Tales)

asked Edison as he, Buntline, and Holliday climbed down from the train and walked the hundred feet to the terminus of the monorail. The station was new, clean, made of the super-hardened brass that was now omnipresent in Tombstone, and there was a bar and a restaurant in the interior. Holliday sm...

Oracle

He considered meeting with some of the Surgeon's former clientele and going through the motions of soliciting business, but decided against it. After all, both the Oracle and the Democracy had tried to kill him; there didn't seem to be any reason to try to maintain his cover.On the fourth night, ...

The Trojan Colt

I spoke to some of the grooms and the other hired help. Everyone liked Tony, no one had a bad word to say about him, and no one was surprised that he had left. Kids were doing that all the time, and even at nineteen or twenty he was still a kid in this industry.     I figured ...

Weird West 04 - The Doctor and the Dinosaurs

“I got a feeling this is going to be an exercise in futility,” remarked Holliday as they passed through a small forest. “There's nothing alive in these trees except the occasional bird.”     “That's a good sign, Doc,” replied Roosevelt.     “Anything that m...

The Doctor and the Rough Rider

said Geronimo when he and Roosevelt were sitting cross-legged on the ground in the shade of Geronimo's hut, facing each other. Holliday, who had some trepidation about lowering himself to the ground gracefully and an absolute certainty that if he managed it he could never get up on his own power,...

The Amulet of Power (2003)

They paused before the entrance, and then Omar shook his head. “Too many people know you’re in the country now,” he said, “and they know we have used the Bortai in the past.” He whispered to Hassam. “Hassam will go ahead and get us lodgings at the one other hotel where we can provide security. Mo...

Eros at Zenith: Book 2 of Tales of the Velvet Comet

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Adventures

We marched for about three days, and headed north toward the Sudan just to make sure that we didn't bother any game wardens or British officers who might have been in the area, which is how I lost my fortune before I had a chance to build my tabernacle. One night we were lying down by the campfir...

Eros Descending: Book 3 of Tales of the Velvet Comet

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Stalking the Vampire (2013)

asked McGuire.     “Private eyes don't have insights,” Nathan corrected him. “They have notions.”     “Okay, what's your notion?” asked the vampire.     “Vlad's been living here for a few days, right?” said Mallory.    &nb...

The World Behind the Door (2011)

Twice they passed men Dali knew. Both times the men grunted a greeting, but never mentioned Jinx. As they continued their stroll, Dali became silent and seemingly morose, lost in his thoughts about the painting. Jinx hummed a bouncy tune, stopped to pet a stray dog, sketched a pigeon that perched...

Stalking the Unicorn: A Fable of Tonight

He quickly adjusted the belt, and a moment later he could feel the heat spreading through the fabric.After he had walked for perhaps half a mile, he turned to his left, leaving the river behind him. Before long he came to an all-night drugstore. It seemed to be frequented solely by goblins and Gn...

Six Blind Men & an Alien

2038 A.D.          "I’m starting to think that Hemingway never got up this high," said Ray Glover. "After all, he was an out-of-shape boozer. I’m in great shape and I still can’t catch my breath."     "He was a fiction writer," said Jim Donahue. "So it’s possible he made it up. After all, in The ...

Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs

The villains in the first book were (well-disguised) communists, and the villains in the third of the four books were parodies (but deadly parodies, paradoxical as that may seem) of the Nazis. Here Richard Lupoff, long-time Burroughs scholar and author of two nonfiction books about ERB’s worlds, ...

Away Games: Science Fiction Sports Stories

So it was only natural that sooner or later my favorite of my own characters, Lucifer Jones (star of Adventures, Exploits, Encounters, and Hazards, who has thus far survived fifty-three pulp and B-movie parodies and counting), should eventually come across a most unusual show dog.Back in 1936 I f...

Starship: Mercenary (Starship, Book 3)

explained David Copperfield when the senior officers met aboard the Teddy R. “It should take a week, two at the most, and we’ll have a million Far London pounds.”     “How much is that in real money?” asked Forrice.     “About two million Republic credits, ...

Mutiny

"Commander Cole, come with me please." "What for?" asked Cole. "The trial doesn't start for two more days?" "I just know I've been ordered to bring you to the conference room." Cole got up and walked to the door. "Lead the way," he said.     "I'm sorry, sir, but I'm not permit...

Rebel

Cole thanked him politely, but turned it down.     "But why?" insisted the Duke. "Surely you realize the importance of keeping in touch with all your ships and all your spies and spotters." "Of course," said Cole. "But I also realize the importance of being a moving target rat...

Eros Ascending: Book 1 of Tales of the Velvet Comet

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A Gathering of Widowmakers (The Widowmaker #4)

The ship touched down on Giancola II, and Nighthawk and Kinoshita emerged. "Ugly world," commented Nighthawk, surveying the bleak, barren brown landscape. "Thank you," said Kinoshita. "What for?" "Those are the first words you've spoken to me since we took off." "I wasn't saying them to you." The...

The Widowmaker: Volume 1 in the Widowmaker Trilogy

But, like Yukon and Tundra, its mines were exhausted in less than two decades, the miners went further toward the Galactic Core, and not much remained except a handful of prospectors who kept hoping to find another mother lode, and the usual gamblers and outcasts and adventurers who were endemic ...

The Return of Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future

            Fear is unknown to him,             Mercy is too.             His name's Santiago—             And he's coming for you!         There was a lot of work to do, a lifetime or more, and they soon got busy, each in his own way—for as Santiago explained, everything that had been done up to...

The Prison in Antares (2015)

asked Pandora as Pretorius and his party returned to the ship.     “Watchdog, watchcat, watch-something,” muttered Ortega.     “She was uneasy, but she couldn’t spot it,” added Pretorius.     “But if she was an empath, surely she could s...

Prophet

There was a fair-sized alien contingent there, too: a few Canphorites, some Lodinites and Robelians, an enormous Torqual, and even a pair of diminutive, faerie-like Andricans, the first of that species Lomax had ever seen.The Iceman wasn't in evidence, so Lomax strolled over to the gaming tables....

Kilimanjaro: A Fable of Utopia (2014)

When Robert ole Meeli departed for Kenya, that left the Council of Elders divided with six men and six women. It was only a matter of a few days before the Council met to name a successor—and only a matter of a few minutes thereafter that Ledama, daughter of Ntaiya, and Ashina, daughter of Kibibi...

The Fortress in Orion (2014)

said Pretorius as Djibmet drove them to the spaceport, while Proto, in the guise of a Kabori, sat next to them and the rest all hid in the back. “Maybe we lucked out and waylaid a truck that was bringing a shipment of goods to the Wayfarer.”     “I can’t read this shit,” said ...

Exploits

Secret SexThere are worse things than walking down the streets of Delhi on a hot summer day. For one thing, you could be walking down the streets of Delhi on a hot summer day with a bunch of knife-wielding gamblers hot on your trail for trying to pay off your losses with a pandaskin coat. Or you ...

Cat on a Cold Tin Roof (2014)

“You did what?” demanded Sorrentino as we were sitting across a table from each other, waiting for our beef sandwiches in a Texas Roadhouse toward the center of town.     “I found out where they were staying and I paid them a little visit,” I repeated.     ...

Inferno: A Chronicle of a Distant World (The Galactic Comedy)

Three hundred dead kings waited with eternal patience as the khaki-clad woman approached the enclosure. Six hundred sightless eyes watched as she came to a halt before their successor. A slight breeze caused some of their weapons to rattle, some of their robes to stir, as they stood, silent and u...

First Person Peculiar

Of course, I don’t work on Saturdays, but this is never a problem, since he’s usually sleeping off Friday night’s binge and isn’t ready to get back in the saddle until about half past Monday.We get along pretty well, though we don’t talk much to each other—my English is a little rusty, and his Yi...

Stalking the Dragon (2013)

asked Joe.     “Doesn't make much difference,” said Mallory. “Winnifred's due to call in a few minutes, and we'll see where she wants to meet.” He shrugged. “She's sure as hell not going to want to traipse all the way down to Chinatown, so I suppose we might as well start head...

The Dark Lady

The kid stood still, surveying the situation. From time to time his gaze would freeze on a rooftop or the interior of a building, and I knew he had pinpointed yet another of the bounty hunters who lay in wait for him. He was dressed in a faded, nondescript brown outfit. A laser pistol rested in a...