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Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Born in Missouri more than a century ago and raised in a Pentecostal orphanage, the creature now calling himself Gelson Verber has changed his name countless times. He's part-werewolf, and makes his living hunting certain kinds of bad men-criminals, rapists, thugs-in an often grotesque parody of the natural order. Verber is clearly suffering from the kinds of things a werewolf would be uniquely vulnerable to in the modern world: the horror of war,...
Author
Series
Endings volume 2
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A shattered life. A killer for hire. Can she stop? Does she want to? Her assignments were always to kill someone. That's what a hitman - or hitwoman - is paid to do, and that is what she does. Then comes a surprise assignment - keep someone alive. She is hired to protect Virginia Martin, the stunning and brilliant chief technology officer of a hot startup with an environmentally important innovation that will change the world. This new gig catches...
3) Kraft
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Richard Kraft, a German professor of rhetoric and aging Reaganite and Knight Rider fan, is unhappily married and badly in debt. He sees no way out of his rut until he is invited to participate in a competition to be held in California and sponsored by a Silicon Valley tycoon and “techno-optimist.” The contest is to answer a literal “million-dollar question”: each competitor must compose an eighteen-minute lecture on why our world is still,...
Author
Publisher
FC2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In The Town of Whispering Dolls by Susan Neville, the author creates stories that inhabit the rust belt of the early twenty-first century United States, where residents dream of a fabled and illusory past even as new technologies reshape their world into something new and deeply strange"--
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