Stephen Goldin

• Feb-2023
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The first great space opera decalogy of the 21st century, this boxed set represents the first time all 10 books have been gathered together in a single volume. It follows the exciting adventures of undercover agents working to preserve the peace and ...

• Aug-2014
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From the author of POLLY! and TREK TO MADWORLD comes a truly bizarre comedy of outlandish proportions.The Quasiverse: A land that's a combination of Oz, Wonderland, Discworld, and general surreality, where anything can happen and often does; a land o...

• Sep-2011
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GHOSTS, GIRLS, & OTHER PHANTASMS is a comprehensive collection of Stephen Goldin's solo short fiction, containing most of the stories from his earlier collection THE LAST GHOST AND OTHER STORIES. (The "Angel in Black" stories have been broken out...

• Aug-2011
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• Aug-2011
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Goodyear Tires had an ad campaign in the mid-1970s showing a woebegone young woman kneeling beside her car with a flat tire, all alone on a deserted highway in the middle of the night. The caption read, "When there's no man around, Goodyear should...

• Aug-2011
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This story is dedicated to the Republican Party. They do so well at drumming up distrust of homosexuals, foreigners and others who are different from their "norm" that one can only imagine what they'll do when we encounter true aliens....

• Jul-2011
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• May-2011
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The exciting sequel to Mindflight. On the planet Iwagen, Richard and Mara Cheney have taken over their late parents' project, a hospice for telepausal Dur-ill telepaths, hoping to start a new telepathic generation. But someone else is interested in D...

• Feb-2011
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• Dec-2010
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"Blasphemous ... highly offensive" ... and VERY funny Herodotus Shapiro has had an unbelievably bad week. His wife left him. The IRS is after him for thousands of dollars. His home/bookstore burned down. On his way to take refuge at his brother's pl...

• Jun-2010
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This was a Nebula Award finalist for Best Short Story of 1971.::Solitude is corrosive. Love and companionship can heal wounds, but they take time. And even with all eternity to work in, there may never be enough time to do the job....

• Apr-2010
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Five supernatural tales from a master storyteller.Visit the Shop, where the mysterious proprietor will take you on journeys into the second sphere--a land of nightmares, the mystical realm where legendary creatures battle for the souls of humans, and...

• Mar-2010
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• Mar-2010
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Having had its plans thwarted too many times by the Imperial Special Investigation Service, the evil conspiracy declares war directly on the brave men and women who serve in the agency. Impostors sabotage the Service's work, and the Commissar himself...

• Mar-2010
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Welcome to the first great space opera decalogy of the twenty-first century! Agents of ISIS is the 21st century re-envisioning of the Family d'Alembert series by its original author, an epic saga describing the fight to preserve humanity from the for...

• Mar-2010
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Welcome to the first great space opera decalogy of the twenty-first century! Agents of ISIS is the 21st century re-envisioning of the Family d'Alembert series by its original author, an epic saga describing the fight to preserve humanity from the for...

• Mar-2010
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An armed cadre of fundamentalist extremists threatens the security of the interstellar Empire, while uprisings of separatist traitors spark outrage on dozens of planets around the galaxy. The agents of the Imperial Special Investigation Service must ...

• Mar-2010
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Welcome to the first great space opera decalogy of the twenty-first century! Agents of ISIS is the 21st century re-envisioning of the Family d'Alembert series by its original author, an epic saga describing the fight to preserve humanity from the for...

• Mar-2010
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The galaxy's top criminals have not only been getting away from police, they've disappeared from sight entirely. Suspecting something far more sinister than a mere crime wave, the top agents of the Imperial Special Investigation Service delve into th...

• Mar-2010
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Welcome to the first great space opera decalogy of the twenty-first century! Agents of ISIS is the 21st century re-envisioning of the Family d'Alembert series by its original author, an epic saga describing the fight to preserve humanity from the for...

• Mar-2010
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Space pirates harass interstellar shipping. On the frozen world of Gulag--where, for centuries,the Empire's worst traitors have been exiled--dangerous plots are hatching.Time is running out for agents of the Imperial Special Investigation Service to ...

• Mar-2010
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Welcome to the first great space opera decalogy of the twenty-first century! Agents of ISIS is the 21st century re-envisioning of the Family d'Alembert series by its original author, an epic saga describing the fight to preserve humanity from the for...

• Mar-2010
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Welcome to the first great space opera decalogy of the twenty-first century! Agents of ISIS is the 21st century re-envisioning of the Family d'Alembert series by its original author, an epic saga describing the fight to preserve humanity from the for...

• Aug-2009
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Although physical travel between the stars is impossible because of the vast distances involved, communication is instantaneous. There are a couple of different ways to visit alien worlds: veering (using virtual reality to project images), and teepin...

• Jul-2009
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A sexy, exciting interstellar romp.The idle rich of galactic Society had little to do that was productive, so they loved to invent useless little games to keep themselves occupied--and the greatest was the Scavenger Hunt, held only once every 20 year...

• Jun-2009
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In a world of Arabian Nights adventure, a band of heroes is on a quest to reunite the Crystal of Oromasd and save the world. One of their number, the beautiful young djinn named Cari, vanishes on a mysterious island in the Central Sea and the others ...

• Jun-2009
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• Apr-2003
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At first, expecting her new job to be easy, Jade Darcy is oblivious to the religious strife wracking the world of Restappa. Jade and Megan Cafferty, her employer, discover that the Restappans are in the process of electing a new religious leader. Dur...

• Apr-2002
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Prince Ahmad and the storyteller/wizard Jafar al-Sharif are now racing against time to complete their appointed task of gathering the pieces of the Crystal of Oromasd and defeating the evil forces of Rimahn. But the path is perilous as they must visi...

• Jan-2000
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THE LAST GHOST AND OTHER STORIES is the first comprehensive collection of Stephen Goldin's short fiction. Some of the stories have been reprinted before, such as the Nebula Award finalist story "The Last Ghost" and the oft-anthologized "Sweet Dreams,...

• Dec-1999
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For the past five years, Jade Darcy has not seen another human being. A computer-augmented mercenary, she lives on the planet Cablans, a stopover point for traders from hundreds of worlds -- and a good place to meet customers who need the services of...

• Jul-1999
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Wesley Stoneham, an ambitious lawyer and politician, has just murdered his wife in a fit of rage. Now he's planning to frame an innocent man for the crime. But he doesn't realize there was a witness to the crime: an invisible alien who's visiting Ear...

• Jun-1999
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Peter Stone predicted the economic collapse of Western civilization, but that's small comfort as he's forced to wander through a harsh world trying, like so many others, just to survive. By chance, he encounters some people with a higher plan. Now al...

• Jun-1999
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A book in the tradition of the Heinlein juveniles. Young Alex Bredakoff always wanted to be a star trader. But it wasn't until his family moved to the Nexus space colony and he met Kasinda Venderling--daughter of a trader, and someone who's been...

• Jan-1989
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Continuing his reluctant odyssey, the storyteller Jafar al-Sharif must cope with fiendish assassins, a city of apes, the King of the Winds, the Isle of Illusions and a mysterious long-vanished underwater city as he attempts to save the life of his be...

• Oct-1988
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THE WAR BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARKNESS An evil whirlwind blows across the golden lands of Parsina. After a centuries-long imprisonment, the Man Aeshma has escaped from his a magic urn and returned with a vengeance, leaving nothing but destruction in ...

• May-1988
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Volume I of the Parsina Saga.Starting from the fabled holy city of Ravan, two paths diverge that will take their respective travelers to the farthest reaches of Parsina. The black-hearted thief Hakem Rafi comes into possession of the ultimate power o...

• Mar-1982
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A member of the sleepers, an army of warriors frozen in a cryogenic state and awakened in times of war, rebels against the nature of his existence when he realizes he can be duplicated by computer and made to fight for all eternity...

• Jun-1981
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In the near future, Dream broadcasting has become the latest entertainment medium. Wearing a Dreamcap while you sleep enables broadcasters to send Dreams directly into your unconscious mind, giving you an entertainment experience as intensely real as...

• 1981
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A lost classic of science fiction.Birk Aaland is a political outcast from Earth's tyranny, and has been living for years on a planet inhabited solely by robots, ever since his ship crashed here.Now another ship has crashed, and there is again a singl...

• Jan-1979
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CAPTAIN'S LOG, STARDATE 6191.8 I am faced with one of the most difficult decisions of my career. Three days ago, the Enterprise, was ordered to proceed at maximum warp to Epsilon Delta 4, where 700 colonists are slowly dying of radiation poisoning...

• Jul-1978
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The government of Earth has one main secret weapon in its cold war against its former colony worlds--telepathic spies. But what even the spies don't know is that once they reach their late thirties, they begin to develop strange symptoms that leave t...

• 1977
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Starship captain Ardeva Korrell is used to fighting prejudice, both because she's a woman in what's normally a man's line of work and because she's from a world with a misunderstood religion.But now, on a trading mission to a backwater planet, she fi...

The first great space opera decalogy of the 21st century, this boxed set represents the first time all 10 books have been gathered together in a single volume. It follows the exciting adventures of undercover agents working to preserve the peace and ...

Tamara Ruben and ten of her high school classmates are on a field trip in the California desert when they stumble across a long-dormant spaceship. Without warning, the ship takes off with them aboard, stranding them alone in interstellar space with n...