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Coyote Scare [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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There's something strange about the beautiful coyote that starts roaming around the farm. Then it disappears for a while. When it returns, there's something even stranger about it, and it's not just its deteriorating appearance. Now it seems to be having an effect on Bob, one so horrible he will no longer.... (Published: 2007)
Words: 3232 - Reading Time: 9-12 min.
Category: Horror/Suspense/Thriller
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Cure for the Morning After [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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Everyone, male or female, who drinks very much and frequents singles bars has probably woke up one morning with a less than desirable bedmate, one who looked very good right before the bar closed. The less appealing a person is physically, and the more they have had to drink, the more likely it is that such an event has occurred. Timothy Meeker was so physically repulsive that it happened often to him. Going home with a bar hag was about the only time he ever got laid. Finally he decided to do s... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 2803 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Humor
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Darby [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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When an eleven year old super genius begins cracking codes and breaking into financial and military files all over the world, simply because she wants to learn about new things, the security agencies naturally become very upset. However, instead of trying to track down the source of the hacking, they might have been better off leaving well enough alone. Darby wants to learn and doesn't intend to let anyone get in her way. (Published: 2005)
Words: 4721 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Doggie Biscuit! [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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Biscuit truly relates to people with ever fiber of his little doggie heart, even to having a human girl friend, getting tickets for reckless driving and sampling Viagra pills. Who could resist a dog story like this? (Published: 2004)
Words: 40500 - Reading Time: 115-162 min.
Category: Mainstream/Humor
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Galactic Frontiers [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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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 awfu... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 72672 - Reading Time: 207-290 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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Hotline to Heaven [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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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. (Published: 2002)
Words: 63728 - Reading Time: 182-254 min.
Category: Romance
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It's Never Too Late - The Autobiography of Darrell Bain [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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Darrell Bain's e-books have been perennial best sellers since their introduction into the young market. He has been a finalist many times for the Eppie Awards, and in 2007 he won two of them, and another two years later. They are the most prestigious of the E-book awards recognizing the best writing in the field. He has written about three dozen novels or non-fiction works, and more than that number of short stories, in almost every possible genre, including humor, mystery, thrillers, science fi... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 67590 - Reading Time: 193-270 min.
Category: Mainstream/People
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Laughing All the Way [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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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! (Published: 2008)
Words: 56355 - Reading Time: 161-225 min.
Category: Humor/Mainstream
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Life on Santa Claus Lane [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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Here is a collection of wild and zany, hilariously funny stories about the life and adventures of a couple who have lived for over twenty years at a real address on Santa Claus Lane and--what else?--own a Christmas tree farm in--where else?--Texas! Darrell is a lazy, inefficient and ten-thumbed farmer who would rather write or do most anything except farm, even though he's the one who got them into it. Betty is his hard-working, efficient and competent wife. Darrell loves her dearly, and it's a ... more info>> (Published: 2001)
Words: 68833 - Reading Time: 196-275 min.
Category: Humor/Mainstream
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Masters of the Sex Gates [Sex Gates Book 2] [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain, Jeanine Berry
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Masters of the Sex Gates is the highly anticipated sequel to the mindblowing novel, The Sex Gates. 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? Outside, the demonstrators shouted and shook their fists. Most of them were convinced there was a trick to successfully making successive passages, a trick that we Seconders selfishly kept to ourselves... more info>> (Published: 2003)
Words: 88817 - Reading Time: 253-355 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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Medics Wild! [Medics Wild Series Book 1] [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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When the Williard brothers get going, any resemblance to a real war is purely coincidental! Sgt. James Williard uses his position as the hauncho of a medical dispensary in Vietnam as a base, while he and his crazy medics turn the war zone into a party zone. Williard's two brothers, Jerry, a naval ensign and Jason (Jumpin' Jase)--the Marine fighter pilot who regularly loses 15 million dollar planes--join the fun and then it is like no war ever recorded. Wilder than M*A*S*H, a hilarious romp. (Published: 2001)
Words: 72241 - Reading Time: 206-288 min.
Category: Humor
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MindWar [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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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 t... more info>> (Published: 2005) EPIC eBook Award Winner
Words: 80068 - Reading Time: 228-320 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Suspense/Thriller
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Monitors [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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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... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 61856 - Reading Time: 176-247 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Suspense/Thriller
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More Toppers! - More Hilarious Remembrances of Vietnam Vets Darrell Bain and Will Stafford [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain, Will Stafford
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If you've read Toppers, you already know what to expect. If you haven't, get your funny bone ready for action. More Toppers contains forty thousand words of the hilarious mail sent to and from Darrell Bain and Will Stafford and it's all new! From Vietnam era humor to the modern day follies of a city boy trying to become a farmer, these two guys do their absolute best to top each other's stories. They swear every single word written about their pets, their wives and their aversion to honest labor... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 38583 - Reading Time: 110-154 min.
Category: Humor/General Nonfiction
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My 100 Most Readable (and Re-Readable) Science Fiction Novels [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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This is an updated version of the original article, with comment, descriptions and additional novels added. It is an entertaining discussion and listing of more than 130 science fiction novels, dubbed by Darrell Bain as his "Most Readable (and re-readable) Science Fiction Novels". His selections have been culled from more than 10,000 science fiction novels read over his lifetime, beginning at age twelve. Almost anyone who loves the genre is bound to find at least a few great books listed here th... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 9206 - Reading Time: 26-36 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Reference
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My All Time Favorite Science Fiction Novels [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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This is a much revised, updated and re-edited version of a simple article I wrote years ago listing my 100 most re-readable science fiction novels. In this edition, that article has now grown to over 16,000 words and encompasses somewhere around 200 novels that entail untold hours of treasured reading experiences. So much new science fiction has come out in the last few years, as well as older titles I missed when this was first published, that I felt readers deserved a new, expanded edition wi... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 16707 - Reading Time: 47-66 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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My Brother Gary [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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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. Even today, in the late autumn of his life, he's always doing som... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 23808 - Reading Time: 68-95 min.
Category: General Nonfiction/People
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Neanderthal Nemesis [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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When does a species become human? This was a question which now might possibly be answered, using newly developed techniques. Care would be needed, though. It wouldn't do to upset what had gone before. (Published: 2006)
Words: 5926 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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Play It Again [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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When you wake up with a naked woman in bed with you, who apparently came through a locked door, you know the day is getting off to a weird start. When the woman doesn't know her name or where she came from or how she got there, and begins appearing and disappearing out of thin air, you know rest of the day is going to be screwy, too. (Published: 2006)
Words: 7975 - Reading Time: 22-31 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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Postwar Dinosaur Blues [Medics Wild Series Book 2] [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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After the war the zany Williard brothers and their paramours go looking for
adventure and find all they can handle when they decide to see if there
really is a dinosur still living deep in the Congo. Flying a beatup old
seaplane, the brothers are shot up, shot down, chased by the Mafia for
carrying drug money they don't know they have, captured by pygmies and
forced to undergo the dread palm wine drinking contest, where failure means
being fed to Mokele Mbembe--and if they surv... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 68078 - Reading Time: 194-272 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Suspense/Thriller
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Prion Promises [Strange Valley Series Book 2] [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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The people of Masterville Valley carry prions in their bodies that could make the world a much better place-but most of humanity will never willingly accept them, for once infected, a person is able to reason much better, rejecting religious, sexual and political dogma. Being born with the prions or trying to infect others with them carries a death penalty in most Islamic nations. In America and the rest of the world, the Masterville prions have become a political football because religious lead... more info>> (Published: 2004)
Words: 85662 - Reading Time: 244-342 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Suspense/Thriller
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Quanty [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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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 t... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 106428 - Reading Time: 304-425 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Suspense/Thriller
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Robyn's Rock [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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ROBYN'S ROCK by best selling author Darrell Bain is a story that covers a twenty year span. An odd looking rock, picked up by Amanda and Justin's granddaughter Robyn when she was six years old was saved by her grandparents. Twenty years later Robyn's curious rock begins a silent but urgent call for her to return to her grandparents' home, where she had spent so many happy hours of her childhood, and where the rock still resides on a shelf. When Robyn picks up the rock again, she finds that with ... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 13226 - Reading Time: 37-52 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Suspense/Thriller
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Samantha [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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A new short story from Darrell Bain! Won't it be great to talk to animals? But what if no one believed you, and you were a nine year old girl named Samantha? Find out! (Published: 2006)
Words: 4449 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Shadow Worlds [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain, Barbara M. Hodges
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Genetic duplicates of people start dropping out of thin air right beside the originals. The duplicates are complete except for one little detail: they're dead. Frank Winston begins an investigation that widens to include the mystery of a vanished airliner that had his parents on board, as well as those of the first person who found a dead twin on her doorstep, Linda Vesprie. Together, they discover that quantum physics is even stranger than scientists had believed, and that their world and an in... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 63811 - Reading Time: 182-255 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Suspense/Thriller
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