John Argo

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books
  • First Book:
    December 2000
  • Latest Book:
    December 2020
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Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • Neon Blue

    In this steamy, intriguing novel of suspense, DEA agent Laurel “Blue” Humboldt must unravel not only the deadly secrets of an international drug cartel, but also the unusual love triangle in which she finds herself. Does she care more for lovely ...

  • Pioneers

    Just 25 light years from the dying Earth is a fresh, earth-like planet that beckons with radio transmissions. The six last surviving humans make the journey through space … to find a world riddled with mysteries, and answers to questions nobody had...

  • This Shoal of Space

    Zoë Calla, 28, is bright, attractive, happy-go-lucky, and ambitious -- but struggling with a ton of radioactive karma. She wants to be the next hot-shot news reporter in the small California coastal town of San Tomas. As Zoë would tell it, maybe he...

  • Adventures Beyond Time & Space

    Nine thrilling stories with classic SF Sense of Wonder--each a glimpse into John Argo's sprawling future history, and his vision of boundless time and space in which mankind plays a wondrous role. Meet a dying alien basilica, a planet named Magic, a ...

  • Have Blue

    When a man loves an airplane, it's a matter of calculations. When a man loves a woman, everything is up in the air. Paul Owens, in the early 1970s, found an obscure Soviet technical journal -- and an inspiration that would save the Free World (based ...

  • Night Shots

    Each of these six atmospheric, suspenseful tales evokes a classic crackle of mystery, a sting of gun smoke, a stifled scream in the night, a page-turning What Happens Next?These are not stories for the light of reading or those scared of the dark. Mu...

  • The Sibyl's Urn

    The Sibyl's Urn by John Argo is a fantasy, pieced together in late lamplight, from the author’s notes and studies of ancient Rome. Odd spirits keep knocking the ink well over, or hiding the quill, or giggling as they shuffle the pages out of sequen...

  • Strange Doors

  • Doom Spore

    Doom Spore is a 'summer movie in a novel' - dark, chilling, and hugely creepy science-horror fiction in the tradition of ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers,’ ‘They Walked Like Men,’ and ‘The Thing'. The story began in little homes in ordinary ...



  • Lantern Road

    Praised by reviewers, Lantern Road* is a far-future adventure of a doomed love between a human and a gorgeous alien princess. In a galaxy where humans are hated and hunted like prey during the Inversion of Man*, their affair causes scandal that only ...

  • Mars the Divine

    On Holy Mother Mars, the [terraformed] climate is failing and mankind seems doomed. The cities of Mars in the mountains are crowded, while the lakes and oases of the lowland deserts are drying up. Green Mars is increasingly becoming a red and desolat...

  • Monopol City

    You remember a time when you enjoyed playing board games like Monopoly around the kitchen table. You fantasized what it might be like to shrink down to atomic size. You'd become a tiny person in an virtual game world with life-sized trains and cities...

  • Nebula Express

    Never before has a ship so far from home been in so much trouble. Hurtling through space and time like a blur, starship Nebula Express gives truth to a darkly bright motto out of a nightmare: “Nothing seems right…near the speed of light…” Not...

  • Robinson Crusoe 1,000,000 A.D.

    Take the wildest ride you can imagine - a million years into a totally unexpected future, to find the last man on Earth. Nobody has ever been so alone. Alex Kirk awakens a million years from now, utterly alone and in terrible danger on a brave new Ea...

  • Runners: Escape from Prison World or Die

    Kion Danos is a POW, so far from home the light of his native sun hasn’t yet reached the barren deserts of the alien prison world. Taken by the Kaarrk Swarm, along with millions of human and humansh prisoners on the collapsing frontiers and lost ci...

  • Time Train

    DEA Special Agent Joe ‘Mack’ Mackinson’s nightmare adventure starts alone on a stakeout one night, in the desert outside San Diego, hoping to snare a Baja drug lord. Instead, he stumbles on a battle between rival UFO agents from the far future,...

  • Runners: Escape Prison World or Die

    Kion Danos is a POW, so far from home the light of his native sun hasn't yet reached the barren deserts of the alien prison world. Taken by the Kaarrk Swarm, along with millions of human and humansh prisoners on the collapsing frontiers and lost citi...

  • Girl, Unlocked

    Love is in the air, but so are death and danger. It's a case right out of Physics 101, but in reverse: the immovable object (Laurel 'Blue' Humboldt) meets the irresistible force (two competing love interests in a triangle of opposing desires) right i...

  • Invasion of the Fungus Zombies

    These are not your old, stupid, smelly, stumbling zombies. They are smooth, seductive, stealthy, and unstoppable. You've heard of Gen-X, Gen-Y, Gen-Z. Forget these generations; they are so Yesterday. Your generation, the newest and most deadly, is Ge...



  • Invasion of the Fungus Zombies: Generation FZ

    You've heard of Gen-X, Gen-Y, Gen-Z. Forget these generations; they are so Yesterday. Your generation, the newest and most deadly, is Gen-FZ (Fungus Zombies). They are taking over. First San Diego, then the world. These are not your old, stupid, st...

  • Yanapop

    If you enjoyed Martin Scorsese’s dark comedic film After Hours (with its all star cast), you’ll love YANAPOP. What starts as a simple boy meets girl romance turns into a suspenseful, hair raising adventure of fantastic and frankly crazy proportio...

  • Moon Berry Wine

    Moon Berry Wine is a far future Doctor Zhivago of sorts - a symphony of love, war, loss, and rebirth far uptime in a distant future period when humankind has entered a fabulous age known as ManTime or the Renaissance of Man. After thousands of years ...

  • Day Flies

    Eight men and women techs aboard a space ship awaken, expecting a normal work day on a routine Earth to Neptune cargo run. The initial scenes include cozy crew quarters as in Ridley Scott’s movie Alien, but any comparison ends there. When these pas...

  • Doom Spore San Diego

    Doom Spore (a DarkSF Series novel) is a 'summer movie in a book' - dark, chilling, and hugely creepy science-horror fiction in the tradition of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, They Walked Like Men, and The Thing. As it turns out (the author didn’t ...

  • Meta 4 City

    Remember a time when you enjoyed playing board games around the kitchen table, and you rolled the dice and moved your piece around the train tracks on the board? You could buy and sell real estate in some virtual city that left much to the imaginatio...

  • Gothic Journey

    GOTHIC JOURNEY: Run For Your Life is a modern classic that begins with the same deceptively quiet (but slightly unnerving) pace as other John Argo stories. When the hammer comes down, you won't be ready - but that's the fun about suspense. John Argo ...

  • Run for Your Life

    Author's Note (January 20180) Same novel, new title: Run For Your Life. It has more bite than the more subtle YANAPOP (name of a giant media conglomerate in Los Angeles: Young Adult New Adult Participating Older Persons). Don't sweat the details, ple...

  • Adrenalin Rocket: Run For Your Life, a Love Story

    Don’t miss this story. You’ve never read a book quite like ADRENALIN ROCKET, a dark fantasy thriller. It’s both a wild adventure on steroids across the landscape of Southern California as you never imagined it, and a youthful love story between...

  • Orwell in Orbit 2084

    Orwell in Orbit 2084 is a new edition of a 2008 dystopian novel that was eerily prophetic about how conditions in the USA and the world would be in 2084, but a lot of it seems to be coming true already at the dawn of (classic dystopian) Blade Runner ...



  • Starlight Deep Within a Gothic Sea

    "Five Stars. Outstanding, A definite must read... a powerful book" -- Tracy Eastgate, Under The Covers Reviews, 1998 (one of many from readers and critics around the world). Personal e-mail to the author, from Ms. Eastgate: "I want to pay you a compl...

  • Blue Princess

    25 light years from dying Earth, a fresh, earth-like planet broadcasts radio invitations to come to a thriving alien starport. Paul and Licia Menard (lovers) are among 6 last surviving humans who journey 1,000 years to join an advanced star-faring ci...

  • Far Wars

    Eight thousand years in the future, and many parsecs across the galaxy, humankind has entered a fabulous age known as the Renaissance of Mankind. Two attractive, smart young persons meet at a remote university world, and fall in love: a young commone...

  • Star Clans of Corduwaine

    • / Fantasy
    • Buy Buy

    Star Clans of Corduwaine is a far future science fiction novel - a symphony of love, war, loss, and rebirth in a distant future time place in the galaxy. It's a powerful love story set against a sweeping background - an SF Doctor Zhivago more than 70...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Argo has published 33 books.

John Argo does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Blue Princess, was published in December 2020.

The first book by John Argo, Neon Blue, was published in December 2000.

No. John Argo does not write books in series.
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