Bøger af Paul Dellinger

Alistair Jones is a ex-Pinkerton agent roaming the West in search of work. Amy Dunston is an angry widow searching for answers. Who knows what those men with matching mustaches and bowler hats are searching for, but Alistair and Amy would both like to know why there are so many of them, why they all look alike, and why they're impervious to bullets - at least until they met the business end of Alistair's .52-caliber 1874-pattern Sharps rifle. It could take down a buffalo with one shot, and it worked on those Bowlers, too.But Alistair's gun and Amy's quick thinking might not be enough. Scientist Hiram Wilson's newfangled solar-and-steam-powered airship has brought an army of those bowler-wearing varmints out of the woodwork, and destroying Hiram's invention is just the beginning of their terrifying plan for our planet.A vintage Western meets an alien invasion straight out of the golden age of science fiction and adds a chaser of steampunk in The Sky-Riders, a new novelette from Southwest Virginia authors Paul Dellinger (Mr. Lazarus) and Mike Allen (Unseaming).Paul's stories have appeared in Fantastic Stories, Fantasy & Science Fiction and numerous DAW anthologies. Mike is a Nebula, Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy award finalist. The two have been friends for decades, but this is their first collaboration.Cover by Orion Zangara and Derek L. Chase.

This collection of 24 stories, which originally appeared in science fiction and fantasy magazines, anthologies and on-line publications between 1962 and 2013, has roots in many parts of the popular culture from those years: other books, films, radio serials and more. They might be called stories about stories, which many readers will recognize. As such, these tales make up an informal history of their own genres. There are recurring characters ranging from the enigmatic Mr. Lazarus, who seems to appear whenever the natural universe is out of whack, to the Gemini Twins, a pair of space-age heroes with talents that enable to take on an entire planet, if necessary. And there are many one-time characters, such as the judge of an alien beauty contest; the Hollywood horror producer who encounters the real thing and tries to build a movie around it; the soldier who hunts a werewolf at a military academy; a B-western stunt man who finds creepy characters from beyond turning up in the cast of his latest picture, and a few well-known SF writers who change the course of space exploration, among many others. Among the challenges they encounter are invaders from space, vampires, unicorns, virtual Martians and a beautiful gypsy who can foretell the future, up to a point. And beneath the action and suspense lies a gentle humor, here and there. These stories should have something for every SF and fantasy enthusiast, and any pop culture enthusiast.

A posse of Hollywood cowboy stars ride to the rescue of a survivor from the actual Old West in 1950 Hollywood, to save him and thwart a conspiracy against the nation itself dating back almost a century.

They descended onto a mountaintop in Roanoke, Va., one night during the '50s, but only now are they making themselves known: a hunt for an alien entity in the middle of a science fiction convention in the Star City of the South. SF suspense by the author of "Mr. Lazarus" and "Skyriders" co-author.