Showing results by narrator "Jack Nolan" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Commander Donald Castillo is the commander of the Virginia-class fast attack nuclear submarine, Kansas. It is the latest and best that the US Navy has to offer. He is asked to test a new ground-breaking countermeasure that will revolutionize naval warfare. Its code name is Apparition. This is game-changing technology born of the Hadron Collider, and the Navy brass are hungry for it.

Storytelling was outlawed. Magic had all but vanished. That changed when the woman in black came to town. Branded with the black stamp at a young age, Brent thought he would end up a vagrant like his father. His craft was telling stories, but the Order had long forbidden any weaving of tales. When Brent sees the woman in black, she leads him into a menagerie of tunnels beneath the Earth where his life falls into the nauseating, but beautiful, mist of the dead. He finds friendship in Rho, a young woman who hides her face with a tree branch while roots and vines bow to her every whim.

Meet Dave. Dave has been a vampire for two days. By accident. He thought the first day was fabulous; now, not so much. Dave is thirsty but can't stand the sight of human blood. Oh, what he wouldn't do for a pizza or a cheeseburger.... In his hunt, he meets James, a resident illusionist in one of the town's hotels. James has his own problem. He had met a witch at the local coffee shop, but in a moment of weakness, he refused her advances and fled. Now he badly wants to find her to ask for a second chance.

Five shorts from Theera. Six newbies tryout for entry into one of the fastest guilds on Theera. Things take a turn for the worst when the newbies first meet and realize they may not be compatible, not even for the single assignment they're tasked with.

One man's experiences of living with bogeymen and his struggle in the end to figure out who are family and who are the real monsters. A unique and humorous look at a ridiculous situation.

Cillian is a Shade, a man who walks among the world of Other Realm, spreading the seeds of discord and chaos into the Dreams of mortals as punishment for a life ill-lived. As he casts the sands of Nightmares into Everly Whitcombe's dreams, he finds himself taken with the haunted beauty. He defies his vocation by visiting her Dreams more often than he should and trying to comfort when he should destroy. As he commits his transgressions, he puts them both in danger.

Robotics student Brad Barkley has created the perfect woman. The only problem is she's an android, and her creator realizes too late he may have made her too perfect. After Brad's ultimate failure with women nearly consumes him, he discovers Tricia, his android, may be able to rescue him from a life of loneliness, if he and the human race are willing to pay the price.

Once upon an ancient time, a Grecian prince made the goddess Artemis angry by choosing the wrong prey in a hunt. As a consequence, Artemis and Apollo cursed the prince and others involved in the hunt with lives unaffected by time. In the present, Widower Carl Westmore leaves the cottage home he shares with his daughter Vella for a doctor's appointment in the city. When he gets lost, with no money for an Uber, he trespasses on a quiet cursed estate. However, the watchmen Hal and the gardener Kalen grant their guest hospitality. In the morning, Carl plucks a red rose from the cluster of white.

In the year 1991, on the island of Manhattan, just before starting ninth grade, Travis chose a glass diamond as his prize at an arcade. Angela was given her teardrop crystal by her grandmother after her mother was killed in action, and Angela gave Faye her crystal snowflake as a Christmas present last year. None of these three classmates and close friends have any suspicions that the three crystals would lead the three of them on a wonderous adventure hidden in plain sight, where carriage horses and museum statues are not always what they seem.

The Reality Beneath Book II Going Sideways on Life is a sequel to Johnson’s first book of short stories, The Reality Beneath - Old Fashioned Reality in the Modern word. It contains a completely new set of short stories written in the unique genre that he is known for. It is an insightful mixture of speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy. The stories take things we believe we know and understand in a new way. This gets us to think about the world that surrounds us in a new way to reveal a new understanding.

Set in a near-future world, Liam did not think that answering a help wanted online ad as a post-college job would land him in the center of a cartel drug ring. His role as experience maker for a lucid-dreaming drug called Zephyr, the former military drug that replaces virtual reality in the future, leads him to his girlfriend Joelle, a Ukrainian model.

Listening to this book is like going into a trippy play where animals talk and there are bizarre characters. It is a mind-bending listen with interesting characters and story plot. Believe it or not, it does have a lesson to the story: We all wear masks to hide our true selves.

Thousands of years had passed since man's patriarch, Adam, died. With his departure, humankind falls into a state of feuding tribes, competing for power and resources. As their communities developed, it attracted the envious meddling of their arch-nemesis, Azazeel, a condemned demon vowing to dedicate his life's purpose to destroying man. However, his goals are blocked by the Zodiac Guardians, an enhanced species, fashioned from the earth during the jinn's epic wars.

Torn between right and wrong, justice and peace, honesty and immorality, Adi struggles to embrace herself and the world around her, hoping others can do the same. Does the war she chooses to fight end in victory or total defeat? In the midst of all the mayhem will either guy ultimately win Adi’s heart, or has too much damage been done to end up with either one of them? She soon finds out there is no action too horrible or too grand when pursing the one you love or are fighting your enemies.

Alonso Truylos's saga continues on the garden island that saved his life. His arrival, coinciding with the partial solar eclipse of 1586, convinces Queen Ka-ikilani and King Lono-i-ka-makahiki to ennoble him, against the wishes of a jealous hierarchy. This new role places him in the front and center of an exotic culture, where men are Gods, gifted children are taught magic by priests, and recreation rules the day. After settling into this lifestyle and while attending a gathering of only the high-class, Alonso sets his eyes on a higher-classed woman, Lei.

Jason falls in love with Raynee almost the moment he sees her. She thinks he's a turnip. What the heck? Turns out, he was. After watching his home and the city of Seattle destroyed by an alien force, he’s tossed out of Earth and onto the paramount dimension, where strange forces capable of materializing objects, crossing dimensions, and seeing the past apply

In this charmingly old-school science fiction novella, investigator Audrey Greene and her assistant, a quirky AI named Luna, must discover how 12 miners can simply vanish from the enclosed lunar colonies.

Young Malila Chiu, once a hero of the Unity, emerges from the jungle to deliver a dire message to a beleaguered America: the Deep Scorch, a polyarchy of sentient plants, declares itself to be a potent ally - or a dangerous foe. Familiar and distrustful of the Scorch for much of his long life, Jesse Johnstone stays by Malila’s side for the sake of their love. The grand architect of the war, Unity General Eustace Jourdaine, recovering from grievous injuries, rallies to lead his troops into battle in the hopes of winning a new empire - but for whom?

Middle-aged 17-year-old Malila Chiu has no choice but to escape her homeland. Making common cause with the strange subterranean workers of the beltways, Malila perseveres toward freedom in the scorched fields of America. Nearly naked, with no friends, no resources, and only a scant idea of the route, Malila's only real information comes from time in the outlands. While a captive of the old, harsh-and-tender-by-turns Jesse Johnstone, Malila learned of the lies told her by her homeland and the truths shown her by the arrogant and contradictory Jesse. She thinks she may love him.

"A pirate's life for me", that is Celeste's plan. Revenge drives her to be daring. Attacks by smoke demons, and the appearance of a swashbuckling rogue - a handsome rogue with magical powers - detracts her from the mission and reveals frightening truths about her family. Orion is a time walker - a protector of the human race - and warrior against the Underworld King and his minions. The shadowy creatures seek the young woman who has the blood of the gods running through her veins. Orion senses something mysterious - and wrong - in Celeste's blood.