Bradley Denton

Blackburn, a killer from Wantoda, Kansas, with a moral code (kill only people who deserve to die) leaves a bloody path of devastation in his wake as he murders law enforcers, burglars, writers, and others.

A Novel

Blackburn

Caroline Spector

The Wild Cards universe has been thrilling readers for over 25 years, and "The Flight of Morpho Girl" conjures up an adventurous new tale from the imaginations of acclaimed sci-fi writers Caroline Spector and Bradley Denton. Adesina, known as "Morpho Girl," is used to handling the weird that is her everyday, but life has dealt her a tricky new hand. First, her mom, the crimefighter Amazing Bubbles, has been off since her last mission. Second, Adesina recently aged from ten to sixteen, making everyone think she's even weirder than she already is. On top of everything else, her best friend goes missing. What's a newly-teenaged joker need to do to catch a break? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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The Flight of Morpho Girl

In an alternate universe a world tour by the wracker band, Blunt Instrument, threatens to destroy the Earth

Wrack and Roll

Conceived in the backseat of a car on the day that Buddy Holly died, Oliver Vale turns on the TV one day to find Buddy Holly on every channel, and soon he is on the run from a pursuing mob of religious fanatics. Reprint.

Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede

Jack has been widowed for close to a year, and his behavior has his friends worried. Arrested for public indecency, Jack insists that he was meeting a moon goddess of desire named Lily. Furthermore, he claims that she can only find him if he waits outside, naked under a full moon. To prevent further troubles with the law, Jack's friends begin taking him to a cabin in the woods each full moon. But one at a time, they are each touched by Lily and forced to deal with their desires before they can truly know their hearts.

Lunatics

Featuring stories to set the mind on fire, this 1994 World Fantasy Award-winning collection includes such tales as "In the Fullness of Time, " "Top of the Charts, " "The Chaff He Will Burn, " "Music of the Spheres, " "The Summer We Saw Diana, " and the title piece.

A Conflagration Artist

An award-winning author hailed as one of the most talented young fantasists today offers a stark collection of short fiction that captures an imaginative vision of life and death, including a new work called "Blackburn Bakes Cookies." By the author of Blackburn.

Eight Stabs at Immortality

One Day Closer to Death

Highlighting this collection is an ingenious new episode in the saga of Jimmy Blackburn, the eponymous serial killer of Denton's third novel. "Blackburn Bakes Cookies" might best be called the icing on the cake that is Blackburn's story, and it is appropriately delectable. Other highlights of this collection include: "The Territory," a "what if?" story revisiting Kansas in the days of the Civil War and imagining, in one small way, how things might have gone a bit differently; "We Love Lydia Love," a science-fictional examination of the ways in which modern obsessions with celebrity and stardom can change us...and the ways in which we'll never change; and "The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians," a moving and funny trip to the afterlife, where all great comics go when they die. In assembling these stories, Bradley Denton discovered that all of them are concerned with some aspect of death. It's true. And yet (as they say), in death there is life: these eight tales brim with such vitality and joie de vivre that readers will find themselves enjoying the work of this fantastic storyteller again and again.

Eight Stabs At Immortality

One Day Closer To Death

The Wild Cards universe has been thrilling readers for over 25 years. "Naked, Stoned, and Stabbed" is an fantastic new tale from acclaimed sci-fi writer Bradley Denton, about the hidden truths revealed when a Who concert goes haywire. Freddie’s looking for answers. Freddie’s also a bit unconventional: in his looks, in his music tastes, and oh yeah, he’s also a nascent ace who can manipulate sound. But he’s got a gig as a roadie for The Who and the opportunity of a lifetime in New York City. See, the only thing Freddie wants is the opportunity to meet his older half-sister — and not even a suspicious fire at the Bowery Ballroom can stop him. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Naked, Stoned, and Stabbed

Twentieth century America is a land of contradictions. A land conceived in liberty, yet threated by the forces of evil. It is a sick place in need of sick heroes. What we need is a real live savior, who can save us from ourselves-if he can live long enough.

Bradley Denton

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