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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.

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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.
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ISBN: 1-933353-66-X

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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.
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ISBN: 1-933353-72-4

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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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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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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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Books in print or available for pre-order.
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Tales from a Texas Christmas Tree Farm (Prequel). Mainstream humor. Lost pets, lost kids, bugs, snakes in trees, and learning how to stuff big trees into little cars and dozens of hilarious contretemps all go into making this a unique book. Join Darrell and Betty Bain as they move to the country and find that Christmas tree farming is a unique, demanding, frustrating, exasperating but ultimately rewarding profession.
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Life on Santa Claus Lane (Book One). 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.
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Laughing All the Way (Book Two). Mainstream humor. A true life tale of a stupendously funny move to a new home where everything goes wrong and many more real life stories of home life, by Darrell Bain, told in his own renowned style of humor. A book for all the seasons, for all ages, for anyone who likes to laugh at life's foibles.
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Doggie Biscuit! (Book Three). Mainstream humor. This book is dedicated to all those who have taken a pet into their home and made a people of it.
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The Pet Plague

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.
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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!
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The Sex Gates

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

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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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 Williard Brothers

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.
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Two other books forthcoming (Bigfoot Crazy and The Billion Dollar Caribbean Caper).

Around the Bend. Short story collection. An eclectic, erotic, fun and meaty SF, fantasy, humor and nonfiction collection, Around the Bend contains all of Darrell Bain's short fiction.
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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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Altered Humans     

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.
 

Back from the Bend     

SF.

This collection of short stories is a great way to introduce yourself to Fictionwise Author Of The Year Darrell Bain. The stories are annotated by the author and interspersed with excerpts from his popular newsletter as well as articles published elsewhere. Read about the little girl who can talk to animals, but no one believes her. About a young autistic boy who changes the world by playing with magnets. About an invasion by aliens who look like birds. Find out about the strange pets Neanderthals keep. Discover how a loser in the sex wars uses science to enhance his chances, with catastrophic results. Learn how the world ended?or did it? Laugh at the antics of authorities trying to corral a grade school supergenius who won?t be stymied in her quest for knowledge. These and other stories will give you hours of reading pleasure as you delve into the fiction and non-fiction writing of Darrell Bain.
 

Mind War     

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     

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.
 

Space Pets     

SF.

The highly anticipated sequel to The Pet Plague...

The Pet Plague began 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. Now in Space Pets, Jamie Da Cruz and his buxom girlfriends, along with his loyal animal companions, Fuzzy Britches the multihued cat and Woggly the dog are forced by circumstances into exploring other worlds suitable for humans in an untested spaceship. Their quest is complicated by enemy humans aboard who want the ship for themselves and will use any means--including sexual seduction of Jamie--to capture it. Space Pets is 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! Watch for more stories to come in The Pet Plague Universe.
 

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.
 

The Pet Plague     

SF.

In an erotic future society genetically enhanced pets have overrun the world and driven humans into vast barricaded enclaves, where social and sexual mores have undergone drastic changes. When an alien spaceship crashes in the wilds, two competing enclaves form expeditions to recover the advanced technology. A battle between them is certain, but first they must fight their way through an overgrown countryside where intelligent animals rule supreme.
 

The Pet Plague Trilogy     

SF.

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.
 

White Odyssey     

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.
 

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!

They may be found at eReader.com and Fictionwise.com.

Paperback versions are available at Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.

Strange Valley, the best selling ebook is now in print, and the hit Alien Infection is coming soon in trade paperback.

[Medics Wild!] "All the smells, sights and sounds of the Far East come alive in this fast paced novel. From the dreariness and boredom of every day existence to the sharp and terrifyingly sudden violence of the Tet offensive, Bain’s ability to transport you there never wavers. Readers who have never been there are treated to sights seldom seen by civilians. 'Nam vets will find themselves nodding with a bittersweet smile as they turn the pages. It's all there."
Reviewed by Mike Hargraves for East Texas TODAY's.

[Strange Valley] "...A city where residents don't get married and show no religious preference? What will happen to our cherished American values? Logically, Masterville becomes an imminent threat. Whether this scenario is a parody of our present government situation, the reader will have to decide.

Definitely a good story. The first chapter is fascinating and the subsequent ones maintain a high tempo of action and suspense that will keep you curious to the end. The science is believable and intelligently written. This book also deals with issues worth pondering. Darrell Bain is a name I will keep my eye on for future reviews. Five stars.
Reviewed by Mayra Calvani for The Midwest Book Review.

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