Meg, by Steve Alten:
Jonas adjusted his midwing, decreasing his angle of descent. He hovered twenty feet above the seabed and slowed, waiting for D.J. Spread out below him were row upon row of giant clams, pure white and glowing, each over a foot in diameter. There were thousands of them, lying in formation around the [geothermal] vents as if ( Read more... )

Eat, Sleep, Ride: How I Braved Bears, Badlands and Big Breakfasts in My Quest to Cycle the Tour Divide:

On closer inspection the town consisted of no more than a crossroads, the branches of which were populated by half a dozen motels, a couple of diners, a post office and two gas stations with convenience stores attached. And JR's Taxidermy ( Read more... )

# 82: Tripwire by Sean Michaels:

Clean and horny, he swam slowly around Bones' rock, trying to think up a line that wouldn't make him sound like a total horn dog.

Synopsis: Hard-bitten mercenary falls for the camp doctor, hard, then must protect him when a bounty's put on his head ( Read more... )

# 80: Severance Package by Duane Swierczynski.

'What's wrong with him?' Amy asked.

'You were there when he was shot in the head, weren't you?'

Synopsis: At a Saturday morning emergency meeting of a financial services company, the executive director announces that the company is being dissolved, and that he has to kill all his employees. And ( Read more... )

# 68: Orpheus and the Pearl by Kim Paffenroth:

'Oh my, yes. That is another of her urges I don't fully understand. Victoria is consumed with an overwhelming hunger, and for the most robust fare. Since she doesn't metabolize like we do, I knew her needs would not be nearly as much as a grown adult, but I had anticipated she would need a small ( Read more... )

# 67: The Wicked Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House by Mary Chase:

Maureen Swanson was known among the other children in her neighborhood as a hard slapper, a shouter, a loud laugher, a liar, a trickster, and a stay-after-schooler.

Synopsis: Evil small child breaks into abandoned house, steals jewelry, is prompty sucked into a timesink by cursed ( Read more... )

# 62: Maurice by E.M. Forster:

A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood. I dedicated it 'To a Happier Year' and not ( Read more... )

He was the last PI on the planet, but could he save the world from a nuclear-powered, genocidal, exotic-dancing fembot?

--John Zakour, The Plutonium Blonde

It's like Christa Faust and John Ringo are reading my mind.

# 57: The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead:

In her room at the Friendly League Residence, she reads Theoretical Elevators, Volume Two. Reads, The race sleeps in this hectic and disordered century. Grim lids that will not open. Anxious retinas flit to and fro beneath them. They are stirred by dreaming. In this dream of uplift, they understand that ( Read more... )

# 56: Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest:

I did not see them on that visit, but in the rear of the hotel, dozens of retired passenger cars were permanently parked on the remaining tracks. Gradually they were being renovated and restored, eventually to become luxury hotel rooms. All the ghosts in the old Pullman and Cincinnati cars cried ( Read more... )