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A few of the titles listed are presently available only as used books, but most are new and even the ones available only as used copies are in the process of being re-issued with new publishers, but it may be some time before all are out in new editions again.

All the books listed below may be ordered from bookstores and online booksellers such as Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.

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.
Read a chapter excerpt.
ISBN: 1-933353-66-X

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The Frontier Rebellion

SF.

The Freedom Alliance consists of twenty frontier planets which revolt against the tyranny of the corporation-controlled Earth but above all against their corporate masters that control almost every facet of life on their planets. The surprise revolt succeeds at first but then the Earth Navy comes back, bringing enough warships and corporation army troops to subdue the rebels, they think. Unfortunately for them they have never come up against people like Maria Santos, Calvin Helos, General Juanita Sanforth and other brave patriots willing to sacrifice all for a chance to run their own lives. Forced underground, they prepare for a second revolt, using their hidden navy built from confiscated transports, obsolete weapons that have not been used for half a century, an underground army training in the jungles and finally a unique ally, the Elves of Weaver. Even then success is not guaranteed. Lives will be sacrificed, ships will be lost and the fight will be fiercer than they ever believed, but the Freedom Alliance is determined to succeed. Their people will live free or die trying.

The Frontier Rebellion is another masterful novel by Darrell Bain, author of Human by Choice, Alien Infection, Starship Down, The Long Way Home and many others.

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The Long Way Home

SF from Double Dragon Publishing.

New release!

A surprise assault on an Exploration Corp starship by implacably hostile, xenophobic aliens leaves its one remaining long boat as the only option for warning the home worlds of their existence, but the starship had been a thousand light years from Earth. Theoretically, that sort of voyage in a long boat is possible but has never been attempted. In order to return they will have to stop on numerous unknown planets to renew supplies many, many times along the way. There is certain to be danger and inimical life forms, as well as the hazards of braving interstellar space in a ship meant only for travel within a solar system. And before they get anywhere close to earth they have to figure out a way to destroy a much larger and much better armed alien starship. It is shadowing their every move but must not be allowed to follow them home to Earth and its colonies. The long journey has to succeed, even as more and more of the crew fall prey to perils of the incredible journey. Humanity must be warned. There will be no second chance. Fail and the poorly armed home worlds will likely die.
Darrell's highest rated novel.
Available from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and book stores.
 

Bark!

    

SF from LL Publications.

New print release!

Find out what happens when Tonto, a little, ADHD affected, one-testicled weenie dog, turns out to be the only thing standing between the Earth and accidental alien invasion!
Pure comic genius from multiple award-winning author Darrell Bain. Also includes the autobiography of the real Tonto, the little dog who inspired the story!
Available from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and book stores.
 

Alien Infection

SF suspense from Twilight Times Books.

When a laboratory technician on the verge of retirement accidentally infects himself with blood from an emergency room patient, he intends to report it-- until government agents swarm the hospital, confiscating every sample of blood taken from the patient--at gunpoint.
Read a chapter excerpt.
ISBN: 1-933353-72-4

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Galactic Frontiers

SF from Double Dragon Publishing.

New print release!

The Galaxy is being colonized by well financed groups and nations but the UN is increasing its control of earth and now wants to control the colonies as well. A confederacy of ships bought by groups from the United States has a different idea about the type government they want and are willing to fight for it. Sage Gomez learns his parents are among them and that he will be leaving for the stars. He has no idea of how much trouble is waiting for them beyond earth. He is going to have to age awfully fast!
ISBN: 978-1554046287

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Postwar Dinosaur Blues

Adventure/suspense from Twilight Times Books.

(Book One of the Williard Brothers series). Adventure/suspense. Available now!
After the Vietnam War, the hard drinking, adventurous Williard brothers decide to go hunting for a purported dinosaur living in the Congo. Flying a beat up old plane, pursued by the Mafia, carrying a half million in drug money they don't know they have; they are shot at, shot down, almost eaten by Mokele Mbembe and finally are captured by a tribe of Pygmies. Read a chapter excerpt
ISBN: 1-933353-65-1

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Bigfoot Crazy

Humor/adventure. Twilight Times Books.

2009!

The second (or third if you count Medics Wild!) novel in the Williard Brothers series. The brothers have become heir to evidence of aliens on earth which might mean very advanced technology if the downed ship can be found. A wild chase involving the Williard Brothers, the CIA, Russian Spetnetz Commandos, The U.S.Army, FBI, the Mafia and others winds up in the wildest part of northern Alaska, but an Eskimo girl holds the key to the prize!
ISBN: 1-933353-63-5

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Quanty

SF from Double Dragon.

New print release!

When Mark and Alice decide to install a program of their own devising into the only quantum computer in the world, wildly unintended consequences occur. The computer not only becomes self-aware, but the new program produces an unchangeable core directive which impels it to protect Mark and Alice as well as itself. It doesn't matter what the political, religious and military establishments think of a sentient computer running rampant on the internet and into secret files of governments all over the world, or what they try in order to stop it. Quanty intends to protect Mark and Alice and itself with all the power at its command no matter who gets hurt or helped in the process. The result is Mark and Alice becoming the focus of governments, spies and the military of every nation, since only they can control Quanty. Or can they? They're on the run but Quanty's unasked for "help" causes them to fall into one disaster after another, with no end in sight.

Read a chapter excerpt.
ISBN: 1-55404-666-1
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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."
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ISBN: 1-933353-79-1

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Starship Down

SF from Double Dragon Publishing.

New print release!

A starship on a circuit to service earth's colonies is sabotaged and winds up irrevocably lost in space. The only option is to find a habitable planet to live on. Aboard the ship is a contingent of convicts bound for a prison planet, an army company rotating to one of the colony worlds, government officials and scientists going or coming from the colonies, a contingent of prospective colonists going out to pioneer and a miscellany of other passengers. A crew of two hundred fifty is now responsible for a thousand people after they finally find a new world to settle on. Add in a mad captain, combative convicts and some unworldly aliens and it becomes all that acting Captain Travis Callahan can handle-and then some!
ISBN: 978-1554046454

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Strange Valley

SF suspense from Twilight Times Books.

A clerk working in the census bureau discovers a series of anomalies in the population of a small city located in the Ozark Mountains.

"An excellent SF suspense thriller that will have the reader wondering what normal really means. Tight, fast paced, fun to read. I loved it! I bet this is why some people think the way they do!" ~ Reviewed by Dinah Roseberry. Read a chapter excerpt
ISBN: 1-931201-23-4

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The Melanin Apocalypse

SF suspense from Twilight Times Books.

A man-made virus is killing all the blacks in the world. The African continent is devolving into complete chaos. Blacks in America begin rioting and killing Whites. Israel and the Arab states go to war again. The oil fields of the Middle East and Africa are up for grabs...  Darrell Bain's most controversial novel since "The Sex Gates."

Read a chapter excerpt.
ISBN: 1-933353-70-8
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THE CRESPREIAN SERIES

Human by Choice. SF. In a world where enhanced animals have altered the ecology beyond repair, the great protective enclaves are beginning to be built, but there will be no refuge there for altered humans, nor for normal humans trying to protect their enhanced pets. A woman with feline genes, bred for sex slavery. A man who kills to protect his pet. Two truckers who don't care about laws designed for the cities. All are on the run across a surreal landscape where their odyssey takes them into the dangerous wilds, along roads and highways rapidly becoming impassable, and into cities where they have to live as outlaws. There is a chance for them to find a normal life if they can survive long enough to be accepted as immigrants to the moon. But only two of them can go, and only if they aren't caught first. Altered Humans is a novel set in the days before the pet plague reaches its peak, where society is in flux, where survival is for the strong, but where goodness and generosity can still be found-if you don't die first.

Available at Amazon or  Barnes & Noble.
 

The Y Factor. SF. In a world where enhanced animals have altered the ecology beyond repair, the great protective enclaves are beginning to be built, but there will be no refuge there for altered humans, nor for normal humans trying to protect their enhanced pets. A woman with feline genes, bred for sex slavery. A man who kills to protect his pet. Two truckers who don't care about laws designed for the cities. All are on the run across a surreal landscape where their odyssey takes them into the dangerous wilds, along roads and highways rapidly becoming impassable, and into cities where they have to live as outlaws. There is a chance for them to find a normal life if they can survive long enough to be accepted as immigrants to the moon. But only two of them can go, and only if they aren't caught first. Altered Humans is a novel set in the days before the pet plague reaches its peak, where society is in flux, where survival is for the strong, but where goodness and generosity can still be found-if you don't die first.
Available as part of the Pet Plague Trilogy at almost the same price.
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 The Cresperian Alliance, conclusion to the trilogy, forthcoming soon.

THE SANTA CLAUS LANE SERIES

Life on Santa Claus Lane. Mainstream humor. If you can get through this book without laughing until your ribs are sore, you are a rare exception and haven't got a funny bone in your body.
Amazon

Doggie Biscuit!. Mainstream humor. This book is dedicated to all those who have taken a pet into their home and made a people of it.
Amazon
Read a chapter excerpt.

Laughing All the Way. Mainstream humor. At last! The hilarious sequel to the five star rated Life on Santa Claus Lane is back! The bumbling adventures of a Christmas tree farmer and his saintly wife who (mostly) overlooks his aversion to work, his inability to handle anything mechanical without a life and death struggle, his aversion to work, his misguided attempts at cooking, his aversion to work, and the foibles of life on a farm his wife has to work to support while he is trying to become a writer. Don't miss it!

(Available as used book only. It will be back in print at a future date).

Tales from a Texas Christmas Tree Farm (Prequel). Mainstream humor. When a couple in their forties move to the country and start a Christmas tree farm, with no idea at all of what they are getting into, you have all the makings of some hilarious stories. From start to the present day, read about everything you never knew about Christmas trees and how they're grown and marketed. Darrell and Betty did things two ways: the wrong way first, of course, which is what makes the book funny, from selling trees with aphids in them to hired hands who shaved trees to the bone to lost pets and endearing lost children, to grandmas trying to keep track of kids to wily customers trying to pull a fast one, all of them out searching for that "perfect tree". Prequel to Life on Santa Claus Lane.

(Available as used book only. It will be back in print at a future date).

THE PET PLAGUE SERIES

Altered Humans. (Prequel to The Pet Plague). SF. In a world where enhanced animals have altered the ecology beyond repair, the great protective enclaves are beginning to be built, but there will be no refuge there for altered humans, nor for normal humans trying to protect their enhanced pets. A woman with feline genes, bred for sex slavery. A man who kills to protect his pet. Two truckers who don't care about laws designed for the cities. All are on the run across a surreal landscape where their odyssey takes them into the dangerous wilds, along roads and highways rapidly becoming impassable, and into cities where they have to live as outlaws. There is a chance for them to find a normal life if they can survive long enough to be accepted as immigrants to the moon. But only two of them can go, and only if they aren't caught first. Altered Humans is a novel set in the days before the pet plague reaches its peak, where society is in flux, where survival is for the strong, but where goodness and generosity can still be found-if you don't die first.
Available in print only as part of The Pet Plague Trilogy, see below.

The Pet Plague (Book One). SF. The story begins on earth with genetically engineered pets with near-human intelligence getting loose and practically overrunning the world, with perhaps the only chance for salvation a downed alien spaceship.
Available in print only as part of The Pet Plague Trilogy, see below.

Space Pets (Book Two). SF. An epic, erotic journey in search of a new home for humanity--but in the end it might turn out that earth is still the best the universe can offer, if only it can be tamed again!
Available in print only as part of The Pet Plague Trilogy, see below.

The Pet Plague Trilogy. Anniversary Edition!

In a world where enhanced animals have altered the ecology beyond repair, the great protective enclaves are beginning to be built, but there will be no refuge there for altered humans, nor for normal humans trying to protect their enhanced pets.

This three book volume includes Altered Humans, The Pet Plague and Space Pets. All have been re-edited with new material.

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THE SEX GATES SERIES

The Original Sex Gates Novel. SF. This is the Sex Gates novel as originally written by Darrell Bain alone. It has a completely different ending, and it contains one more major character and several more supporting ones. In this original version, all questions are answered and all issues resolved in this one book. It is being published now in response to all the fan mail and interest the trilogy generated and continues to generate. The Sex Gates has already become a science fiction cult classic and this book should be a significant addition to the sex gates universe.
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The Sex Gates (Book One). SF. KnowBetter Best Science Fiction Award Winner. What if: You could change your old body for a young one by stepping through a gate? What if: You could cure all illnesses by stepping through a gate? The catch: You change your sex, too!
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Masters of the Sex Gates (Book Two). SF. Earth is changed forever when the Sex Gates arrive. By passing through a gate, you can change your sex or cure an incurable illness--but each passage carries a price. What will the ultimate price be?
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Worlds of the Sex Gates (Book Three). SF. The exciting conclusion to The Sex Gates trilogy. The mystery of the sex gates has at last been solved, but a horrible dilemma arises. The masters of the sex gates are gone, but they have left a potential catastrophe behind.
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THE STRANGE VALLEY SERIES

Strange Valley (Book One). SF suspense. A clerk working in the census bureau discovers a series of anomalies in the population of a small city located in the Ozark Mountains.
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Read a chapter excerpt.

Prion Promises (Book Two). SF suspense. A secret cabal of the National Security Agency spreads lies and deception about Masterville Valley. The happy, peaceful people of the valley are forced to fight back, and they begin their battle by secretly spreading their prions out into the world, including the halls of congress.
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THE WILLARD BROTHERS SERIES (Also known as Medics Wild Series)

Medics Wild (Prequel). Adventure. The Willard Brothers stay busy outwitting and outfighting the bad guys, but still have time to turn the war zone into a party zone, flummoxing the high brass, chasing nurses, relieving the Army of unneeded supplies and taking Vietnam by storm.
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Postwar Dinosaur Blues (Book One) Available now. Adventure. After the Vietnam War, the hard drinking, adventurous Williard brothers decide to go hunting for a purported dinosaur living in the Congo. Flying a beat up old plane, pursued by the Mafia, carrying a half million in drug money they don't know they have; they are shot at, shot down, almost eaten by Mokele Mbembe and finally are captured by a tribe of Pygmies.
Barnes & Noble
Read a chapter excerpt.

Bigfoot Crazy  Available now. Adventure. The second (or third if you count Medics Wild!) novel in the Williard Brothers series. The brothers have become heir to evidence of aliens on earth which might mean very advanced technology if the downed ship can be found. A wild chase involving the Williard Brothers, the CIA, Russian Spetnetz Commandos, The U.S.Army, FBI, the Mafia and others winds up in the wildest part of northern Alaska, but an Eskimo girl holds the key to the prize!
Barnes & Noble
Read a chapter excerpt.

Space for Sale, forthcoming.

The Caribbean Caper (titled Three for the Money in ebook version), forthcoming.

Anthologies

Around the Bend. An eclectic, erotic, startling and fun SF, fantasy, humor and nonfiction collection.  Use an Amazon link only.

Amazon

Back from the Bend. SF.

The third collection of short stories from Darrell Bain, including material not published anywhere else. Includes an introduction by the publisher and annotations of each story by the author.

Available in print only from lulu.com

Other Books in print

Crazy Ships. SF/F. Earth has become a dystopia ruled by giant corporations, where the majority of the population is bonded to a company for life. Twins Jane and Steve are an exception, living an upper class life by means of their parents' stake in a new enterprise--which doesn't suit the great corporation currently governing the world.
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Circles of Displacement. SF/F. A stellar accident has thrown hundreds of small circular areas of East Texas far into the past. The displacement circles include such random spots as a roadside park, a Wal-Mart store, the streets of a small town--and the death row section of the state prison. Eventually the displaced individuals will come together in climactic battle for control of the new world.
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Hotline to Heaven. Romantic comedy. Darrell considers Hotline to Heaven one of his best books, and quite different from anything else he's ever done. Humor, chicanery, sex, betrayal and romance, along with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing until the end. It has such a fun plot that it will even have you wondering who you should be cheering for, the rascally villain Ed Tanner, or the innocent young Violet.
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The Disappearing Girls. Mystery/suspense. Girls and young women are disappearing without a trace, without a clue. No bodies are ever found. Police are stymied until a possible connection appears in the form of a young woman who has unaccountably inherited a newly built mansion from her estranged father.
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The Sex Virus. SF. It is quickly discovered that a virus capable of changing sexual attitudes is spreading over the world. While the FBI and CDC are racing to discover the originators of the virus and to create a cure or vaccine, the investigation is hampered by the fact that the agents themselves are becoming infected.
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Ultimate Suggestions. SF. A renegade chemist discovers a drug which can be given quickly and surreptitiously and which will convert anyone almost instantly to a state of mind where the merest suggestion becomes an imperative need to obey.
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Note: The following titles are available in print only at the link listed by each.

Mind War (lulu.com)     

SF.

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.

Monitors (lulu.com)     

SF.

In the future, Monitors are stronger, smarter and longer-lived than normal humans. They also have a sex drive much higher and more versatile than other people. Monitors face constant danger when they infiltrate and observe various cultures for possible violations of The Articles Of Hegemony. When Janet Presley became a Monitor, she never expected to wind up investigating a planet where females outnumbered males ten to one, and yet were completely subjugated. Nor did she ever think she would have to pose as a sex slave in order to save her life and that of her libido-enhanced companions.

White Odyssey (lulu.com)     

SF.

EPPIE Award Finalist!

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.

My Brother Gary (lulu.com)     

Non-fiction.

My younger brother Gary is a charming, humorous, articulate, romantic adventurer and warrior. He's one of those types of men the rest of us admire and fantasize about, wishing we could be more like them. In the olden days, he would have been a Mountain Man or a Knight or perhaps even a Pirate or Buccaneer. In any era, he would always have been one of the first to cross the mountains, the wide rivers or brave the unexplored oceans.

Joe Sixpack, President (ebook title is A parody of Clinton). (lulu.com)     

SF.

From best selling author Darrell Bain, this satirical look at Bill Clinton may politically offend but it's hilariously funny at the same time... This book is a good example of what comes from mixing politics and beer. It resulted from a night of camaraderie and debauchery with my brothers. Sometime during the festivities, one of us thought up the idea of what might happen should a real, though intelligent, Redneck ever get to the White House. We all laughed like crazy at the prospect and had great fun discussing various scenarios and situations. Perhaps we also vented some of our frustration at the labyrinthine entanglements of our present political process and how it works or doesn?t work. At any rate, once I sobered up, I thought the idea might make a good book.

    

SF.

Two old coots make life hilarious for everyone as each tries to top the other's stories. Their wives call them lazy. They claim to be efficient. One thing is certain: neither of them will ever be accused of understating the truth!

 

 

Articles, Muses and Favorite Diet-Breaking Dessert Recipes by Betty Bain (edited by Darrell Bain)     

Non-fiction.

The complete works of Betty Bain, interspersed with sweet recipes so loaded with calories you'll feel like you should be sent to jail for eating them!