Central Heat

Richard Venneman, former vampire, weeps in frustration. His prey has eluded him.That prey is a vampire. Venneman was the first vampire in history to transform himself into an even more terrible being who preyed on vampires. And then he was the first to become human again. Now he hungers-not for blood, but to find a vampire who will make him a vampire for the second time.His obsessions have forced others through strange transformations. Karen Belmont, trapped between human form and werewolf shape, hungers for both blood and flesh. Elizabeth Vallé, content for three centuries to be a beautiful, seductive vampire, has become the stalker of vampires that Venneman once was-but monstrous in size and appetites.Now Elizabeth wants an eternal soulmate and has chosen Venneman, while Karen is hunting him so that she can take revenge by tearing him apart.Their meeting will trigger a catastrophe. (lib)

WHY in 2016 and again in 2024 did the most powerful country in the world elect a gibbering buffoon to be its president?HOW can a semi-human creature be the richest man in the world?WHAT really happens when one corporation devours another?WHY are giant corporations headed by heartless nincompoops?WHEN did one major American political party become an instrument of pure evil?WHY do companies change their very nature when they pass a certain size? A small, friendly place becomes cold, impersonal, and inhuman when the number of employees increases to around 505 to 100. What is actually happening? What monstrous evil has invaded and absorbed Friendly Little Co. and changed it into soul-sucking Monster Corp.?HOW does this apply to politics, parenting, the arts, and armies, navies, and air forces? Because IT DOES!AND what happens when the monstrous forces behind all of this begin to cooperate, instead of consuming each other, as they normally prefer to do. (And just how does that work, anyway?)LEARN the terrifying facts behind the veil of our seeming reality, as revealed to me by a higher-dimensional being named Heidi.In this indescribably important book, I tell you all about the terrifying beings controlling our fates and toying with our destinies. Read this book and learn the truth! (lib)

A cowardly simian in the White House, dopey ex-presidents, scary televangelists, assassinations, cute little monkeys, sinister old men with long, sharp teeth, and in the middle of it all, Malcolm Erskine, who thought he had such a clever idea and who also thought he could safely ignore the politics of Bush-era America. Malcolm is an unsuccessful science fiction writer with an overly high opinion of himself. He yearns for fame and fortune. He wants his books to sell the way the flood of New Age woo-woo books and business self-help books do.Then he has his great idea. He writes a book of nonsensical business advice that he claims was beamed into his mind telepathically by the spirit of a top-level alien corporate executive who lived long ago in a galaxy far away. His book, Business Secrets from the Stars, is a monster success. But success is a monster that threatens to destroy Malcolm. He hasn't just changed his own life. He's changed the world, and not for the better."A broad and bitter political satire. I was laughing out loud."- The Denver Post"Dvorkin has a savage wit, and he employs it relentlessly."- Analog Magazine (lib)

When Sherlock Holmes gives up the adventurous life of a consulting detective and retires to the Sussex countryside to raise bees, little does he or his old friend Dr. John Watson realize that their greatest adventure lies ahead -- an adventure spanning centuries and extending across the solar system.The future of civilization is at stake as Sherlock Holmes finds imself moving inexorably toward the final and most terrible confrontation with his ancient enemy, the time-jumping Napoleon of Crime, Professor Moriarty. (lib)