Tintagel
by Paul Cook
Price: $5.99 USD. 71750 words.
Published by Phoenix Pick on August 5, 2010. Fiction.
Music can be many things, but when it is used as a medium to spread a deadly virus that transports listeners to a deadly world of dreams, it threatens the future of humanity itself. ... But not everyone is susceptible to the deadly virus and there is a group of "stalkers" who are immune to its effects.
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Paul Cook
Biography
Paul Cook was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1950 and has lived all of his life in Arizona with the exception of three years in Salt Lake City from 1978-1981 where he studied English at the University of Utah where he received a Ph.D. in 1981. He currently resides in Tempe, Arizona and has been teaching at Arizona State University since 1982. He has taught a wide range of courses from creative writing courses to literature courses, both British and American. He also teaches ASU's first science fiction class, Eng 369: Science Fiction Studies. He also designed, built, and installed the Virginia C. Piper Creative Writing Center's Time Capsule, which is not to be opened until 2103. He has taught authors as diverse as Thomas Pynchon, John D. MacDonald, Elmore Leonard, Carlos Castenada, Ezra Pound, and John O'Hara.
Novels
Tintagel
The Alejandra Variations
Duende Meadow
Halo
On The Rim Of The Mandala
Fortress On The Sun
The Engines Of Dawn
The Karma Kommandos
Other writing
Paul Cook has also published short stories in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction, and Amazing Science Fiction.
He has also published over 150 poems in a wide variety of literary non mainstream magazines such as The Georgia Review and Quarterly West. He also writes (and continues to write) classical music criticism, having written for ClassicsToday.com and MusicWeb-International.com. He now writes classical music reviews exclusively for The American Record Guide. He has written extensively on the music of Shostakovich, Hindemith, Stravinsky, and Prokofieff.
He most recently wrote the introduction to Tanar Of Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs from Bison Books (University of Nebraska Press, 2006) and is the Series Editor for the Phoenix Science Fiction Classic series from Phoenix Pick/Arc Manor books. He is also an immense Doc Savage fan and a fan, in general, of pulp fiction from the 1930s and 1940s.
Novels
Tintagel
The Alejandra Variations
Duende Meadow
Halo
On The Rim Of The Mandala
Fortress On The Sun
The Engines Of Dawn
The Karma Kommandos
Other writing
Paul Cook has also published short stories in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction, and Amazing Science Fiction.
He has also published over 150 poems in a wide variety of literary non mainstream magazines such as The Georgia Review and Quarterly West. He also writes (and continues to write) classical music criticism, having written for ClassicsToday.com and MusicWeb-International.com. He now writes classical music reviews exclusively for The American Record Guide. He has written extensively on the music of Shostakovich, Hindemith, Stravinsky, and Prokofieff.
He most recently wrote the introduction to Tanar Of Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs from Bison Books (University of Nebraska Press, 2006) and is the Series Editor for the Phoenix Science Fiction Classic series from Phoenix Pick/Arc Manor books. He is also an immense Doc Savage fan and a fan, in general, of pulp fiction from the 1930s and 1940s.
Where to find Paul Cook online
Website: http://www.paulcook-sci-fi.com/
Where to buy in print
Books
The Alejandra Variations
by Paul Cook
Price: $6.99 USD. 79400 words. Published by Phoenix Pick on October 26, 2009. Fiction.
Nicholas Tejada is dreamer having his dreams harvested by Mnemos Nine—a computer used in a top-secret government project. But where do the dreams end and reality begin? And what is the ultimate goal of Project Foresee?
Price: $6.99 USD. 79400 words. Published by Phoenix Pick on October 26, 2009. Fiction.
Nicholas Tejada is dreamer having his dreams harvested by Mnemos Nine—a computer used in a top-secret government project. But where do the dreams end and reality begin? And what is the ultimate goal of Project Foresee?
Karma Kommandos
by Paul Cook
Price: $5.99 USD. 74460 words. Published by Phoenix Pick on October 26, 2009. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Chuckle has just hit the streets of 21st century L.A. with devastating results. A member of L.A.P.D's Protean Set—special detectives who can change their appearances—Rory Koestler sets out after Bob Thermopylae, L.A.'s main dealer in Chuckle. Problem is, someone else is after him as well—assassins who step out of walls or just appear out of nowhere.
Price: $5.99 USD. 74460 words. Published by Phoenix Pick on October 26, 2009. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review) Chuckle has just hit the streets of 21st century L.A. with devastating results. A member of L.A.P.D's Protean Set—special detectives who can change their appearances—Rory Koestler sets out after Bob Thermopylae, L.A.'s main dealer in Chuckle. Problem is, someone else is after him as well—assassins who step out of walls or just appear out of nowhere.
Fortress on the Sun
by Paul Cook
Price: $5.99 USD. 76550 words. Published by Phoenix Pick on October 26, 2009. Fiction.
Ra is a 21st century prison camp that also acts as facility for harvesting metals—from the Sun. The prisoners have all been banished here for extreme crimes, but none of them remember anything from their past.
Price: $5.99 USD. 76550 words. Published by Phoenix Pick on October 26, 2009. Fiction.
Ra is a 21st century prison camp that also acts as facility for harvesting metals—from the Sun. The prisoners have all been banished here for extreme crimes, but none of them remember anything from their past.