The human race has settled the solar system and expanded out among the stars. In this bizarre, mysterious, and colorful future, the solar system-and indeed human civilization itself-were transformed by nanotech storms. At their height, they swept acr...
David Herter's first novel, Ceres Storm, was recently published to widespread acclaim. "Distinctive and imaginative, Herter's tale moves to its own disconcerting logic: a debut of immense promise," said Kirkus Reviews. Now Herter moves from SF to con...
There are hints of an interesting novel inside this overlong and unsuspenseful book. On Halloween 1977, teen film buff Will Travers flees a terrifying threat in the small town of Grenton, ultimately finding temporary refuge in the home of retired Hol...
In Brno, Czechoslovak Republic, 1931. Eight years before the Nazi invasions . . .At the Theater on the Ramparts, a performance of the world-famous robot play R.U.R is in rehearsal, attended grudgingly by its author, Karel Capek. A former master of sc...
En route from Bratislava to Prague in the deceptive spring of the 1920s, Leos Janáček, famed opera composer, ethnographer, and amateur psychologist, is stranded in an obscure and enigmatic mountain village, lured from his train by a son...
David Herter creates a modern reimagining Gene Wolfe's Island of Doctor Death. Young Ballou lives alone with his mother in an old house on the shore. When the mysterious Wilson arrives, Ballou's reality tips into a world populated with characters fro...