David Dvorkin

Daniel Dvorkin

When the Starships Enterprise and Centurion come to the aid of the planet Tenara, the two captains disagree on a plan of action. Later it seems only extreme measures can save Tenara.

The Captain's Honor

The Enterprise has rushed to war-torn Trellisane. Kirk is on the bridge of a Klingon warship, McCoy is dining with cannibals, and the ship is surrounded by Romulans.

The Trellisane Confrontation

When a massive energy surge hurtles Captain Kirk one hundred years into the future, he is amazed to find a peaceful Klingon world and is revered as an intergalactic peacemaker, but he must find a way to return home and bring the Great Peace of the futurew

Timetrap

Unquenchable

The Green God

When Jimmy Flanagan returns from war with one arm missing, he’s one of the lucky ones. First, because he returned alive. Second, because an experimental program allows him to be fitted with a super–advanced, high–tech artificial arm. Now he’s free of the Army, he has a new arm that’s better than the one he lost on the battlefield, and his girl has been waiting for him. He should be a happy man....

The Arm and Flanagan

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

THE GHOST AND THE BONESETTER In looking over the papers of Francis Purcell, a parish priest in the south of Ireland, I met with the following document. It is one of many such; for he was a collector of old local traditions. It is perhaps necessary to add that the superstition illustrated by the following story.

The Ghost and the Bonesetter

At the beginning of Desert Storm in 1991, things go terribly wrong. A secret organization that has infiltrated many Arab armies and governments emerges from hiding and inflames a broad and bloodily successful anti-Western uprising. American troops at the Battle of Khafji and throughout the Middle East are faced with a much bigger war than the one they had been sent to fight. What was supposed to be a safe war designed to ensure the reelection of George Bush turns into a disaster that destroys his presidency, puts Dan Quayle in the White House as the puppet of right-wing elements in the intelligence community, and imperils the West. The consequences are widespread and frequently grim: a resurgent Soviet Union, a seemingly endless war in the Middle East, and the growing threat of tyranny in America. Written well before the events of September 11th, 2001, Dawn Crescent depicts the interwoven lives and adventure of a diverse group of characters -- soldiers, spies, subversives, innocents -- in a turbulent alternate world which could be a warning for our own.

Dawn Crescent

Thomas C. Anderson

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Fleeing the mob he worked for in Chicago, Tom Hamilton returns to his Colorado hometown. When a singer is murdered during a local opera performance, Tom tries his hand at finding the killer. But this draws him back into the passions and hatreds of earlier years and puts his own life in danger.

The Cavaradossi Killings

Worldwide, the number of people who call themselves Jews is about 14 million.They may all call themselves Jews, but what they mean by that name varies widely. These self−described Jews range from the most Orthodox, who have submitted themselves entirely to the imagined dictates of an imaginary god, to those who practice various forms of Judaism that are so watered down that they scarcely qualify as a religion, to those who observe no part of Judaism at all other than the celebration of a festival that they may call Hanukkah but that is in reality merely a Judaized version of Christmas.In this short book, I focus on the United States, which until recently had the largest Jewish population in the world−−just under six million self−identified Jews. Although it was recently surpassed by Israel, America arguably still has the most politically, socially, and theologically influential Jewish population in the world. According to a survey conducted in 2013 by the respected Pew Research Center, of those almost six million American Jews, 22% "describe themselves as atheist, agnostic or having no particular religion[.]" In the case of the youngest adult American Jews, the so−called Millennial generation, "32% describe themselves as having no religion and identify as Jewish on the basis of ancestry, ethnicity or culture."This large group of Jews, which is a growing percentage of American Jewry, as the above Millennial number shows, is commonly referred to "secular Jews," although some of them prefer the label "atheist Jews." These are the people I want to discuss in this book.I contend that they are not Jews in any meaningful sense of the word. They may wish to call themselves Jews for a number of emotional reasons, but I call upon them to be intellectually honest and accept that they have ceased to be Jews. They are ex−Jews.The contrary argument is based on the idea encapsulated in the phrase "once a Jew, always a Jew." For the anti−Semite, this phrase is used as a slur. It refers to negative character traits supposedly possessed by all Jews.To Jews who think that there can be such a thing as a secular Jew, the phrase refers to some innate quality, entirely apart from religion, that distinguishes Jews from their non−Jewish neighbors.What is that innate quality? That's the crux of the issue. Let's go hunting for it.

Once a Jew, Always a Jew?

Ein Machtkampf zwischen Sternenflotten-Captains Die Bewohner des Planeten Tenara sind Pazifisten und somit leichte Beute für die weniger friedlich gesonnenen M'Dok. Das Raumschiff Zenturio unter Captain Seianus wird zum Schutz der Tenaraner entsandt, aber schon bald in ein mörderisches Gefecht mit den M'Dok verwickelt. Die Enterprise eilt dem Kreuzer zu Hilfe. Captain Jean-Luc Picard setzt auf Verhandlungen, sein Kollege Seianus propagiert jedoch eine härtere Gangart und sucht die Auseinandersetzung im Kampf. Als Picard feststellt, dass Seianus versucht, die Gesellschaft von Tenara umzukrempeln, sieht er die Prinzipien der Föderation verraten. Ein Machtkampf zwischen zwei hochverdienten Sternenflotten-Captains entbrennt.

Roman

Star Trek - The Next Generation: Die Ehre des Captain

Sherlock Holmes meets H G Wells, discovers the secret of immortality, hunts Professor Moriarty across time and space, and manipulates the destiny of mankind, all with the unflinching support of the stalwart Dr. Watson, who is coping with finding and losing the love of his life. "Doyle to Wells to Dvorkin - nice triple play!" – New York Times Book Review "A lot of fun." – The Arizona Republic

Time for Sherlock Holmes

Dopey presidents, scary televangelists, dangerously ambitious politicians, cute little monkeys, sinister old men with long, sharp teeth, and in the middle of it all, Malcolm Erskine, mostly innocent writer, who thought he had such a clever idea. Malcolm has never had a real success. No one has read his novels. Nowadays, no one even wants to publish them. But bookstores are full of New Age woo woo and absurd self-help books, especially business self-help books. Why not combine the two? Now he's changed the world, and not for the better.

Business Secrets from the Stars

Prisoner of the Blood Insatiable

Trapped in the underground tunnels of Colliery, James Benton struggles to find his way back to the surface and the life he knew before. "A headlong trip over, under, and through worlds of greed, sex, politics, intrigue, and adventure, of miners and mindpickers, cavesnakes and triple-crossers. An absorbing mix of hard science and action sf, with the unmistakable Dvorkin touch." - Connie Willis

Pit Planet

The world of Budspy is a world of if. It is a world where German troops narrowly averted disaster at Stalingrad, a world where the Fuhrer died on the Russian front to be replaced by saner men. Men who signed a treaty of peace with Roosevelt and Churchill that left Germany in control of Continental Europe and free to prosecute the war against the greater threat of Bolshevism. Now, decades later, America tries to convince itself that it is still the world's greatest power, even while its government and society, increasingly influenced by the Reich, devolve into something that would have horrified the Founding Fathers.

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