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KUDOS
Eppie Award 2007, best Action/Adventure novel for Mindwar.
Eppie Award 2007, best Young Adult novel for White Odyssey.
2006 Dream Realm Award, best SF novel for Warp Point
Fictionwise 2005 E-book Author of the Year.
Multiple Finalist, Dream Ream Award
Multiple Finalist, Eppie Awards.
Knowbetter best science fiction novel of the year 2002 for The Sex Gates.

Here you'll find titles in various genres, including humor, science fiction, mystery, and suspense/thriller. Most of my books are available in both Print and as E-book editions. They almost always appear first as E-books and then come out in print. See the menu for "E-books" and "Books in Print" for descriptions and links to where they may be purchased in either version. You can also see a complete list of my books in print at Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble. Most of my print books may be ordered from bookstores. All of my E-books are available at Fictionwise.com and eReader.com.

For those who are new to E-books (which may be read on computers, laptops, PPCs, and just about any hand held device, including Palm, IPAQ and Smart phones such as Treo), I suggest http://www.fictionwise.com/help/help.htm as a place to start. After looking over the web page at Fictionwise, click on Home at the same site and you'll find thousands upon thousands of books by just about any author you want to name, including many of the New York Times best selling authors, and also including all of my books, of course.

Darrell's Newsletter! Click on the NEWSLETTER link to visit this very popular feature every month to see what's new! I ramble and sometimes rant, but the newsletter is devoted to what you, the readers, might find interesting, including recommended books by other authors, short vignettes, anecdotes, updates, discussions of subjects brought up by fans, short articles, muses by the author and so forth, in no particular order. Come visit periodically and discover all sorts of good stuff, including a chance to get free books by the author.

News of current projects or books just appearing in print or anything else of interest concerning Darrell's writing will probably be contained in the monthly newsletter. An index of past newsletter subject matter is in the works and will appear as soon as possible, hopefully by the time the July newsletter appears. However, if you can't find what you're looking for, check the "News" link, or please write and ask!

Special Limited Hardcover Edition of Savage Survival

Only 500 copies of this special edition will be printed. It is available for order now at Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com and BOOK STORES and from the publisher, Twilight times Books at www.twilighttimesbooks.com.

Order now to be sure you get a copy!

Savage Survival is a coming of age story like no others and Lyda Brightner is a character you won't forget. When eleven year old Lyda is thrown into the midst of millions of undisciplined humans, with no parents or guardian to protect her as she grows up, she has only her own bravery and her belief in the innate goodness of humans to sustain her. For six years, Lyda must endue the most ghastly and brutal environments imaginable, put there by invulnerable aliens for reasons of their own. After her first horrible experience in a barren desert, she vows that come what may, she will live, even while millions die, for she is determined to find what is behind such hideous treatment by the aliens.

Review

5 Talismans (Highest rating)

I have been an avid reader for quite some time. I have read too many books to count over the years covering a variety of genres. Through my literary travels the list of novels which have made me say, "Wow, that was something special", is relatively short. Frank Herbert's Dune, Terry Brooks' The Elfstones of Shannara, and George R.R. Martin's series A Song of Ice and Fire are all at the top of that list. After reading Darrell Bain's novel Savage Survival however, I think that list has grown a little longer.

When Earth is invaded by an unknown alien race, eleven year old Lyda Brightner finds herself swept up in the destructive wake. With her father dead and mother missing, Lyda awakens in a concentration camp somewhere in a desert in the southwest United States. Within hours, she is horribly abused by a man who then in turn tries to sell her into slavery.

After managing to escape, Lyda discovers an inner strength which helps her retake control of her life, and puts her on a path of self discovery. Deciding the only way to defeat those who would hurt her and those she comes to protect, is by meeting them head on, Lyda quickly finds herself the leader of several like minded survivors. The aliens however, have different plans. The human survivors are put through test after test so that only the humans with the strongest minds will make it through each trial. Along the way Lyda and the other human refugees learn they are changing.

Their minds are sharper and their bodies are stronger. With each trial the changes become more evident. Lyda uses these "gifts" to protect the people who choose to follow her, and also to discover love as well as learn what true leadership is all about. Savage Survival is truly a masterful piece of science fiction writing. Darrell Bain uses an alien invasion of Earth as a backdrop to tell not only a coming of age story but also to spark deep thought concerning society as a whole. His character Lyda Brightner is as memorable of a character as you can get. I sincerely hope there are more tales of her exploits coming in the near future.

Darrell Bain's Savage Survival is definitely what is right about the science fiction genre. I believe this is as close to a must read as you can get. With an intricate plot, vivid imagination, and one of the most memorable characters I have run across in a long time, Savage Survival will leave readers with that same "wow" feeling I received.

Reviewed by Shawn Oetzel for Tales of the Talisman.

FREE Offer: One Advance Reading Copy of SAVAGE SURVIVAL, my first hardcover, to the person who comes up with an acceptable title for my newsletter books. The books will consist of a year of my newsletters, updated and annotated, and come out each year as Vol I, Vol II, etc. in both print and e-book editions. Please send title suggestions with the subject heading: TITLE. All suggestions must reach me in September. I can be contacted from this web site. Thank you and good luck! Darrell Bain

Mind War

    

SF from Double Dragon Publishing.

When terrorists try to poison undergraduate schools with a nerve agent, the scheme backfires. Instead of causing death, the chemical stimulates the mirror neurons in the students’ brains, causing them to multiply and become hyperactive. This, in turn, leads to unusual talents. As the children grow, their teachers and other institutions become very interested in the odd perceptive ability they begin displaying. Government, industry, military, drug cartels, businesses and the underworld all want to use them for their own purposes. Some of the young men and women have different ideas. They will fight to keep their freedom…especially after a few of them begin to develop another odd talent, one that may change the world.
Available from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and book stores.
 

Shadow Worlds

    

SF suspense from Twilight Times Books.

Shadowy monsters, alternate worlds, and a lonely scientist racing against time, make this latest offering from popular author Darrell Bain and collaborator Barbara M. Hodges a page-turning adventure that strings the suspense out to the last page."
Read a chapter excerpt.
ISBN: 1-933353-79-1

Order Info
Available now at all bookstores and online from Amazon.com;  Barnes & Noble
 

White Odyssey

    

SF from Double Dragon Publishing.

New print release!

In the future, whites have become a minority and are treated as second-class citizens by the colored majority. Whites are discriminated against, relegated to shantytowns and allowed to do only menial labor under segregation laws that are beginning to amount to little more than slavery. As conditions grow worse, white 'volunteers' are worked to death in mine pits and the tar sands, where conditions are so brutal that serving as test subjects on alien planets begins to sound better than anything on earth, no matter what the danger.
Available from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and book stores.

A blog will appear on the website in the future, as quickly as some other projects are taken care of, in preparation for a virtual book tour scheduled for November of 2007 after the debut of Darrell's first hardcover release, Savage Survival.

A new link to sites where Darrell's short stories can be downloaded is in progress and will appear as soon as possible.

Autographed copies of the international best seller, Alien Infection, are now available for $12.95, shipping and handling included.

New ebook release
The Focus Factor is available now from Fictionwise.com or eReader.com.

The Focus Factor is a suspense/thriller but can just as easily be enjoyed by science fiction as well as mainstream fans. It begins with a distraught scientist, Dr. Murray Blake, whose family has been killed in a crash with a truckload of illegal aliens. He decides to try using his research into the extreme focusing shown by some autistics to find a solution to the illegal immigration problem.

But it doesn't stop there! Dr. Blake discovers that solving the illegal immigration problem using the Focus Factor leads to a way to address every other problem besetting America in the 21st century--but does he dare risk it? The solution is draconian. Failure will mean his and his friends' execution as traitors. Success will set America on a new path to greatness. Find out what happens by reading The Focus Factor by Darrell Bain and Gerald Mills.

Whether you're a Republican, Democrat, Independent or Apolitical; whether you like suspense, mainstream or science fiction; you're bound to find some satisfaction in this truly unusual book that uses fiction to explore extremely timely topics.

Biography
Darrell has been asked by a number of people when his biography will be posted. Rather than a short biography, he has decided to make it into a rather extensive memoir, and to post some of it each month on this web site. Each new posting, and archives of previous parts of the memoir, will be found by clicking on the "MEMOIR" link at the top of the web page.

eBook AOY
Darrell Bain is the 2005 Fictionwise eBook Author of the Year! Darrell's SF suspense novels "Alien Infection" and "Savage Survival" were in the top 15 ebooks sold via Fictionwise in 2005.

A fan has started a discussion group for Darrell's books at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DarrellBain. Interested parties may subscribe by going to the link.

A Google news alert provided notification that Darrell's novel Alien Infection was among the best selling e-books of 2005, coming in at number thirteen out of the top thirty. The article and a complete list of the top e-books may be seen at the following link.  

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