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KUDOS
Dream Realm Award 2008, best SF novel for Human by Choice (with Travis S. Taylor).
Eppie Award 2007, best Action/Adventure novel for Mindwar.
Eppie Award 2007, best Young Adult novel for White Odyssey.
Dream Realm Award 2006, best SF novel for Warp Point.
Fictionwise 2005 E-book Author of the Year.
Multiple Finalist, Dream Realm Awards.
Multiple Finalist, Eppie Awards.
Knowbetter best science fiction novel of the year 2002 for The Sex Gates.

All books now available for the Kindle reader.

It's time for Christmas SHOPPING!

If you can get through this book without laughing until your ribs are sore, you are a rare exception and haven't got a funny bone in your body.
Life on Santa Claus Lane makes a Great Christmas Gift!

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This book is dedicated to all those who have taken a pet into their home and made a people of it.
Doggie Biscuit! makes a Great Christmas Gift!

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Order either or both from Amazon, B&N or your local bookstore for that perfect family gift, SUITABLE FOR FOR ALL AGES!  

Thank you for buying my books.
Have a great Christmas!  

Darrell Bain

Intro

Here you'll find titles in various genres, including humor, science fiction, mystery, and suspense/thriller. Most of my books are available in both Print and as E-book editions. They almost always appear first as E-books and then come out in print. See the menu for "E-books" and "Books in Print" for descriptions and links to where they may be purchased in either version. You can also see a complete list of my books in print at Amazon.com and some of them at Barnes and Noble. Most of my print books may be ordered from bookstores. All of my E-books are available at Fictionwise.com, eReader.com, the Kindle store and the Sony eBookstore.

For those who are new to E-books (which may be read on computers, laptops, PPCs, and just about any hand held device, including Palm, IPAQ, Smart phones and dedicated reader devices such as Amazon's Kindle. I suggest http://www.fictionwise.com/help/help.htm as a good place to start. After looking over the web page at Fictionwise, click on Home at the same site and you'll find thousands upon thousands of books by just about any author you want to name, including many of the New York Times best selling authors, and also including all of my books, of course.

Bainstorming Newsletter! Click on the NEWSLETTER link to visit this very popular feature every month to see what's new! I ramble and sometimes rant, but the newsletter is devoted to what you, the readers, might find interesting, including recommended books by other authors, short vignettes, anecdotes, updates, discussions of subjects brought up by fans, short articles, muses by the author and so forth, in no particular order. Come visit periodically and discover all sorts of good stuff.

News of current projects or books just appearing in print or anything else of interest concerning my writing will probably be contained in the monthly newsletter. An index of past newsletter subject matter is available at the top of newsletter page. However, if you can't find what you're looking for, check the "News" link, or please write and ask!

Special Limited Hardcover Edition of Savage Survival

Only 500 copies of this special edition will be printed. It is available for pre-order now at Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com and BOOK STORES and from the publisher, Twilight times Books at www.twilighttimesbooks.com.

Order now to be sure you get a copy!

Savage Survival is a coming of age story like no others and Lyda Brightner is a character you won't forget. When eleven year old Lyda is thrown into the midst of millions of undisciplined humans, with no parents or guardian to protect her as she grows up, she has only her own bravery and her belief in the innate goodness of humans to sustain her. For six years, Lyda must endue the most ghastly and brutal environments imaginable, put there by invulnerable aliens for reasons of their own. After her first horrible experience in a barren desert, she vows that come what may, she will live, even while millions die, for she is determined to find what is behind such hideous treatment by the aliens.

Review

5 Talismans (Highest rating)

I have been an avid reader for quite some time. I have read too many books to count over the years covering a variety of genres. Through my literary travels the list of novels which have made me say, "Wow, that was something special", is relatively short. Frank Herbert's Dune, Terry Brooks' The Elfstones of Shannara, and George R.R. Martin's series A Song of Ice and Fire are all at the top of that list. After reading Darrell Bain's novel Savage Survival however, I think that list has grown a little longer.

When Earth is invaded by an unknown alien race, eleven year old Lyda Brightner finds herself swept up in the destructive wake. With her father dead and mother missing, Lyda awakens in a concentration camp somewhere in a desert in the southwest United States. Within hours, she is horribly abused by a man who then in turn tries to sell her into slavery.

After managing to escape, Lyda discovers an inner strength which helps her retake control of her life, and puts her on a path of self discovery. Deciding the only way to defeat those who would hurt her and those she comes to protect, is by meeting them head on, Lyda quickly finds herself the leader of several like minded survivors. The aliens however, have different plans. The human survivors are put through test after test so that only the humans with the strongest minds will make it through each trial. Along the way Lyda and the other human refugees learn they are changing.

Their minds are sharper and their bodies are stronger. With each trial the changes become more evident. Lyda uses these "gifts" to protect the people who choose to follow her, and also to discover love as well as learn what true leadership is all about. Savage Survival is truly a masterful piece of science fiction writing. Darrell Bain uses an alien invasion of Earth as a backdrop to tell not only a coming of age story but also to spark deep thought concerning society as a whole. His character Lyda Brightner is as memorable of a character as you can get. I sincerely hope there are more tales of her exploits coming in the near future.

Darrell Bain's Savage Survival is definitely what is right about the science fiction genre. I believe this is as close to a must read as you can get. With an intricate plot, vivid imagination, and one of the most memorable characters I have run across in a long time, Savage Survival will leave readers with that same "wow" feeling I received.

Reviewed by Shawn Oetzel for Tales of the Talisman.

 

The Long Way Home

    

SF from Double Dragon Publishing.

New release!

A surprise assault on an Exploration Corp starship by implacably hostile, xenophobic aliens leaves its one remaining long boat as the only option for warning the home worlds of their existence, but the starship had been a thousand light years from Earth. Theoretically, that sort of voyage in a long boat is possible but has never been attempted. In order to return they will have to stop on numerous unknown planets to renew supplies many, many times along the way. There is certain to be danger and inimical life forms, as well as the hazards of braving interstellar space in a ship meant only for travel within a solar system. And before they get anywhere close to earth they have to figure out a way to destroy a much larger and much better armed alien starship. It is shadowing their every move but must not be allowed to follow them home to Earth and its colonies. The long journey has to succeed, even as more and more of the crew fall prey to perils of the incredible journey. Humanity must be warned. There will be no second chance. Fail and the poorly armed home worlds will likely die.
Darrell's highest rated novel.
Available now at all bookstores and online from Amazon.com; Barnes & Noble
 

The Melanin Apocalypse

    

SF suspense from Twilight Times Books.

A man-made virus is killing all the blacks in the world. The African continent is devolving into complete chaos. Blacks in America begin rioting and killing Whites. Israel and the Arab states go to war again. The oil fields of the Middle East and Africa are up for grabs...  Darrell Bain's most controversial novel since "The Sex Gates."

Read a chapter excerpt.
ISBN: 1-933353-70-8
Available now at all bookstores and online from Amazon.com;  Barnes & Noble
 

Quanty

    

SF from Double Dragon.

New print release!

When Mark and Alice decide to install a program of their own devising into the only quantum computer in the world, wildly unintended consequences occur. The computer not only becomes self-aware, but the new program produces an unchangeable core directive which impels it to protect Mark and Alice as well as itself. It doesn't matter what the political, religious and military establishments think of a sentient computer running rampant on the internet and into secret files of governments all over the world, or what they try in order to stop it. Quanty intends to protect Mark and Alice and itself with all the power at its command no matter who gets hurt or helped in the process. The result is Mark and Alice becoming the focus of governments, spies and the military of every nation, since only they can control Quanty. Or can they? They're on the run but Quanty's unasked for "help" causes them to fall into one disaster after another, with no end in sight.

Read a chapter excerpt.
ISBN: 1-55404-666-1
Available now at all bookstores and online from Amazon.com;  Barnes & Noble

Dream Realm Award Winner

Warp Point is the winner of the Dream Realm Award in the category of Science Fiction, given each year at the Armadillocon SF convention in Austin, Texas. By coincidence (or perhaps PSI?) Darrell had already finalized plans to be there this year. Read Darrell's report about Armadillocon in the September 2007 newsletter.

A new link to sites where Darrell's short stories can be downloaded is in progress and will appear as soon as possible.

Autographed copies of the international best seller, Alien Infection, are now available for $12.95, shipping and handling included.

New ebook release
The Focus Factor is available now from Fictionwise.com or eReader.com.

The Focus Factor is a suspense/thriller but can just as easily be enjoyed by science fiction as well as mainstream fans. It begins with a distraught scientist, Dr. Murray Blake, whose family has been killed in a crash with a truckload of illegal aliens. He decides to try using his research into the extreme focusing shown by some autistics to find a solution to the illegal immigration problem.

But it doesn't stop there! Dr. Blake discovers that solving the illegal immigration problem using the Focus Factor leads to a way to address every other problem besetting America in the 21st century--but does he dare risk it? The solution is draconian. Failure will mean his and his friends' execution as traitors. Success will set America on a new path to greatness. Find out what happens by reading The Focus Factor by Darrell Bain and Gerald Mills.

Whether you're a Republican, Democrat, Independent or Apolitical; whether you like suspense, mainstream or science fiction; you're bound to find some satisfaction in this truly unusual book that uses fiction to explore extremely timely topics.

Biography
Darrell has been asked by a number of people when his biography will be posted. Rather than a short biography, he has decided to make it into a rather extensive memoir, and to post some of it each month on this web site. Each new posting, and archives of previous parts of the memoir, will be found by clicking on the "MEMOIR" link at the top of the web page.

eBook AOY
Darrell Bain is the 2005 Fictionwise eBook Author of the Year! Darrell's SF suspense novels "Alien Infection" and "Savage Survival" were in the top 15 ebooks sold via Fictionwise in 2005.

A fan has started a discussion group for Darrell's books at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DarrellBain. Interested parties may subscribe by going to the link.

A Google news alert provided notification that Darrell's novel Alien Infection was among the best selling e-books of 2005, coming in at number thirteen out of the top thirty. The article and a complete list of the top e-books may be seen at the following link.

  Autographed Books Special
Twilight Times Publications has reached an agreement with Darrell to offer his trade paperback books from this site at a reduced price. New Autographed copies of all of Twilight Times books by Darrell Bain are now available for only $12.95 each. This includes postage and handling charges to U.S. residents only. That's right. $12.95 brand new autographed copies, postage paid. List price for these books are $14.95 to $16.95. Books make great gifts for friends and family, so here's your chance to not only give them a book, but an autographed copy for that little extra touch.

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