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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Shakedown by Don Debrandt Don Debrandt's CYBERJUNK Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Shakedown by Don DeBrandt Don DeBrandt's CYBERJUNK. Don DeBrandt writes science fiction, fantasy, horror, superheroes, cyberpunk, cyberfolk, and cyberanything else. Spider Robinson has compared DeBrandt's fiction to that of Larry Niven and John Varley; his first novel, The Quicksilver Screen , made Locus magazine's recommended reading list for 1992. He's also published horror fiction in Pulphouse, a novella in the SF magazine Horizons , three short stories in the Weird West gaming anthology Deadlands, and written a bi-monthly column on the future of e-business for the magazine Backbone. His fiction has earned him Honorable Mentions in both the Year's Best SF and the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. He has written three stage plays for high schools: Heart of Glass; Happy Hour at the Secret Hideout; and Stagecraft. DeBrandt has also worked as a freelancer for Marvel Comics on such titles as Spiderman 2099 and 2099 Unlimited. His other comics work include several stories for the anthology comic Freeflight. DeBrandt lives in Vancouver, BC, and is notorious in certain circles of Northwest Fandom (but not for his writing). His hobbies include leather- tasting, naked laughing gas hot tubbing, and being thrown off roofs by irate hotel security. He does not plan to run for office, ever. There are too many pictures. Foreign Editions. Italian. L'Uomo Dei Mondi Di Polvere (Steeldriver); Urania. L'Uomo Del Mondo Selvaggio (Timberjak); Urania. French. Interet commun (Shakedown); Fleuve Noir. Plongee Mortelle (Riptide); Fleuve Noir. Russian. The Closer; Redfish. Schedule. Don will be appearing at the New York Comicon at the Javits Center in New York City, From April 17-21, 2008. Previous Appearances. Forthcoming Projects: Don is currently working on the novel Lucidity, for release by Fivestar Press in 2009. The novel is the first in a proposed trilogy, a science-fiction mystery that takes a hard science approach to New Age concepts like lucid dreaming, auras, channeling and astral projection. Shakedown. Pocket Pulse, November, 2000. Angel—private detective, Slayer ex, vampire with a soul—gets involved with some very well-off demons called the Serpentene. They're not really evil, they're just yuppies. but when their exclusive underground co-op finds itself under attack by earthquake demons called Tremblors, it'll take more than a Platinum Mastercard to save them. Steeldriver. Excerpt from Steeldriver. Starring -- A Novel. Every culture has its own mythology. In the twentieth century, popular culture has the mythology of the celebrity--names like Aphrodite, Ares and Gaea have been replaced in the modern pantheon by Madonna, Scwarzenegger and Roseanne. We treat them like they're more than human. What if they were. (continued) The Quicksilver Screen. Infinite Range Television -- IRTV -- allowed researchers of the 21st century to pick up transmissions from alternate realities. Some used it to search for other worlds' solutions to this world's problems: new medical techniques, new technology. but most saw IRTV as nothing but the biggest advance in televised entertainment since the advent of cable. And -- despite the copycat revolutions and strange fads picked up from other worlds -- these latter were mostly right. IRTV allowed only broadcasting, not world-to-world communication, and without direct contact no world had real power over another. Until corporate screener Virgil Jakobi, able to scan and process thousands of IRTV channels at a time, stumbles across a secret message. one that drives him back to the streets he came from and the gang that raised him. Now there's a price on his head, and Virge doesn't know who will collect -- the multinational corporations that want what he knows, or his oldest and deadliest friend. Timberjak. Ace Books, May 1999 ISBN: 0441006264. Ace Books, March, 1999. Set in the same universe as Steeldriver , and featuring some of the same characters. The planet Shinnkaria is the galaxy's only source of korala wood trees, vital to interstellar flight technology. The head of the logging union, Paul Banyon, calls the shots on Shinnkaria -- except in the Indigo Wild, the lethal blue jungle where man and machines go crazy. Now the jungle's mysterious protector, Johnny Rainforest, has decided that logging on Shinnkaria must stop. With his control over the bizarre and deadly creatures of the Indigo Wild, he wages a campaign of ecoterrorism against Paul -- but Banyon has a secret agenda of his own, one that will decide the fate of the most important planet in settled space. V.I. Ace Books, 2000. Mike Blink, the galaxy's best known pilot, is the only witness to an otherdimensional explosion that cripples him and may lead to the destruction of hyperspace itself. He enlists two interstellar rogues, Skinshifter and Storysmith, to investigate the source of the explosion on the Toolies' home world of Kinslick; there, in the continent-spanning city of Myriad, they must uncover the stories of seven unique individuals, ranging from an 800 pound cabbie to a time-traveller and a pyromaniac, and enlist their aid. The Buffy Book List. C ”City of” - Nancy Holder ”Close to the ground” - Jeff Mariotte ”Carnival of souls” - Nancy Holder ”Colony” - Melinda Metz ”Chaos Bleeds” - James A. Moore ”Child of the hunt” - Christopher Golden ”Chosen” - Nancy Holder ”Coyote Moon” - John Vornholt ”Crossings” - Mel Odom ”Cursed” - Mel Odom. D ”Dark mirror” - Craig Shaw Gardner ”Dark Congress” - Christopher Golden ”Deep water” - Laura Anne Gilman ”Doomsday deck” - Diana G. Gallagher. E ”Endangered species” - Nancy Holder and Jeff Mariotte. F ”Fearless” - Doranna Durgin. G ”Go ask malice: A slayer's diary” - Robert Joseph Levy ”Ghoul trouble” - John Passarella. H ”Haunted” - Jeff Mariotte ”Hollywood noir” - Jeff Mariotte ”Halloween rain” - Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder ”Heat” - Nancy Holder CROSSOVER novel ”Here be monsters” - Cameron Dokey ”How I survived my summer vacation vol 1”- Nancy Holder "Halloween" - author not noted (publisher Scholastic) I ”Image” - Mel Odom ”Immortal” - Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder (also available as an audio-casette read by Charisma Carpenter) ”Impressions” - Doranna Durgin "Inca mummy girl" - author not noted (publisher Scholastic) K ”Keep me in mind” - Nancy Holder. L ”Love and death” - Jeff Mariotte ”Little things” - Rebecca Moesta. M ”Monster island” - Christopher Golden and Thomas E. Sniegoski CROSSOVER novel ”Mortal Fear” - Scott Ciencin and Denise Ciencin ”Monolith” - John Passarella. N ”Nemesis” - Denise Ciencin and Scott Ciencin ”Not forgotten” - Nancy Holder ”Night of the living rerun” - Arthur Byron Cover ”Night terrors” -Alice Henderson. O ”One Thing or Your Mother” - Kirsten Beyer ”Obsidian fate” - Diana G. Gallagher ”Oz: Into the wild” - Christopher Golden. P ”Paleo” - Yvonne Navarro ”Power of persuasion” - Elizabeth Massie ”Prime evil” - Diana G. Gallagher ”Portal through time” - Alice Henderson. Q ”Queen of the slayers” - Nancy Holder. R ”Redemption” - Mel Odom ”Resurrecting Ravana” - Ray Garton ”Return to chaos” - Craig Shaw Gardner ”Revenant” - Mel Odom. S ”Sanctuary” - Jeff Mariotte ”Shakedown” - Don Debrandt ”Stranger to the sun” - Jeff Mariotte ”Solitary man” - Jeff Mariotte ”Soul trade” - Thomas E Sniegoski ”Seven crows” - John Vornholt CROSSOVER novel ”Sins of the father” - Christoper Golden ”Spike & Dru: Pretty maids all in a row ” - Christopher Golden ”Sweet sixteen” - Scott Ciencin ”Spark and burn” - Diana G. Gallahger. T ”The book of fours” - Nancy Holder ”Tempted champions”- Yvonne Navarro ”These our actors” - Dori Koogler and Ashley McConnell ”The deathless” - Keith R. A. DeCandido ”The wisdom or war” - Christoper Golden ”The suicide king” - Robert Joseph Levy ”The harvest” - Richie Tankersley Cusick ”The evil that men do” - Nancy Holder ”The summoned” Cameron Dokey ”Tales of the slayers vol 1” - Yvonne Navarro and others. ”Tales of the slayers vol 2” - Todd A. McIntosh and others. ”Tales of the slayers vol 3 ” - Yvonne Navarro and others. ”Tales of the slayers vol 4” - Nancy Holder and others. ”The Cordelia collection vol 1”- Nancy Krulik ”The willow files vol 1” - Yvonne Navarro ”The willow files vol 2 ” - Yvonne Navarro ”The Xander years vol 1” - Keith R. A. DeCandido ”The Xander years vol 2” - Jeff Mariotte ”The longest night vol 1” - Nancy Holder and others ”The lost slayer vol 1: Prophecies” - Christopher Golden ”The lost slayer vol 2: The dark times” - Christopher Golden ”The lost slayer vol 3: King of the dead by Christopher Golden ”The lost slayer vol 4: Original sins by Christopher Golden ”The lost slayer (an omnibus)” - Christopher Golden ”The journals of Rupert Giles vol 1”- Nancy Holder ”The Faith trials vol 1” - James Laurence ”The gatekeeper trilogy vol 1, Out of the madhouse” - Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder ”The gatekeeper trilogy vol 2, Ghost roads”- Christopher Golden ”The gatekeeper trilogy vol 3, Sons of entropy” - Christoper Golden and Nancy Holder ”The Angel chronicles vol 1” - Nancy Holder ”The Angel chronicles vol 2” - Richie Tankersley ”The Angel chronicles vol 3” - Nancy Holder. U ”Unnatural selection” - Mel Odom ”Unseen trilogy book 1, The burning” - Nancy Holder CROSSOVER ”Unseen trilogy book 2, Door to alternity” - Nancy Holder CROSSOVER ”Unseen trilogy book 3, Long way home” - Nancy Holder and Jeff Mariotte CROSSOVER. V ”Visitors” - Laura Anne Gilman and Josepha Sherman ”Vengeance” - Scott Ciencin and Dan Jolley. W ”Wicked Willow, book 1: The Darkening” - Yvonne Navarro ”Wicked Willow, book 2, Shattered twilight” - Yvonne Navarro ”Wicked Willow, book 3: Broken sunrise ” -Yvonne Navarro X. Best Buffy/Angel book? Which books have you read? Which did you like and which did you hate with a burning passion? I've took a notion to read the tie-in novels while on my lunch breaks, since they are very easy reads. Tbh I've read more of the essay collections than the wee novels. Would you recommend any essay collections too? There might have been ones I've missed. Monkey Pants. Bored Now. Bluebird. two by two, hands of blue. gite63. These Our Actors ( Willow, Spike/William ) is good.
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