James C. Glass
The Viper of
Portello
In war the men who served under him called him
Culebra, the Viper.
Soldier,
strategist and military assassin, Eduardo Cabral harbors two souls,
one dark and deadly, the other loving and creative. After a war ending
in betrayal by those in power on a colony world and a man he has
spent a lifetime trying to please, Eduardo flees to a
peaceful, artistic
life on another planet. But the corrupt war and its aftermath will not
go away. There is revolution on his home world, and Culebra must return
to help save a people crushed by cruel tyrants and those responsible for
the betrayal and slaughter of Eduardo’s command in the war.
It is
Culebra who must decide between innocent and guilty, those who might
live or die by his hand, while he searches for a love he has never had,
and a world where Eduardo Cabral can peacefully pursue his art.
Visions
The time:
the 1840s. The place:
California during the gold rush.
As
the white settlers begin penetrating the remote
mountain canyons, they discover an ancient race, the Tenanken, who date
back at least sixty thousand years. Some members retain the genetic
memories of their distant past, while others project mystical visions
of comfort and joy. All flee the coming of the white man, and appear to
be doomed to extinction.
Only
the genius Pegre finds a possible solution:
integrate and intermarry with their distant white "cousins," the
Hinchai, and form a new entity. He's aided by the girl Baela, whose
emerging mental powers only appear every hundred generations -- and
opposed by the cruel Tenanken warrior, Hidaig, who supports traditional
values, and is willing to kill anyone who opposes him.
Can
the ancient and modern be merged and preserved? Or
will the special genetic heritage of the Tenanken be lost forever?
  Kati
thought she was Tumatsin,
but her real father was Moshuguang, a Searcher, one of those working to
bring down the feudal empire on Shanji and establish a progressive
society. Answering to Mandughai, the emerald-eyed empress of a
neighboring star system, the Moshuguang seek to create the
Mei-lai-gong, the empress of light, a super-being who travels in the
gong-shi-jie, the place of light from which the universe first came
into being. The Mei-lai-gong will be ruler of Shanji, transfering mass
and light energy at infinite speed for good -- or evil. Kati has a
talent never seen before. When her mother is killed, the Moshuguang
rescue her to be raised in the emperor's palace and trained by them.
But Mandughai has also seen Kati. She takes over her training, and the
girl's powers soon exceed even Her own. Kati must be Empress, bringing
reform and unity to Shanji, but first a war must be fought, a war
between Kati and her beloved Mandughai, and now the girl has the power
to destroy a star. Only the love and compassion within Kati can prevent
total destruction in the final confrontation to establish her rule.
Excerpt
from Shanji
The Shanji
ebook is now available from ereads.com, where it was book-of-the-month.
Reviews (off-site
link to amazon.com)
Matrix
Dreams
Now
available: My first story collection!
"A writer
of both the heart
and the mind"
—
Catherine Asaro
The title
is Matrix
Dreams, and Other Stories, twenty one of them
published in magazines such as Analog, Aboriginal
and Talebones, a mix of science fiction, fantasy,
and some nasty, dark fantasy covering the past ten years. It's being
done by Fairwood Press.
The
Creators
"This, the culminating
book
of the stunning SF trilogy that began with Shanji
and Empress of Light, takes to
its conclusion the tale of three generations of Creators....
Biography
Jim read
and wrote science
fiction as a kid and published a fanzine while in high school, but then
came college, a degree in physics and starting a family while working
on ion and arc-jet engines at Rocketdyne.
Graduate
school followed, and a thirty five year career
as a professor of physics, department head and dean at North Dakota
State University and Eastern Washington University. The writing during
this time was seventy five technical papers on his research in
molecular biophysics and superconductivity. But the fiction writing bug
bit hard again when Jim was well into his forties. His first published
story was in Aboriginal S.F. and soon after he won
the 1990 grand prize in the Writers of the Future Contest. He retired
from his academic job in 1999 and now writes full time.
When Your
Enemies Become Your People...
Empress of
Light
She had
defeated the armies of
Tengri-Nayon. Now she had to save
Tengri-Nayon from a deadly plot, with only her children to help her. Of
course, they were remarkable children...
Excerpts
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